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INTER . You say the truth : `` For the things which are seen are temporal ; but the things which are not seen are eternal . '' -LSB- 2 Cor . 4:18 -RSB- But though this be so , yet since things present and our fleshly appetite are such near neighbours one to another ; and again , because things to come , and carnal sense , are such strangers one to another ; therefore it is , that the first of these so suddenly fall into amity , and that distance is so continued between the second . -LCB- 80 -RCB- Then I saw in my dream that the Interpreter took Christian by the hand , and led him into a place where was a fire burning against a wall , and one standing by it , always casting much water upon it , to quench it ; yet did the fire burn higher and hotter . Then said Christian , What means this ? -LCB- 81 -RCB- 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 .