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The Pilgrim's Pꝛogreſs

lieve that there is ſuch a place to be found.

Atheiſt. Had not I, when at home believed, I had not come thus far to seek: The Atheiſt take up his content in this World. But finding none, (and Yet I ſhould, had there been ſuch a place to be found, for I have gone to ſeek it further then you) I am going back again, and will ſeek to refreſh my ſelf with the things that I then caſt away, for hopes of that which I now ſee is not.

Chriſtian 'proveth his Brother. Chr. Then ſaid Chriſtian to Hopeful his Fellow, Is it true which this man hath ſaid?

Hopefuls gracious anſwer Hopef. Take heed, he is one of the Flatterers; remember what it hath coſt us once already for our harkning to ſuch kind of Fellows. What! no Mount Sion! Did we not ſee from the delegable Mountains the Gate of the City? 2 Cor. 5.7. Alſo, are we not now to walk by Faith? Let us go on, ſaid Hopeful, leſt the man with the Whip overtakes us again.

You ſhould have taught me that Leſſon, which I will round you in the ears withall;

Prov. 19. 27. Heb. 10. 39.; Ceaſe, my Son, to hear the Inſtruction that cauſeth to err from the words of knowledge. I ſay my Brother,
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