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Rh wings, and they anſwered one another without intermiſſion ſaying Holy, Holy, Holy, is the Lord. And after that, they ſhut up the Gates: which when I had ſeen, I wiſhed my ſelf among them.

Now while I was gazing upon all theſe things, I turned my head to look back, and ſaw Ignorance come up to the River ſide; but he ſoon got over, and that without half that difficulty which the other two men met with. For it happened that there was then in that place one Vain-hope a Ferry-man, that with his Boat helped him over: vo he, as the other I ſaw, did aſcend the Hill to come up to the Gate, only he came alone; neither did any man meet him with the leaſt incouragement. When he was come up to the Gate, he looked up to the writing that was above; and then began to knock, ſuppoſing that entrance ſhould have been quickly adminiſtred to him: But he was asked by the men that lookt over the top of the Gate, Whence came you? and what would you have? He anſwered, I have eat and drank in the preſence of the King, and he has Rh