Laws and Ordinar.ces cannot save sinners.

ceive came in at the Gate; and we are also in the way, that came tumbling over the wall: Wherein now is thy condition better than ours?

CHR. I walk by the rule of my MASTER, you walk by the rude workings of your fancies: you are counted thieves already by the LORD of the way; therefore I doubt you will not be found true men at the end of the way. You came in by yourselves, without his direction: and shall go out yourselves without his mercy.

To this they made him but little answer; only they bid him look to himself. Then I saw they went on every man in his way, without much conference one with another; save that these two men told CHRISTIAN, That, as to laws and ordinances, they doubted not but they should as conscientiously do them as he. Therefore, said they, we see not wherein thou differest from us, but by the coat that is on thy back, which was, as we tro', given thee by some of thy neighbours to hide the shame of thy

nakedness.

CHR. By laws and ordinances you will not be saved,* since you came not in at the door. And as for this coat that is on my back, it was given me by the Lord of the place whither I go; and that as you say to cover my nakedness with. And I take it as

Knowing that a man is not justified by the works of the law but by the faith of Jesus Christ; even we have believed in Jesus Christ, that we might be justified by the faith of Christ, and not by the works of the law; for by the works of the law shall no flesh be justified. Gal. ii. 16.

The hill DIFFICULTY.

a token of his kindness to me; for I had nothing but rags before and besides, thus I comfort myself as I go; Surely, think I, when I come to the gate of the city, the Lord thereof will know me for good, since I have this coat on my back! a coat that he gave me freely in the day that he stript me of my rags. I have moreover a mark in my forehead, ot which perhaps you have taken no notice, which one of my Lord's most intimate associates fixed there, in that day that my burden fell off my shoulders. I will tell you, moreover, that I had then given me a Roll sealed, to comfort me by reading as I go on the way; I was also bid to give it in at the celestial Gate, in token of my certain going in after it all which things I doubt you want, and want them because you came not in at the gate.

To these things they gave him no answer; only they looked upon each other and laughed. Then I saw that they went on all, save that CHRISTIAN kept before, who had no more talk but with himself, and that sometimes sighingly, and sometimes comfortably also he would be often reading in the Roll that one of the shining ones gave him, by which he was refreshed.

I beheld then they all went on till they came to the foot of the hill DIFFICULTY; at the bottom of which was a spring. There were also in the same place two other ways, besides that which came straight from the gate; one turned to the left hand, and the other to the right at the bottom of the hill;

DANGER and DESTRUCTION on each side of the right way.

but the narrow way lay right up the hill, and the name of the way going up the side of the hill is called DIFFICULTY. CHRISTIAN now went to the spring, and drank thereof to refresh himself,* and then began to go up the hill, saying

'The hill, though high, I covet to ascend,

The difficulty will not me offend ;

For I perceive the way to life lies here:

Come, pluck up, heart, let's neither faint nor fear.

Better, tho' difficult, the right way to go,

Than wrong, though easy, where the end is woe.'

The other two also came to the foot of the hill:

but when they saw that the hill was steep and high, and that there were two other ways to go; and supposing also that these two ways might meet again, with that up which CHRISTIAN went, on the other side of the hill; therefore, they were resolved to go in those ways. Now the name of one of those ways was DANGER, and the name of the other DESTRUCTION. So the one took the way, which is called DANGER, which led him into a great wood; and the other took directly up the way to DESTRUCTION, which led him into a wide field full of dark mountains, where he stumbled and fell, and rose no more.

I looked after CHRISTIAN to see him go up the hill, where I perceived he fell from running to going, and from going to clambering upon his hands

They shall not hunger nor thirst; neither shall the heat smite them: for he that hath mercy on them shall lead them, even by the springs of water shall he guide them. Isa. xlix. 10.

The danger of sleeping.---MISTRUST and TIMOROUS meet CHRISTIAN.

and knees because of the steepness of the place. Now about the mid-way to the top of the hill was a pleasant Arbour made by the LORD of the hill, for the refreshing of weary travellers. Thither therefore CHRISTIAN got, where also he sat down to rest him: then he pulled his Roll out of his bosom, and read therein to his comfort; he also now began afresh to take a review of the coat or garment that was given him as he stood by the cross. Thus pleasing himself a while, he at last fell into a slumber, and thence into a fast sleep, which detained him in that place until it was almost night; and in his sleep his Roll fell out of his hand. Now as he was sleeping, there came one to him and awaked him, saying, "Go to "the ant thou sluggard; consider her ways and be "wise." Prov. vi. 6. And with that CHRISTIAN suddenly started up, and sped him on his way, and went apace till he came to the top of the hill.

Now, when he was got up to the top of the hill, there came two men running against him amain; the name of the one was TIMOROUS, and the other MISTRUST to whom CHRISTIAN said, Sirs, what's the matter you run the wrong way? TIMOROUS answered, that they were going to the city of ZION, and had got up that difficult place: but, said he, the farther we go the more danger we meet with; wherefore we turned, and are going back again.

Yes, said MISTRUST, for just before us lie a couple of lions in the way (whether sleeping or waking we know not ;) and we could not think, if we