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Rh am, that I ſhould ſleep in the daytime! that I mould ſleep in the midſt of difficulty! that I mould ſo indulge the fleſh, as to uſe that reſt for eaſe to my fleſh, which the Lord of the Hill hath erected only for the relief of the ſpirits of Pilgrims! How many ſteps have I took in vain! (Thus it happened to Iſrael for their ſin, they were ſent back again by the way of the Red-Sea) and I am made to tread thoſe ſteps with ſorrow, which I might have trod with delight, had it not been for this ſinful ſleep. How far might I have been on my way by this time! I am made to tread thoſe ſteps thrice over, which I needed not to have trod but once: Yea now alſo I am like to be benighted, for the day is almoſt ſpent. O that I had not ſlept! Now by this time he was come to the Arbour again, where for a while he ſat down and wept,but at laſt (as Chriſtian would have it) looking ſorrowfully down under the Settle, there he eſpied his Roll; the which he with trembling and haſte catch't up, and put it into his boſom; but who can tell how joyful this Man was, when he had gotten his Roll gain