Hi How Chrifti- ana is enter- tained at the* Gate. tl)t Mgrfin’js $jogtef& i<> ifto wltr, to be if it shall pleafe you, gracioufly admit¬ ted by his Gate, into the Way that leads into the Cce^ ' leftial City. And I anfwer, my Lord, in the next w,PIace, that I am Chrifliana, once the Wife of C/jhV WJ/lian, that now is gotten above. !«( With that the Keeper of the Gate did marvel, fay* jring, What is she now become a Pilgrim, that but a while hgo abhorred that Life ? Then she bowed her Head,. ■Hnd laid, Yea, and fo are thefe my fweet Babes ftf Then he took her by the Hand, and let hex in, and \ ' aid alfo, Suffer the little Children to come unto me* ’^nd with that he shut up the Gate. 'This done, he call’d to a Trumpeter '’‘hat was above over the Gate', to en- ertain Chrifliana with shouting, and w:)Ound of Trumpet for Joy. So he obeyed and founded, and filled the *Air with his melodious Notes. lifi Now all this While, poor Mercy did (land without,’ trembling and crying, for fear that she was rejected, mint when Chrifliana had gotten Admittance for her* It ielf and her Boys, then she began to make Interces¬ sion for Mercy. If)i Chrift. sfnd she faid, My Lord, I Chrifliana'% Itave a Companion of mine that flands yst Prayer for ;without, that is come hither upon the her Friend- nftme Account as myfelf : Qne that is much Mercy. mlcjcBed in her Mind, for that she comes s she thinks, without fending for ; whereas I was fe?it to y my Husband's King to come. Let Now Mercy began to be very impa- The Belays :ns,ienr, and each Minute was as long to make the him- (icier as an Hour; wherefore she pre- gring Soul the i Rented Chrifliana from a fuller Inter- Ferventer. eeding for her, by knocking at the iate herfelf. And she knocked then fo loud, that she -ohade Chrifliana to ftart. Then faid the Keeper of the (eiiate, Who is there? And Chrifliana faida It is my ((jiriehd. * B 4 So 1 ■: