FORMALIST AND HYPOCRISY COMING INTO THE WAY OVER THE WALL.
Yet felt he grief to think that men in that sad plight should so spurn the kind act of him that of his own free will sought to help them. And as he did grieve from this cause, he saw two men roll off a wall, on the left hand of the strait way. The name of the one was Formalist, and the name of the next Hypocrisy. So they drew up nigh him, who thus held speech with them:
Chr.—"Sirs, whence came you, and where do you go?"
Form. and Hyp.—"We were born in the land of Vainglory, and are bent for praise to Mount Zion."
Chr.—"Why came you not in at the gate which stands at the head of the way?"
They said, "That to go to the gate to get in was by all their horde thought too far round."
Chr.—"But will it not be thought a wrong done to the Lord of the town where we are bound, thus to break his law which he hath made known to us?"
They told him, "That this act of theirs, as it stood for so long a time, would no doubt be thought good in law by a just judge; and more than this," said they, "if we get in the way, what boots it which way we get in? If we are in, we are in. Thou art but in the way, who, as we see, came in at the gate; and we too are in the way, that fell from the top of the wall. In what, now, is thy state a whit more good than ours?"