In the morning they called up _Christian_ and _Hopeful_ to walk with them upon the mountains. So they went forth and walked with them, having a pleasant prospect on every side. From thence they led them to the top of a hill called _Error_, which was very steep on the further side, and bid them look down to the bottom. They looked down, and saw at the bottom several men dashed to pieces by a fall from the top. Then said _Christian_, who are these? “Have you not heard,” said the shepherds, “of them that were made to err, by hearkening to _Hymenæus_ and _Philetus_, concerning the resurrection of the body? These that you see lie dashed in pieces are they; and they continue unburied to this day, for an example to others, that they clamber not too high, nor come too near the brink of this mountain.” *Then I saw in my dream, that the shepherds had them to another place, where was a door in the side of a hill. They opened the door and bad them look in. They looked, and saw that it was very dark and smoaky; also they heard a roaring noise, as of fire, and cries and groans, as of men in torment. Then said _Christian_, what means this? This, answered the shepherds, is a bye-way to hell; a way that hypocrites go, and those that did run well, but do not endure to the end. Then said the pilgrims, looking on each other, _We have need to cry to the strong for strength_. “True,” said the shepherds, “and you have need to use it when you have it too.” When they were about to depart, one of the shepherds gave them a note of the way. Another bid them, “Beware of the flatterer.” The third said, “Sleep not on inchanted ground.” So they went down the mountains, along the highway. Now a little below the mountains, on the left-hand, lies the country of _Conceit_; from which country a little crooked lane runs into the way where the pilgrims walked. Here they met with a very brisk young man, who came out of that country: his name was _Ignorance_. So _Christian_ asked, “Whence he came, and whither he was going?” _Ignorance._ Sir, I was born in the country that lies on the left-hand, and am going to mount _Zion_. _Christian._ And how do you think to get there? _Ignorance._ As other good people do. _Christian._ But what have you to shew at the gate, that it may be opened to you? _Ignorance._ Why, I do no harm. I pay every man his own. I work hard for an honest living. I say my prayers, and keep my church, and go to the sacrament, and do what good I can. _Christian._ But you came not in at the strait gate. You came in through that crooked lane; and therefore I fear, whatever you think of yourself, you will at that day be judged a thief and a robber.