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almoſt got paſt the Inchanted ground?
Chr. Why, are you weary of this diſcourſe?
Hopef. No verily,but that I would know where we are.
Chr. We have not now above two Miles further to go thereon. But let us return to our matter. Now the Ignorant know not that ſuch convictions that tend to put them in fear, are for their good, and therefore they ſeek to ſtifle them.
Hopef. How do they ſeek to ſtifle them?
Chr. 1 . They think that thoſe fears are wrought by the Devil (though indeed they are wrought of God) and thinking ſo,they'reſiſt them, as things that directly tend to their overthrow. 2. They alſo think that theſe fears tend to the ſpoiling of their faith, (when alas for them, poor men that they are! they have none at all) and therefore they harden their hearts againſt them. 3. They preſume they ought not to fear, and therefore, in deſpite of them, wax preſumptuouſly confident 4. They ſee that theſe fears tend to take away from them their pitiful old ſelf-holi-
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