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their Redeemer in the face with joy. Then the Heavenly Hoſt gave a great ſhout, ſaying, Revel. 19Bleſſed are they that are called to the Marriage ſupper of the Lamb: and thus they came up to the Gate.

Now when they were come up to the Gate, there was written over it, in Letters of Gold,Re. 22. 14 Bleſſed are they that do his commandments, that they may have right to the Tree of life and may enter in through the Gates into the City.

Then I ſaw in my Dream, that the mining men bid them call at the Gate, the which when they did, ſome from above looked over the Gate; to wit, Enoch, Moſes, and Elijah, &c. to whom it was ſaid, Theſe Pilgrims, are come from the City of Deſtruction, for the love that they bear to the King of this place: and then the Pilgrims gave in unto them each man his Certificate, which they had received in the beginning; Thoſe therefore were carried into the King, who when he had read them, ſaid, Where are the men? To whom it was anſwered, They are ſtanding without the Gate, the King then