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Rh cauſe of the burden that was upon his back. But I beheld in my Dream, that a Man came to him, whoſe name was Help, and asked him, What he did there? Chr. Sir, ſaid Chriſtian, I was directed this way by a Man called Evangeliſt; who directed me alſo to yonder Gate, that I might eſcape the wrath to come: And as I was going thither, I fell in here.

Help. But why did you not look for the ſteps? $f$

Ch. Fear followed me ſo hard, that I fled the next way, and fell in.

Help. Give me thy hand. So he gave him his hand, and, $f$ he drew him out, and ſet him upon found ground, and bid him go on his way.

Then I ſtepped to him that pluckt him out; and ſaid; Sir, Wherefore (ſince over this place,is the way from the City of Deſtruction, to yonder Gate) is it, that this Plat is not mended, that poor Travellers might go thither with more ſecurity? And he ſaid unto me, this Miry ſlough is ſuch a place as cannot be mended: It is the deſcent whither the ſcum and filth that attends conviction for ſin, Rh