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Rh whither to go. Then he gave him a Parchment-Roll, and there was written within, * Fly from the wrath to come.

The Man therefore Read it, and looking upon Evangeliſt very carefully; ſaid, Whithermuſt I fly? Then ſaid Evangeliſt, pointing with his finger over a very wide Field, Do you ſee yonder * Wicket-gate? The Man ſaid, No. Then ſaid the other, Do you ſee yonder  * ſhining light? He ſaid, I think I do. Then ſaid Evangeliſt, Keep that light in your eye, the way to and go up directly thereto, * ſhalt thou see the Gate; at which when thou knockeſt, it ſhall be told thee what thou ſhalt do.

So I ſaw in my Dream, that the Man began to run; Now he had not run far from his own door, but his Wife and Children perceiving it, began to cry after him to return: * but the Man put his fingers in his Ears, and ran on crying, Life, Life, Eternal Life: ſo he looked not behind him, * but fled towards the middle of the Plain.

The Neighbours alſo came out to ſee him run, and as he ran ſome mocked