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86 Chr. My honoured and well beloved Brother Faithful, 'I am glad that 1 have overtaken you; and that God has ſo tempered our ſpirits, that we can walk as Companions in this ſo pleaſant a path.

Fai. I had thought dear friend, to have had your company quite from our Town, but you did get the ſtart of me; wherefore I was forced to come thus much of the way alone.

Chr. How long did you ſtay in the City of Deſtruction, before you ſet out after me on your Pilgrimage?

Fai. Till I could ſtay no longer; for there was great talk preſently after you was gone out, that our City would in ſhort time with Fire from Heaven be burned down to the ground. Chr. ''What! Did your Neighbours Countrey talk ſo''?

Faith. Yes, 'twas for a while in they came, every bodies mouth.

Chr. What, and did no more of them but you come out to eſcape the danger?

Faith. Though there was, as I ſaid, a great talk thereabout, yet I do not think they did firmly believe it. For in the heat of the courſe