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to
the Chief
(if
S-inners.
2
3:·
the p!eafant .
Bea:n·s
_of
~he
·Sun,
while~-
\vas
iliivering
and
fhftnking
111
the Cold',
afRLEted
with
Frofi,S:-Iow
,&
dark ClO'uds:
M.ethought
alfo,betwixt
1ne
and
thern,
I
fa~
a \Vall that
did cotnpafs
about
this
Mountain ·;
now
thro·
this·
vVall
my
Sou1 did
greatly
de
fi re
to
pafs .;
-concluding,
t~1at
if
I cdl1ld,
I would
go
even".
into
the
very
n1idft of
then1, _and
th_ere
alfo·
comfort
n1y
felfwith the
heat
of
the1t _Snn ..
· 54· About this
Wan
I
thought
my
felf, to
go a_l)ain and
aga~ri,
frill
pi·yjng
as I \Vent
to
fee
1f
I
could find
fon1e
W?Y-or paffage,
by·
which
I
might enter
ther~,m;
but none could
I find
for fon1e tim'e:
¥the L1ft,
I
faw,
as
it ~
were,a narrow gap
1
like
a
little
d~or
way,
in ·
theWall,through.which
I
attempted
to
pafs :·
Now
the
paifage
being V'ery
ftrait
and
nar–
row,
I
made
many
offerS'
to get
in, but all
iT(·
. _Yain,even
until
I
·was
well
nigh
quite beat out'
by fl:riving to
get in;
at laft
with great
frri-. ' ·
ving, methought I at firft-did
get
intnyHead, . ·
and
after
that,
by
a
fideling ftriving,-myShoul- -
· ders
and
my
"'hole
Body:
'Then was I ex- ·
ceeding
glad,
and went and fat
dovvn
in
the
midft
of
them,and
fo
was cotuforted
with
the -
light
and,
heat
of
their
Sun.
·
.,
.
55.Now this Mountain and WaU,&c. was
thus made out to me; tlie Mountain fignified
. the Church of the living God ;
the
Sun
that ·
fhon~
thereon
1
the comfortable fuining
of his
merciful
Face
on
them that were
therein;
the
:Wall I
thought
was the Word, that did make
· ·
B 3
fepara~