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 and if you will go along with me, you shall fare as I my self; for there where I go, is enough, and to spare; Come away, and prove my words.

Obst. What are the things you seek, since you leave all the World to find them?

Chr. I seek an Inheritance, incorruptible, undefiled, and that fadeth not away; and it is laid up in Heaven, and fast there, to be bestowed at the time appointed, on them that diligently seek it.

Ob. Tush, said Obstinate, away with your Book; will you go back with us, or no?

Ch. No, not I, said the other; because I have laid my hand to the Plow.

Ob. Come then, Neighbour Pliable, let us turn again, and go home without him; There is a Company of these Craz'd-headed Coxcombs, that when they take a fancy by the end, are wiser in their own eyes then seven men that can render a Reason.

Pli. Then said Pliable, Don't revile; if what the good Christian says is true, the things he looks after, are better then ours: my heart inclines to go with my Neighbour.