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92 to go away from him: But juſt as I turned my ſelf to go thence, I felt him take hold of my fleſh, and give me ſuch a deadly twitch back, that I thought he had pull'd part of me after a himſelf; This made me cry$d$ O wretched Man! So I went on my way up the Hill.

Now when I had got about half way up, I looked behind me, and ſaw one coming after me, ſwift as the wind; ſo he overtook me juſt about the place where the Settle ſtands.

Chr. Juſt there, ſaid Chriſtian, did I fit down to reſt me; but being overcome with ſleep, I there loſt this Roll out of my boſom.

Faith. But good Brother hear me out: So ſoon as the Man over-took me, he was but a word and a blow: for down he knockt me, and laid me for dead. But when I was a little come to my ſelf again, I asked him wherefore he ſerved me ſo? he ſaid, Becauſe of my ſecret inclining to Adam the firſt; and with that, he ſtrook me another deadly blow on the breſt, and beat me down backward, ſo I lay at his foot as dead as before. So when