" Then they asked him
for his certificate, that they might go in and show it to the King.
So he fumbled in his bosom for one, and found none. Then said they,
"Have you none?" But the man answered never a word. So they told the
king; but he would not come down to see him, but commanded the two
shining ones that conducted Christian and Hopeful to the city, to go
out and take Ignorance, and bind him hand and foot, and have him
away. Then they took him up and carried him through the air to the
door that I saw in the side of the hill, and put him in there. Then
I saw that there was a way to hell even from the gates of heaven, as
well as from the city of Destruction.
XXVII. HEAVEN.
HAPPINESS AND GLORY OF HEAVEN.
HEAVEN! It is called the paradise of God--a paradise, to show how
quiet, harmless, sweet, and beautiful heaven shall be to them that
possess it.
"The street of the city was pure gold." All the visions were rich,
but this the richest, that the floor of the house should be covered
with gold. The floor and street are walking-places, and how rich
will our steps be then! Alas, here we sometimes step into the mire,
and then again stumble upon blocks and stones. Here we sometimes
fall into the holes, and have our heel often catched in a snare; but
there will be none of these.
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