tlje pilgrim’ss p?ogrergs, 27 • Chrift. Alas, {dL\&Chriftiana, We were •b taken with our prefent Blefling, ’that Mark this. dangers to come were forgotten by us ; •tefide, who could have thought, that fo near the King’s ■'alace, there ftiould have lurked fuch naughty Ones ? t ndeed, it had been well for us, had we asked our Lord •or one; but fince our Lord knew ’twould be for our ■'refit, I wonder he fent not one along with us. Relie. It is not always necejjdry to grant Things not , shed for, left by fo doing, they become little Efteent} but when the want of a We lofe for ■ king is felt} it then comes under, in the want of ask- ■ yet of him that feds it, that Eftimate, ing for. > hat properly is its due, and fo confequently • nU be hereafter ufed. Had my Lord granted yau a Ccstm • uftor, you would not neither fo have bewailed that Over. ' fht of yours, in not asking for one, as now you have oc- • tfion to do. So all Things work for Good, and tend to ' take you more wary. 1 thrift. Shall we go back again to my Lord, and 1 onfefs our Folly, and ask one ? Relie. Tour ConfeJJion of your Folly 1 will prefent him [ ith: To go back again you need not; for in ad Places 'here you ftall come, ym will find no want at ad5 for very of my Lord's Lodgings, which he has prepared for ' ie Reception of his Pilgrimr, there is fujfcient to furnifh 1 iem againft all Attempts whatfoever. Bat, as I faid, he iU be enquired of by them to do it for iem. And ’tis a poor Thing that is not Ezek. 36. 37. ’ orth asking for. When he had thus ! id, he went back to his Place, and th$ Pilgrims ent on their Way. > Mer. Then faid Mercy, What a fudden 1 lank is here ? I made account we had The Miftake of sen paft all Danger, and that we (hall Mercy. 1 :ver forrow more. Chrift. Thy Innoyncy, my Sifter, faid ChriftianaV driftian* to Mercy, may excufe thee Guilt, juch 3 but a$ for me, my Fault is fo much