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low, They bewail their conditions. Now do I fee my ſelf in an errour. Did not the Shepherds bid conditions. us beware of the flatterers? As is the ſaying of the Wife man, Pro. 29. 5. ſo we have found it this day: A man that flattereth his Neighbour, ſpreadeth a Net for his feet.
Hopef. They alſo gave us a note of directions about the way, for our more ſure finding thereof: but therein we have alſo forgotten to read, and have not kept our ſelves from the Paths of the deſtroyer. Here David was wiſer than wee; for faith he, Pſal 17.4. A ſhining one comes to them with a whipin hand. Concerning the works of men, by the words of thy lips, I have kept me from the Paths od the deſtroyer. Thus with a they lay bewailing themſelves in the Net. At laſt they eſſpied a ſhining One coming towards them, with a whip of ſmall cord in his hand. When he was come to the place where they were, He asked them whence they came? and what they did there? They told him, That they were poor Pilgrims going to Sion, but were led out of their way, by a black man, cloathed in white, who bid us, ſaid they, follow him; for he was going thither too. Then ſaid he with the
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