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by all their Countrey-men counted too far about; and that therefore their uſual way was to make a ſhort cut of it, and to climb over as they had done.
Chr. But will it not be counted a Trefpaſs, againſt the Lord of the City whither we are bound, thus to violate his revealed will?
Form, and Hyp, They told him, d d They that come into the way but not by the door, think that they can ſay something in vindication of their own practice. That as for that, he needed not to trouble his head thereabout: for what they did, they had cuſtom for; and could produce, if need were, Teſtimony that would witneſs it, for more then a thouſand years.
Chr. But, ſaid Chriſtian, Will your Practice ſtand a Trial at Law?
Form. & Hyp. They told him, That Cuſtom, it being of ſo long a ſtanding, as above a thouſand years, would doubtleſs now be admitted as a thing legal,by any Impartial Judge. And beſides, ſaid they, ſo be we get into the way, what's matter which way we get in; if we are in, we are in: thou art but in the way, who, as we perceive, came in at the Gate; and we are alſo in the way, that cameD 2
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