About this time the state and happiness of these poor people at
Bedford was thus, in a kind of a vision, presented to me. I saw as
if they were on the sunny side of some high mountain, there
refreshing themselves with the pleasant beams of the sun, whilst I
was shivering and shrinking in the cold, afflicted with frost, snow,
and dark clouds. Methought also, between me and them I saw a wall
that did compass about this mountain. Now, through this mountain my
soul did greatly desire to pass; concluding that if I could, I would
even go into the very midst of them and there also comfort myself
with the heat of their sun.
About this wall I bethought myself to go again and again, still
prying as I went, to see if I could find some way or passage by
which I might enter therein; but none could I find for some time: at
the last, I saw as it were a narrow gap, like a little door-way in
the wall, through which I attempted to pass; now the passage being
very strait and narrow, I made many offers to get in, but all in
vain, even until I was well-nigh quite beat out by striving to get
in; at last, with great striving, methought I at first did get in my
head, and after that, by a sideling striving, my shoulders and my
whole body; then was I exceeding glad, and went and sat down in the
midst of them, and so was comforted with the light and heat of their
sun.
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