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Rh Chr. Well, come my good Hopeful, I perceive that thou and I muſt walk by our ſelves again.

So I ſaw in my Dream, that they went on a pace before, and Ignorance he came hobling after. Then ſaid Chriſtian to his companion, It pities me much for this poor man, it will certainly go ill with him at laſt.

Hope. Alas, there are abundance in our Town in his condition; whole Families, yea, whole Streets, (and that of Pilgrims too) and if there be ſo many in our parts, how many think you, muſt there be in the place where he was born?

Chr. Indeed the Word ſaith'', He hath blinded their eyes, leſt they ſhould ſee, &c. ''But now we are by our ſelves, what do you think of ſuch men? Have they at no time, think you, convictions of ſin, and ſo conſequently fears that their ſtate is dangerous?

Hopef. Nay, do you anſwer that queſtion your ſelf, for you are the elder man.

Chr. Then I ſay vometimes (as I think) they may, but they being naturally ignorant, underſtand not that ſuch convictions tend to their good; and there-