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Rh Saints fellowſhip, if it be managed well,

Keeps them awake, and that in ſpite of hell.

Chr. Then Chriſtian began and ſaid, ''I will ask you a queſtion. How came you to think at firſt of doing as you do now?''

Hopef. Do you mean, How came I at firſt to look after the good of my Soul?

Chr. Yes, that is my meaning.

Hopef. I continued a great while in the delight of thoſe things which were ſeen and ſold at our fair; things which, as I believe now, would have (had I continued in them ſtill) drownded me in perdition and deſtruction.

Chr. What things were they?

Hopef. All the Treaſures and Riches of the World. Alſo I delighted much in Rioting, Revelling, Drinking, Sweaing, Lying, Uncleanneſs, Sabbath-breaking, and what not, that tended to deſtroy the Soul. But I found at laſt, by hearing and conſidering of things that are Divine, which indeed I heard of you, as alſo of beloved Faithful, that was put to death for his Faith and good-living in Vanity-fair, That the end of theſe things is Rh