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40 tumbling over the wall: Wherein now is thy condition better then ours?

Chr. I walk by the Rule of my Maſter, you walk by the rude working of your fancies. You are counted thieves already, by the Lord of the way; therefore I doubt you will not be found true men at the end of the way. You come in by your ſelves without his direction, and ſhall go out by your ſelves without his mercy.

To this they made him but little anſwer; only they bid him look to himſelf. Then I ſaw that they went on every man in his way, without much conference one with another; fave that theſe two men told Chriſtian,That, as to Laws and Ordinances, they doubted not but they mould as conſcientiouſly do them as he. Therefore ſaid they, We fee not wherein thou differed from us, but by the Coat that is on thy back, which was, as we tro, given thee by ſome of thy Neighbours, to hide the ſhame of thy nakednefs.

Chr. By $e$ Laws and Ordinances, you will not be ſaved, ſince you came not in by the door. And as for this Coat that is on my back, it was given me