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56 another ſtript me of my Rags, and gave me this Broidred Coat which you fee; and the third ſet the mark which you fee, in my forehead, and gave me this ſealed Roll (and with that he plucked it out of his boſom.)

Piety. But you ſaw more then this, did you not?

Chr. The things that I have told you were the beſt: yet ſome other ſmall matters I ſaw, as namely I ſaw three Men, Simple, Sloth, and Preſumption, lye a ſleep a little out of the way as I came, with Irons upon their heels; but do you think I could awake them! I alſo ſaw Formaliſt and Hypocriſie come tumbling over the wall, to go, as they pretended, to Sion, but they were quickly loſt; even as I my ſelf did tell them, but they would not believe: but, above all, I found it hard work to get up this Hill, and as hard to come by the Lions mouths; and truly if it had not been for the good Man, the Porter that ſtands at the Gate, I do not know, but that after all, I might have gone back again: but now I thank God I am here, and I thank you for receiving of me. Then