Then said Christian, "What means this?"

The Interpreter answered, "This fire is the work of grace that is

wrought in the heart; he that casts water upon it to extinguish and

put it out, is the devil; but in that thou seest the fire

notwithstanding burn higher and hotter, thou shalt also see the

reason of that." So he had him about to the backside of the wall,

where he saw a man with a vessel of oil in his hand, of which he did

also continually cast, but secretly, into the fire.

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