tlje pilgrim” p?cgtef& i 69 4, ' * • . * ■ ^ |i In this Place, the Children of the Town would go 3 into the King’s Gardens, and gather Nofegays for ! the Pilgrims, and bring them to them with Affettion. i Here alio grew Camp hire, and Spikenard, Saffron, Gala* i mvts, and Cinnamon, with all its Trees of Frankin- « cenfe, Myrrh, and Aloes, with all chief Spices With a thefe the Pilgrims Chambers were perfumed while o they (laid here; and with thefe were their Bodies 5 anointed, to prepare them to go over the River, when 3 the Time appointed was come. f j ■ 0 Now while they lay here, and waited for the h good Hour, there was a Noife in the Town, That there was a Poll come from the Coe- 1- leftial City, with Matters of great Im< A Meff nger «■ portance to one CbrijUana, the Wife of Dea.hf ns J of Chrijiian the Pilgrim. So Enqui- to ChriftU r ry was made for her, and the Houfe ana. t was found out where lhe was, fo the . Poft prefented her with a Letter; The Contents were, S Hail good Woman ? I bring thee Tiding:, That the Ma* fter calleth for thee, and expefieth that thou jhouldejl ftand in his Prefence, in His MelTage* , Clopths of Immortality} within thefe Ten l' Days. When he had read this Letter to her, he gave her s therewith a fure Token that he was a true MelTenger, i and was come to bid her make hade s to be gone. The Token was, Anx How welcome Arrow ffarpened, with Love, let eafily in- Death is to to her Heart, which by Degrees wrought thofe that are fo effettually with her, that at the Time willing to die! appointed Jbe mutt be gone. When Chriftiana faw that her Time was come, and that fhe was the firff of this Conv paay that was to go over, ftie called for Mr. Great* ^ heart