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80 took notice that now poor Chriſtian was ſo confounded, that he did not know his own voice: and thus I perceived it: Juſt when he was come over agaiſt the mouth of the burning Pit, one of the wicked ones got behind him, and ſtept up ſoftly to him, and whiſperingly ſuggeſted many grievous blaſphemies to him, a Chriſtian which he $a$ verily thought had proceeded from his own mind. This put Chriſtian more to it than any thing that he met with before, even to think that he mould now blaſpheme him that he loved ſo much before yet could he have helped it, he them into would not have done it: but he had his mind, not the diſcretion neither to ſtop his ears, nor to know from whence thoſe blaſphemies came.

When Chriſtian had travelled in this diſconfolate condition ſome conſiderable time, he thought he heard the voice of a man, as going before Him, ſaying, Though I walk through the valley of the ſhaddow of deaths I will fear none ill, for thou art with me.

Then was he glad, and that for theſe reaſons:

Firſt, Becauſe he gathered from thence