whence they came? and they told them; they alſo asked them. Where they had lodg'd, what difficulties, and dangers, what comforts and pleaſures they had met in the way? and they told them. Then ſaid the men that met them, You have but two difficulties more to meet with, and then you are in the City.
Chriſtian then and his Companion asked the men to go along with them, ſo they told them they would; but, ſaid they, you muſt obtain it by your own faith. So I ſaw in my Dream that they went on together till they came within ſight of the Gate.
Now I further ſaw that betwixt them and the Gate was a RiverDeath, but there was no Bridge to go over, the River was very deep; at the ſight therefore of this River, the Pilgrims were much ſtounded, but the men that went with them, ſaid, Death is not welcome to nature, though by it we paſs out of this World into glory. You muſt Death go through, or you cannot come at the Gate.
