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You can also find out about how to make a +donation to Project Gutenberg, and how to get involved. + + +**Welcome To The World of Free Plain Vanilla Electronic Texts** + +**eBooks Readable By Both Humans and By Computers, Since 1971** + +*****These eBooks Were Prepared By Thousands of Volunteers!***** + + +Title: The Holy War + +Author: John Bunyan + +Release Date: January, 1996 [EBook #395] +[This file was first posted on December 7, 1995] +[Most recently updated: August 18, 2002] + +Edition: 10 + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: ASCII + +*** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK, THE HOLY WAR *** + + + + +Transcribed from the 1907 Religious Tract Society edition by David +Price, email ccx074@coventry.ac.uk + + + + +THE HOLY WAR + + + + +TO THE READER. + + + +'Tis strange to me, that they that love to tell +Things done of old, yea, and that do excel +Their equals in historiology, +Speak not of Mansoul's wars, but let them lie +Dead, like old fables, or such worthless things, +That to the reader no advantage brings: +When men, let them make what they will their own, +Till they know this, are to themselves unknown. +Of stories, I well know, there's divers sorts, +Some foreign, some domestic; and reports +Are thereof made as fancy leads the writers: +(By books a man may guess at the inditers.) +Some will again of that which never was, +Nor will be, feign (and that without a cause) +Such matter, raise such mountains, tell such things +Of men, of laws, of countries, and of kings; +And in their story seem to be so sage, +And with such gravity clothe every page, +That though their frontispiece says all is vain, +Yet to their way disciples they obtain. +But, readers, I have somewhat else to do, +Than with vain stories thus to trouble you. +What here I say, some men do know so well, +They can with tears and joy the story tell. +The town of Mansoul is well known to many, +Nor are her troubles doubted of by any +That are acquainted with those Histories +That Mansoul and her wars anatomize. +Then lend thine ear to what I do relate, +Touching the town of Mansoul and her state: +How she was lost, took captive, made a slave: +And how against him set, that should her save; +Yea, how by hostile ways she did oppose +Her Lord, and with his enemy did close. +For they are true: he that will them deny +Must needs the best of records vilify. +For my part, I myself was in the town, +Both when 'twas set up, and when pulling down. +I saw Diabolus in his possession, +And Mansoul also under his oppression. +Yea, I was there when she own'd him for lord, +And to him did submit with one accord. +When Mansoul trampled upon things divine, +And wallowed in filth as doth a swine; +When she betook herself unto her arms, +Fought her Emmanuel, despis'd his charms; +Then I was there, and did rejoice to see +Diabolus and Mansoul so agree. +Let no men, then, count me a fable-maker, +Nor make my name or credit a partaker +Of their derision: what is here in view, +Of mine own knowledge, I dare say is true. +I saw the Prince's armed men come down +By troops, by thousands, to besiege the town; +I saw the captains, heard the trumpets sound, +And how his forces covered all the ground. +Yea, how they set themselves in battle-'ray, +I shall remember to my dying day. +I saw the colours waving in the wind, +And they within to mischief how combin'd +To ruin Mansoul, and to make away +Her primum mobile without delay. +I saw the mounts cast up against the town, +And how the slings were placed to beat it down: +I heard the stones fly whizzing by mine ears, +(What longer kept in mind than got in fears?) +I heard them fall, and saw what work they made. +And how old Mors did cover with his shade +The face of Mansoul; and I heard her cry, +'Woe worth the day, in dying I shall die!' +I saw the battering-rams, and how they play'd +To beat open Ear-gate; and I was afraid +Not only Ear-gate, but the very town +Would by those battering-rams be beaten down. +I saw the fights, and heard the captains shout, +And in each battle saw who faced about; +I saw who wounded were, and who were slain; +And who, when dead, would come to life again. +I heard the cries of those that wounded were, +(While others fought like men bereft of fear,) +And while the cry, 'Kill, kill,' was in mine ears, +The gutters ran, not so with blood as tears. +Indeed, the captains did not always fight, +But then they would molest us day and night; +Their cry, 'Up, fall on, let us take the town,' +Kept us from sleeping, or from lying down. +I was there when the gates were broken ope, +And saw how Mansoul then was stripp'd of hope; +I saw the captains march into the town, +How there they fought, and did their foes cut down. +I heard the Prince bid Boanerges go +Up to the castle, and there seize his foe; +And saw him and his fellows bring him down, +In chains of great contempt quite through the town. +I saw Emmanuel, when he possess'd +His town of Mansoul; and how greatly blest +A town his gallant town of Mansoul was, +When she received his pardon, loved his laws. +When the Diabolonians were caught, +When tried, and when to execution brought, +Then I was there; yea, I was standing by +When Mansoul did the rebels crucify. +I also saw Mansoul clad all in white, +I heard her Prince call her his heart's delight. +I saw him put upon her chains of gold, +And rings, and bracelets, goodly to behold. +What shall I say? I heard the people's cries, +And saw the Prince wipe tears from Mansoul's eyes. +And heard the groans, and saw the joy of many: +Tell you of all, I neither will, nor can I. +But by what here I say, you well may see +That Mansoul's matchless wars no fables be. +Mansoul, the desire of both princes was: +One keep his gain would, t'other gain his loss. +Diabolus would cry, 'The town is mine!' +Emmanuel would plead a right divine +Unto his Mansoul: then to blows they go, +And Mansoul cries, 'These wars will me undo.' +Mansoul! her wars seemed endless in her eyes; +She's lost by one, becomes another's prize: +And he again that lost her last would swear, +'Have her I will, or her in pieces tear.' +Mansoul! it was the very seat of war; +Wherefore her troubles greater were by far +Than only where the noise of war is heard, +Or where the shaking of a sword is fear'd; +Or only where small skirmishes are fought, +Or where the fancy fighteth with a thought. +She saw the swords of fighting men made red, +And heard the cries of those with them wounded: +Must not her frights, then, be much more by far +Than theirs that to such doings strangers are? +Or theirs that hear the beating of a drum, +But not made fly for fear from house and home? +Mansoul not only heard the trumpet's sound, +But saw her gallants gasping on the ground: +Wherefore we must not think that she could rest +With them, whose greatest earnest is but jest: +Or where the blust'ring threat'ning of great wars +Do end in parlies, or in wording jars. +Mansoul! her mighty wars, they did portend +Her weal or woe, and that world without end: +Wherefore she must be more concern'd than they +Whose fears begin, and end the selfsame day; +Or where none other harm doth come to him +That is engaged, but loss of life or limb, +As all must needs confess that now do dwell +In Universe, and can this story tell. +Count me not, then, with them that, to amaze +The people, set them on the stars to gaze, +Insinuating with much confidence, +That each of them is now the residence +Of some brave creatures: yea, a world they will +Have in each star, though it be past their skill +To make it manifest to any man, +That reason hath, or tell his fingers can. +But I have too long held thee in the porch, +And kept thee from the sunshine with a torch, +Well, now go forward, step within the door, +And there behold five hundred times much more +Of all sorts of such inward rarities +As please the mind will, and will feed the eyes +With those, which, if a Christian, thou wilt see +Not small, but things of greatest moment be. +Nor do thou go to work without my key; +(In mysteries men soon do lose their way;) +And also turn it right, if thou wouldst know +My riddle, and wouldst with my heifer plough; +It lies there in the window. Fare thee well, +My next may be to ring thy passing-bell. + +JOHN BUNYAN. + + + +AN ADVERTISEMENT TO THE READER. + + + +Some say the 'Pilgrim's Progress' is not mine, +Insinuating as if I would shine +In name and fame by the worth of another, +Like some made rich by robbing of their brother. +Or that so fond I am of being sire, +I'll father bastards; or, if need require, +I'll tell a lie in print to get applause. +I scorn it: John such dirt-heap never was, +Since God converted him. Let this suffice +To show why I my 'Pilgrim' patronize. +It came from mine own heart, so to my head, +And thence into my fingers trickled; +Then to my pen, from whence immediately +On paper I did dribble it daintily. +Manner and matter, too, was all mine own, +Nor was it unto any mortal known +Till I had done it; nor did any then +By books, by wits, by tongues, or hand, or pen, +Add five words to it, or write half a line +Thereof: the whole, and every whit is mine. +Also for THIS, thine eye is now upon, +The matter in this manner came from none +But the same heart, and head, fingers, and pen, +As did the other. Witness all good men; +For none in all the world, without a lie, +Can say that this is mine, excepting I +I write not this of my ostentation, +Nor 'cause I seek of men their commendation; +I do it to keep them from such surmise, +As tempt them will my name to scandalize. +Witness my name, if anagram'd to thee, +The letters make--'Nu hony in a B.' + +JOHN BUNYAN. + + + +A RELATION OF THE HOLY WAR. + + + +In my travels, as I walked through many regions and countries, it +was my chance to happen into that famous continent of Universe. A +very large and spacious country it is: it lieth between the two +poles, and just amidst the four points of the heavens. It is a +place well watered, and richly adorned with hills and valleys, +bravely situate, and for the most part, at least where I was, very +fruitful, also well peopled, and a very sweet air. + +The people are not all of one complexion, nor yet of one language, +mode, or way of religion, but differ as much as, it is said, do the +planets themselves. Some are right, and some are wrong, even as it +happeneth to be in lesser regions. + +In this country, as I said, it was my lot to travel; and there +travel I did, and that so long, even till I learned much of their +mother tongue, together with the customs and manners of them among +whom I was. And, to speak truth, I was much delighted to see and +hear many things which I saw and heard among them; yea, I had, to +be sure, even lived and died a native among them, (so was I taken +with them and their doings,) had not my master sent for me home to +his house, there to do business for him, and to oversee business +done. + +Now there is in this gallant country of Universe a fair and +delicate town, a corporation called Mansoul; a town for its +building so curious, for its situation so commodious, for its +privileges so advantageous, (I mean with reference to its origin,) +that I may say of it, as was said before of the continent in which +it is placed, There is not its equal under the whole heaven. + +As to the situation of this town, it lieth just between the two +worlds; and the first founder and builder of it, so far as by the +best and most authentic records I can gather, was one Shaddai; and +he built it for his own delight. He made it the mirror and glory +of all that he made, even the top-piece, beyond anything else that +he did in that country. Yea, so goodly a town was Mansoul when +first built, that it is said by some, the gods, at the setting up +thereof, came down to see it, and sang for joy. And as he made it +goodly to behold, so also mighty to have dominion over all the +country round about. Yea, all were commanded to acknowledge +Mansoul for their metropolitan, all were enjoined to do homage to +it. Aye, the town itself had positive commission and power from +her King to demand service of all, and also to subdue any that +anyways denied to do it. + +There was reared up in the midst of this town a most famous and +stately palace; for strength, it might be called a castle; for +pleasantness, a paradise; for largeness, a place so copious as to +contain all the world. This place the King Shaddai intended but +for himself alone, and not another with him; partly because of his +own delights, and partly because he would not that the terror of +strangers should be upon the town. This place Shaddai made also a +garrison of, but committed the keeping of it only to the men of the +town. + +The walls of the town were well built, yea, so fast and firm were +they knit and compact together, that, had it not been for the +townsmen themselves, they could not have been shaken or broken for +ever. For here lay the excellent wisdom of him that builded +Mansoul, that the walls could never be broken down nor hurt by the +most mighty adverse potentate, unless the townsmen gave consent +thereto. + +This famous town of Mansoul had five gates, in at which to come, +out at which to go; and these were made likewise answerable to the +walls, to wit, impregnable, and such as could never be opened nor +forced but by the will and leave of those within. The names of the +gates were these: Ear-gate, Eye-gate, Mouth-gate, Nose-gate, and +Feel-gate. + +Other things there were that belonged to the town of Mansoul, which +if you adjoin to these, will yet give farther demonstration to all, +of the glory and strength of the place. It had always a +sufficiency of provision within its walls; it had the best, most +wholesome, and excellent law that then was extant in the world. +There was not a rascal, rogue, or traitorous person then within its +walls; they were all true men, and fast joined together; and this, +you know, is a great matter. And to all these, it had always (so +long as it had the goodness to keep true to Shaddai the King) his +countenance, his protection, and it was his delight, etc. + +Well, upon a time, there was one Diabolus, a mighty giant, made an +assault upon this famous town of Mansoul, to take it, and make it +his own habitation. This giant was king of the blacks, and a most +raving prince he was. We will, if you please, first discourse of +the origin of this Diabolus, and then of his taking of this famous +town of Mansoul. + +This Diabolus is indeed a great and mighty prince, and yet both +poor and beggarly. As to his origin, he was at first one of the +servants of King Shaddai, made, and taken, and put by him into most +high and mighty place; yea, was put into such principalities as +belonged to the best of his territories and dominions. This +Diabolus was made 'son of the morning,' and a brave place he had of +it: it brought him much glory, and gave him much brightness, an +income that might have contented his Luciferian heart, had it not +been insatiable, and enlarged as hell itself. + +Well, he seeing himself thus exalted to greatness and honour, and +raging in his mind for higher state and degree, what doth he but +begins to think with himself how he might be set up as lord over +all, and have the sole power under Shaddai. (Now that did the King +reserve for his Son, yea, and had already bestowed it upon him.) +Wherefore he first consults with himself what had best to be done; +and then breaks his mind to some other of his companions, to the +which they also agreed. So, in fine, they came to this issue that +they should make an attempt upon the King's Son to destroy him, +that the inheritance might be theirs. Well, to be short, the +treason, as I said, was concluded, the time appointed, the word +given, the rebels rendezvoused, and the assault attempted. Now the +King and his Son being all and always eye, could not but discern +all passages in his dominions; and he, having always love for his +Son as for himself, could not at what he saw but be greatly +provoked and offended: wherefore what does he, but takes them in +the very nick and first trip that they made towards their design, +convicts them of the treason, horrid rebellion, and conspiracy that +they had devised, and now attempted to put into practice, and casts +them altogether out of all place of trust, benefit, honour, and +preferment. This done, he banishes them the court, turns them down +into the horrible pits, as fast bound in chains, never more to +expect the least favour from his hands, but to abide the judgment +that he had appointed, and that for ever. + +Now they being thus cast out of all place of trust, profit, and +honour, and also knowing that they had lost their prince's favour +for ever, (being banished his court, and cast down to the horrible +pits,) you may he sure they would now add to their former pride +what malice and rage against Shaddai, and against his Son, they +could. Wherefore, roving and ranging in much fury from place to +place, if, perhaps, they might find something that was the King's, +by spoiling of that, to revenge themselves on him; at last they +happened into this spacious country of Universe, and steer their +course towards the town of Mansoul; and considering that that town +was one of the chief works and delights of King Shaddai, what do +they but, after counsel taken, make an assault upon that. I say, +they knew that Mansoul belonged unto Shaddai; for they were there +when he built it and beautified it for himself. So when they had +found the place, they shouted horribly for joy, and roared on it as +a lion upon the prey, saying, 'Now we have found the prize, and how +to be revenged on King Shaddai for what he hath done to us.' So +they sat down and called a council of war, and considered with +themselves what ways and methods they had best to engage in for the +winning to themselves this famous town of Mansoul, and these four +things were then propounded to be considered of. + +First. Whether they had best all of them to show themselves in +this design to the town of Mansoul. + +Secondly. Whether they had best to go and sit down against Mansoul +in their now ragged and beggarly guise. + +Thirdly. Whether they had best show to Mansoul their intentions, +and what design they came about, or whether to assault it with +words and ways of deceit. + +Fourthly. Whether they had not best to some of their companions to +give out private orders to take the advantage, if they see one or +more of the principal townsmen, to shoot them, if thereby they +shall judge their cause and design will the better be promoted. + +1. It was answered to the first of these proposals in the negative, +to wit, that it would not be best that all should show themselves +before the town, because the appearance of many of them might alarm +and frighten the town; whereas a few or but one of them was not so +likely to do it. And to enforce this advice to take place it was +added further, that if Mansoul was frighted, or did take the alarm, +'It is impossible,' said Diabolus (for he spake now), 'that we +should take the town: for that none can enter into it without its +own consent. Let, therefore, but few, or but one, assault Mansoul; +and in mine opinion,' said Diabolus, 'let me be he.' Wherefore to +this they all agreed. + +2. And then to the second proposal they came, namely, Whether they +had best go and sit down before Mansoul in their now ragged and +beggarly guise. To which it was answered also in the negative, By +no means; and that because, though the town of Mansoul had been +made to know, and to have to do, before now, with things that are +invisible, they did never as yet see any of their fellow-creatures +in so sad and rascally condition as they; and this was the advice +of that fierce Alecto. Then said Apollyon, 'The advice is +pertinent; for even one of us appearing to them as we are now, must +needs both beget and multiply such thoughts in them as will both +put them into a consternation of spirit, and necessitate them to +put themselves upon their guard. And if so,' said he, 'then, as my +Lord Diabolus said but now, it is in vain for us to think of taking +the town.' Then said that mighty giant Beelzebub, 'The advice that +already is given is safe; for though the men of Mansoul have seen +such things as we once were, yet hitherto they did never behold +such things as we now are; and it is best, in mine opinion, to come +upon them in such a guise as is common to, and most familiar among +them.' To this, when they had consented, the next thing to be +considered was, in what shape, hue, or guise Diabolus had best to +show himself when he went about to make Mansoul his own. Then one +said one thing, and another the contrary. At last Lucifer +answered, that, in his opinion, it was best that his lordship +should assume the body of some of those creatures that they of the +town had dominion over; 'for,' quoth he, 'these are not only +familiar to them, but, being under them, they will never imagine +that an attempt should by them be made upon the town; and, to blind +all, let him assume the body of one of those beasts that Mansoul +deems to be wiser than any of the rest.' This advice was applauded +of all: so it was determined that the giant Diabolus should assume +the dragon, for that he was in those days as familiar with the town +of Mansoul as now is the bird with the boy; for nothing that was in +its primitive state was at all amazing to them. Then they +proceeded to the third thing, which was: + +3. Whether they had best to show their intentions, or the design of +his coming, to Mansoul, or no. This also was answered in the +negative, because of the weight that was in the former reasons, to +wit, for that Mansoul were a strong people, a strong people in a +strong town, whose wall and gates were impregnable, (to say nothing +of their castle,) nor can they by any means be won but by their own +consent. 'Besides,' said Legion, (for he gave answer to this,) 'a +discovery of our intentions may make them send to their king for +aid; and if that be done, I know quickly what time of day it will +be with us. Therefore let us assault them in all pretended +fairness, covering our intentions with all manner of lies, +flatteries, delusive words; feigning things that never will be, and +promising that to them that they shall never find. This is the way +to win Mansoul, and to make them of themselves open their gates to +us; yea, and to desire us too to come in to them. And the reason +why I think that this project will do is, because the people of +Mansoul now are, every one, simple and innocent, all honest and +true; nor do they as yet know what it is to be assaulted with +fraud, guile, and hypocrisy. They are strangers to lying and +dissembling lips; wherefore we cannot, if thus we be disguised, by +them at all be discerned; our lies shall go for true sayings, and +our dissimulations for upright dealings. What we promise them they +will in that believe us, especially if, in all our lies and feigned +words, we pretend great love to them, and that our design is only +their advantage and honour.' Now there was not one bit of a reply +against this; this went as current down as doth the water down a +steep descent. Wherefore they go to consider of the last proposal, +which was: + +4. Whether they had not best to give out orders to some of their +company to shoot some one or more of the principal of the townsmen, +if they judge that their cause may be promoted thereby. This was +carried in the affirmative, and the man that was designed by this +stratagem to be destroyed was one Mr. Resistance, otherwise called +Captain Resistance. And a great man in Mansoul this Captain +Resistance was, and a man that the giant Diabolus and his band more +feared than they feared the whole town of Mansoul besides. Now who +should be the actor to do the murder? That was the next, and they +appointed one Tisiphone, a fury of the lake, to do it. + +They thus having ended their council of war, rose up, and essayed +to do as they had determined; they marched towards Mansoul, but all +in a manner invisible, save one, only one; nor did he approach the +town in his own likeness, but under the shade and in the body of +the dragon. + +So they drew up and sat down before Ear-gate, for that was the +place of hearing for all without the town, as Eye-gate was the +place of perspection. So, as I said, he came up with his train to +the gate, and laid his ambuscado for Captain Resistance within bow- +shot of the town. This done, the giant ascended up close to the +gate, and called to the town of Mansoul for audience. Nor took he +any with him but one Ill-pause, who was his orator in all difficult +matters. Now, as I said, he being come up to the gate, (as the +manner of those times was,) sounded his trumpet for audience; at +which the chief of the town of Mansoul, such as my Lord Innocent, +my Lord Willbewill, my Lord Mayor, Mr. Recorder, and Captain +Resistance, came down to the wall to see who was there, and what +was the matter. And my Lord Willbewill, when he had looked over +and saw who stood at the gate, demanded what he was, wherefore he +was come, and why he roused the town of Mansoul with so unusual a +sound. + +Diabolus, then, as if he had been a lamb, began his oration, and +said: 'Gentlemen of the famous town of Mansoul, I am, as you may +perceive, no far dweller from you, but near, and one that is bound +by the king to do you my homage and what service I can; wherefore, +that I may be faithful to myself and to you, I have somewhat of +concern to impart unto you. Wherefore, grant me your audience, and +hear me patiently. And first, I will assure you, it is not myself, +but you--not mine, but your advantage that I seek by what I now do, +as will full well be made manifest, by that I have opened my mind +unto you. For, gentlemen, I am (to tell you the truth) come to +show you how you may obtain great and ample deliverance from a +bondage that, unawares to yourselves, you are captivated and +enslaved under.' At this the town of Mansoul began to prick up its +ears. And 'What is it? Pray what is it?' thought they. And he +said, 'I have somewhat to say to you concerning your King, +concerning his law, and also touching yourselves. Touching your +King, I know he is great and potent; but yet all that he hath said +to you is neither true nor yet for your advantage. 1. It is not +true, for that wherewith he hath hitherto awed you, shall not come +to pass, nor be fulfilled, though you do the thing that he hath +forbidden. But if there was danger, what a slavery is it to live +always in fear of the greatest of punishments, for doing so small +and trivial a thing as eating of a little fruit is. 2. Touching +his laws, this I say further, they are both unreasonable, +intricate, and intolerable. Unreasonable, as was hinted before; +for that the punishment is not proportioned to the offence: there +is great difference and disproportion between the life and an +apple; yet the one must go for the other by the law of your +Shaddai. But it is also intricate, in that he saith, first, you +may eat of all; and yet after forbids the eating of one. And then, +in the last place, it must needs be intolerable, forasmuch as that +fruit which you are forbidden to eat of (if you are forbidden any) +is that, and that alone, which is able, by your eating, to minister +to you a good as yet unknown by you. This is manifest by the very +name of the tree; it is called the "tree of knowledge of good and +evil;" and have you that knowledge as yet? No, no; nor can you +conceive how good, how pleasant, and how much to be desired to make +one wise it is, so long as you stand by your King's commandment. +Why should you be holden in ignorance and blindness? Why should +you not be enlarged in knowledge and understanding? And now, O ye +inhabitants of the famous town of Mansoul, to speak more +particularly to yourselves you are not a free people! You are kept +both in bondage and slavery, and that by a grievous threat; no +reason being annexed but, "So I will have it; so it shall be." And +is it not grievous to think on, that that very thing which you are +forbidden to do might you but do it, would yield you both wisdom +and honour? for then your eyes will be opened, and you shall be as +gods. Now, since this is thus,' quoth he, 'can you be kept by any +prince in more slavery and in greater bondage than you are under +this day? You are made underlings, and are wrapped up in +inconveniences, as I have well made appear. For what bondage +greater than to be kept in blindness? Will not reason tell you +that it is better to have eyes than to be without them? and so to +be at liberty to be better than to be shut up in a dark and +stinking cave?' + +And just now, while Diabolus was speaking these words to Mansoul, +Tisiphone shot at Captain Resistance, where he stood on the gate, +and mortally wounded him in the head; so that he, to the amazement +of the townsmen, and the encouragement of Diabolus, fell down dead +quite over the wall. Now, when Captain Resistance was dead, (and +he was the only man of war in the town,) poor Mansoul was wholly +left naked of courage, nor had she now any heart to resist. But +this was as the devil would have it. Then stood forth he, Mr. Ill- +pause, that Diabolus brought with him, who was his orator; and he +addressed himself to speak to the town of Mansoul; the tenour of +whose speech here follows:- + +'Gentlemen,' quoth he, 'it is my master's happiness that he has +this day a quiet and teachable auditory; and it is hoped by us that +we shall prevail with you not to cast off good advice. My master +has a very great love for you; and although, as he very well knows, +that he runs the hazard of the anger of King Shaddai, yet love to +you will make him do more than that. Nor doth there need that a +word more should be spoken to confirm for truth what he hath said; +there is not a word but carries with it self-evidence in its +bowels; the very name of the tree may put an end to all controversy +in this matter. I therefore, at this time, shall only add this +advice to you, under and by the leave of my lord;' (and with that +he made Diabolus a very low congee;) 'consider his words, look on +the tree and the promising fruit thereof; remember also that yet +you know but little, and that this is the way to know more: and if +your reasons be not conquered to accept of such good counsel, you +are not the men that I took you to be.' + +But when the townsfolk saw that the tree was good for food, and +that it was pleasant to the eye, and a tree to be desired to make +one wise, they did as old Ill-pause advised; they took and did eat +thereof. Now this I should have told you before, that even then, +when this Ill-pause was making his speech to the townsmen, my Lord +Innocency (whether by a shot from the camp of the giant, or from +some sinking qualm that suddenly took him, or whether by the +stinking breath of that treacherous villain old Ill-pause, for so I +am most apt to think) sunk down in the place where he stood, nor +could be brought to life again. Thus these two brave men died-- +brave men, I call them; for they were the beauty and glory of +Mansoul, so long as they lived therein; nor did there now remain +any more a noble spirit in Mansoul; they all fell down and yielded +obedience to Diabolus; and became his slaves and vassals, as you +shall hear. + +Now these being dead, what do the rest of the townsfolk, but, as +men that had found a fool's paradise, they presently, as afore was +hinted, fall to prove the truth of the giant's words. And, first, +they did as Ill-pause had taught them; they looked, they considered +they were taken with the forbidden fruit; they took thereof, and +did eat; and having eaten, they became immediately drunken +therewith. So they open the gate, both Ear-gate and Eye-gate, and +let in Diabolus with all his bands, quite forgetting their good +Shaddai, his law, and the judgment that he had annexed, with solemn +threatening, to the breach thereof. + + Diabolus, having now obtained entrance in at the gates of the +town, marches up to the middle thereof, to make his conquest as +sure as he could; and finding, by this time, the affections of the +people warmly inclining to him, he, as thinking it was best +striking while the iron is hot, made this further deceivable speech +unto them, saying, 'Alas, my poor Mansoul! I have done thee indeed +this service, as to promote thee to honour, and to greaten thy +liberty; but, alas! alas! poor Mansoul, thou wantest now one to +defend thee; for assure thyself that when Shaddai shall hear what +is done, he will come; for sorry will he be that thou hast broken +his bonds, and cast his cords away from thee. What wilt thou do? +Wilt thou, after enlargement, suffer thy privileges to be invaded +and taken away, or what wilt resolve with thyself?' + +Then they all with one consent said to this bramble, 'Do thou reign +over us.' So he accepted the motion, and became the king of the +town of Mansoul. This being done, the next thing was to give him +possession of the castle, and so of the whole strength of the town. +Wherefore, into the castle he goes; it was that which Shaddai built +in Mansoul for his own delight and pleasure; this now was become a +den and hold for the giant Diabolus. + +Now, having got possession of this stately palace or castle, what +doth he but makes it a garrison for himself, and strengthens and +fortifies it with all sorts of provision, against the King Shaddai, +or those that should endeavour the regaining of it to him and his +obedience again. + +This done, but not thinking himself yet secure enough, in the next +place he bethinks himself of new modelling the town; and so he +does, setting up one, and putting down another at pleasure. +Wherefore my Lord Mayor, whose name was my Lord Understanding, and +Mr. Recorder, whose name was Mr. Conscience, these he put out of +place and power. + +As for my Lord Mayor, though he was an understanding man, and one +too that had complied with the rest of the town of Mansoul in +admitting the giant into the town, yet Diabolus thought not fit to +let him abide in his former lustre and glory, because he was a +seeing man. Wherefore he darkened him, not only by taking from him +his office and power, but by building a high and strong tower, just +between the sun's reflections and the windows of my lord's palace; +by which means his house and all, and the whole of his habitation, +were made as dark as darkness itself. And thus, being alienated +from the light, he became as one that was born blind. To this, his +house, my lord was confined as to a prison; nor might he, upon his +parole, go farther than within his own bounds. And now, had he had +a heart to do for Mansoul, what could he do for it, or wherein +could he be profitable to her? So then, so long as Mansoul was +under the power and government of Diabolus, (and so long it was +under him, as it was obedient to him, which was even until by a war +it was rescued out of his hand,) so long my Lord Mayor was rather +an impediment in, than an advantage to the famous town of Mansoul. + +As for Mr. Recorder, before the town was taken, he was a man well +read in the laws of his king, and also a man of courage and +faithfulness to speak truth at every occasion; and he had a tongue +as bravely hung as he had a head filled with judgment. Now, this +man Diabolus could by no means abide, because, though he gave his +consent to his coming into the town, yet he could not, by all the +wiles, trials, stratagems, and devices that he could use, make him +wholly his own. True, he was much degenerated from his former +king, and also much pleased with many of the giant's laws and +service; but all this would not do, forasmuch as he was not wholly +his. He would now and then think upon Shaddai, and have dread of +his law upon him, and then he would speak against Diabolus with a +voice as great as when a lion roareth. Yea, and would also at +certain times, when his fits were upon him, (for you must know that +sometimes he had terrible fits,) make the whole town of Mansoul +shake with his voice: and therefore the now king of Mansoul could +not abide him. + +Diabolus, therefore, feared the Recorder more than any that was +left alive in the town of Mansoul, because, as I said, his words +did shake the whole town; they were like the rattling thunder, and +also like thunder-claps. Since, therefore, the giant could not +make him wholly his own, what doth he do but studies all that he +could to debauch the old gentleman, and by debauchery to stupefy +his mind, and more harden his heart in the ways of vanity. And as +he attempted, so he accomplished his design: he debauched the man, +and by little and little so drew him into sin and wickedness, that +at last he was not only debauched, as at first, and so by +consequence defiled, but was almost (at last, I say) past all +conscience of sin. And this was the farthest Diabolus could go. +Wherefore he bethinks him of another project, and that was, to +persuade the men of the town that Mr. Recorder was mad, and so not +to be regarded. And for this he urged his fits, and said, 'If he +be himself, why doth he not do thus always? But,' quoth he, 'as +all mad folks have their fits, and in them their raving language, +so hath this old and doating gentleman.' + +Thus, by one means or another, he quickly got Mansoul to slight, +neglect, and despise whatever Mr. Recorder could say. For, besides +what already you have heard, Diabolus had a way to make the old +gentleman, when he was merry, unsay and deny what he in his fits +had affirmed. And, indeed, this was the next way to make himself +ridiculous, and to cause that no man should regard him. Also now +he never spake freely for King Shaddai, but also by force and +constraint. Besides, he would at one time be hot against that at +which, at another, he would hold his peace; so uneven was he now in +his doings. Sometimes he would be as if fast asleep, and again +sometimes as dead, even then when the whole town of Mansoul was in +her career after vanity, and in her dance after the giant's pipe. + +Wherefore, sometimes when Mansoul did use to be frighted with the +thundering voice of the Recorder that was, and when they did tell +Diabolus of it, he would answer, that what the old gentleman said +was neither of love to him nor pity to them, but of a foolish +fondness that he had to be prating; and so would hush, still, and +put all to quiet again. And that he might leave no argument +unurged that might tend to make them secure, he said, and said it +often, 'O Mansoul! consider that, notwithstanding the old +gentleman's rage, and the rattle of his high and thundering words, +you hear nothing of Shaddai himself;' when, liar and deceiver that +he was, every outcry of Mr. Recorder against the sin of Mansoul was +the voice of God in him to them. But he goes on, and says, 'You +see that he values not the loss nor rebellion of the town of +Mansoul, nor will he trouble himself with calling his town to a +reckoning for their giving themselves to me. He knows that though +you were his, now you are lawfully mine; so, leaving us one to +another, he now hath shaken his hands of us. + +'Moreover, O Mansoul!' quoth he, 'consider how I have served you, +even to the uttermost of my power; and that with the best that I +have, could get, or procure for you in all the world: besides, I +dare say that the laws and customs that you now are under, and by +which you do homage to me, do yield you more solace and content +than did the paradise that at first you possessed. Your liberty +also, as yourselves do very well know, has been greatly widened and +enlarged by me; whereas I found you a penned-up people. I have not +laid any restraint upon you; you have no law, statute, or judgment +of mine to fright you; I call none of you to account for your +doings, except the madman--you know who I mean; I have granted you +to live, each man like a prince in his own, even with as little +control from me as I myself have from you.' + +And thus would Diabolus hush up and quiet the town of Mansoul, when +the Recorder that was, did at times molest them: yea, and with +such cursed orations as these, would set the whole town in a rage +and fury against the old gentleman. Yea, the rascal crew at some +times would be for destroying him. They have often wished, in my +hearing, that he had lived a thousand miles off from them: his +company, his words, yea, the sight of him, and specially when they +remembered how in old times he did use to threaten and condemn +them, (for all he was now so debauched,) did terrify and afflict +them sore. + +But all wishes were vain, for I do not know how, unless by the +power of Shaddai, and his wisdom, he was preserved in being amongst +them. Besides, his house was as strong as a castle, and stood hard +by a stronghold of the town: moreover, if at any time any of the +crew or rabble attempted to make him away, he could pull up the +sluices, and let in such floods as would drown all round about him. + +But to leave Mr. Recorder, and to come to my Lord Willbewill, +another of the gentry of the famous town of Mansoul. This +Willbewill was as high-born as any man in Mansoul, and was as much, +if not more, a freeholder than many of them were; besides, if I +remember my tale aright, he had some privileges peculiar to himself +in the famous town of Mansoul. Now, together with these, he was a +man of great strength, resolution, and courage, nor in his occasion +could any turn him away. But I say, whether he was proud of his +estate, privileges, strength, or what, (but sure it was through +pride of something,) he scorns now to be a slave in Mansoul; and +therefore resolves to bear office under Diabolus, that he might +(such an one as he was) be a petty ruler and governor in Mansoul. +And, headstrong man that he was! thus he began betimes; for this +man, when Diabolus did make his oration at Ear-gate, was one of the +first that was for consenting to his words, and for accepting his +counsel at wholesome, and that was for the opening of the gate, and +for letting him into the town; wherefore Diabolus had a kindness +for him, and therefore he designed for him a place. And perceiving +the valour and stoutness of the man, he coveted to have him for one +of his great ones, to act and do in matters of the highest concern. + +So he sent for him, and talked with him of that secret matter that +lay in his breast, but there needed not much persuasion in the +case. For as at first he was willing that Diabolus should be let +into the town, so now he was as willing to serve him there. When +the tyrant, therefore, perceived the willingness of my lord to +serve him, and that his mind stood bending that way, he forthwith +made him the captain of the castle, governor of the wall, and +keeper of the gates of Mansoul: yea, there was a clause in his +commission, that nothing without him should be done in all the town +of Mansoul. So that now, next to Diabolus himself, who but my Lord +Willbewill in all the town of Mansoul! nor could anything now be +done, but at his will and pleasure, throughout the town of Mansoul. +He had also one Mr. Mind for his clerk, a man to speak on every way +like his master: for he and his lord were in principle one, and in +practice not far asunder. And now was Mansoul brought under to +purpose, and made to fulfil the lusts of the will, and of the mind. + +But it will not out of my thoughts what a desperate one this +Willbewill was when power was put into his hand. First, he flatly +denied that he owed any suit or service to his former prince and +liege lord. This done, in the next place he took an oath, and +swore fidelity to his great master Diabolus, and then, being stated +and settled in his places, offices, advancements, and preferments, +oh! you cannot think, unless you had seen it, the strange work that +this workman made in the town of Mansoul. + +First, he maligned Mr. Recorder to death; he would neither endure +to see him, nor hear the words of his mouth; he would shut his eyes +when he saw him, and stop his ears when he heard him speak. Also +he could not endure that so much as a fragment of the law of +Shaddai should be anywhere seen in the town. For example, his +clerk, Mr. Mind, had some old, rent, and torn parchments of the law +of Shaddai in his house, but when Willbewill saw them, he cast them +behind his back. True, Mr. Recorder had some of the laws in his +study; but my lord could by no means come at them. He also thought +and said, that the windows of my old Lord Mayor's house were always +too light for the profit of the town of Mansoul. The light of a +candle he could not endure. Now nothing at all pleased Willbewill +but what pleased Diabolus his lord. + +There was none like him to trumpet about the streets the brave +nature, the wise conduct, and great glory of the king Diabolus. He +would range and rove throughout all the streets of Mansoul to cry +up his illustrious lord, and would make himself even as an abject, +among the base and rascal crew, to cry up his valiant prince. And +I say, when and wheresoever he found these vassals, he would even +make himself as one of them. In all ill courses he would act +without bidding, and do mischief without commandment. + +The Lord Willbewill also had a deputy under him, and his name was +Mr. Affection, one that was also greatly debauched in his +principles, and answerable thereto in his life: he was wholly +given to the flesh, and therefore they called him Vile-Affection. +Now there was he and one Carnal-Lust, the daughter of Mr. Mind, +(like to like,) that fell in love, and made a match, and were +married; and, as I take it, they had several children, as Impudent, +Blackmouth, and Hate-Reproof. These three were black boys. And +besides these they had three daughters, as Scorn-Truth and Slight- +God, and the name of the youngest was Revenge. These were all +married in the town, and also begot and yielded many bad brats, too +many to be here inserted. But to pass by this. + +When the giant had thus engarrisoned himself in the town of +Mansoul, and had put down and set up whom he thought good, he +betakes himself to defacing. Now there was in the market-place in +Mansoul, and also upon the gates of the castle, an image of the +blessed King Shaddai. This image was so exactly engraven, (and it +was engraven in gold,) that it did the most resemble Shaddai +himself of anything that then was extant in the world. This he +basely commanded to be defaced, and it was as basely done by the +hand of Mr. No-Truth. Now you must know that, as Diabolus had +commanded, and that by the hand of Mr. No-Truth, the image of +Shaddai was defaced, he likewise gave order that the same Mr. No- +Truth should set up in its stead the horrid and formidable image of +Diabolus, to the great contempt of the former King, and debasing of +his town of Mansoul. + +Moreover, Diabolus made havoc of all remains of the laws and +statutes of Shaddai that could be found in the town of Mansoul; to +wit, such as contained either the doctrines of morals, with all +civil and natural documents. Also relative severities he sought to +extinguish. To be short, there was nothing of the remains of good +in Mansoul which he and Willbewill sought not to destroy; for their +design was to turn Mansoul into a brute, and to make it like to the +sensual sow, by the hand of Mr. No-Truth. + +When he had destroyed what law and good orders he could, then +further to effect his design, namely, to alienate Mansoul from +Shaddai her King, he commands, and they set up his own vain edicts, +statutes, and commandments, in all places of resort or concourse in +Mansoul, to wit, such as gave liberty to the lusts of the flesh, +the lusts of the eyes, and the pride of life, which are not of +Shaddai, but of the world. He encouraged, countenanced, and +promoted lasciviousness, and all ungodliness there. Yea, much more +did Diabolus to encourage wickedness in the town of Mansoul; he +promised them peace, content, joy, and bliss, in doing his +commands, and that they should never be called to an account for +their not doing the contrary. And let this serve to give a taste +to them that love to hear tell of what is done beyond their +knowledge afar off in other countries. + +Now Mansoul being wholly at his beck, and brought wholly to his +bow, nothing was heard or seen therein but that which tended to set +up him. + +But now he, having disabled the Lord Mayor and Mr. Recorder from +bearing of office in Mansoul, and seeing that the town, before he +came to it, was the most ancient of corporations in the world, and +fearing, if he did not maintain greatness, they at any time should +object that he had done them an injury; therefore, I say, (that +they might see that he did not intend to lessen their grandeur, or +to take from them any of their advantageous things,) he did choose +for them a Lord Mayor and a Recorder himself, and such as contented +them at the heart, and such also as pleased him wondrous well. + +The name of the Mayor that was of Diabolus' making was the Lord +Lustings, a man that had neither eyes nor ears. All that he did, +whether as a man or an officer, he did it naturally, as doth the +beast. And that which made him yet the more ignoble, though not to +Mansoul, yet to them that beheld and were grieved for its ruin, +was, that he never could favour good, but evil. + +The Recorder was one whose name was Forget-Good, and a very sorry +fellow he was. He could remember nothing but mischief, and to do +it with delight. He was naturally prone to do things that were +hurtful, even hurtful to the town of Mansoul, and to all the +dwellers there. These two, therefore, by their power and practice, +examples, and smiles upon evil, did much more grammar and settle +the common people in hurtful ways. For who doth not perceive that +when those that sit aloft are vile and corrupt themselves, they +corrupt the whole region and country where they are? + +Besides these, Diabolus made several burgesses and aldermen in +Mansoul, such as out of whom the town, when it needed, might choose +them officers, governors, and magistrates. And these are the names +of the chief of them: Mr. Incredulity, Mr. Haughty, Mr. Swearing, +Mr. Whoring, Mr. Hard-Heart, Mr. Pitiless, Mr. Fury, Mr. No-Truth, +Mr. Stand-to-Lies, Mr. False-Peace, Mr. Drunkenness, Mr. Cheating, +Mr. Atheism--thirteen in all. Mr. Incredulity is the eldest, and +Mr. Atheism the youngest of the company. + +There was also an election of common councilmen and others, as +bailiffs, sergeants, constables, and others; but all of them like +to those afore-named, being either fathers, brothers, cousins, or +nephews to them, whose names, for brevity's sake, I omit to +mention. + +When the giant had thus far proceeded in his work, in the next +place, he betook him to build some strongholds in the town, and he +built three that seemed to be impregnable. The first he called the +Hold of Defiance, because it was made to command the whole town, +and to keep it from the knowledge of its ancient King. The second +he called Midnight Hold, because it was built on purpose to keep +Mansoul from the true knowledge of itself. The third was called +Sweet-Sin Hold, because by that he fortified Mansoul against all +desires of good. The first of these holds stood close by Eye-gate, +that, as much might be, light might be darkened there; the second +was built hard by the old castle, to the end that that might be +made more blind, if possible; and the third stood in the market- +place. + +He that Diabolus made governor over the first of these was one +Spite-God, a most blasphemous wretch: he came with the whole +rabble of them that came against Mansoul at first, and was himself +one of themselves. He that was made the governor of Midnight Hold +was one Love-no-Light; he was also of them that came first against +the town. And he that was made the governor of the hold called +Sweet-Sin Hold was one whose name was Love-Flesh: he was also a +very lewd fellow, but not of that country where the other are +bound. This fellow could find more sweetness when he stood sucking +of a lust than he did in all the paradise of God. + +And now Diabolus thought himself safe. He had taken Mansoul, he +had engarrisoned himself therein; he had put down the old officers, +and had set up new ones; he had defaced the image of Shaddai, and +had set up his own; he had spoiled the old law books, and had +promoted his own vain lies; he had made him new magistrates, and +set up new aldermen; he had builded him new holds, and had manned +them for himself: and all this he did to make himself secure, in +case the good Shaddai, or his Son, should come to make an incursion +upon him. + +Now you may well think, that long before this time, word, by some +one or other, could not but be carried to the good King Shaddai, +how his Mansoul, in the continent of Universe, was lost; and that +the runagate giant Diabolus, once one of his Majesty's servants, +had, in rebellion against the King, made sure thereof for himself. +Yea, tidings were carried and brought to the King thereof, and that +to a very circumstance. + +At first, how Diabolus came upon Mansoul (they being a simple +people and innocent) with craft, subtlety, lies, and guile. Item, +that he had treacherously slain the right noble and valiant +captain, their Captain Resistance, as he stood upon the gate with +the rest of the townsmen. Item, how my brave Lord Innocent fell +down dead (with grief, some say, or with being poisoned with the +stinking breath of one Ill-Pause, as say others) at the hearing of +his just lord and rightful prince, Shaddai, so abused by the mouth +of so filthy a Diabolian as that varlet Ill-Pause was. The +messenger further told, that after this Ill-Pause had made a short +oration to the townsmen in behalf of Diabolus, his master; the +simple town, believing that what was said was true, with one +consent did open Ear-gate, the chief gate of the corporation, and +did let him, with his crew, into a possession of the famous town of +Mansoul. He further showed how Diabolus had served the Lord Mayor +and Mr. Recorder, to wit, that he had put them from all place of +power and trust. Item, he showed also that my Lord Willbewill was +turned a very rebel, and runagate, and that so was one Mr. Mind, +his clerk; and that they two did range and revel it all the town +over, and teach the wicked ones their ways. He said, moreover, +that this Willbewill was put into great trust, and particularly +that Diabolus had put into Willbewill's hand all the strong places +in Mansoul; and that Mr. Affection was made my Lord Willbewill's +deputy in his most rebellious affairs. 'Yea,' said the messenger, +'this monster, Lord Willbewill, has openly disavowed his King +Shaddai, and hath horribly given his faith and plighted his troth +to Diabolus.' + +'Also,' said the messenger, 'besides all this, the new king, or +rather rebellious tyrant, over the once famous, but now perishing +town of Mansoul, has set up a Lord Mayor and a Recorder of his own. +For Mayor, he has set up one Mr. Lustings; and for Recorder, Mr. +Forget-Good; two of the vilest of all the town of Mansoul.' This +faithful messenger also proceeded, and told what a sort of new +burgesses Diabolus had made; also that he had built several strong +forts, towers, and strongholds in Mansoul. He told, too, the which +I had almost forgot, how Diabolus had put the town of Mansoul into +arms, the better to capacitate them, on his behalf, to make +resistance against Shaddai their King, should he come to reduce +them to their former obedience. + +Now this tidings-teller did not deliver his relation of things in +private, but in open court, the King and his Son, high lords, chief +captains, and nobles, being all there present to hear. But by that +they had heard the whole of the story, it would have amazed one to +have seen, had he been there to behold it, what sorrow and grief, +and compunction of spirit, there was among all sorts, to think that +famous Mansoul was now taken: only the King and his Son foresaw +all this long before, yea, and sufficiently provided for the relief +of Mansoul, though they told not everybody thereof. Yet because +they also would have a share in condoling of the Misery of Mansoul, +therefore they also did, and that at a rate of the highest degree, +bewail the losing of Mansoul. The King said plainly that it +grieved him at the heart, and you may be sure that his Son was not +a whit behind him. Thus gave they conviction to all about them +that they had love and compassion for the famous town of Mansoul. +Well, when the King and his Son were retired into the privy +chamber, there they again consulted about what they had designed +before, to wit, that as Mansoul should in time be suffered to be +lost, so as certainly it should be recovered again; recovered, I +say, in such a way, as that both the King and his Son would get +themselves eternal fame and glory thereby. Wherefore, after this +consult, the Son of Shaddai (a sweet and comely Person, and one +that had always great affection for those that were in affliction, +but one that had mortal enmity in his heart against Diabolus, +because he was designed for it, and because he sought his crown and +dignity)--this Son of Shaddai, I say, having stricken hands with +his Father and promised that he would be his servant to recover his +Mansoul again, stood by his resolution, nor would he repent of the +same. The purport of which agreement was this: to wit, that at a +certain time, prefixed by both, the King's Son should take a +journey into the country of Universe, and there, in a way of +justice and equity, by making amends for the follies of Mansoul, he +should lay a foundation of perfect deliverance from Diabolus and +from his tyranny. + +Moreover Emmanuel resolved to make, at a time convenient, a war +upon the giant Diabolus, even while he was possessed of the town of +Mansoul; and that he would fairly by strength of hand drive him out +of his hold, his nest, and take it to himself to be his habitation. + +This now being resolved upon, order was given to the Lord Chief +Secretary to draw up a fair record of what was determined, and to +cause that it should be published in all the corners of the kingdom +of Universe. A short breviate of the contents thereof you may, if +you please, take here as follows: + +'Let all men know who are concerned, that the Son of Shaddai, the +great King, is engaged by covenant to his Father to bring his +Mansoul to him again; yea, and to put Mansoul, too, through the +power of his matchless love, into a far better and more happy +condition than it was in before it was taken by Diabolus.' + +These papers, therefore, were published in several places, to the +no little molestation of the tyrant Diabolus; 'for now,' thought +he, 'I shall be molested, and my habitation will be taken from me.' + +But when this matter, I mean this purpose of the King and his Son, +did at first take air at court, who can tell how the high lords, +chief captains, and noble princes that were there, were taken with +the business! First, they whispered it one to another, and after +that it began to ring out through the King's palace, all wondering +at the glorious design that between the King and his Son was on +foot for the miserable town of Mansoul. Yea, the courtiers could +scarce do anything either for the King or kingdom, but they would +mix, with the doing thereof, a noise of the love of the King and +his Son, that they had for the town of Mansoul. + +Nor could these lords, high captains, and princes be content to +keep this news at court; yea, before the records thereof were +perfected, themselves came down and told it in Universe. At last +it came to the ears, as I said, of Diabolus, to his no little +discontent; for you must think it would perplex him to hear of such +a design against him. Well, but after a few casts in his mind, he +concluded upon these four things. + +First, that this news, these good tidings, (if possible,) should be +kept from the ears of the town of Mansoul; 'for,' said he, 'if they +should once come to the knowledge that Shaddai, their former King, +and Emmanuel his Son, are contriving good for the town of Mansoul, +what can be expected by me, but that Mansoul will make a revolt +from under my hand and government, and return again to him?' + +Now, to accomplish this his design, he renews his flattery with my +Lord Willbewill, and also gives him strict charge and command, that +he should keep watch by day and by night at all the gates of the +town, especially Ear-gate and Eye-gate; 'for I hear of a design,' +quoth he, 'a design to make us all traitors, and that Mansoul must +be reduced to its first bondage again. I hope they are but flying +stories,' quoth he; 'however, let no such news by any means be let +into Mansoul, lest the people be dejected thereat. I think, my +lord, it can be no welcome news to you; I am sure it is none to me; +and I think that, at this time, it should be all our wisdom and +care to nip the head of all such rumours as shall tend to trouble +our people. Wherefore I desire, my lord, that you will in this +matter do as I say. Let there be strong guards daily kept at every +gate of the town. Stop also and examine from whence such come that +you perceive do from far come hither to trade, nor let them by any +means be admitted into Mansoul, unless you shall plainly perceive +that they are favourers of our excellent government. I command, +moreover,' said Diabolus, 'that there be spies continually walking +up and down the town of Mansoul, and let them have power to +suppress and destroy any that they shall perceive to be plotting +against us, or that shall prate of what by Shaddai and Emmanuel is +intended.' + +This, therefore, was accordingly done; my Lord Willbewill hearkened +to his lord and master, went willingly after the commandment, and, +with all the diligence he could, kept any that would from going out +abroad, or that sought to bring these tidings to Mansoul, from +coming into the town. + +Secondly, this done, in the next place, Diabolus, that he might +make Mansoul as sure as he could, frames and imposes a new oath and +horrible covenant upon the townsfolk:- To wit, that they should +never desert him nor his government, nor yet betray him, nor seek +to alter his laws; but that they should own, confess, stand by, and +acknowledge him for their rightful king, in defiance to any that do +or hereafter shall, by any pretence, law, or title whatever, lay +claim to the town of Mansoul; thinking, belike, that Shaddai had +not power to absolve them from this covenant with death, and +agreement with hell. Nor did the silly Mansoul stick or boggle at +all at this most monstrous engagement; but, as if it had been a +sprat in the mouth of a whale, they swallowed it without any +chewing. Were they troubled at all? Nay, they rather bragged and +boasted of their so brave fidelity to the tyrant, their pretended +king, swearing that they would never be changelings, nor forsake +their old lord for a new. Thus did Diabolus tie poor Mansoul fast. + +Thirdly. But jealousy, that never thinks itself strong enough, put +him, in the next place, upon another exploit, which was, yet more, +if possible, to debauch this town of Mansoul. Wherefore he caused, +by the hand of one Mr. Filth, an odious, nasty, lascivious piece of +beastliness to be drawn up in writing, and to be set upon the +castle gates; whereby he granted and gave license to all his true +and trusty sons in Mansoul to do whatsoever their lustful appetites +prompted them to do; and that no man was to let, hinder, or control +them, upon pain of incurring the displeasure of their prince. + +Now this he did for these reasons:- + +1. That the town of Mansoul might be yet made weaker and weaker, +and so more unable, should tidings come that their redemption was +designed, to believe, hope, or consent to the truth thereof; for +reason says, The bigger the sinner, the less grounds of hopes of +mercy. + +2. The second reason was, if perhaps Emmanuel, the Son of Shaddai +their King, by seeing the horrible and profane doings of the town +of Mansoul, might repent, though entered into a covenant of +redeeming them, of pursuing that covenant of their redemption; for +he knew that Shaddai was holy, and that his Son Emmanuel was holy; +yea, he knew it by woeful experience, for for his iniquity and sin +was Diabolus cast from the highest orbs. Wherefore what more +rational than for him to conclude that thus, for sin, it might fare +with Mansoul? But fearing also lest this knot should break, he +bethinks himself of another, to wit:- + +Fourthly. To endeavour to possess all hearts in the town of +Mansoul that Shaddai was raising an army, to come to overthrow and +utterly to destroy this town of Mansoul. And this he did to +forestall any tidings that might come to their ears of their +deliverance: 'For,' thought he, 'if I first bruit this, the +tidings that shall come after will all be swallowed up of this; for +what else will Mansoul say, when they shall hear that they must be +delivered, but that the true meaning is, Shaddai intends to destroy +them? Wherefore he summons the whole town into the market-place, +and there, with deceitful tongue, thus he addressed himself unto +them:- + +'Gentlemen, and my very good friends, you are all, as you know, my +legal subjects, and men of the famous town of Mansoul. You know +how, from the first day that I have been with you until now, I have +behaved myself among you, and what liberty and great privileges you +have enjoyed under my government, I hope to your honour and mine, +and also to your content and delight. Now, my famous Mansoul, a +noise of trouble there is abroad, of trouble to the town of +Mansoul; sorry I am thereof for your sakes: for I received but now +by the post from my Lord Lucifer, (and he useth to have good +intelligence,) that your old King Shaddai is raising an army to +come against you, to destroy you root and branch; and this, O +Mansoul, is now the cause that at this time I have called you +together, namely, to advise what in this juncture is best to be +done. For my part, I am but one, and can with ease shift for +myself, did I list to seek my own case, and to leave my Mansoul in +all the danger; but my heart is so firmly united to you, and so +unwilling am I to leave you, that I am willing to stand and fall +with you, to the utmost hazard that shall befall me. What say you, +O my Mansoul? Will you now desert your old friend, or do you think +of standing by me?' + +Then, as one man, with one mouth, they cried out together, 'Let him +die the death that will not.' + +Then said Diabolus again, 'It is in vain for us to hope for +quarter, for this King knows not how to show it. True, perhaps, +he, at his first sitting down before us, will talk of and pretend +to mercy, that thereby, with the more ease, and less trouble, he +may again make himself the master of Mansoul. Whatever, therefore, +he shall say, believe not one syllable or tittle of it; for all +such language is but to overcome us, and to make us, while we +wallow in our blood, the trophies of his merciless victory. My +mind is, therefore, that we resolve to the last man to resist him, +and not to believe him upon any terms, for in at that door will +come our danger. But shall we be flattered out of our lives? I +hope you know more of the rudiments of politics than to suffer +yourselves so pitifully to be served. + +'But suppose he should, if he get us to yield, save some of our +lives, or the lives of some of them that are underlings in Mansoul, +what help will that be to you that are the chief of the town, +especially you whom I have set up and whose greatness has been +procured by you through your faithful sticking to me? And suppose, +again, that he should give quarter to every one of you, be sure he +will bring you into that bondage under which you were captivated +before, or a worse, and then what good will your lives do you? +Shall you with him live in pleasure as you do now? No, no; you +must be bound by laws that will pinch you, and be made to do that +which at present is hateful to you. I am for you, if you are for +me; and it is better to die valiantly than to live like pitiful +slaves. But, I say, the life of a slave will be counted a life too +good for Mansoul now. Blood, blood, nothing but blood is in every +blast of Shaddai's trumpet against poor Mansoul now. Pray, be +concerned; I hear he is coming. Up, and stand to your arms that +now, while you have any leisure, I may learn you some feats of war. +Armour for you I have, and by me it is; yea, and it is sufficient +for Mansoul from top to toe; nor can you be hurt by what his force +can do, if you shall keep it well girt and fastened about you. +Come, therefore, to my castle, and welcome, and harness yourselves +for the war. There is helmet, breastplate, sword, and shield, and +what not, that will make you fight like men. + +'1. My helmet, otherwise called an head-piece, is in hope of doing +well at last, what lives soever you live. This is that which they +had who said, that they should have peace, though they walked in +the wickedness of their heart, to add drunkenness to thirst. A +piece of approved armour this is, and whoever has it, and can hold +it, so long no arrow, dart, sword, or shield can hurt him. This, +therefore, keep on, and thou wilt keep off many a blow, my Mansoul. + +'2. My breastplate is a breastplate of iron. I had it forged in +mine own country, and all my soldiers are armed therewith. In +plain language, it is a hard heart, a heart as hard as iron, and as +much past feeling as a stone; the which if you get and keep, +neither mercy shall win you, nor judgment fright you. This +therefore, is a piece of armour most necessary for all to put on +that hate Shaddai, and that would fight against him under my +banner. + +'3. My sword is a tongue that is set on fire of hell, and that can +bend itself to speak evil of Shaddai, his Son, his ways, and +people. Use this; it has been tried a thousand times twice told. +Whoever hath it, keeps it, and makes that use of it as I would have +him, can never be conquered by mine enemy. + +'4. My, shield is unbelief, or calling into question the truth of +the word, or all the sayings that speak of the judgment that +Shaddai has appointed for wicked men. Use this shield; many +attempts he has made upon it, and sometimes, it is true, it has +been bruised; but they that have writ of the wars of Emmanuel +against my servants, have testified that he could do no mighty work +there because of their unbelief. Now, to handle this weapon of +mine aright, it is not to believe things because they are true, of +what sort or by whomsoever asserted. If he speaks of judgment, +care not for it; if he speaks of mercy, care not for it; if he +promises, if he swears that he would do to Mansoul, if it turns, no +hurt, but good, regard not what is said, question the truth of all, +for it is to wield the shield of unbelief aright, and as my +servants ought and do; and he that doth otherwise loves me not, nor +do I count him but an enemy to me. + +'5. Another part or piece,' said Diabolus, 'of mine excellent +armour is a dumb and prayerless spirit, a spirit that scorns to cry +for mercy: wherefore be you, my Mansoul, sure that you make use of +this. What! cry for quarter! Never do that, if you would be mine. +I know you are stout men, and am sure that I have clad you with +that which is armour of proof. Wherefore, to cry to Shaddai for +mercy, let that be far from you. Besides all this, I have a maul, +firebrands, arrows, and death, all good hand-weapons, and such as +will do execution.' + +After he had thus furnished his men with armour and arms, he +addressed himself to them in such like words as these: 'Remember,' +quoth he, 'that I am your rightful king, and that you have taken an +oath and entered into covenant to be true to me and my cause: I +say, remember this, and show yourselves stout and valiant men of +Mansoul. Remember also the kindness that I have always showed to +you, and that without your petition I have granted to you external +things; wherefore the privileges, grants, immunities, profits, and +honours wherewith I have endowed you do call for, at your hands, +returns of loyalty, my lion-like men of Mansoul: and when so fit a +time to show it as when another shall seek to take my dominion over +you into his own hands? One word more, and I have done. Can we +but stand, and overcome this one shock or brunt, I doubt not but in +little time all the world will be ours; and when that day comes, my +true hearts, I will make you kings, princes, and captains, and what +brave days shall we have then!' + +Diabolus having thus armed and forearmed his servants and vassals +in Mansoul against their good and lawful King Shaddai, in the next +place, he doubleth his guards at the gates of the town, and he +takes himself to the castle, which was his stronghold. His vassals +also, to show their wills, and supposed (but ignoble) gallantry, +exercise themselves in their arms every day, and teach one another +feats of war; they also defied their enemies, and sang up the +praises of their tyrant; they threatened also what men they would +be if ever things should rise so high as a war between Shaddai and +their king. + +Now all this time the good King, the King Shaddai, was preparing to +send an army to recover the town of Mansoul again from under the +tyranny of their pretended king Diabolus; but he thought good, at +first, not to send them by the hand and conduct of brave Emmanuel +his Son, but under the hand of some of his servants, to see first +by them the temper of Mansoul, and whether by them they would be +won to the obedience of their King. The army consisted of above +forty thousand, all true men, for they came from the King's own +court, and were those of his own choosing. + +They came up to Mansoul under the conduct of four stout generals, +each man being a captain of ten thousand men, and these are their +names and their ensigns. The name of the first was Boanerges, the +name of the second was Captain Conviction, the name of the third +was Captain Judgment, and the name of the fourth was Captain +Execution. These were the captains that Shaddai sent to regain +Mansoul. + +These four captains, as was said, the King thought fit, in the +first place, to send to Mansoul, to make an attempt upon it; for +indeed generally in all his wars he did use to send these four +captains in the van, for they were very stout and rough-hewn men, +men that were fit to break the ice, and to make their way by dint +of sword, and their men were like themselves. + +To each of these captains the King gave a banner, that it might be +displayed, because of the goodness of his cause, and because of the +right that he had to Mansoul. + +First, to Captain Boanerges, for he was the chief, to him, I say, +were given ten thousand men. His ensign was Mr. Thunder; he bare +the black colours, and his scutcheon was the three burning +thunderbolts. + +The second captain was Captain Conviction; to him also were given +ten thousand men. His ensign's name was Mr. Sorrow; he did bear +the pale colours, and his scutcheon was the book of the law wide +open, from whence issued a flame of fire. + +The third captain was Captain Judgment; to him were given ten +thousand men. His ensign's name was Mr. Terror; he bare the red +colours, and his scutcheon was a burning fiery furnace. + +The fourth captain was Captain Execution; to him were given ten +thousand men. His ensign was one Mr. Justice; he also bare the red +colours, and his scutcheon was a fruitless tree, with an axe lying +at the root thereof. + +These four captains, as I said, had every one of them under his +command ten thousand men, all of good fidelity to the King, and +stout at their military actions. + +Well, the captains and their forces, their men and under officers, +being had upon a day by Shaddai into the field, and there called +all over by their names, were then and there put into such harness +as became their degree and that service which now they were going +about for their King. + +Now, when the King had mustered his forces, (for it is he that +mustereth the host to the battle,) he gave unto the captains their +several commissions, with charge and commandment in the audience of +all the soldiers, that they should take heed faithfully and +courageously to do and execute the same. Their commissions were, +for the substance of them, the same in form, though, as to name, +title, place and degree of the captains, there might be some, but +very small variation. And here let me give you an account of the +matter and sum contained in their commission. + + +A Commission from the great Shaddai, King of Mansoul, to his trusty +and noble Captain, the Captain Boanerges, for his making War upon +the town of Mansoul. + + +'O, thou Boanerges, one of my stout and thundering captains over +one ten thousand of my valiant and faithful servants, go thou in my +name, with this thy force, to the miserable town of Mansoul; and +when thou comest thither, offer them first conditions of peace; and +command them that, casting off the yoke and tyranny of the wicked +Diabolus, they return to me, their rightful Prince and Lord. +Command them also that they cleanse themselves from all that is his +in the town of Mansoul, and look to thyself, that thou hast good +satisfaction touching the truth of their obedience. Thus when thou +hast commanded them, (if they in truth submit thereto,) then do +thou, to the uttermost of thy power, what in thee lies to set up +for me a garrison in the famous town of Mansoul; nor do thou hurt +the least native that moveth or breatheth therein, if they will +submit themselves to me, but treat thou such as if they were thy +friend or brother; for all such I love, and they shall be dear unto +me, and tell them that I will take a time to come unto them, and to +let them know that I am merciful. + +'But if they shall, notwithstanding thy summons and the producing +of thy authority, resist, stand out against thee, and rebel, then +do I command thee to make use of all thy cunning, power, might, and +force, to bring them under by strength of hand. Farewell.' + + +Thus you see the sum of their commissions; for, as I said before, +for the substance of them, they were the same that the rest of the +noble captains had. + +Wherefore they, having received each commander his authority at the +hand of their King, the day being appointed, and the place of their +rendezvous prefixed, each commander appeared in such gallantry as +became his cause and calling. So, after a new entertainment from +Shaddai, with flying colours they set forward to march towards the +famous town of Mansoul. Captain Boanerges led the van, Captain +Conviction and Captain Judgment made up the main body, and Captain +Execution brought up the rear. They then, having a great way to +go, (for the town of Mansoul was far off from the court of +Shaddai,) marched through the regions and countries of many people, +not hurting or abusing any, but blessing wherever they came. They +also lived upon the King's cost in all the way they went. + +Having travelled thus for many days, at last they came within sight +of Mansoul; the which when they saw, the captains could for their +hearts do no less than for a while bewail the condition of the +town; for they quickly saw how that it was prostrate to the will of +Diabolus, and to his ways and designs. + +Well, to be short, the captains came up before the town, march up +to Ear-gate, sit down there (for that was the place of hearing). +So, when they had pitched their tents and entrenched themselves, +they addressed themselves to make their assault. + +Now the townsfolk at first, beholding so gallant a company, so +bravely accoutred, and so excellently disciplined, having on their +glittering armour, and displaying of their flying colours, could +not but come out of their houses and gaze. But the cunning fox +Diabolus, fearing that the people, after this sight, should, on a +sudden summons, open the gates to the captains, came down with all +haste from the castle, and made them retire into the body of the +town, who, when he had them there, made this lying and deceivable +speech unto them: + +'Gentlemen,' quoth he, 'although you are my trusty and well-beloved +friends, yet I cannot but a little chide you for your late +uncircumspect action, in going out to gaze on that great and mighty +force that but yesterday sat down before, and have now entrenched +themselves in order to the maintaining of a siege against the +famous town of Mansoul. Do you know who they are, whence they +come, and what is their purpose in sitting down before the town of +Mansoul? They are they of whom I have told you long ago, that they +would come to destroy this town, and against whom I have been at +the cost to arm you with cap-a-pie for your body, besides great +fortifications for your mind. Wherefore, then, did you not rather, +even at the first appearance of them, cry out, "Fire the beacons!" +and give the whole town an alarm concerning them, that we might all +have been in a posture of defence, and been ready to have received +them with the highest acts of defiance? Then had you showed +yourselves men to my liking; whereas, by what you have done, you +have made me half afraid--I say, half afraid--that when they and we +shall come to push a pike, I shall find you want courage to stand +it out any longer. Wherefore have I commanded a watch, and that +you should double your guards at the gates? Wherefore have I +endeavoured to make you as hard as iron, and your hearts as a piece +of the nether millstone? Was it, think you, that you might show +yourselves women, and that you might go out like a company of +innocents to gaze on your mortal foes? Fie, fie! put yourselves +into a posture of defence, beat up the drum, gather together in +warlike manner, that our foes may know that, before they shall +conquer this corporation, there are valiant men in the town of +Mansoul. + +'I will leave off now to chide, and will not further rebuke you; +but I charge you, that henceforwards you let me see no more such +actions. Let not henceforward a man of you, without order first +obtained from me, so much as show his head over the wall of the +town of Mansoul. You have now heard me; do as I have commanded, +and you shall cause me that I dwell securely with you, and that I +take care, as for myself, so for your safety and honour also. +Farewell." + +Now were the townsmen strangely altered; they were as men stricken +with a panic fear; they ran to and fro through the streets of the +town of Mansoul, crying out, 'Help, help! the men that turn the +world upside down are come hither also.' Nor could any of them be +quiet after; but still, as men bereft of wit, they cried out, 'The +destroyers of our peace and people are come.' This went down with +Diabolus. 'Ah,' quoth he to himself, 'this I like well: now it is +as I would have it; now you show your obedience to your prince. +Hold you but here, and then let them take the town if they can.' + +Well, before the King's forces had sat before Mansoul three days, +Captain Boanerges commanded his trumpeter to go down to Ear-gate, +and there, in the name of the great Shaddai, to summon Mansoul to +give audience to the message that he, in his Master's name, was to +them commanded to deliver. So the trumpeter, whose name was Take- +heed-what-you-hear, went up, as he was commanded, to Ear-gate, and +there sounded his trumpet for a hearing; but there was none that +appeared that gave answer or regard, for so had Diabolus commanded. +So the trumpeter returned to his captain, and told him what he had +done, and also how he had sped; whereat the captain was grieved, +but bid the trumpeter go to his tent. + +Again Captain Boanerges sendeth his trumpeter to Ear-gate, to sound +as before for a hearing; but they again kept close, came not out, +nor would they give him an answer, so observant were they of the +command of Diabolus their king. + +Then the captains and other field officers called a council of war, +to consider what further was to be done for the gaining of the town +of Mansoul; and, after some close and thorough debate upon the +contents of their commissions, they concluded yet to give to the +town, by the hand of the fore-named trumpeter, another summons to +hear; but if that shall be refused, said they, and that the town +shall stand it out still, then they determined, and bid the +trumpeter tell them so, that they would endeavour, by what means +they could, to compel them by force to the obedience of their King. + +So Captain Boanerges commanded his trumpeter to go up to Ear-gate +again, and, in the name of the great King Shaddai, to give it a +very loud summons to come down without delay to Ear-gate, there to +give audience to the King's most noble captains. So the trumpeter +went, and did as he was commanded: he went up to Ear-gate, and +sounded his trumpet, and gave a third summons to Mansoul. He said, +moreover, that if this they should still refuse to do, the captains +of his prince would with might come down upon them, and endeavour +to reduce them to their obedience by force. + +Then stood up my Lord Willbewill, who was the governor of the town, +(this Willbewill was that apostate of whom mention was made +before,) and the keeper of the gates of Mansoul. He therefore, +with big and ruffling words, demanded of the trumpeter who he was, +whence he came, and what was the cause of his making so hideous a +noise at the gate, and speaking such insufferable words against the +town of Mansoul. + +The trumpeter answered, 'I am servant to the most noble captain, +Captain Boanerges, general of the forces of the great King Shaddai, +against whom both thyself, with the whole town of Mansoul, have +rebelled, and lift up the heel; and my master, the captain, hath a +special message to this town, and to thee, as a member thereof; the +which if you of Mansoul shall peaceably hear, so; and if not, you +must take what follows.' + +Then said the Lord Willbewill, 'I will carry thy words to my lord, +and will know what he will say.' + +But the trumpeter soon replied, saying. 'Our message is not to the +giant Diabolus, but to the miserable town of Mansoul; nor shall we +at all regard what answer by him is made, nor yet by any for him. +We are sent to this town to recover it from under his cruel +tyranny, and to persuade it to submit, as in former times it did, +to the most excellent King Shaddai.' + +Then said the Lord Willbewill, 'I will do your errand to the town.' + +The trumpeter then replied, 'Sir, do not deceive us, lest, in so +doing, you deceive yourselves much more.' He added, moreover, 'For +we are resolved, if in peaceable manner you do not submit +yourselves, then to make a war upon you, and to bring you under by +force. And of the truth of what I now say, this shall be a sign +unto you,--you shall see the black flag, with its hot, burning +thunder-bolts, set upon the mount to-morrow, as a token of defiance +against your prince, and of our resolutions to reduce you to your +Lord and rightful King.' + +So the said Lord Willbewill returned from off the wall, and the +trumpeter came into the camp. When the trumpeter was come into the +camp, the captains and officers of the mighty King Shaddai came +together to know if he had obtained a hearing, and what was the +effect of his errand. So the trumpeter told, saying, 'When I had +sounded my trumpet, and had called aloud to the town for a hearing, +my Lord Willbewill, the governor of the town, and he that hath +charge of the gates, came up when he heard me sound, and, looking +over the wall, he asked me what I was, whence I came, and what was +the cause of my making this noise. So I told him my errand, and by +whose authority I brought it. "Then," said he, "I will tell it to +the governor and to Mansoul;" and then I returned to my lords.' + +Then said the brave Boanerges, 'Let us yet for a while lie still in +our trenches, and see what these rebels will do.' + +Now when the time drew nigh that audience by Mansoul must be given +to the brave Boanerges and his companions, it was commanded that +all the men of war throughout the whole camp of Shaddai should as +one man stand to their arms, and make themselves ready, if the town +of Mansoul shall hear, to receive it forthwith to mercy; but if +not, to force a subjection. So the day being come, the trumpeters +sounded, and that throughout the whole camp, that the men of war +might be in a readiness for that which then should be the work of +the day. But when they that were in the town of Mansoul heard the +sound of the trumpets throughout the camp of Shaddai, and thinking +no other but that it must be in order to storm the corporation, +they at first were put to great consternation of spirit; but after +they a little were settled again, they also made what preparation +they could for a war, if they did storm; else, to secure +themselves. + +Well, when the utmost time was come, Boanerges was resolved to hear +their answer; wherefore he sent out his trumpeter again to summon +Mansoul to a hearing of the message that they had brought from +Shaddai. + +So he went and sounded, and the townsmen came up, but made Ear-gate +as sure as they could. Now when they were come up to the top of +the wall, Captain Boanerges desired to see the Lord Mayor; but my +Lord Incredulity was then Lord Mayor, for he came in the room of my +Lord Lustings. So Incredulity came up and showed himself over the +wall; but when the Captain Boanerges had set his eyes upon him, he +cried out aloud, 'This is not he: where is my Lord Understanding, +the ancient Lord Mayor of the town of Mansoul? for to him I would +deliver my message.' + +Then said the giant (for Diabolus was also come down) to the +captain, 'Mr. Captain, you have by your boldness given to Mansoul +at least four summonses to subject herself to your King, by whose +authority I know not, nor will I dispute that now. I ask, +therefore, what is the reason of all this ado, or what would you be +at if you knew yourselves?' + +Then Captain Boanerges, whose were the black colours, and whose +scutcheon was the three burning thunderbolts, taking no notice of +the giant or of his speech, thus addressed himself to the town of +Mansoul: 'Be it known unto you, O unhappy and rebellious Mansoul, +that the most gracious King, the great King Shaddai, my Master, +hath sent me unto you with commission' (and so he showed to the +town his broad seal) 'to reduce you to his obedience; and he hath +commanded me, in case you yield upon my summons, to carry it to you +as if you were my friends or brethren; but he also hath bid, that +if, after summons to submit you still stand out and rebel, we +should endeavour to take you by force.' + +Then stood forth Captain Conviction, and said, (his were the pale +colours, and for a scutcheon he had the book of the law wide open, +etc.,) 'Hear, O Mansoul! Thou, O Mansoul, wast once famous for +innocency, but now thou art degenerated into lies and deceit. Thou +hast heard what my brother, the Captain Boanerges, hath said; and +it is your wisdom, and will be your happiness, to stoop to, and +accept of conditions of peace and mercy when offered, specially +when offered by one against whom thou hast rebelled, and one who is +of power to tear thee in pieces, for so is Shaddai, our King; nor, +when he is angry, can anything stand before him. If you say you +have not sinned, or acted rebellion against our King, the whole of +your doings since the day that you cast off his service (and there +was the beginning of your sin) will sufficiently testify against +you. What else means your hearkening to the tyrant, and your +receiving him for your king? What means else your rejecting of the +laws of Shaddai, and your obeying of Diabolus? Yea, what means +this your taking up of arms against, and the shutting of your gates +upon us, the faithful servants of your King? Be ruled then, and +accept of my brother's invitation, and overstand not the time of +mercy, but agree with thine adversary quickly. Ah, Mansoul! suffer +not thyself to be kept from mercy, and to be run into a thousand +miseries, by the flattering wiles of Diabolus. Perhaps that piece +of deceit may attempt to make you believe that we seek our own +profit in this our service, but know it is obedience to our King, +and love to your happiness, that is the cause of this undertaking +of ours. + +'Again I say to thee, O Mansoul, consider if it be not amazing +grace that Shaddai should so humble himself as he doth: now he, by +us, reasons with you, in a way of entreaty and sweet persuasions, +that you would subject yourselves to him. Has he that need of you +that we are sure you have of him? No, no; but he is merciful, and +will not that Mansoul should die, but turn to him and live.' + +Then stood forth Captain Judgment, whose were the red colours, and +for a scutcheon he had the burning fiery furnace, and he said, 'O +ye, the inhabitants of the town of Mansoul, that have lived so long +in rebellion and acts of treason against the King Shaddai, know +that we come not to-day to this place, in this manner, with our +message of our own minds, or to revenge our own quarrel; it is the +King, my Master, that hath sent us to reduce you to your obedience +to him; the which if you refuse in a peaceable way to yield, we +have commission to compel you thereto. And never think of +yourselves, nor yet suffer the tyrant Diabolus to persuade you to +think, that our King, by his power, is not able to bring you down, +and to lay you under his feet; for he is the former of all things, +and if he touches the mountains, they smoke. Nor will the gate of +the King's clemency stand always open; for the day that shall burn +like an oven is before him; yea, it hasteth greatly, it slumbereth +not. + +'O Mansoul, is it little in thine eyes that our King doth offer +thee mercy, and that after so many provocations? Yea, he still +holdeth out his golden sceptre to thee, and will not yet suffer his +gate to be shut against thee: wilt thou provoke him to do it? If +so, consider of what I say; to thee it is opened no more for ever. +If thou sayest thou shalt not see him, yet judgment is before him; +therefore trust thou in him. Yea, because there is wrath, beware +lest he take thee away with his stroke; then a great ransom cannot +deliver thee. Will he esteem thy riches? No, not gold, nor all +the forces of strength. He hath prepared his throne for judgment, +for he will come with fire, and with his chariots like a whirlwind, +to render his anger with fury, and his rebukes with flames of fire. +Therefore, O Mansoul, take heed lest, after thou hast fulfilled the +judgment of the wicked, justice and judgment should take hold of +thee.' + +Now while the Captain Judgment was making this oration to the town +of Mansoul, it was observed by some that Diabolus trembled; but he +proceeded in his parable and said, 'O thou woful town of Mansoul, +wilt thou not yet set open thy gate to receive us, the deputies of +thy King, and those that would rejoice to see thee live? Can thine +heart endure, or can thy hands be strong, in the day that he shall +deal in judgment with thee? I say, canst thou endure to be forced +to drink, as one would drink sweet wine, the sea of wrath that our +King has prepared for Diabolus and his angels? Consider, betimes +consider.' + +Then stood forth the fourth captain, the noble Captain Execution, +and said, 'O town of Mansoul, once famous, but now like the +fruitless bough, once the delight of the high ones, but now a den +for Diabolus, hearken also to me, and to the words that I shall +speak to thee in the name of the great Shaddai. Behold, the axe is +laid to the root of the trees: every tree, therefore, that +bringeth not forth good fruit, is hewn down and cast into the fire. + +'Thou, O town of Mansoul, hast hitherto been this fruitless tree; +thou bearest nought but thorns and briars. Thy evil fruit bespeaks +thee not to be a good tree; thy grapes are grapes of gall, thy +clusters are bitter. Thou hast rebelled against thy King; and, lo! +we, the power and force of Shaddai, are the axe that is laid to thy +root. What sayest thou? Wilt thou turn? I say again, tell me, +before the first blow is given, wilt thou turn? Our axe must first +be laid TO thy root before it be laid AT thy root; it must first be +laid TO thy root in a way of threatening, before it is laid AT thy +root by way of execution; and between these two is required thy +repentance, and this is all the time that thou hast. What wilt +thou do? Wilt thou turn, or shall I smite? If I fetch my blow, +Mansoul, down you go; for I have commission to lay my axe AT as +well as TO thy roots, nor will anything but yielding to our King +prevent doing of execution. What art thou fit for, O Mansoul, if +mercy preventeth not, but to be hewn down, and cast into the fire +and burned? + +'O Mansoul, patience and forbearance do not act for ever: a year, +or two, or three, they may; but if thou provoke by a three years' +rebellion, (and thou hast already done more than this,) then what +follows but, 'Cut it down'? nay, 'After that thou shalt cut it +down.' And dost thou think that these are but threatenings, or +that our King has not power to execute his words? O Mansoul, thou +wilt find that in the words of our King, when they are by sinners +made little or light of, there is not only threatening, but burning +coals of fire. + +'Thou hast been a cumber-ground long already, and wilt thou +continue so still? Thy sin has brought this army to thy walls, and +shall it bring it in judgment to do execution into thy town? Thou +hast heard what the captains have said, but as yet thou shuttest +thy gates. Speak out, Mansoul; wilt thou do so still, or wilt thou +accept of conditions of peace?' + +These brave speeches of these four noble captains the town of +Mansoul refused to hear; yet a sound thereof did beat against Ear- +gate, though the force thereof could not break it open. In fine, +the town desired a time to prepare their answer to these demands. +The captains then told them, that if they would throw out to them +one Ill-Pause that was in the town, that they might reward him +according to his works, then they would give them time to consider; +but if they would not cast him to them over the wall of Mansoul, +then they would give them none; 'for,' said they, 'we know that, so +long as Ill-Pause draws breath in Mansoul, all good consideration +will be confounded, and nothing but mischief will come thereon.' + +Then Diabolus, who was there present, being loath to lose his Ill- +Pause, because he was his orator, (and yet be sure he had, could +the captains have laid their fingers on him,) was resolved at this +instant to give them answer by himself; but then changing his mind, +he commanded the then Lord Mayor, the Lord Incredulity, to do it, +saying, 'My lord, do you give these runagates an answer, and speak +out, that Mansoul may hear and understand you.' + +So Incredulity, at Diabolus' command, began, and said, 'Gentlemen, +you have here, as we do behold, to the disturbance of our prince +and the molestation of the town of Mansoul, camped against it: but +from whence you come, we will not know; and what you are, we will +not believe. Indeed, you tell us in your terrible speech that you +have this authority from Shaddai, but by what right he commands you +to do it, of that we shall yet be ignorant. + +'You have also, by the authority aforesaid, summoned this town to +desert her lord, and, for protection, to yield up herself to the +great Shaddai, your King; flatteringly telling her, that if she +will do it, he will pass by and not charge her with her past +offences. + +'Further, you have also, to the terror of the town of Mansoul, +threatened with great and sore destructions to punish this +corporation, if she consents not to do as your wills would have +her. + +'Now, captains, from whencesoever you come, and though your designs +be ever so right, yet know ye that neither my Lord Diabolus, nor I, +his servant, Incredulity, nor yet our brave Mansoul, doth regard +either your persons, message, or the King that you say hath sent +you. His power, his greatness, his vengeance, we fear not; nor +will we yield at all to your summons. + +'As for the war that you threaten to make upon us, we must therein +defend ourselves as well as we can; and know ye, that we are not +without wherewithal to bid defiance to you; and, in short, (for I +will not be tedious,) I tell you, that we take you to be some +vagabond runagate crew, that having shaken off all obedience to +your King, have gotten together in tumultuous manner, and are +ranging from place to place to see if, through the flatteries you +are skilled to make on the one side, and threats wherewith you +think to fright on the other, to make some silly town, city, or +country, desert their place, and leave it to you; but Mansoul is +none of them. + +'To conclude: we dread you not, we fear you not, nor will we obey +your summons. Our gates we will shut upon you, our place we will +keep you out of. Nor will we long thus suffer you to sit down +before us: our people must live in quiet: your appearance doth +disturb them. Wherefore arise with bag and baggage, and begone, or +we will let fly from the walls against you.' + +This oration, made by old Incredulity, was seconded by desperate +Willbewill, in words to this effect: 'Gentlemen, we have heard +your demands, and the noise of your threats, and have heard the +sound of your summons; but we fear not your force, we regard not +your threats, but will still abide as you found us. And we command +you, that in three days' time you cease to appear in these parts, +or you shall know what it is once to dare offer to rouse the lion +Diabolus when asleep in his town of Mansoul.' + +The Recorder, whose name was Forget-Good, he also added as +followeth: 'Gentlemen, my lords, as you see, have with mild and +gentle words answered your rough and angry speeches: they have, +moreover, in my hearing, given you leave quietly to depart as you +came; wherefore, take their kindness and be gone. We might have +come out with force upon you, and have caused you to feel the dint +of our swords; but as we love ease and quiet ourselves, so we love +not to hurt or molest others.' + +Then did the town of Mansoul shout for joy, as if by Diabolus and +his crew some great advantage had been gotten of the captains. +They also rang the bells, and made merry, and danced upon the +walls. + +Diabolus also returned to the castle, and the Lord Mayor and +Recorder to their place; but the Lord Willbewill took special care +that the gates should be secured with double guards, double bolts, +and double locks and bars; and that Ear-gate especially might the +better be looked to, for that was the gate in at which the King's +forces sought most to enter. The Lord Willbewill made one old Mr. +Prejudice, an angry and ill-conditioned fellow, captain of the ward +at that gate, and put under his power sixty men, called deaf men; +men advantageous for that service, forasmuch as they mattered no +words of the captains, nor of the soldiers. + +Now when the captains saw the answer of the great ones, and that +they could not get a hearing from the old natives of the town, and +that Mansoul was resolved to give the King's army battle, they +prepared themselves to receive them, and to try it out by the power +of the arm. And, first, they made their force more formidable +against Ear-gate; for they knew that, unless they could penetrate +that, no good could be done upon the town. This done, they put the +rest of their men in their places; after which, they gave out the +word, which was, 'YE MUST BE BORN AGAIN.' Then they sounded the +trumpet; then they in the town made them answer, with shout against +shout, charge against charge, and so the battle began. Now they in +the town had planted upon the tower over Ear-gate two great guns, +the one called High-mind, and the other Heady. Unto these two guns +they trusted much; they were cast in the castle by Diabolus' +founder, whose name was Mr. Puff-up, and mischievous pieces they +were. But so vigilant and watchful, when the captains saw them, +were they, that though sometimes their shot would go by their ears +with a whiz, yet they did them no harm. By these two guns the +townsfolk made no question but greatly to annoy the camp of +Shaddai, and well enough to secure the gate; but they had not much +cause to boast of what execution they did, as by what follows will +be gathered. + +The famous Mansoul had also some other small pieces in it, of the +which they made use against the camp of Shaddai. + +They from the camp also did as stoutly, and with as much of that as +may in truth be called valour, let fly as fast at the town and at +Ear-gate; for they saw that, unless they could break open Ear-gate, +it would be but in vain to batter the wall. Now the King's +captains had brought with them several slings, and two or three +battering-rams; with their slings, therefore, they battered the +houses and people of the town, and with their rams they sought to +break Ear-gate open. + +The camp and the town had several skirmishes and brisk encounters, +while the captains with their engines made many brave attempts to +break open or beat down the tower that was over Ear-gate, and at +the said gate to make their entrance; but Mansoul stood it out so +lustily, through the rage of Diabolus, the valour of the Lord +Willbewill, and the conduct of old Incredulity, the Mayor, and Mr. +Forget-Good, the Recorder, that the charge and expense of that +summer's wars, on the King's side, seemed to be almost quite lost, +and the advantage to return to Mansoul. But when the captains saw +how it was they made a fair retreat, and entrenched themselves in +their winter quarters. Now, in this war, you must needs think +there was much loss on both sides, of which be pleased to accept of +this brief account following. + +The King's captains, when they marched from the court to come up +against Mansoul to war, as they came crossing over the country, +they happened to light upon three young fellows that had a mind to +go for soldiers: proper men they were, and men of courage and +skill, to appearance. Their names were Mr. Tradition, Mr. Human- +Wisdom, and Mr. Man's-Invention. So they came up to the captains, +and proffered their service to Shaddai. The captains then told +them of their design, and bid them not to be rash in their offers; +but the young men told them they had considered the thing before, +and that hearing they were upon their march for such a design, came +hither on purpose to meet them, that they might be listed under +their excellencies. Then Captain Boanerges, for that they were men +of courage, listed them into his company, and so away they went to +the war. + +Now, when the war was begun, in one of the briskest skirmishes, so +it was, that a company of the Lord Willbewill's men sallied out at +the sallyport or postern of the town, and fell in upon the rear of +Captain Boanerges' men, where these three fellows happened to be; +so they took them prisoners, and away they carried them into the +town, where they had not lain long in durance, but it began to be +noised about the streets of the town what three notable prisoners +the Lord Willbewill's men had taken, and brought in prisoners out +of the camp of Shaddai. At length tidings thereof were carried to +Diabolus to the castle, to wit what my Lord Willbewill's men had +done, and whom they had taken prisoners. + +Then Diabolus called for Willbewill, to know the certainty of this +matter. So he asked him, and he told him. Then did the giant send +for the prisoners, and, when they were come, demanded of them who +they were, whence they came, and what they did in the camp of +Shaddai; and they told him. Then he sent them to ward again. Not +many days after, he sent for them to him again, and then asked them +if they would be willing to serve him against their former +captains. They then told him that they did not so much live by +religion as by the fates of fortune; and that since his lordship +was willing to entertain them, they should be willing to serve him. +Now while things were thus in hand, there was one Captain Anything, +a great doer, in the town of Mansoul; and to this Captain Anything +did Diabolus send these men, and a note under his hand, to receive +them into his company, the contents of which letter were thus: + +'Anything, my darling,--The three men that are the bearers of this +letter have a desire to serve me in the war; nor know I better to +whose conduct to commit them than to thine. Receive them, +therefore, in my name, and, as need shall require, make use of them +against Shaddai and his men. Farewell.' + +So they came, and he received them; and he made of two of them +sergeants; but he made Mr. Man's-Invention his ancient-bearer. But +thus much for this, and now to return to the camp. + +They of the camp did also some execution upon the town; for they +did beat down the roof of the Lord Mayor's house, and so laid him +more open than he was before. They had almost, with a sling, slain +my Lord Willbewill outright; but he made a shift to recover again. +But they made a notable slaughter among the aldermen, for with one +only shot they cut off six of them; to wit, Mr. Swearing, Mr. +Whoring, Mr. Fury, Mr. Stand-to-Lies, Mr. Drunkenness, and Mr. +Cheating. + +They also dismounted the two guns that stood upon the tower over +Ear-gate, and laid them flat in the dirt. I told you before that +the King's noble captains had drawn off to their winter quarters, +and had there entrenched themselves and their carriages, so as with +the best advantage to their King, and the greatest annoyance to the +enemy, they might give seasonable and warm alarms to the town of +Mansoul. And this design of them did so hit, that I may say they +did almost what they would to the molestation of the corporation. +For now could not Mansoul sleep securely as before, nor could they +now go to their debaucheries with that quietness as in times past; +for they had from the camp of Shaddai such frequent, warm, and +terrifying alarms, yea, alarms upon alarms, first at one gate and +then at another, and again at all the gates at once, that they were +broken as to former peace. Yea, they had their alarms so +frequently, and that when the nights were at longest, the weather +coldest, and so consequently the season most unseasonable, that +that winter was to the town of Mansoul a winter by itself. +Sometimes the trumpets would sound, and sometimes the slings would +whirl the stones into the town. Sometimes ten thousand of the +King's soldiers would be running round the walls of Mansoul at +midnight, shouting and lifting up the voice for the battle. +Sometimes, again, some of them in the town would be wounded, and +their cry and lamentable voice would be heard, to the great +molestation of the now languishing town of Mansoul. Yea, so +distressed with those that laid siege against them were they, that, +I dare say, Diabolus, their king, had in these days his rest much +broken. + +In these days, as I was informed, new thoughts, and thoughts that +began to run counter one to another, began to possess the minds of +the men of the town of Mansoul. Some would say, 'There is no +living thus.' Others would then reply, 'This will be over +shortly.' Then would a third stand up and answer, 'Let us turn to +the King Shaddai, and so put an end to these troubles.' And a +fourth would come in with a fear, saying, 'I doubt he will not +receive us.' The old gentleman, too, the Recorder, that was so +before Diabolus took Mansoul, he also began to talk aloud, and his +words were now to the town of Mansoul as if they were great claps +of thunder. No noise now so terrible to Mansoul as was his, with +the noise of the soldiers and shoutings of the captains. + +Also things began to grow scarce in Mansoul; now the things that +her soul lusted after were departing from her. Upon all her +pleasant things there was a blast, and burning instead of beauty. +Wrinkles now, and some shows of the shadow of death, were upon the +inhabitants of Mansoul. And now, O how glad would Mansoul have +been to have enjoyed quietness and satisfaction of mind, though +joined with the meanest condition in the world! + +The captains also, in the deep of this winter, did send by the +mouth of Boanerges' trumpeter a summons to Mansoul to yield up +herself to the King, the great King Shaddai. They sent it once, +and twice, and thrice; not knowing but that at some times there +might be in Mansoul some willingness to surrender up themselves +unto them, might they but have the colour of an invitation to do it +under. Yea, so far as I could gather, the town had been +surrendered up to them before now, had it not been for the +opposition of old Incredulity, and the fickleness of the thoughts +of my Lord Willbewill. Diabolus also began to rave; wherefore +Mansoul, as to yielding, was not yet all of one mind; therefore +they still lay distressed under these perplexing fears. + +I told you but now that they of the King's army had this winter +sent three times to Mansoul to submit herself. + +The first time the trumpeter went he went with words of peace, +telling them that the captains, the noble captains of Shaddai, did +pity and bewail the misery of the now perishing town of Mansoul, +and were troubled to see them so much to stand in the way of their +own deliverance. He said, moreover, that the captains bid him tell +them, that if now poor Mansoul would humble herself and turn, her +former rebellions and most notorious treasons should by their +merciful King be forgiven them, yea, and forgotten too. And having +bid them beware that they stood not in their own way, that they +opposed not themselves, nor made themselves their own losers, he +returned again into the camp. + +The second time the trumpeter went, he did treat them a little more +roughly; for, after sound of trumpet, he told them that their +continuing in their rebellion did but chafe and heat the spirit of +the captains, and that they were resolved to make a conquest of +Mansoul, or to lay their bones before the town walls. + +He went again the third time, and dealt with them yet more roughly; +telling them that now, since they had been so horribly profane, he +did not know, not certainly know, whether the captains were +inclining to mercy or judgment. 'Only,' said he, 'they commanded +me to give you a summons to open the gates unto them.' So he +returned, and went into the camp. + +These three summonses, and especially the last two, did so distress +the town that they presently call a consultation, the result of +which was this--That my Lord Willbewill should go up to Ear-gate, +and there, with sound of trumpet, call to the captains of the camp +for a parley. Well, the Lord Willbewill sounded upon the wall; so +the captains came up in their harness, with their ten thousands at +their feet. The townsmen then told the captains that they had +heard and considered their summons, and would come to an agreement +with them, and with their King Shaddai, upon such certain terms, +articles, and propositions as, with and by the order of their +prince, they to them were appointed to propound; to wit, they would +agree upon these grounds to be one people with them. + +1. If that those of their own company, as the now Lord Mayor and +their Mr. Forget-Good, with then brave Lord Willbewill, might, +under Shaddai, be still the governors of the town, castle, and +gates of Mansoul. + +2. Provided that no man that now serveth under their great giant +Diabolus be by Shaddai cast out of house, harbour, or the freedom +that he hath hitherto enjoyed in the famous town of Mansoul. + +3. That it shall be granted them, that they of the town of Mansoul +shall enjoy certain of their rights and privileges; to wit, such as +have formerly been granted them, and that they have long lived in +the enjoyment of, under the reign of their king Diabolus, that now +is, and long has been, their only lord and great defender. + +4. That no new law, officer, or executioner of law or office, shall +have any power over them, without their own choice and consent. + +'These be our propositions, or conditions of peace; and upon these +terms,' said they, 'we will submit to your King.' + +But when the captains had heard this weak and feeble offer of the +town of Mansoul, and their high and bold demands, they made to them +again, by their noble captain, the Captain Boanerges, this speech +following: + +'O ye inhabitants of the town of Mansoul, when I heard your trumpet +sound for a parley with us, I can truly say I was glad; but when +you said you were willing to submit yourselves to our King and +Lord, then I was yet more glad; but when, by your silly provisos +and foolish cavils, you laid the stumbling-block of your iniquity +before your own faces, then was my gladness turned into sorrows, +and my hopeful beginnings of your return, into languishing fainting +fears. + +'I count that old Ill-Pause, the ancient enemy of Mansoul, did draw +up those proposals that now you present us with as terms of an +agreement; but they deserve not to be admitted to sound in the ear +of any man that pretends to have service for Shaddai. We do +therefore jointly, and that with the highest disdain, refuse and +reject such things, as the greatest of iniquities. + +'But, O Mansoul, if you will give yourselves into our hands, or +rather into the hands of our King, and will trust him to make such +terms with and for you as shall seem good in his eyes, (and I dare +say they shall be such as you shall find to be most profitable to +you,) then we will receive you, and be at peace with you; but if +you like not to trust yourselves in the arms of Shaddai our King, +then things are but where they were before, and we know also what +we have to do.' + +Then cried out old Incredulity, the Lord Mayor, and said, 'And who, +being out of the hands of their enemies, as ye see we are now, will +be so foolish as to put the staff out of their own hands into the +hands of they know not who? I, for my part, will never yield to so +unlimited a proposition. Do we know the manner and temper of their +King? It is said by some that he will be angry with his subjects +if but the breadth of an hair they chance to step out of the way; +and by others, that he requireth of them much more than they can +perform. Wherefore, it seems, O Mansoul, to be thy wisdom to take +good heed what thou dost in this matter; for if you once yield, you +give up yourselves to another, and so you are no more your own. +Wherefore, to give up yourselves to an unlimited power, is the +greatest folly in the world; for now you indeed may repent, but can +never justly complain. But do you indeed know, when you are his, +which of you he will kill, and which of you he will save alive; or +whether he will not cut off every one of us, and send out of his +own country another new people, and cause them to inhabit this +town?' + +This speech of the Lord Mayor undid all, and threw flat to the +ground their hopes of an accord. Wherefore the captains returned +to their trenches, to their tents, and to their men, as they were; +and the Mayor to the castle and to his King. + +Now Diabolus had waited for his return, for he had heard that they +had been at their points. So, when he was come into the chamber of +state, Diabolus saluted him with--'Welcome, my lord. How went +matters betwixt you to-day?' So the Lord Incredulity, with a low +congee, told him the whole of the matter, saying, 'Thus and thus +said the captains of Shaddai, and thus and thus said I.' The which +when it was told to Diabolus, he was very glad to hear it, and +said, 'My Lord Mayor, my faithful Incredulity, I have proved thy +fidelity above ten times already, but never yet found thee false. +I do promise thee, if we rub over this brunt, to prefer thee to a +place of honour, a place far better than to be Lord Mayor of +Mansoul. I will make thee my universal deputy, and thou shalt, +next to me, have all nations under thy hand; yea, and thou shalt +lay bands upon them, that they may not resist thee; nor shall any +of our vassals walk more at liberty, but those that shall be +content to walk in thy fetters.' + +Now came the Lord Mayor out from Diabolus, as if he had obtained a +favour indeed. Wherefore to his habitation he goes in great state, +and thinks to feed himself well enough with hopes, until the time +came that his greatness should be enlarged. + +But now, though the Lord Mayor and Diabolus did thus well agree, +yet this repulse to the brave captains put Mansoul into a mutiny. +For while old Incredulity went into the castle to congratulate his +lord with what had passed, the old Lord Mayor, that was so before +Diabolus came to the town, to wit, my Lord Understanding, and the +old Recorder, Mr. Conscience, getting intelligence of what had +passed at Ear-gate, (for you must know that they might not be +suffered to be at that debate, lest they should then have mutinied +for the captains; but, I say, they got intelligence of what had +passed there, and were much concerned therewith,) wherefore they, +getting some of the town together, began to possess them with the +reasonableness of the noble captains' demands, and with the bad +consequences that would follow upon the speech of old Incredulity, +the Lord Mayor; to wit how little reverence he showed therein +either to the captains or to their King; also how he implicitly +charged them with unfaithfulness and treachery. 'For what less,' +quoth they, 'could be made of his words, when he said he would not +yield to their proposition; and added, moreover, a supposition that +he would destroy us, when before he had sent us word that he would +show us mercy!' The multitude, being now possessed with the +conviction of the evil that old Incredulity had done, began to run +together by companies in all places, and in every corner of the +streets of Mansoul; and first they began to mutter, then to talk +openly, and after that they run to and fro, and cried as they run, +'Oh the brave captains of Shaddai! would we were under the +government of the captains, and of Shaddai their King!' When the +Lord Mayor had intelligence that Mansoul was in an uproar, down he +comes to appease the people, and thought to have quashed their heat +with the bigness and the show of his countenance; but when they saw +him, they came running upon him, and had doubtless done him a +mischief, had he not betaken himself to house. However, they +strongly assaulted the house where he was, to have pulled it down +about his ears; but the place was too strong, so they failed of +that. So he, taking some courage, addressed himself, out at a +window, to the people in this manner: + +'Gentlemen, what is the reason that there is here such an uproar +to-day?' + +Then answered my Lord Understanding, 'It is even because that thou +and thy master have carried it not rightly, and as you should, to +the captains of Shaddai; for in three things you are faulty. +First, in that you would not let Mr. Conscience and myself be at +the hearing of your discourse. Secondly, in that you propounded +such terms of peace to the captains that by no means could be +granted, unless they had intended that their Shaddai should have +been only a titular prince, and that Mansoul should still have had +power by law to have lived in all lewdness and vanity before him, +and so by consequence Diabolus should still here be king in power, +and the other only king in name. Thirdly, for that thou didst +thyself, after the captains had showed us upon what conditions they +would have received us to mercy, even undo all again with thy +unsavoury, unseasonable, and ungodly speech.' + +When old Incredulity had heard this speech, he cried out, 'Treason! +treason! To your arms! to your arms! O ye, the trusty friends of +Diabolus in Mansoul.' + +Und.--Sir, you may put upon my words what meaning you please; but I +am sure that the captains of such an high lord as theirs is, +deserved a better treatment at your hands. + +Then said old Incredulity, 'This is but little better. But, Sir,' +quoth he, 'what I spake I spake for my prince, for his government, +and the quieting of the people, whom by your unlawful actions you +have this day set to mutiny against us.' + +Then replied the old Recorder, whose name was Mr. Conscience, and +said, 'Sir, you ought not thus to retort upon what my Lord +Understanding hath said. It is evident enough that he hath spoken +the truth, and that you are an enemy to Mansoul. Be convinced, +then, of the evil of your saucy and malapert language, and of the +grief that you have put the captains to; yea, and of the damages +that you have done to Mansoul thereby. Had you accepted of the +conditions, the sound of the trumpet and the alarm of war had now +ceased about the town of Mansoul; but that dreadful sound abides, +and your want of wisdom in your speech has been the cause of it.' + +Then said old Incredulity, 'Sir, if I live, I will do your errand +to Diabolus, and there you shall have an answer to your words. +Meanwhile we will seek the good of the town, and not ask counsel of +you.' + +Und.--Sir, your prince and you are both foreigners to Mansoul, and +not the natives thereof; and who can tell but that, when you have +brought us into greater straits, (when you also shall see that +yourselves can be safe by no other means than by flight,) you may +leave us and shift for yourselves, or set us on fire, and go away +in the smoke, or by the light of our burning, and so leave us in +our ruins? + +Incred.--Sir, you forget that you are under a governor, and that +you ought to demean yourself like a subject; and know ye, when my +lord the king shall hear of this day's work, he will give you but +little thanks for your labour. + +Now while these gentlemen were thus in their chiding words, down +come from the walls and gates of the town the Lord Willbewill, Mr. +Prejudice, old Ill-Pause, and several of the new-made aldermen and +burgesses, and they asked the reason of the hubbub and tumult; and +with that every man began to tell his own tale, so that nothing +could be heard distinctly. Then was a silence commanded, and the +old fox Incredulity began to speak. 'My lord,' quoth he, 'here are +a couple of peevish gentlemen, that have, as a fruit of their bad +dispositions, and, as I fear, through the advice of one Mr. +Discontent, tumultuously gathered this company against me this day, +and also attempted to run the town into acts of rebellion against +our prince.' + +Then stood up all the Diabolonians that were present, and affirmed +these things to be true. + +Now when they that took part with my Lord Understanding and with +Mr. Conscience perceived that they were like to come to the worst, +for that force and power was on the other side, they came in for +their help and relief; so a great company was on both sides. Then +they on Incredulity's side would have had the two old gentlemen +presently away to prison; but they on the other side said they +should not. Then they began to cry up parties again: the +Diabolonians cried up old Incredulity, Forget-Good, the new +aldermen, and their great one Diabolus; and the other party, they +as fast cried up Shaddai, the captains, his laws, their +mercifulness, and applauded their conditions and ways. Thus the +bickerment went awhile; at last they passed from words to blows, +and now there were knocks on both sides. The good old gentleman, +Mr. Conscience, was knocked down twice by one of the Diabolonians, +whose name was Mr. Benumbing; and my Lord Understanding had like to +have been slain with an arquebuse, but that he that shot did not +take his aim aright. Nor did the other side wholly escape; for +there was one Mr. Rashhead, a Diabolonian, that had his brains +beaten out by Mr. Mind, the Lord Willbewill's servant; and it made +me laugh to see how old Mr. Prejudice was kicked and tumbled about +in the dirt; for though, a while since, he was made captain of a +company of the Diabolonians, to the hurt and damage of the town, +yet now they had got him under their feet, and, I'll assure you, he +had, by some of the Lord Understanding's party, his crown cracked +to boot. Mr. Anything also, he became a brisk man in the broil; +but both sides were against him, because he was true to none. Yet +he had, for his malapertness, one of his legs broken, and he that +did it wished it had been his neck. Much more harm was done on +both sides, but this must not be forgotten; it was now a wonder to +see my Lord Willbewill so indifferent as he was: he did not seem +to take one side more than another, only it was perceived that he +smiled to see how old Prejudice was tumbled up and down in the +dirt. Also, when Captain Anything came halting up before him, he +seemed to take but little notice of him. + +Now, when the uproar was over, Diabolus sends for my Lord +Understanding and Mr. Conscience, and claps them both up in prison +as the ringleaders and managers of this most heavy, riotous rout in +Mansoul. So now the town began to be quiet again, and the +prisoners were used hardly; yea, he thought to have made them away, +but that the present juncture did not serve for that purpose, for +that war was in all their gates. + +But let us return again to our story. The captains, when they were +gone back from the gate, and were come into the camp again, called +a council of war, to consult what was further for them to do. Now, +some said, 'Let us go up presently, and fall upon the town;' but +the greatest part thought rather better it would be to give them +another summons to yield; and the reason why they thought this to +be best was, because that, so far as could be perceived, the town +of Mansoul now was more inclinable than heretofore. 'And if,' said +they, 'while some of them are in a way of inclination, we should by +ruggedness give them distaste, we may set them further from closing +with our summons than we would be willing they should.' Wherefore +to this advice they agreed, and called a trumpeter, put words into +his mouth, set him his time, and bid him God speed. Well, many +hours were not expired before the trumpeter addressed himself to +his journey. Wherefore, coming up to the wall of the town, he +steereth his course to Ear-gate, and there sounded, as he was +commanded. They then that were within came out to see what was the +matter, and the trumpeter made them this speech following: + +'O hard-hearted and deplorable town of Mansoul, how long wilt thou +love thy sinful, sinful simplicity, and, ye fools, delight in your +scorning? As yet despise you the offers of peace and deliverance? +As yet will ye refuse the golden offers of Shaddai, and trust to +the lies and falsehoods of Diabolus? Think you, when Shaddai shall +have conquered you, that the remembrance of these your carriages +towards him will yield you peace and comfort, or that by ruffling +language you can make him afraid as a grasshopper? Doth he entreat +you for fear of you? Do you think that you are stronger than he? +Look to the heavens, and behold and consider the stars, how high +are they? Can you stop the sun from running his course, and hinder +the moon from giving her light? Can you count the number of the +stars, or stay the bottles of heaven? Can you call for the waters +of the sea, and cause them to cover the face of the ground? Can +you behold every one that is proud, and abase him, and bind their +faces in secret? Yet these are some of the works of our King, in +whose name this day we come up unto you, that you may be brought +under his authority. In his name, therefore, I summon you again to +yield up yourselves to his captains.' + +At this summons the Mansoulians seemed to be at a stand, and knew +not what answer to make. Wherefore Diabolus forthwith appeared, +and took upon him to do it himself; and thus he begins, but turns +his speech to them of Mansoul. + +'Gentlemen,' quoth he, 'and my faithful subjects, if it is true +that this summoner hath said concerning the greatness of their +King, by his terror you will always be kept in bondage, and so be +made to sneak. Yea, how can you now, though he is at a distance, +endure to think of such a mighty one? And if not to think of him +while at a distance, how can you endure to be in his presence? I, +your prince, am familiar with you, and you may play with me as you +would with a grasshopper. Consider, therefore, what is for your +profit, and remember the immunities that I have granted you. + +'Farther, if all be true that this man hath said, how comes it to +pass that the subjects of Shaddai are so enslaved in all places +where they come? None in the universe so unhappy as they, none so +trampled upon as they. + +'Consider, my Mansoul: would thou wert as loath to leave me as I +am loath to leave thee. But consider, I say, the ball is yet at +thy foot; liberty you have, if you know how to use it; yea, a king +you have too, if you can tell how to love and obey him.' + +Upon this speech, the town of Mansoul did again harden their hearts +yet more against the captains of Shaddai. The thoughts of his +greatness did quite quash them, and the thoughts of his holiness +sunk them in despair. Wherefore, after a short consult, they (of +the Diabolonian party they were) sent back this word by the +trumpeter, That, for their parts, they were resolved to stick to +their king, but never to yield to Shaddai; so it was but in vain to +give them any further summons, for they had rather die upon the +place than yield. And now things seemed to be gone quite back, and +Mansoul to be out of reach or call, yet the captains who knew what +their Lord could do, would not yet be beat out of heart; they +therefore sent them another summons, more sharp and severe than the +last; but the oftener they were sent to, to reconcile to Shaddai, +the further off they were. 'As they called them, so they went from +them--yea, though they called them to the Most High.' + +So they ceased that way to deal with them any more, and inclined to +think of another way. The captains, therefore, did gather +themselves together, to have free conference among themselves, to +know what was yet to be done to gain the town, and to deliver it +from the tyranny of Diabolus; and one said after this manner, and +another after that. Then stood up the right noble the Captain +Conviction, and said, 'My brethren, mine opinion is this: + +'First, that we continually play our slings into the town, and keep +it in a continual alarm, molesting them day and night. By thus +doing, we shall stop the growth of their rampant spirit; for a lion +may be tamed by continual molestation. + +'Secondly, this done, I advise that, in the next place, we with one +consent draw up a petition to our Lord Shaddai, by which, after we +have showed our King the condition of Mansoul and of affairs here, +and have begged his pardon for our no better success, we will +earnestly implore his Majesty's help, and that he will please to +send us more force and power, and some gallant and well-spoken +commander to head them, that so his Majesty may not lose the +benefit of these his good beginnings, but may complete his conquest +upon the town of Mansoul.' + +To this speech of the noble Captain Conviction they as one man +consented, and agreed that a petition should forthwith be drawn up, +and sent by a fit man away to Shaddai with speed. The contents of +the petition were thus:- + +'Most gracious and glorious King, the Lord of the best world, and +the builder of the town of Mansoul, we have, dread Sovereign, at +thy commandment, put our lives in jeopardy, and at thy bidding made +a war upon the famous town of Mansoul. When we went up against it, +we did, according to our commission, first offer conditions of +peace unto it. But they, great King, set light by our counsel, and +would none of our reproof. They were for shutting their gates, and +for keeping us out of the town. They also mounted their guns, they +sallied out upon us, and have done us what damage they could; but +we pursued them with alarm upon alarm, requiting them with such +retribution as was meet, and have done some execution upon the +town. + +'Diabolus, Incredulity, and Willbewill are the great doers against +us: now we are in our winter quarters, but so as that we do yet +with an high hand molest and distress the town. + +'Once, as we think, had we had but one substantial friend in the +town, such as would but have seconded the sound of our summons as +they ought, the people might have yielded themselves; but there +were none but enemies there, nor any to speak in behalf of our Lord +to the town. Wherefore, though we have done as we could, yet +Mansoul abides in a state of rebellion against thee. + +'Now, King of kings, let it please thee to pardon the +unsuccessfulness of thy servants, who have been no more +advantageous in so desirable a work as the conquering of Mansoul +is. And send, Lord, as we now desire, more forces to Mansoul, that +it may be subdued; and a man to head them, that the town may both +love and fear. + +'We do not thus speak because we are willing to relinquish the +wars, (for we are for laying of our bones against the place,) but +that the town of Mansoul may be won for thy Majesty. We also pray +thy Majesty, for expedition in this matter, that, after their +conquest, we may be at liberty to be sent about other thy gracious +designs. Amen.' + +The petition, thus drawn up, was sent away with haste to the King +by the hand of that good man, Mr. Love-to-Mansoul. + +When this petition was come to the palace of the King, who should +it be delivered to but to the King's Son? So he took it and read +it, and because the contents of it pleased him well, he mended, and +also in some things added to the petition himself. So, after he +had made such amendments and additions as he thought convenient, +with his own hand, he carried it in to the King; to whom, when he +had with obeisance delivered it, he put on authority, and spake to +it himself. + +Now the King, at the sight of the petition, was glad; but how much +more, think you, when it was seconded by his Son! It pleased him +also to hear that his servants who camped against Mansoul were so +hearty in the work, and so steadfast in their resolves, and that +they had already got some ground upon the famous town of Mansoul. + +Wherefore the King called to him Emmanuel, his Son, who said, 'Here +am I, my Father.' Then said the King, 'Thou knowest, as I do +myself, the condition of the town of Mansoul, and what we have +purposed, and what thou hast done to redeem it. Come now, +therefore, my Son, and prepare thyself for the war, for thou shalt +go to my camp at Mansoul. Thou shalt also there prosper and +prevail, and conquer the town of Mansoul.' + +Then said the King's Son, 'Thy law is within my heart: I delight +to do thy will. This is the day that I have longed for, and the +work that I have waited for all this while. Grant me, therefore, +what force thou shalt in thy wisdom think meet; and I will go and +will deliver from Diabolus, and from his power, thy perishing town +of Mansoul. My heart has been often pained within me for the +miserable town of Mansoul; but now it is rejoiced, but now it is +glad,' + +And with that he leaped over the mountains for joy, saying, 'I have +not, in my heart, thought anything too dear for Mansoul: the day +of vengeance is in mine heart for thee, my Mansoul: and glad am I +that thou, my Father, hast made me the Captain of their salvation. +And I will now begin to plague all those that have been a plague to +my town of Mansoul, and will deliver it from their hand.' + +When the King's Son had said thus to his Father, it presently flew +like lightning round about at court; yea, it there became the only +talk what Emmanuel was to go to do for the famous town of Mansoul. +But you cannot think how the courtiers, too, were taken with this +design of the Prince; yea, so affected were they with this work, +and with the justness of the war, that the highest lord and +greatest peer of the kingdom did covet to have commissions under +Emmanuel, to go to help to recover again to Shaddai the miserable +town of Mansoul. + +Then was it concluded that some should go and carry tidings to the +camp, that Emmanuel was to come to recover Mansoul, and that he +would bring along with him so mighty, so impregnable a force, that +he could not be resisted. But, oh! how ready were the high ones at +court to run like lackeys to carry these tidings to the camp that +was at Mansoul. Now, when the captains perceived that the King +would send Emmanuel his Son, and that it also delighted the Son to +be sent on this errand by the great Shaddai his Father, they also, +to show how they were pleased at the thoughts of his coming gave a +shout that made the earth rend at the sound thereof. Yea, the +mountains did answer again by echo, and Diabolus himself did totter +and shake. + +For you must know, that though the town of Mansoul itself was not +much, if at all concerned with the project, (for, alas for them! +they were wofully besotted, for they chiefly regarded their +pleasure and their lusts,) yet Diabolus their governor was; for he +had his spies continually abroad, who brought him intelligence of +all things, and they told him what was doing at court against him, +and that Emmanuel would shortly certainly come with a power to +invade him. Nor was there any man at court, nor peer of the +kingdom, that Diabolus so feared as he feared this Prince; for, if +you remember, I showed you before that Diabolus had felt the weight +of his hand already; so that, since it was he that was to come, +this made him the more afraid. + +Well, you see how I have told you that the King's Son was engaged +to come from the court to save Mansoul, and that his Father had +made him the Captain of the forces. The time, therefore, of his +setting forth being now expired, he addressed himself for his +march, and taketh with him, for his power, five noble captains and +their forces. + +1. The first was that famous captain, the noble Captain Credence. +His were the red colours, and Mr. Promise bare them; and for a +scutcheon he had the holy lamb and golden shield; and he had ten +thousand men at his feet. + +2. The second was that famous captain, the Captain Good-Hope. His +were the blue colours; his standard-bearer was Mr. Expectation, and +for his scutcheon he had the three golden anchors; and he had ten +thousand men at his feet. + +3. The third was that valiant captain, the Captain Charity. His +standard-bearer was Mr. Pitiful: his were the green colours, and +for his scutcheon he had three naked orphans embraced in the bosom; +and he had ten thousand men at his feet. + +4. The fourth was that gallant commander, the Captain Innocent. +His standard-bearer was Mr. Harmless: his were the white colours, +and for his scutcheon he had the three golden doves. + +5. The fifth was the truly loyal and well-beloved captain, the +Captain Patience. His standard-bearer was Mr. Suffer-Long: his +were the black colours, and for a scutcheon he had three arrows +through the golden heart. + +These were Emmanuel's captains; these their standard-bearers, their +colours, and their scutcheons; and these the men under their +command. So, as was said, the brave Prince took his march to go to +the town of Mansoul. Captain Credence led the van, and Captain +Patience brought up the rear; so the other three, with their men, +made up the main body, the Prince himself riding in his chariot at +the head of them. + +But when they set out for their march, oh, how the trumpets +sounded, their armour glittered, and how the colours waved in the +wind! The Prince's armour was all of gold, and it shone like the +sun in the firmament; the captains' armour was of proof, and was in +appearance like the glittering stars. There were also some from +the court that rode reformades for the love that they had to the +King Shaddai, and for the happy deliverance of the town of Mansoul. + +Emmanuel also, when he had thus set forwards to go to recover the +town of Mansoul, took with him, at the commandment of his Father, +fifty-four battering-rams, and twelve slings to whirl stones +withal. Every one of these was made of pure gold, and these they +carried with them, in the heart and body of their army, all along +as they went to Mansoul. + +So they marched till they came within less than a league of the +town; there they lay till the first four captains came thither to +acquaint them with matters. Then they took their journey to go to +the town of Mansoul, and unto Mansoul they came; but when the old +soldiers that were in the camp saw that they had new forces to join +with, they again gave such a shout before the walls of the town of +Mansoul, that it put Diabolus into another fright. So they sat +down before the town, not now as the other four captains did, to +wit, against the gates of Mansoul only; but they environed it round +on every side, and beset it behind and before; so that now, let +Mansoul look which way it will, it saw force and power lie in siege +against it. Besides, there were mounts cast up against it. The +Mount Gracious was on the one side, and Mount Justice was on the +other. Further, there were several small banks and advance- +grounds, as Plain-Truth Hill and No-Sin Banks, where many of the +slings were placed against the town. Upon Mount Gracious were +planted four, and upon Mount Justice were placed as many, and the +rest were conveniently placed in several parts round about the +town. Five of the best battering-rams, that is, of the biggest of +them, were placed upon Mount Hearken, a mount cast up hard by Ear- +gate, with intent to break that open. + +Now when the men of the town saw the multitude of the soldiers that +were come up against the place, and the rams and slings, and the +mounts on which they were planted, together with the glittering of +the armour and the waving of their colours, they were forced to +shift, and shift, and again to shift their thoughts; but they +hardly changed for thoughts more stout, but rather for thoughts +more faint; for though before they thought themselves sufficiently +guarded, yet now they began to think that no man knew what would be +their hap or lot. + +When the good Prince Emmanuel had thus beleaguered Mansoul, in the +first place he hangs out the white flag, which he caused to be set +up among the golden slings that were planted upon Mount Gracious. +And this he did for two reasons: 1. To give notice to Mansoul that +he could and would yet be gracious if they turned to him. 2. And +that he might leave them the more without excuse, should he destroy +them, they continuing in their rebellion. + +So the white flag, with the three golden doves in it, was hung out +for two days together, to give them time and space to consider; but +they, as was hinted before, as if they were unconcerned, made no +reply to the favourable signal of the Prince. + +Then he commanded, and they set the red flag upon that mount called +Mount Justice. It was the red flag of Captain Judgment, whose +scutcheon was the burning fiery furnace; and this also stood waving +before them in the wind for several days together. But look how +they carried it under the white flag, when that was hung out, so +did they also when the red one was; and yet he took no advantage of +them. + +Then he commanded again that his servants should hang out the black +flag of defiance against them, whose scutcheon was the three +burning thunderbolts; but as unconcerned was Mansoul at this as at +those that went before. But when the Prince saw that neither mercy +nor judgment, nor execution of judgment, would or could come near +the heart of Mansoul, he was touched with much compunction, and +said, 'Surely this strange carriage of the town of Mansoul doth +rather arise from ignorance of the manner and feats of war, than +from a secret defiance of us, and abhorrence of their own lives; or +if they know the manner of the war of their own, yet not the rites +and ceremonies of the wars in which we are concerned, when I make +wars upon mine enemy Diabolus.' + +Therefore he sent to the town of Mansoul, to let them know what he +meant by those signs and ceremonies of the flag; and also to know +of them which of the things they would choose, whether grace and +mercy, or judgment and the execution of judgment. All this while +they kept their gates shut with locks, bolts, and bars, as fast as +they could. Their guards also were doubled, and their watch made +as strong as they could. Diabolus also did pluck up what heart he +could, to encourage the town to make resistance. + +The townsmen also made answer to the Prince's messenger, in +substance according to that which follows:- + +'Great Sir,--As to what, by your messenger, you have signified to +us, whether we will accept of your mercy, or fall by your justice, +we are bound by the law and custom of this place, and can give you +no positive answer; for it is against the law, government, and the +prerogative royal of our king, to make either peace or war without +him. But this we will do,--we will petition that our prince will +come down to the wall, and there give you such treatment as he +shall think fit and profitable for us.' + +When the good Prince Emmanuel heard this answer, and saw the +slavery and bondage of the people, and how much content they were +to abide in the chains of the tyrant Diabolus, it grieved him at +the heart; and, indeed, when at any time he perceived that any were +contented under the slavery of the giant, he would be affected with +it. + +But to return again to our purpose. After the town had carried +this news to Diabolus, and had told him, moreover, that the Prince, +that lay in the leaguer without the wall, waited upon them for an +answer, he refused, and huffed as well as he could; but in heart he +was afraid. + +Then said he, 'I will go down to the gates myself, and give him +such an answer as I think fit.' So he went down to Mouth-gate, and +there addressed himself to speak to Emmanuel, (but in such language +as the town understood not,) the contents whereof were as follows:- + +'O thou great Emmanuel, Lord of all the world, I know thee, that +thou art the Son of the great Shaddai! Wherefore art thou come to +torment me, and to cast me out of my possession? This town of +Mansoul, as thou very well knowest, is mine, and that by a twofold +right. 1. It is mine by right of conquest; I won it in the open +field; and shall the prey be taken from the mighty, or the lawful +captive be delivered? 2. This town of Mansoul is mine also by +their subjection. They have opened the gates of their town unto +me; they have sworn fidelity to me, and have openly chosen me to be +their king; they have also given their castle into my hands; yea, +they have put the whole strength of Mansoul under me. + +'Moreover, this town of Mansoul hath disavowed thee, yea, they have +cast thy law, thy name, thy image, and all that is thine, behind +their back, and have accepted and set up in their room my law, my +name, my image, and all that ever is mine. Ask else thy captains, +and they will tell thee that Mansoul hath, in answer to all their +summonses, shown love and loyalty to me, but always disdain, +despite, contempt, and scorn to thee and thine. Now, thou art the +Just One and the Holy, and shouldest do no iniquity. Depart, then, +I pray thee, therefore, from me, and leave me to my just +inheritance peaceably.' + +This oration was made in the language of Diabolus himself; for +although he can, to every man, speak in their own language, (else +he could not tempt them all as he does,) yet he has a language +proper to himself, and it is the language of the infernal cave, or +black pit. + +Wherefore the town of Mansoul (poor hearts!) understood him not; +nor did they see how he crouched and cringed while he stood before +Emmanuel, their Prince. + +Yea, they all this while took him to be one of that power and force +that by no means could be resisted. Wherefore, while he was thus +entreating that he might have yet his residence there, and that +Emmanuel would not take it from him by force, the inhabitants +boasted even of his valour, saying, 'Who is able to make war with +him?' + +Well, when this pretended king had made an end of what he would +say, Emmanuel, the golden Prince, stood up and spake; the contents +of whose words follow:- + +'Thou deceiving one,' said he, 'I have, in my Father's name, in +mine own name, and on the behalf and for the good of this wretched +town of Mansoul, somewhat to say unto thee. Thou pretendest a +right, a lawful right, to the deplorable town of Mansoul, when it +is most apparent to all my Father's court that the entrance which +thou hast obtained in at the gates of Mansoul was through thy lie +and falsehood; thou beliedst my Father, thou beliedst his law, and +so deceivedst the people of Mansoul. Thou pretendest that the +people have accepted thee for their king, their captain, and right +liege lord; but that also was by the exercise of deceit and guile. +Now, if lying, wiliness, sinful craft, and all manner of horrible +hypocrisy, will go in my Father's court (in which court thou must +be tried) for equity and right, then will I confess unto thee that +thou hast made a lawful conquest. But, alas! what thief, what +tyrant, what devil is there that may not conquer after this sort? +But I can make it appear, O Diabolus, that thou, in all thy +pretences to a conquest of Mansoul, hast nothing of truth to say. +Thinkest thou this to be right, that that didst put the lie upon my +Father, and madest him (to Mansoul) the greatest deluder in the +world? And what sayest thou to thy perverting knowingly the right +purport and intent of the law? Was it good also that thou madest a +prey of the innocency and simplicity of the now miserable town of +Mansoul? Yea, thou didst overcome Mansoul by promising to them +happiness in their transgressions against my Father's law, when +thou knewest, and couldest not but know, hadst thou consulted +nothing but thine own experience, that that was the way to undo +them. Thou hast also thyself, O thou master of enmity, of spite +defaced my Father's image in Mansoul, and set up thy own in its +place, to the great contempt of my Father, the heightening of thy +sin, and to the intolerable damage of the perishing town of +Mansoul. + +'Thou hast, moreover, (as if all these were but little things with +thee,) not only deluded and undone this place, but, by thy lies and +fradulent carriage, hast set them against their own deliverance. +How hast thou stirred them up against my Father's captains, and +made them to fight against those that were sent of him to deliver +them from their bondage! All these things, and very many more, +thou hast done against thy light, and in contempt of my Father and +of his law, yea, and with design to bring under his displeasure for +ever the miserable town of Mansoul. I am therefore come to avenge +the wrong that thou hast done to my Father, and to deal with thee +for the blasphemies wherewith thou hast made poor Mansoul blaspheme +his name. Yea, upon thy head, thou prince of the infernal cave, +will I requite it. + +'As for myself, O Diabolus, I am come against thee by lawful power, +and to take, by strength of hand, this town of Mansoul out of thy +burning fingers; for this town of Mansoul is mine, O Diabolus, and +that by undoubted right, as all shall see that will diligently +search the most ancient and most authentic records, and I will +plead my title to it, to the confusion of thy face. + +'First, for the town of Mansoul, my Father built and did fashion it +with his hand. The palace also that is in the midst of that town, +he built it for his own delight. This town of Mansoul, therefore, +is my Father's, and that by the best of titles, and he that +gainsays the truth of this must lie against his soul. + +'Secondly, O thou master of the lie, this town of Mansoul is mine. + +'1. For that I am my Father's heir, his firstborn, and the only +delight of his heart. I am therefore come up against thee in mine +own right, even to recover mine own inheritance out of thine hand. + +'2. But further, as I have a right and title to Mansoul by being my +Father's heir, so I have also by my Father's donation. His it was, +and he gave it me; nor have I at any time offended my Father, that +he should take it from me, and give it to thee. Nor have I been +forced, by playing the bankrupt, to sell or set to sale to thee my +beloved town of Mansoul. Mansoul is my desire, my delight, and the +joy of my heart. But, + +'3. Mansoul is mine by right of purchase. I have bought it, O +Diabolus, I have bought it to myself. Now, since it was my +Father's and mine, as I was his heir, and since also I have made it +mine by virtue of a great purchase, it followeth that, by all +lawful right, the town of Mansoul is mine, and that thou art an +usurper, a tyrant, and traitor, in thy holding possession thereof. +Now, the cause of my purchasing of it was this: Mansoul had +trespassed against my Father; now my Father had said, that in the +day that they broke his law they should die. Now, it is more +possible for heaven and earth to pass away than for my Father to +break his word. Wherefore when Mansoul had sinned indeed by +hearkening to thy lie, I put in and became a surety to my Father, +body for body, and soul for soul, that I would make amends for +Mansoul's transgressions, and my Father did accept thereof. So, +when the time appointed was come, I gave body for body, soul for +soul, life for life, blood for blood, and so redeemed my beloved +Mansoul. + +'4. Nor did I do this by halves: my Father's law and justice, that +were both concerned in the threatening upon transgression, are both +now satisfied, and very well content that Mansoul should be +delivered. + +'5. Nor am I come out this day against thee, but by commandment of +my Father; it was he that said unto me, "Go down and deliver +Mansoul." + +'Wherefore be it known unto thee, O thou fountain of deceit, and be +it also known to the foolish town of Mansoul, that I am not come +against thee this day without my Father. + +'And now,' said the golden-headed Prince, 'I have a word to the +town of Mansoul.' But so soon as mention was made that he had a +word to speak to the besotted town of Mansoul, the gates were +double-guarded, and all men commanded not to give him audience. So +he proceeded and said, 'O unhappy town of Mansoul, I cannot but be +touched with pity and compassion for thee. Thou hast accepted of +Diabolus for thy king, and art become a nurse and minister of +Diabolonians against thy sovereign Lord. Thy gates thou hast +opened to him, but hast shut them fast against me; thou hast given +him an hearing, but hast stopped thine ears at my cry. He brought +to thee thy destruction, and thou didst receive both him and it: I +am come to thee bringing salvation, but thou regardest me not. +Besides, thou hast, as with sacrilegious hands, taken thyself, with +all that was mine in thee, and hast given all to my foe, and to the +greatest enemy my Father has. You have bowed and subjected +yourselves to him, you have vowed and sworn yourselves to be his. +Poor Mansoul! what shall I do unto thee? Shall I save thee?--shall +I destroy thee? What shall I do unto thee? Shall I fall upon +thee, and grind thee to powder, or make thee a monument of the +richest grace? What shall I do unto thee? Hearken, therefore, +thou town of Mansoul, hearken to my word, and thou shalt live. I +am merciful, Mansoul, and thou shalt find me so: shut me not out +of thy gates. + +'O Mansoul, neither is my commission nor inclination at all to do +thee hurt. Why fliest thou so fast from thy friend, and stickest +so close to thine enemy? Indeed, I would have thee, because it +becomes thee to be sorry for thy sin, but do not despair of life; +this great force is not to hurt thee, but to deliver thee from thy +bondage, and to reduce thee to thy obedience. + +'My commission, indeed, is to make a war upon Diabolus thy king, +and upon all Diabolonians with him; for he is the strong man armed +that keeps the house, and I will have him out: his spoils I must +divide, his armour I must take from him, his hold I must cast him +out of, and must make it a habitation for myself. And this, O +Mansoul, shall Diabolus know when he shall be made to follow me in +chains, and when Mansoul shall rejoice to see it so. + + 'I could, would I now put forth my might, cause that forthwith he +should leave you and depart; but I have it in my heart so to deal +with him, as that the justice of the war that I shall make upon him +may be seen and acknowledged by all. He hath taken Mansoul by +fraud, and keeps it by violence and deceit, and I will make him +bare and naked in the eyes of all observers. + +'All my words are true. I am mighty to save, and will deliver my +Mansoul out of his hand.' + +This speech was intended chiefly for Mansoul, but Mansoul would not +have the hearing of it. They shut up Ear-gate, they barricaded it +up, they kept it locked and bolted, they set a guard thereat, and +commanded that no Mansoulonian should go out to him, nor that any +from the camp should be admitted into the town. All this they did, +so horribly had Diabolus enchanted them to do, and seek to do for +him, against their rightful Lord and Prince; wherefore no man, nor +voice, nor sound of man that belonged to the glorious host, was to +come into the town. + +So when Emmanuel saw that Mansoul was thus involved in sin, he +calls his army together, (since now also his words were despised,) +and gave out a commandment throughout all his host to be ready +against the time appointed. Now, forasmuch as there was no way +lawfully to take the town of Mansoul but to get in by the gates, +and at Ear-gate as the chief, therefore he commanded his captains +and commanders to bring their rams, their slings and their men, and +place them at Eye-gate and Ear-gate, in order to his taking the +town. + +When Emmanuel had put all things in a readiness to give Diabolus +battle, he sent again to know of the town of Mansoul, if in +peaceable manner they would yield themselves, or whether they were +yet resolved to put him to try the utmost extremity? They then, +together with Diabolus their king, called a council of war, and +resolved upon certain propositions that should be offered to +Emmanuel, if he will accept thereof, so they agreed; and then the +next was, who should be sent on this errand. Now, there was in the +town of Mansoul an old man, a Diabolonian, and his name was Mr. +Loth-to-stoop, a stiff man in his way, and a great doer for +Diabolus; him, therefore, they sent, and put into his mouth what he +should say. So he went and came to the camp to Emmanuel, and when +he was come, a time was appointed to give him audience. So at the +time he came, and after a Diabolonian ceremony or two, he thus +began and said, 'Great sir, that it may be known unto all men how +good-natured a prince my master is, he has sent me to tell your +lordship that he is very willing, rather than go to war, to deliver +up into your hands one half of the town of Mansoul. I am therefore +to know if your Mightiness will accept of this proposition.' + +Then said Emmanuel, 'The whole is mine by gift and purchase, +wherefore I will never lose one half.' + +Then said Mr. Loth-to-stoop, 'Sir, my master hath said that he will +be content that you shall be the nominal and titular Lord of all, +if he may possess but a part.' + +Then Emmanuel answered, 'The whole is mine really, not in name and +word only; wherefore I will be the sole lord and possessor of all, +or of none at all, of Mansoul.' + +Then Mr. Loth-to-stoop said again, 'Sir, behold the condescension +of my master! He says, that he will be content, if he may but have +assigned to him some place in Mansoul as a place to live privately +in, and you shall be Lord of all the rest.' + +Then said the golden Prince, 'All that the Father giveth me shall +come to me; and of all that he giveth me I will lose nothing--no, +not a hoof nor a hair. I will not, therefore, grant him, no, not +the least corner of Mansoul to dwell in; I will have all to +myself.' + +Then Loth-to-stoop said again, 'But, sir, suppose that my Lord +should resign the whole town to you, only with this proviso, that +he sometimes, when he comes into this country, may, for old +acquaintance' sake, be entertained as a wayfaring man for two days, +or ten days or a month, or so. May not this small matter be +granted?' + +Then said Emmanuel, 'No. He came as a wayfaring man to David, nor +did he stay long with him, and yet it had like to have cost David +his soul. I will not consent that he ever should have any harbour +more there.' + +Then said Mr. Loth-to-stoop, 'Sir, you seem to be very hard. +Suppose my master should yield to all that your lordship hath said, +provided that his friends and kindred in Mansoul may have liberty +to trade in the town, and to enjoy their present dwellings. May +not that be granted, sir?' + +Then said Emmanuel, 'No; that is contrary to my Father's will; for +all, and all manner of Diabolonians that now are, or that at any +time shall be found in Mansoul, shall not only lose their lands and +liberties, but also their lives.' + +Then said Mr. Loth-to-stoop again, 'But, sir, may not my master and +great lord, by letters, by passengers, by accidental opportunities, +and the like, maintain, if he shall deliver up all unto thee, some +kind of old friendship with Mansoul?' + +Emmanuel answered, 'No, by no means; forasmuch as any such +fellowship, friendship, intimacy, or acquaintance, in what way, +sort, or mode soever maintained, will tend to the corrupting of +Mansoul, the alienating of their affections from me, and the +endangering of their peace with my Father.' + +Mr. Loth-to-stoop yet added further, saying, 'But, great sir, since +my master hath many friends, and those that are dear to him, in +Mansoul, may he not, if he shall depart from them, even of his +bounty and good-nature, bestow upon them, as he sees fit, some +tokens of his love and kindness that he had for them, to the end +that Mansoul, when he is gone, may look upon such tokens of +kindness once received from their old friend, and remember him who +was once their king, and the merry times that they sometimes +enjoyed one with another, while he and they lived in peace +together?' + +Then said Emmanuel, 'No; for if Mansoul come to be mine, I shall +not admit of nor consent that there should be the least scrap, +shred, or dust of Diabolus left behind, as tokens of gifts bestowed +upon any in Mansoul, thereby to call to remembrance the horrible +communion that was betwixt them and him.' + +'Well, sir,' said Mr. Loth-to-stoop, 'I have one thing more to +propound, and then I am got to the end of my commission. Suppose +that, when my master is gone from Mansoul, any that shall yet live +in the town should have such business of high concerns to do, that +if they be neglected the party shall be undone; and suppose, sir, +that nobody can help in that case so well as my master and lord, +may not now my master be sent for upon so urgent an occasion as +this? Or if he may not be admitted into the town, may not he and +the person concerned meet in some of the villages near Mansoul, and +there lay their heads together, and there consult of matters?' + +This was the last of those ensnaring propositions that Mr. Loth-to- +stoop had to propound to Emmanuel on behalf of his master Diabolus; +but Emmanuel would not grant it; for he said, 'There can be no +case, or thing, or matter fall out in Mansoul, when thy master +shall be gone, that may not be solved by my Father; besides, it +will be a great disparagement to my Father's wisdom and skill to +admit any from Mansoul to go out to Diabolus for advice, when they +are bid before, in everything, by prayer and supplication to let +their requests be made known to my Father. Further, this, should +it be granted, would be to grant that a door should be set open for +Diabolus, and the Diabolonians in Mansoul, to hatch, and plot, and +bring to pass treasonable designs, to the grief of my Father and +me, and to the utter destruction of Mansoul.' + +When Mr. Loth-to-stoop had heard this answer, he took his leave of +Emmanuel, and departed, saying that he would carry word to his +master concerning this whole affair. So he departed, and came to +Diabolus to Mansoul, and told him the whole of the matter, and how +Emmanuel would not admit, no, not by any means, that he, when he +was once gone out, should for ever have anything more to do either +in, or with any that are of the town of Mansoul. When Mansoul and +Diabolus had heard this relation of things, they with one consent +concluded to use their best endeavour to keep Emmanuel out of +Mansoul, and sent old Ill-Pause, of whom you have heard before, to +tell the Prince and his captains so. So the old gentleman came up +to the top of Ear-gate, and called to the camp for a hearing, who +when they gave audience, he said, 'I have in commandment from my +high lord to bid you tell it to your Prince Emmanuel, that Mansoul +and their king are resolved to stand and fall together; and that it +is in vain for your Prince to think of ever having Mansoul in his +hand, unless he can take it by force.' So some went and told to +Emmanuel what old Ill-Pause, a Diabolonian in Mansoul, had said. +Then said the Prince, 'I must try the power of my sword, for I will +not (for all the rebellions and repulses that Mansoul has made +against me) raise my siege and depart, but will assuredly take my +Mansoul, and deliver it from the hand of her enemy.' And with that +he gave out a commandment that Captain Boanerges, Captain +Conviction, Captain Judgment, and Captain Execution should +forthwith march up to Ear-gate with trumpets sounding, colours +flying, and with shouting for the battle. Also he would that +Captain Credence should join himself with them. Emmanuel, +moreover, gave order that Captain Good-Hope and Captain Charity +should draw themselves up before Eye-gate. He bid also that the +rest of his captains and their men should place themselves for the +best of their advantage against the enemy round about the town; and +all was done as he had commanded. + +Then he bid that the word should be given forth, and the word was +at that time, 'EMMANUEL.' Then was an alarm sounded, and the +battering-rams were played, and the slings did whirl stones into +the town amain, and thus the battle began. Now Diabolus himself +did manage the townsmen in the war, and that at every gate; +wherefore their resistance was the more forcible, hellish, and +offensive to Emmanuel. Thus was the good Prince engaged and +entertained by Diabolus and Mansoul for several days together; and +a sight worth seeing it was to behold how the captains of Shaddai +behaved themselves in this war. + +And first for Captain Boanerges, (not to under-value the rest,) he +made three most fierce assaults, one after another, upon Ear-gate, +to the shaking of the posts thereof. Captain Conviction, he also +made up as fast with Boanerges as possibly he could, and both +discerning that the gate began to yield, they commanded that the +rams should still be played against it. Now, Captain Conviction, +going up very near to the gate, was with great force driven back, +and received three wounds in the mouth. And those that rode +reformades, they went about to encourage the captains. + +For the valour of the two captains, made mention of before, the +Prince sent for them to his pavilion, and commanded that a while +they should rest themselves, and that with somewhat they should be +refreshed. Care also was taken for Captain Conviction, that he +should be healed of his wounds. The Prince also gave to each of +them a chain of gold, and bid them yet be of good courage. + +Nor did Captain Good-Hope nor Captain Charity come behind in this +most desperate fight, for they so well did behave themselves at +Eye-gate, that they had almost broken it quite open. These also +had a reward from their Prince, as also had the rest of the +captains, because they did valiantly round about the town. + +In this engagement several of the officers of Diabolus were slain, +and some of the townsmen wounded. For the officers, there was one +Captain Boasting slain. This Boasting thought that nobody could +have shaken the posts of Ear-gate, nor have shaken the heart of +Diabolus. Next to him there was one Captain Secure slain: this +Secure used to say that the blind and lame in Mansoul were able to +keep the gates of the town against Emmanuel's army. This Captain +Secure did Captain Conviction cleave down the head with a two- +handed sword, when he received himself three wounds in his mouth. + +Besides these there was one Captain Bragman, a very desperate +fellow, and he was captain over a band of those that threw +firebrands, arrows, and death: he also received, by the hand of +Captain Good-Hope at Eye-gate, a mortal wound in the breast. + +There was, moreover, one Mr. Feeling; but he was no captain, but a +great stickler to encourage Mansoul to rebellion. He received a +wound in the eye by the hand of one of Boanerges' soldiers, and had +by the captain himself been slain, but that he made a sudden +retreat. + +But I never saw Willbewill so daunted in all my life; he was not +able to do as he was wont, and some say that he also received a +wound in the leg, and that some of the men in the Prince's army +have certainly seen him limp as he afterwards walked on the wall. + +I shall not give you a particular account of the names of the +soldiers that were slain in the town, for many were maimed, and +wounded, and slain; for when they saw that the posts of Ear-gate +did shake, and Eye-gate was well-nigh broken quite open, and also +that their captains were slain, this took away the hearts of many +of the Diabolonians; they fell also by the force of the shot that +were sent by the golden slings into the midst of the town of +Mansoul. + +Of the townsmen, there was one Love-no-Good; he was a townsman, but +a Diabolonian; he also received his mortal wound in Mansoul, but he +died not very soon. + +Mr. Ill-Pause also, who was the man that came along with Diabolus +when at first he attempted the taking of Mansoul, he also received +a grievous wound in the head; some say that his brain-pan was +cracked. This I have taken notice of, that he was never after this +able to do that mischief to Mansoul as he had done in times past. +Also old Prejudice and Mr. Anything fled. + +Now, when the battle was over, the Prince commanded that yet once +more the white flag should be set upon Mount Gracious in sight of +the town of Mansoul, to show that yet Emmanuel had grace for the +wretched town of Mansoul. + +When Diabolus saw the white flag hung out again, and knowing that +it was not for him, but Mansoul, he cast in his mind to play +another prank, to wit, to see if Emmanuel would raise his siege and +begone, upon promise of reformation. So he comes down to the gate +one evening, a good while after the sun was gone down, and calls to +speak with Emmanuel, who presently came down to the gate, and +Diabolus saith unto him: + +'Forasmuch as thou makest it appear by thy white flag that thou art +wholly given to peace and quiet, I thought meet to acquaint thee +that we are ready to accept thereof upon terms which thou mayest +admit. + +'I know that thou art given to devotion, and that holiness pleaseth +thee; yea, that thy great end in making a war upon Mansoul is, that +it may be a holy habitation. Well, draw off thy forces from the +town, and I will bend Mansoul to thy bow. + +'First, I will lay down all acts of hostility against thee, and +will be willing to become thy deputy, and will, as I have formerly +been against thee, now serve thee in the town of Mansoul. And more +particularly, + +'1. I will persuade Mansoul to receive thee for their Lord; and I +know that they will do it the sooner when they shall understand +that I am thy deputy. + +'2. I will show them wherein they have erred, and that +transgression stands in the way to life. + +'3. I will show them the holy law unto which they must conform, +even that which they have broken. + +'4. I will press upon them the necessity of a reformation according +to thy law. + +'5. And, moreover, that none of these things may fail, I myself, at +my own proper cost and charge, will set up and maintain a +sufficient ministry, besides lectures, in Mansoul. + +'6. Thou shalt receive, as a token of our subjection to thee, year +by year, what thou shalt think fit to lay and levy upon us in token +of our subjection to thee.' + +Then said Emmanuel to him, 'O full of deceit, how movable are thy +ways! How often hast thou changed and rechanged, if so be thou +mightest still keep possession of my Mansoul, though, as has been +plainly declared before, I am the right heir thereof! Often hast +thou made thy proposals already, nor is this last a whit better +than they. And failing to deceive when thou showedst thyself in +thy black, thou hast now transformed thyself into an angel of +light, and wouldst, to deceive, be now as a minister of +righteousness. + +'But know thou, O Diabolus, that nothing must be regarded that thou +canst propound, for nothing is done by thee but to deceive. Thou +neither hast conscience to God, nor love to the town of Mansoul; +whence, then, should these thy sayings arise but from sinful craft +and deceit? He that can of list and will propound what he pleases, +and that wherewith he may destroy them that believe him, is to be +abandoned, with all that he shall say. But if righteousness be +such a beauty-spot in thine eyes now, how is it that wickedness was +so closely stuck to by thee before? But this is by-the-bye. + +'Thou talkest now of a reformation in Mansoul, and that thou +thyself, if I will please, wilt be at the head of that reformation; +all the while knowing that the greatest proficiency that man can +make in the law, and the righteousness thereof, will amount to no +more, for the taking away of the curse from Mansoul, than just +nothing at all; for a law being broken by Mansoul, that had before, +upon a supposition of the breach thereof, a curse pronounced +against him for it of God, can never, by his obeying of the law, +deliver himself therefrom (to say nothing of what a reformation is +like to be set up in Mansoul when the devil is become corrector of +vice). Thou knowest that all that thou hast now said in this +matter is nothing but guile and deceit; and is, as it was the +first, so is it the last card that thou hast to play. Many there +be that do soon discern thee when thou showest them thy cloven +foot; but in thy white, thy light, and in thy transformation, thou +art seen but of a few. But thou shalt not do thus with my Mansoul, +O Diabolus; for I do still love my Mansoul. + +'Besides, I am not come to put Mansoul upon works to live thereby; +should I do so, I should be like unto thee: but I am come that by +me, and by what I have and shall do for Mansoul, they may to my +Father be reconciled, though by their sin they have provoked him to +anger, and though by the law they cannot obtain mercy. + +'Thou talkest of subjecting of this town to good, when none +desireth it at thy hands. I am sent by my Father to possess it +myself, and to guide it by the skilfulness of my hands into such a +conformity to him as shall be pleasing in his sight. I will +therefore possess it myself; I will dispossess and cast thee out; I +will set up mine own standard in the midst of them; I will also +govern them by new laws, new officers, new motives, and new ways; +yea, I will pull down this town, and build it again; and it shall +be as though it had not been, and it shall then be the glory of the +whole universe.' + +When Diabolus heard this, and perceived that he was discovered in +all his deceits, he was confounded, and utterly put to a nonplus; +but having in himself the fountain of iniquity, rage, and malice +against both Shaddai and his Son, and the beloved town of Mansoul, +what doth he but strengthen himself what he could to give fresh +battle to the noble Prince Emmanuel? So, then, now we must have +another fight before the town of Mansoul is taken. Come up, then, +to the mountains, you that love to see military actions, and behold +by both sides how the fatal blow is given, while one seeks to hold, +and the other seeks to make himself master of the famous town of +Mansoul. + +Diabolus, therefore, having withdrawn himself from the wall to his +force that was in the heart of the town of Mansoul, Emmanuel also +returned to the camp; and both of them, after their divers ways, +put themselves into a posture fit to give battle one to another. + +Diabolus, as filled with despair of retaining in his hands the +famous town of Mansoul, resolved to do what mischief he could (if, +indeed, he could do any) to the army of the Prince and to the +famous town of Mansoul; for, alas! it was not the happiness of the +silly town of Mansoul that was designed by Diabolus, but the utter +ruin and overthrow thereof, as now is enough in view. Wherefore, +he commands his officers that they should then, when they see that +they could hold the town no longer, do it what harm and mischief +they could, rendering and tearing men, women, and children. 'For,' +said he, 'we had better quite demolish the place, and leave it like +a ruinous heap, than so leave it that it may be an habitation for +Emmanuel.' + +Emmanuel again, knowing that the next battle would issue in his +being made master of the place, gave out a royal commandment to all +his officers, high captains, and men of war, to be sure to show +themselves men of war against Diabolus and all Diabolonians; but +favourable, merciful, and meek to the old inhabitants of Mansoul. +'Bend, therefore,' said the noble Prince, 'the hottest front of the +battle against Diabolus and his men.' + +So the day being come, the command was given, and the Prince's men +did bravely stand to their arms, and did, as before, bend their +main force against Ear-gate and Eye-gate. The word was then, +'Mansoul is won!' so they made their assault upon the town. +Diabolus also, as fast as he could, with the main of his power, +made resistance from within; and his high lords and chief captains +for a time fought very cruelly against the Prince's army. + +But after three or four notable charges by the Prince and his noble +captains, Ear-gate was broken open, and the bars and bolts +wherewith it was used to be fast shut up against the Prince, were +broken into a thousand pieces. Then did the Prince's trumpets +sound, the captains shout, the town shake, and Diabolus retreat to +his hold. Well, when the Prince's forces had broken open the gate, +himself came up and did set his throne in it; also he set his +standard thereby, upon a mount that before by his men was cast up +to place the mighty slings thereon. The mount was called Mount +Hear-well. There, therefore, the Prince abode, to wit, hard by the +going in at the gate. He commanded also that the golden slings +should yet be played upon the town, especially against the castle, +because for shelter thither was Diabolus retreated. Now, from Ear- +gate the street was straight even to the house of Mr. Recorder that +so was before Diabolus took the town; and hard by his house stood +the castle, which Diabolus for a long time had made his irksome +den. The captains, therefore, did quickly clear that street by the +use of their slings, so that way was made up to the heart of the +town. Then did the Prince command that Captain Boanerges, Captain +Conviction, and Captain Judgment, should forthwith march up the +town to the old gentleman's gate. Then did the captains in the +most warlike manner enter into the town of Mansoul, and marching in +with flying colours, they came up to the Recorder's house, and that +was almost as strong as was the castle. Battering-rams they took +also with them, to plant against the castle gates. When they were +come to the house of Mr. Conscience, they knocked, and demanded +entrance. Now, the old gentleman, not knowing as yet fully their +design, kept his gates shut all the time of this fight. Wherefore +Boanerges demanded entrance at his gates; and no man making answer, +he gave it one stroke with the head of a ram, and this made the old +gentleman shake, and his house to tremble and totter. Then came +Mr. Recorder down to the gates, and, as he could, with quivering +lips he asked who was there? Boanerges answered, 'We are the +captains and commanders of the great Shaddai and of the blessed +Emmanuel, his Son, and we demand possession of your house for the +use of our noble Prince.' And with that the battering-ram gave the +gate another shake. This made the old gentleman tremble the more, +yet durst he not but open the gate: then the King's forces marched +in, namely, the three brave captains mentioned before. Now, the +Recorder's house was a place of much convenience for Emmanuel, not +only because it was near to the castle and strong, but also because +it was large, and fronted the castle, the den where now Diabolus +was, for he was now afraid to come out of his hold. As for Mr. +Recorder, the captains carried it very reservedly to him; as yet he +knew nothing of the great designs of Emmanuel, so that he did not +know what judgment to make, nor what would be the end of such +thundering beginnings. It was also presently noised in the town +how the Recorder's house was possessed, his rooms taken up, and his +palace made the seat of the war; and no sooner was it noised +abroad, but they took the alarm as warmly, and gave it out to +others of his friends, and you know, as a snowball loses nothing by +rolling, so in little time the whole town was possessed that they +must expect nothing from the Prince but destruction; and the ground +of the business was this, the Recorder was afraid, the Recorder +trembled, and the captains carried it strangely to the Recorder. +So many came to see, but when they with their own eyes did behold +the captains in the palace, and their battering-rams ever playing +at the castle gates to beat them down, they were riveted in their +fears, and it made them all in amaze. And, as I said, the man of +the house would increase all this; for whoever came to him, or +discoursed with him, nothing would he talk of, tell them, or hear, +but that death and destruction now attended Mansoul. + +'For,' quoth the old gentleman, 'you are all of you sensible that +we all have been traitors to that once despised, but now famously +victorious and glorious Prince Emmanuel; for he now, as you see, +doth not only lie in close siege about us, but hath forced his +entrance in at our gates. Moreover, Diabolus flees before him; and +he hath, as you behold, made of my house a garrison against the +castle where he is. I, for my part, have transgressed greatly, and +he that is clean, it is well for him. But I say I have +transgressed greatly in keeping silence when I should have spoken, +and in perverting justice when I should have executed the same. +True, I have suffered something at the hand of Diabolus for taking +part with the laws of King Shaddai; but that, alas! what will that +do? Will that make compensation for the rebellions and treasons +that I have done, and have suffered without gainsaying to be +committed in the town of Mansoul? Oh! I tremble to think what will +be the end of this so dreadful and so ireful a beginning!' + +Now, while these brave captains were thus busy in the house of the +old Recorder, Captain Execution was as busy in other parts of the +town, in securing the back streets and the walls. He also hunted +the Lord Willbewill sorely; he suffered him not to rest in any +corner; he pursued him so hard that he drove his men from him, and +made him glad to thrust his head into a hole. Also this mighty +warrior did cut three of the Lord Willbewill's officers down to the +ground: one was old Mr. Prejudice, he that had his crown cracked +in the mutiny. This man was made by Lord Willbewill keeper of the +Ear-gate, and fell by the hand of Captain Execution. There was +also one Mr. Backward-to-all-but-naught, and he also was one of +Lord Willbewill's officers, and was the captain of the two guns +that once were mounted on the top of Ear-gate; he also was cut down +to the ground by the hands of Captain Execution. Besides these two +there was another, a third, and his name was Captain Treacherous; a +vile man this was, but one that Willbewill did put a great deal of +confidence in; but him also did this Captain Execution cut down to +the ground with the rest. + +He also made a very great slaughter among my Lord Willbewill's +soldiers, killing many that were stout and sturdy, and wounding +many that for Diabolus were nimble and active. But all these were +Diabolonians; there was not a man, a native of Mansoul, hurt. + +Other feats of war were also likewise performed by other of the +captains, as at Eye-gate, where Captain Good-Hope and Captain +Charity had a charge, was great execution done; for the Captain +Good-Hope, with his own hands, slew one Captain Blindfold, the +keeper of that gate. This Blindfold was captain of a thousand men, +and they were they that fought with mauls; he also pursued his men, +slew many, and wounded more, and made the rest hide their heads in +corners. + +There was also at that gate Mr. Ill-Pause, of whom you have heard +before. He was an old man, and had a beard that reached down to +his girdle: the same was he that was orator to Diabolus: he did +much mischief in the town of Mansoul, and fell by the hand of +Captain Good-Hope. + +What shall I say? The Diabolonians in these days lay dead in every +corner, though too many yet were alive in Mansoul. + +Now, the old Recorder and my Lord Understanding, with some others +of the chief of the town, to wit, such as knew they must stand and +fall with the famous town of Mansoul, came together upon a day, and +after consultation had, did jointly agree to draw up a petition, +and to send it to Emmanuel, now while he sat in the gate of +Mansoul. So they drew up their petition to Emmanuel, the contents +whereof were these: That they, the old inhabitants of the now +deplorable town of Mansoul, confessed their sin, and were sorry +that they had offended his princely Majesty, and prayed that he +would spare their lives. + +Unto this petition he gave no answer at all, and that did trouble +them yet so much the more. Now, all this while the captains that +were in the Recorder's house were playing with the battering-rams +at the gates of the castle, to beat them down. So after some time, +labour, and travail, the gate of the castle that was called +Impregnable was beaten open, and broken into several splinters, and +so a way made to go up to the hold in which Diabolus had hid +himself. Then were tidings sent down to Ear-gate, for Emmanuel +still abode there, to let him know that a way was made in at the +gates of the castle of Mansoul. But, oh! how the trumpets at the +tidings sounded throughout the Prince's camp, for that now the war +was so near an end, and Mansoul itself of being set free. + +Then the Prince arose from the place where he was, and took with +him such of his men of war as were fittest for that expedition, and +marched up the street of Mansoul to the old Recorder's house. + +Now, the Prince himself was clad all in armour of gold, and so he +marched up the town with his standard borne before him; but he kept +his countenance much reserved all the way as he went, so that the +people could not tell how to gather to themselves love or hatred by +his looks. Now, as he marched up the street, the townsfolk came +out at every door to see, and could not but be taken with his +person and the glory thereof, but wondered at the reservedness of +his countenance; for as yet he spake more to them by his actions +and works than he did by words or smiles. But also poor Mansoul, +(as in such cases all are apt to do,) they interpreted the carriage +of Emmanuel to them as did Joseph's brethren his to them, even all +the quite contrary way. 'For,' thought they, 'if Emmanuel loved +us, he would show it to us by word of carriage; but none of these +he doth, therefore Emmanuel hates us. Now, if Emmanuel hates us, +then Mansoul shall be slain, then Mansoul shall become a dunghill.' +They knew that they had transgressed his Father's law, and that +against him they had been in with Diabolus, his enemy. They also +knew that the Prince Emmanuel knew all this; for they were +convinced that he was an angel of God, to know all things that are +done in the earth; and this made them think that their condition +was miserable, and that the good Prince would make them desolate. + +'And,' thought they, 'what time so fit to do this in as now, when +he has the bridle of Mansoul in his hand?' And this I took special +notice of, that the inhabitants, notwithstanding all this, could +not--no, they could not, when they see him march through the town, +but cringe, bow, bend, and were ready to lick the dust of his feet. +They also wished a thousand times over that he would become their +Prince and Captain, and would become their protection. They would +also one to another talk of the comeliness of his person, and how +much for glory and valour he outstripped the great ones of the +world. But, poor hearts, as to themselves, their thoughts would +chance, and go upon all manner of extremes. Yea, through the +working of them backward and forward, Mansoul became as a ball +tossed, and as a rolling thing before the whirlwind. + +Now, when he was come to the castle gates, he commanded Diabolus to +appear, and to surrender himself into his hands. But, oh! how +loath was the beast to appear! how he stuck at it! how he shrank! +how he cringed! yet out he came to the Prince. Then Emmanuel +commanded, and they took Diabolus and bound him fast in chains, the +better to reserve him to the judgment that he had appointed for +him. But Diabolus stood up to entreat for himself that Emmanuel +would not send him into the deep, but suffer him to depart out of +Mansoul in peace. + +When Emmanuel had taken him and bound him in chains, he led him +into the marketplace, and there, before Mansoul, stripped him of +his armour in which he boasted so much before. This now was one of +the acts of triumph of Emmanuel over his enemy; and all the while +that the giant was stripping, the trumpets of the golden Prince did +sound amain; the captains also shouted, and the soldiers did sing +for joy. + +Then was Mansoul called upon to behold the beginning of Emmanuel's +triumph over him in whom they so much had trusted, and of whom they +so much had boasted in the days when he flattered them. + +Thus having made Diabolus naked in the eyes of Mansoul, and before +the commanders of the Prince, in the next place, he commands that +Diabolus should be bound with chains to his chariot wheels. Then +leaving some of his forces, to wit, Captain Boanerges and Captain +Conviction, as a guard for the castle-gates, that resistance might +be made on his behalf, (if any that heretofore followed Diabolus +should make an attempt to possess it,) he did ride in triumph over +him quite through the town of Mansoul, and so out at and before the +gate called Eye-gate, to the plain where his camp did lie. + +But you cannot think, unless you had been there, as I was, what a +shout there was in Emmanuel's camp when they saw the tyrant bound +by the hand of their noble Prince, and tied to his chariot wheels! + +And they said, 'He hath led captivity captive, he hath spoiled +principalities and powers. Diabolus is subjected to the power of +his sword, and made the object of all derision.' + +Those also that rode reformades, and that came down to see the +battle, they shouted with that greatness of voice, and sung with +such melodious notes, that they caused them that dwell in the +highest orbs to open their windows, put out their heads, and look +to see the cause of that glory. + +The townsmen also, so many of them as saw this sight, were, as it +were, while they looked, betwixt the earth and the heavens. True, +they could not tell what would be the issue of things as to them; +but all things were done in such excellent methods, and I cannot +tell how, but things in the management of them seemed to cast a +smile towards the town, so that their eyes, their heads, their +hearts, and their minds, and all that they had, were taken and held +while they observed Emmanuel's order. + +So, when the brave Prince had finished this part of his triumph +over Diabolus his foe, he turned him up in the midst of his +contempt and shame, having given him a charge no more to be a +possessor of Mansoul. Then went he from Emmanuel, and out of the +midst of his camp, to inherit the parched places in a salt land, +seeking rest, but finding none. + +Now, Captain Boanerges and Captain Conviction were, both of them, +men of very great majesty; their faces were like the faces of +lions, and their words like the roaring of the sea; and they still +quartered in Mr. Conscience's house, of whom mention was made +before. When, therefore, the high and mighty Prince had thus far +finished his triumph over Diabolus, the townsmen had more leisure +to view and to behold the actions of these noble captains. But the +captains carried it with that terror and dread in all that they +did, (and you may be sure that they had private instructions so to +do,) that they kept the town under continual heart-aching, and +caused (in their apprehension) the well-being of Mansoul for the +future to hang in doubt before them, so that for some considerable +time they neither knew what rest, or ease, or peace, or hope meant. + +Nor did the Prince himself as yet abide in the town of Mansoul, but +in his royal pavilion in the camp, and in the midst of his Father's +forces. So, at a time convenient, he sent special orders to +Captain Boanerges to summons Mansoul, the whole of the townsmen, +into the castle-yard, and then and there, before their faces, to +take my Lord Understanding, Mr. Conscience, and that notable one, +the Lord Willbewill, and put them all three in ward, and that they +should set a strong guard upon them there, until his pleasure +concerning them was further known: the which orders, when the +captains had put them in execution, made no small addition to the +fears of the town of Mansoul; for now, to their thinking, were +their former fears of the ruin of Mansoul confirmed. Now, what +death they should die, and how long they should be in dying, was +that which most perplexed their heads and hearts; yea, they were +afraid that Emmanuel would command them all into the deep, the +place that the prince Diabolus was afraid of, for they knew that +they had deserved it. Also to die by the sword in the face of the +town, and in the open way of disgrace, from the hand of so good and +so holy a prince, that, too, troubled them sore. The town was also +greatly troubled for the men that were committed to ward, for that +they were their stay and their guide, and for that they believed +that, if those men were cut off, their execution would be but the +beginning of the ruin of the town of Mansoul. Wherefore, what do +they, but, together with the men in prison, draw up a petition to +the Prince, and sent it to Emmanuel by the hand of Mr. Would-live. +So he went, and came to the Prince's quarters, and presented the +petition, the sum of which was this: + +'Great and wonderful Potentate, victor over Diabolus, and conqueror +of the town of Mansoul, We, the miserable inhabitants of that most +woful corporation, do humbly beg that we may find favour in thy +sight, and remember not against us former transgressions, nor yet +the sins of the chief of our town: but spare us according to the +greatness of thy mercy, and let us not die, but live in thy sight. +So shall we be willing to be thy servants, and, if thou shalt think +fit, to gather our meat under thy table. Amen.' + +So the petitioner went, as was said, with his petition to the +Prince; and the Prince took it at his hand, but sent him away with +silence. This still afflicted the town of Mansoul; but yet, +considering that now they must either petition or die, for now they +could not do anything else, therefore they consulted again, and +sent another petition; and this petition was much after the form +and method of the former. + +But when the petition was drawn up, By whom should they send it? +was the next question; for they would not send this by him by whom +they sent the first, for they thought that the Prince had taken +some offence at the manner of his deportment before him: so they +attempted to make Captain Conviction their messenger with it; but +he said that he neither durst nor would petition Emmanuel for +traitors, nor be to the Prince an advocate for rebels. 'Yet +withal,' said he, 'our Prince is good, and you may adventure to +send it by the hand of one of your town, provided he went with a +rope about his head, and pleaded nothing but mercy.' + +Well, they made, through fear, their delays as long as they could, +and longer than delays were good; but fearing at last the +dangerousness of them, they thought, but with many a fainting in +their minds, to send their petition by Mr. Desires-awake; so they +sent for Mr. Desires-awake. Now he dwelt in a very mean cottage in +Mansoul, and he came at his neighbour's request. So they told him +what they had done, and what they would do, concerning petitioning, +and that they did desire of him that he would go therewith to the +Prince. + +Then said Mr. Desires-awake, 'Why should not I do the best I can to +save so famous a town as Mansoul from deserved destruction?' They +therefore delivered the petition to him, and told him how he must +address himself to the Prince, and wished him ten thousand good +speeds. So he comes to the Prince's pavilion, as the first, and +asked to speak with his Majesty. So word was carried to Emmanuel, +and the Prince came out to the man. When Mr. Desires-awake saw the +Prince, he fell flat with his face to the ground, and cried out, +'Oh that Mansoul might live before thee!' and with that he +presented the petition; the which when the Prince had read, he +turned away for a while and wept; but refraining himself, he turned +again to the man, who all this while lay crying at his feet, as at +the first, and said to him, 'Go thy way to thy place, and I will +consider of thy requests.' + +Now, you may think that they of Mansoul that had sent him, what +with guilt, and what with fear lest their petition should be +rejected, could not but look with many a long look, and that, too, +with strange workings of heart, to see what would become of their +petition. At last they saw their messenger coming back. So, when +he was come, they asked him how he fared, what Emmanuel said, and +what was become of the petition. But he told them that he would be +silent till he came to the prison to my Lord Mayor, my Lord +Willbewill, and Mr. Recorder. So he went forwards towards the +prison-house, where the men of Mansoul lay bound. But, oh! what a +multitude flocked after, to hear what the messenger said. So, when +he was come, and had shown himself at the gate of the prison, my +Lord Mayor himself looked as white as a clout; the Recorder also +did quake. But they asked and said, 'Come, good sir, what did the +great Prince say to you?' Then said Mr. Desires-awake, 'When I +came to my Lord's pavilion, I called, and he came forth. So I fell +prostrate at his feet, and delivered to him my petition; for the +greatness of his person, and the glory of his countenance, would +not suffer me to stand upon my legs. Now, as he received the +petition, I cried, "Oh that Mansoul might live before thee!" So, +when for a while he had looked thereon, he turned him about, and +said to his servant, "Go thy way to thy place again, and I will +consider of thy requests."' The messenger added, moreover, and +said, 'The Prince to whom you sent me is such a one for beauty and +glory, that whoso sees him must both love and fear him. I, for my +part, can do no less; but I know not what will be the end of these +things.' + +At this answer they were all at a stand, both they in prison, and +they that followed the messenger thither to hear the news; nor knew +they what, or what manner of interpretation to put upon what the +Prince had said. Now, when the prison was cleared of the throng, +the prisoners among themselves began to comment upon Emmanuel's +words. My Lord Mayor said, that the answer did not look with a +rugged face; but Willbewill said that it betokened evil; and the +Recorder, that it was a messenger of death. Now, they that were +left, and that stood behind, and so could not so well hear what the +prisoners said, some of them catched hold of one piece of a +sentence, and some on a bit of another; some took hold of what the +messenger said, and some of the prisoners' judgment thereon; so +none had the right understanding of things. But you cannot imagine +what work these people made, and what a confusion there was in +Mansoul now. + +For presently they that had heard what was said flew about the +town, one crying one thing, and another the quite contrary; and +both were sure enough they told true; for they did hear, they said, +with their ears what was said, and therefore could not be deceived. +One would say, 'We must all be killed;' another would say, 'We must +all be saved;' and a third would say that the Prince would not be +concerned with Mansoul; and a fourth, that the prisoners must be +suddenly put to death. And, as I said, every one stood to it that +he told his tale the rightest, and that all others but he were out. +Wherefore Mansoul had now molestation upon molestation, nor could +any man know on what to rest the sole of his foot; for one would go +by now, and as he went, if he heard his neighbour tell his tale, to +be sure he would tell the quite contrary, and both would stand in +it that he told the truth. Nay, some of them had got this story by +the end, that the Prince did intend to put Mansoul to the sword. +And now it began to be dark, wherefore poor Mansoul was in sad +perplexity all that night until the morning. + +But, so far as I could gather by the best information that I could +get, all this hubbub came through the words that the Recorder said +when he told them that, in his judgment, the Prince's answer was a +messenger of death. It was this that fired the town, and that +began the fright in Mansoul; for Mansoul in former times did use to +count that Mr. Recorder was a seer, and that his sentence was equal +to the best of orators; and thus was Mansoul a terror to itself. + +And now did they begin to feel what were the effects of stubborn +rebellion, and unlawful resistance against their Prince. I say, +they now began to feel the effects thereof by guilt and fear, that +now had swallowed them up; and who more involved in the one but +they that were most in the other, to wit, the chief of the town of +Mansoul? + +To be brief: when the fame of the fright was out of the town, and +the prisoners had a little recovered themselves, they take to +themselves some heart, and think to petition the Prince for life +again. So they did draw up a third petition, the contents whereof +were these:- + +'Prince Emmanuel the Great, Lord of all worlds, and Master of +mercy, we, thy poor, wretched, miserable, dying town of Mansoul, do +confess unto thy great and glorious Majesty that we have sinned +against thy Father and thee, and are no more worthy to be called +thy Mansoul, but rather to be cast into the pit. If thou wilt slay +us, we have deserved it. If thou wilt condemn us to the deep, we +cannot but say thou art righteous. We cannot complain whatever +thou dost, or however thou carriest it towards us. But, oh! let +mercy reign, and let it be extended to us! Oh! let mercy take hold +upon us, and free us from our transgressions, and we will sing of +thy mercy and of thy judgment. Amen.' + +This petition, when drawn up, was designed to be sent to the Prince +as the first. But who should carry it?--that was the question. +Some said, 'Let him do it that went with the first,' but others +thought not good to do that, and that because he sped no better. +Now, there was an old man in the town, and his name was Mr. Good- +Deed; a man that bare only the name, but had nothing of the nature +of the thing. Now, some were for sending him; but the Recorder was +by no means for that. 'For,' said he, 'we now stand in need of, +and are pleading for mercy: wherefore, to send our petition by a +man of this name, will seem to cross the petition itself. Should +we make Mr. Good-Deed our messenger, when our petition cries for +mercy? + +'Besides,' quoth the old gentleman, 'should the Prince now, as he +receives the petition, ask him, and say, "What is thy name?" as +nobody knows but he will, and he should say, "Old Good-Deed," what, +think you, would Emmanuel say but this? "Ay! is old Good-Deed yet +alive in Mansoul? then let old Good-Deed save you from your +distresses." And if he says so, I am sure we are lost; nor can a +thousand of old Good-Deeds save Mansoul.' + +After the Recorder had given in his reasons why old Good-Deed +should not go with this petition to Emmanuel, the rest of the +prisoners and chief of Mansoul opposed it also, and so old Good- +Deed was laid aside, and they agreed to send Mr. Desires-awake +again. So they sent for him, and desired him that he would a +second time go with their petition to the Prince, and he readily +told them he would. But they bid him that in anywise he should +take heed that in no word or carriage he gave offence to the +Prince; 'For by doing so, for ought we can tell, you may bring +Mansoul into utter destruction,' said they. + +Now Mr. Desires-awake, when he saw that he must go on this errand, +besought that they would grant that Mr. Wet-Eyes might go with him. +Now this Mr. Wet-Eyes was a near neighbour of Mr. Desires, a poor +man, a man of a broken spirit, yet one that could speak well to a +petition; so they granted that he should go with him. Wherefore, +they address themselves to their business: Mr. Desires put a rope +upon his head, and Mr. Wet-Eyes went with his hands wringing +together. Thus they went to the Prince's pavilion. + +Now, when they went to petition this third time, they were not +without thoughts that, by often coming, they might be a burden to +the Prince. Wherefore, when they were come to the door of his +pavilion, they first made their apology for themselves, and for +their coming to trouble Emmanuel so often; and they said, that they +came not hither to-day for that they delighted in being +troublesome, or for that they delighted to hear themselves talk, +but for that necessity caused them to come to his Majesty. They +could, they said, have no rest day nor night because of their +transgressions against Shaddai and against Emmanuel, his Son. They +also thought that some misbehaviour of Mr. Desires-awake the last +time might give distaste to his Highness, and so cause that he +returned from so merciful a Prince empty, and without countenance. +So, when they had made this apology, Mr. Desires-awake cast himself +prostrate upon the ground, as at the first, at the feet of the +mighty Prince, saying, 'Oh! that Mansoul might live before thee!' +and so he delivered his petition. The Prince then, having read the +petition, turned aside awhile as before, and coming again to the +place where the petitioner lay on the ground, he demanded what his +name was, and of what esteem in the account of Mansoul, for that +he, above all the multitude in Mansoul, should be sent to him upon +such an errand. Then said the man to the Prince, 'Oh let not my +Lord be angry; and why inquirest thou after the name of such a dead +do--as I am? Pass by, I pray thee, and take not notice of who I +am, because there is, as thou very well knowest, so great a +disproportion between me and thee. Why the townsmen chose to send +me on this errand to my Lord is best known to themselves, but it +could not be for that they thought that I had favour with my Lord. +For my part, I am out of charity with myself; who, then, should be +in love with me? Yet live I would, and so would I that my townsmen +should; and because both they and myself are guilty of great +transgressions, therefore they have sent me, and I am come in their +names to beg of my Lord for mercy. Let it please thee, therefore, +to incline to mercy; but ask not what thy servants are.' + +Then said the Prince, 'And what is he that is become thy companion +in this so weighty a matter?' So Mr. Desires told Emmanuel that he +was a poor neighbour of his, and one of his most intimate +associates. 'And his name,' said he, 'may it please your most +excellent Majesty, is Wet-Eyes, of the town of Mansoul, I know that +there are many of that name that are naught; but I hope it will be +no offence to my Lord that I have brought my poor neighbour with +me.' + +Then Mr. Wet-Eyes fell on his face to the ground, and made this +apology for his coming with his neighbour to his Lord:- + +'O, my Lord,' quoth he, 'what I am I know not myself, nor whether +my name be feigned or true, especially when I begin to think what +some have said, namely, That this name was given me because Mr. +Repentance was my father. Good men have bad children, and the +sincere do oftentimes beget hypocrites. My mother also called me +by this name from the cradle; but whether because of the moistness +of my brain, or because of the softness of my heart, I cannot tell. +I see dirt in mine own tears, and filthiness in the bottom of my +prayers. But I pray thee (and all this while the gentleman wept) +that thou wouldest not remember against us our transgressions, nor +take offence at the unqualifiedness of thy servants, but mercifully +pass by the sin of Mansoul, and refrain from the glorifying of thy +grace no longer.' + +So at his bidding they arose, and both stood trembling before him, +and he spake to them to this purpose:- + +"The town of Mansoul hath grievously rebelled against my Father, in +that they have rejected him from being their King, and did choose +to themselves for their captain a liar, a murderer, and a runagate +slave. For this Diabolus, your pretended prince, though once so +highly accounted of by you, made rebellion against my Father and +me, even in our palace and highest court there, thinking to become +a prince and king. But being there timely discovered and +apprehended, and for his wickedness bound in chains, and separated +to the pit with those that were his companions, he offered himself +to you, and you have received him. + +'Now this is, and for a long time hath been, a high affront to my +Father; wherefore my Father sent to you a powerful army to reduce +you to your obedience. But you know how these men, their captains +and their counsels, were esteemed of you, and what they received at +your hand. You rebelled against them, you shut your gates upon +them, you bid them battle, you fought them, and fought for Diabolus +against them. So they sent to my Father for more power, and I, +with my men, are come to subdue you. But as you treated the +servants, so you treated their Lord. You stood up in hostile +manner against me, you shut up your gates against me, you turned +the deaf ear to me, and resisted as long as you could; but now I +have made a conquest of you. Did you cry me mercy so long as you +had hopes that you might prevail against me? But now I have taken +the town, you cry; but why did you not cry before, when the white +flag of my mercy, the red flag of justice, and the black flag that +threatened execution, were set up to cite you to it? Now I have +conquered your Diabolus, you come to me for favour; but why did you +not help me against the mighty? Yet I will consider your petition, +and will answer it so as will be for my glory. + +'Go, bid Captain Boanerges and Captain Conviction bring the +prisoners out to me into the camp to-morrow, and say you to Captain +Judgment and Captain Execution, "Stay you in the castle, and take +good heed to yourselves that you keep all quiet in Mansoul until +you shall hear further from me."' And with that he turned himself +from them, and went into his royal pavilion again. + +So the petitioners, having received this answer from the Prince, +returned, as at the first, to go to their companions again. But +they had not gone far, but thoughts began to work in their minds +that no mercy as yet was intended by the Prince to Mansoul. So +they went to the place where the prisoners lay bound; but these +workings of mind about what would become of Mansoul had such strong +power over them, that by that they were come unto them that sent +them, they were scarce able to deliver their message. + +But they came at length to the gates of the town, (now the townsmen +with earnestness were waiting for their return,) where many met +them, to know what answer was made to the petition. Then they +cried out to those that were sent, 'What news from the Prince? and +what hath Emmanuel said?' But they said that they must, as afore, +go up to the prison, and there deliver their message. So away they +went to the prison, with a multitude at their heels. Now, when +they were come to the gates of the prison, they told the first part +of Emmanuel's speech to the prisoners, to wit, how he reflected +upon their disloyalty to his Father and himself, and how they had +chosen and closed with Diabolus, had fought for him, hearkened to +him, and been ruled by him; but had despised him and his men. This +made the prisoners look pale; but the messengers proceeded and +said, 'He, the Prince, said, moreover, that yet he would consider +your petition, and give such answer thereto as would stand with his +glory.' And as these words were spoken, Mr. Wet-Eyes gave a great +sigh. At this they were all of them struck into their dumps, and +could not tell what to say: fear also possessed them in a +marvellous manner, and death seemed to sit upon some of their +eyebrows. Now, there was in the company a notable, sharp-witted +fellow, a mean man of estate, and his name was old Inquisitive. +This man asked the petitioners if they had told out every whit of +what Emmanuel said, and they answered, 'Verily, no.' Then said +Inquisitive, 'I thought so, indeed. Pray, what was it more that he +said unto you?' Then they paused awhile; but at last they brought +out all, saying, 'The Prince bade us bid Captain Boanerges and +Captain Conviction bring the prisoners down to him to-morrow; and +that Captain Judgment and Captain Execution should take charge of +the castle and town till they should hear further from him. They +said also that when the Prince had commanded them thus to do, he +immediately turned his back upon them, and went into his royal +pavilion. + +But, oh! how this return, and specially this last clause of it, +that the prisoners must go out to the Prince into the camp, brake +all their loins in pieces! Wherefore, with one voice they set up a +cry that reached up to the heavens. This done, each of the three +prepared himself to die; (and the Recorder said unto them, 'This +was the thing that I feared;') for they concluded that to-morrow, +by that the sun went down, they should be tumbled out of the world. +The whole town also counted of no other, but that, in their time +and order, they must all drink of the same cup. Wherefore the town +of Mansoul spent that night in mourning, and sackcloth and ashes. +The prisoners also, when the time was come for them to go down +before the Prince, dressed themselves in mourning attire, with +ropes upon their heads. The whole town of Mansoul also showed +themselves upon the wall, all clad in mourning weeds, if, perhaps, +the Prince with the sight thereof might be moved with compassion. +But, oh! how the busy-bodies that were in the town of Mansoul did +now concern themselves! They did run here and there through the +streets of the town by companies, crying out as they ran in +tumultuous wise, one after one manner, and another the quite +contrary, to the almost utter distraction of Mansoul. + +Well, the time is come that the prisoners must go down to the camp, +and appear before the Prince. And thus was the manner of their +going down: Captain Boanerges went with a guard before them, and +Captain Conviction came behind, and the prisoners went down, bound +in chains, in the midst. So I say, the prisoners went in the +midst, and the guard went with flying colours behind and before, +but the prisoners went with drooping spirits. + +Or, more particularly, thus: The prisoners went down all in +mourning: they put ropes upon themselves; they went on, smiting +themselves on the breasts, but durst not lift up their eyes to +heaven. Thus they went out at the gate of Mansoul, till they came +into the midst of the Prince's army, the sight and glory of which +did greatly heighten their affliction. Nor could they now longer +forbear, but cry out aloud, 'O unhappy men! O wretched men of +Mansoul!' Their chains, still mixing their dolorous notes with the +cries of the prisoners, made the noise more lamentable. + +So, when they were come to the door of the Prince's pavilion, they +cast themselves prostrate upon the place; then one went in and told +his Lord that the prisoners were come down. The Prince then +ascended a throne of state, and sent for the prisoners in; who, +when they came, did tremble before him, also they covered their +faces with shame. Now, as they drew near to the place where he +sat, they threw themselves down before him. Then said the Prince +to the Captain Boanerges, 'Bid the prisoners stand upon their +feet.' Then they stood trembling before him, and he said, 'Are you +the men that heretofore were the servants of Shaddai?' And they +said, 'Yes, Lord, yes.' Then said the Prince again, 'Are you the +men that did suffer yourselves to be corrupted and defiled by that +abominable one, Diabolus?' And they said, 'We did more than suffer +it, Lord; for we chose it of our own mind.' The Prince asked +further, saying, 'Could you have been content that your slavery +should have continued under his tyranny as long as you had lived?' +Then said the prisoners, 'Yes, Lord, yes; for his ways were +pleasing to our flesh, and we were grown aliens to a better +state.'--'And did you,' said he, 'when I came up against this town +of Mansoul, heartily wish that I might not have the victory over +you?'--'Yes, Lord, yes,' said they. Then said the Prince, 'And +what punishment is it, think you, that you deserve at my hand, for +these and other your high and mighty sins?'--And they said, 'Both +death and the deep, Lord; for we have deserved no less.' He asked +again if they had aught to say for themselves why the sentence, +that they confessed that they had deserved, should not be passed +upon them? And they said, 'We can say nothing, Lord: thou art +just, for we have sinned.' Then said the Prince, 'And for what are +those ropes on your heads?' The prisoners answered, 'These ropes +are to bind us withal to the place of execution, if mercy be not +pleasing in thy sight.' So he further asked if all the men in the +town of Mansoul were in this confession, as they? And they +answered, 'All the natives, Lord; but for the Diabolonians that +came into our town when the tyrant got possession of us, we can say +nothing for them.' + +Then the Prince commanded that a herald should be called, and that +he should, in the midst and throughout the camp of Emmanuel, +proclaim, and that with sound of trumpet, that the Prince, the Son +of Shaddai, had, in his Father's name, and for his Father's glory, +gotten a perfect conquest and victory over Mansoul; and that the +prisoners should follow him, and say Amen. So, this was done as he +had commanded. And presently the music that was in the upper +region sounded melodiously, the captains that were in the camp +shouted, and the soldiers did sing songs of triumph to the Prince; +the colours waved in the wind, and great joy was everywhere, only +it was wanting as yet in the hearts of the men of Mansoul. + +Then the Prince called for the prisoners to come and to stand again +before him, and they came and stood trembling. And he said unto +them, 'The sins, trespasses, iniquities, that you, with the whole +town of Mansoul, have from time to time committed against my Father +and me, I have power and commandment from my Father to forgive to +the town of Mansoul, and do forgive you accordingly.' And having +so said, he gave them, written in parchment, and sealed with seven +seals, a large and general pardon, commanding my Lord Mayor, my +Lord Willbewill, and Mr. Recorder, to proclaim and cause it to be +proclaimed to-morrow, by that the sun is up, throughout the whole +town of Mansoul. + +Moreover, the Prince stripped the prisoners of their mourning +weeds, and gave them beauty for ashes, the oil of joy for mourning, +and the garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness. + +Then he gave to each of the three jewels of gold and precious +stones, and took away their ropes, and put chains of gold about +their necks, and ear-rings in their ears. Now, the prisoners, when +they did hear the gracious words of Prince Emmanuel, and had beheld +all that was done unto them, fainted almost quite away; for the +grace, the benefit, the pardon, was sudden, glorious, and so big, +that they were not able, without staggering, to stand up under it. +Yea, my Lord Willbewill swooned outright; but the Prince stepped to +him, put his everlasting arms under him, embraced him, kissed him, +and bid him be of good cheer, for all should be performed according +to his word. He also did kiss, and embrace, and smile upon the +other two that were Willbewill's companions, saying, 'Take these as +further tokens of my love, favour, and compassions to you; and I +charge you that you, Mr. Recorder, tell in the town of Mansoul what +you have heard and seen.' + +Then were their fetters broken to pieces before their faces, and +cast into the air, and their steps were enlarged under them. Then +they fell down at the feet of the Prince, and kissed his feet, and +wetted them with tears: also they cried out with a mighty strong +voice, saying, 'Blessed be the glory of the Lord from this place.' +So they were bid rise up, and go to the town, and tell to Mansoul +what the Prince had done. He commanded also that one with a pipe +and tabor should go and play before them all the way into the town +of Mansoul. Then was fulfilled what they never looked for, and +they were made to possess that which they never dreamed of. + +The Prince also called for the noble Captain Credence, and +commanded that he and some of his officers should march before the +noble men of Mansoul with flying colours into the town. He gave +also unto Captain Credence a charge, that about that time that the +Recorder did read the general pardon in the town of Mansoul, that +at that very time he should with flying colours march in at Eye- +gate with his ten thousands at his feet and that he should so go +until he came by the high street of the town, up to the castle +gates, and that himself should take possession thereof against his +Lord came thither. He commanded, moreover, that he should bid +Captain Judgment and Captain Execution to leave the stronghold to +him, and to withdraw from Mansoul, and to return into the camp with +speed unto the Prince. + +And now was the town of Mansoul also delivered from the terror of +the first four captains and their men. + +Well, I told you before how the prisoners were entertained by the +noble Prince Emmanuel, and how they behaved themselves before him, +and how he sent them away to their home with pipe and tabor going +before them. And now you must think that those of the town that +had all this while waited to hear of their death, could not but be +exercised with sadness of mind, and with thoughts that pricked like +thorns. Nor could their thoughts be kept to any one point; the +wind blew with them all this while at great uncertainties; yea, +their hearts were like a balance that had been disquieted with a +shaking hand. But at last, as they with many a long look looked +over the wall of Mansoul, they thought that they saw some returning +to the town; and thought again, Who should they be, too? Who +should they be? At last they discerned that they were the +prisoners: but can you imagine how their hearts were surprised +with wonder, specially when they perceived also in what equipage +and with what honour they were sent home. They went down to the +camp in black, but they came back to the town in white; they went +down to the camp in ropes, they came back in chains of gold; they +went down to the camp with their feet in fetters, but came back +with their steps enlarged under them; they went also to the camp +looking for death, but they came back from thence with assurance of +life; they went down to the camp with heavy hearts, but came back +again with pipe and tabor playing before them. So as soon as they +were come to Eye-gate, the poor and tottering town of Mansoul +adventured to give a shout; and they gave such a shout as made the +captains in the Prince's army leap at the sound thereof. Alas! for +them, poor hearts! who could blame them? since their dead friends +were come to life again; for it was to them as life from the dead +to see the ancients of the town of Mansoul shine in such splendour. +They looked for nothing but the axe and the block; but, behold, joy +and gladness, comfort and consolation, and such melodious notes +attending them that was sufficient to make a sick man well. + +So, when they came up, they saluted each other with, 'Welcome, +welcome! and blessed be he that has spared you!' They added also, +'We see it is well with you; but how must it go with the town of +Mansoul? And will it go well with the town of Mansoul?' said they. +Then answered them the Recorder and my Lord Mayor, 'Oh! tidings! +glad tidings! good tidings of good, and of great joy to poor +Mansoul!' Then they gave another shout, that made the earth to +ring again. After this, they inquired yet more particularly how +things went in the camp, and what message they had from Emmanuel to +the town. So they told them all passages that had happened to them +at the camp, and everything that the Prince did to them. This made +Mansoul wonder at the wisdom and grace of the Prince Emmanuel. +Then they told them what they had received at his hands for the +whole town of Mansoul, and the Recorder delivered it in these +words: ' PARDON, PARDON, PARDON for Mansoul! and this shall +Mansoul know to-morrow!' Then he commanded, and they went and +summoned Mansoul to meet together in the market-place to-morrow, +then to hear their general pardon read. + +But who can think what a turn, what a change, what an alteration +this hint of things did make in the countenance of the town of +Mansoul! No man of Mansoul could sleep that night for joy; in +every house there was joy and music, singing and making merry: +telling and hearing of Mansoul's happiness was then all that +Mansoul had to do; and this was the burden of all their song: 'Oh! +more of this at the rising of the sun! more of this to-morrow!' +'Who thought yesterday,' would one say, 'that this day would have +been such a day to us? And who thought, that saw our prisoners go +down in irons, that they would have returned in chains of gold? +Yea, they that judged themselves as they went to be judged of their +judge, were by his mouth acquitted, not for that they were +innocent, but of the Prince's mercy, and sent home with pipe and +tabor. But is this the common custom of princes? Do they use to +show such kind of favours to traitors? No; this is only peculiar +to Shaddai, and unto Emmanuel, his Son!' + +Now morning drew on apace; wherefore the Lord Mayor, the Lord +Willbewill, and Mr. Recorder came down to the market-place at the +time that the Prince had appointed, where the townsfolk were +waiting for them: and when they came, they came in that attire, +and in that glory that the Prince had put them into the day before, +and the street was lightened with their glory. So the Mayor, +Recorder, and my Lord Willbewill drew down to Mouth-gate, which was +at the lower end of the market-place, because that of old time was +the place where they used to read public matters. Thither, +therefore, they came in their robes, and their tabrets went before +them. Now, the eagerness of the people to know the full of the +matter was great. + +Then the Recorder stood up upon his feet, and, first beckoning with +his hand for silence, he read out with a loud voice the pardon. +But when he came to these words: 'The Lord, the Lord God, merciful +and gracious, pardoning iniquity, transgressions, and sins, and to +them all manner of sin and blasphemy shall be forgiven,' etc., they +could not forbear leaping for joy. For this you must know, that +there was conjoined herewith every man's name in Mansoul; also the +seals of the pardon made a brave show. + +When the Recorder had made an end of reading the pardon, the +townsmen ran up upon the walls of the town, and leaped and skipped +thereon for joy, and bowed themselves seven times with their faces +toward Emmanuel's pavilion, and shouted out aloud for joy, and +said, 'Let Emmanuel live for ever!' Then order was given to the +young men in Mansoul that they should ring the bells for joy. So +the bells did ring, and the people sing, and the music go in every +house in Mansoul. + +When the Prince had sent home the three prisoners of Mansoul with +joy, and pipe and tabor, he commanded his captains, with all the +field officers and soldiers throughout his army, to be ready in +that morning, that the Recorder should read the pardon in Mansoul, +to do his further pleasure. So the morning, as I have showed, +being come, just as the Recorder had made an end of reading the +pardon, Emmanuel commanded that all the trumpets in the camp should +sound, that the colours should be displayed, half of them upon +Mount Gracious, and half of them upon Mount Justice. He commanded +also that all the captains should show themselves in all their +harness, and that the soldiers should shout for joy. Nor was +Captain Credence, though in the castle, silent in such a day; but +he, from the top of the hold, showed himself with sound of trumpet +to Mansoul and to the Prince's camp. + +Thus have I showed you the manner and way that Emmanuel took to +recover the town of Mansoul from under the hand and power of the +tyrant Diabolus. + +Now, when the Prince had completed these, the outward ceremonies of +his joy, he again commanded that his captains and soldiers should +show unto Mansoul some feats of war: so they presently addressed +themselves to this work. But oh! with what agility, nimbleness, +dexterity, and bravery did these military men discover their skill +in feats of war to the now gazing town of Mansoul! + +They marched, they counter-marched; they opened to the right and +left; they divided and subdivided; they closed, they wheeled, made +good their front and rear with their right and left wings, and +twenty things more, with that aptness, and then were all as the +were again, that they took--yea, ravished, the hearts that were in +Mansoul to behold it. But add to this, the handling of their arms, +the managing of their weapons of war, were marvellously taking to +Mansoul and me. + +When this action was over, the whole town of Mansoul came out as +one man to the Prince in the camp to thank him, and praise him for +his abundant favour, and to beg that it would please his grace to +come unto Mansoul with his men, and there to take up their quarters +for ever: and this they did in most humble manner, bowing +themselves seven times to the ground before him. Then said he, +'All peace be to you.' So the town came nigh, and touched with the +hand the top of his golden sceptre; and they said, 'Oh! that the +Prince Emmanuel, with his captains and men of war, would dwell in +Mansoul for ever; and that his battering-rams and slings might be +lodged in her for the use and service of the Prince, and for the +help and strength of Mansoul. For,' said they, 'we have room for +thee, we have room for thy men, we have also room for thy weapons +of war, and a place to make a magazine for thy carriages. Do it, +Emmanuel, and thou shalt be King and Captain in Mansoul for ever. +Yea, govern thou also according to all the desire of thy soul, and +make thou governors and princes under thee of thy captains and men +of war, and we will become thy servants, and thy laws shall be our +direction.' + +They added, moreover, and prayed his Majesty to consider thereof; +'for,' said they, 'if now, after all this grace bestowed upon us, +thy miserable town of Mansoul, thou shouldest withdraw, thou and +thy captains, from us, the town of Mansoul will die. Yea,' said +they, 'our blessed Emmanuel, if thou shouldest depart from us now, +now thou hast done so much good for us, and showed so much mercy +unto us, what will follow but that our joy will be as if it had not +been, and our enemies will a second time come upon us with more +rage than at the first? Wherefore, we beseech thee, O thou, the +desire of our eyes, and the strength and life of our poor town, +accept of this motion that now we have made unto our Lord, and come +and dwell in the midst of us, and let us be thy people. Besides, +Lord, we do not know but that to this day many Diabolonians may be +yet lurking in the town of Mansoul, and they will betray us, when +thou shalt leave us, into the hand of Diabolus again; and who knows +what designs, plots, or contrivances have passed betwixt them about +these things already? Loath we are to fall again into his horrible +hands. Wherefore, let it please thee to accept of our palace for +thy place of residence, and of the houses of the best men in our +town for the reception of thy soldiers and their furniture.' + +Then said the Prince, 'If I come to your town, will you suffer me +further to prosecute that which is in mine heart against mine +enemies and yours?--yea, will you help me in such undertakings?' + +They answered, 'We know not what we shall do; we did not think once +that we should have been such traitors to Shaddai as we have proved +to be. What, then, shall we say to our Lord? Let him put no trust +in his saints; let the Prince dwell in our castle, and make of our +town a garrison; let him set his noble captains and his warlike +soldiers over us; yea, let him conquer us with his love, and +overcome us with his grace, and then surely shall he be but with +us, and help us, as he was and did that morning that our pardon was +read unto us. We shall comply with this our Lord, and with his +ways, and fall in with his word against the mighty. + +'One word more, and thy servants have done, and in this will +trouble our Lord no more. We know not the depth of the wisdom of +thee, our Prince. Who could have thought, that had been ruled by +his reason, that so much sweet as we do now enjoy should have come +out of those bitter trials wherewith we were tried at the first! +But, Lord, let light go before, and let love come after: yea, take +us by the hand, and lead us by thy counsels, and let this always +abide upon us, that all things shall be the best for thy servants, +and come to our Mansoul, and do as it pleaseth thee. Or, Lord, +come to our Mansoul, do what thou wilt, so thou keepest us from +sinning, and makest us serviceable to thy Majesty.' + +Then said the Prince to the town of Mansoul again, 'Go, return to +your houses in peace. I will willingly in this comply with your +desires; I will remove my royal pavilion, I will draw up my forces +before Eye-gate to-morrow, and so will march forwards into the town +of Mansoul. I will possess myself of your castle of Mansoul, and +will set my soldiers over you: yea, I will yet do things in +Mansoul that cannot be paralleled in any nation, country, or +kingdom under heaven.' Then did the men of Mansoul give a shout, +and returned unto their houses in peace; they also told to their +kindred and friends the good that Emmanuel had promised to Mansoul. +'And to-morrow,' said they, 'he will march into our town, and take +up his dwelling, he and his men, in Mansoul.' + +Then went out the inhabitants of the town of Mansoul with haste to +the green trees and to the meadows, to gather boughs and flowers, +therewith to strew the streets against their Prince, the Son of +Shaddai, should come; they also made garlands and other fine works +to betoken how joyful they were, and should be to receive their +Emmanuel into Mansoul; yea, they strewed the street quite from Eye- +gate to the castle-gate, the place where the Prince should be. +They also prepared for his coming what music the town of Mansoul +would afford, that they might play before him to the palace, his +habitation. + +So, at the time appointed he makes his approach to Mansoul, and the +gates were set open for him; there also the ancients and elders of +Mansoul met him to salute him with a thousand welcomes. Then he +arose and entered Mansoul, he and all his servants. The elders of +Mansoul did also go dancing before him till he came to the castle +gates. And this was the manner of his going up thither:- He was +clad in his golden armour, he rode in his royal chariot, the +trumpets sounded about him, the colours were displayed, his ten +thousands went up at his feet, and the elders of Mansoul danced +before him. And now were the walls of the famous town of Mansoul +filled with the tramplings of the inhabitants thereof, who went up +thither to view the approach of the blessed Prince and his royal +army. Also the casements, windows, balconies, and tops of the +houses, were all now filled with persons of all sorts, to behold +how their town was to be filled with good. + +Now, when he was come so far into the town as to the Recorder's +house, he commanded that one should go to Captain Credence, to know +whether the castle of Mansoul was prepared to entertain his royal +presence (for the preparation of that was left to that captain), +and word was brought that it was. Then was Captain Credence +commanded also to come forth with his power to meet the Prince, the +which was, as he had commanded, done; and he conducted him into the +castle. This done, the Prince that night did lodge in the castle +with his mighty captains and men of war, to the joy of the town of +Mansoul. + +Now, the next care of the townsfolk was, how the captains and +soldiers of the Prince's army should be quartered among them; and +the care was not how they should shut their hands of them, but how +they should fill their houses with them; for every man in Mansoul +now had that esteem of Emmanuel and his men that nothing grieved +them more than because they were not enlarged enough, every one of +them to receive the whole army of the Prince; yea, they counted it +their glory to be waiting upon them, and would, in those days, run +at their bidding like lackeys. + +At last they came to this result:- + +1. That Captain Innocency should quarter at Mr. Reason's. + +2. That Captain Patience should quarter at Mr. Mind's. This Mr. +Mind was formerly the Lord Willbewill's clerk in time of the late +rebellion. + +3. It was ordered that Captain Charity should quarter at Mr. +Affection's house. + +4. That Captain Good-Hope should quarter at my Lord Mayor's. Now, +for the house of the Recorder, himself desired, because his house +was next to the castle, and because from him it was ordered by the +Prince that, if need be, the alarm should be given to Mansoul,--it +was, I say, desired by him that Captain Boanerges and Captain +Conviction should take up their quarters with him, even they and +all their men. + +5. As for Captain Judgment and Captain Execution, my Lord +Willbewill took them and their men to him, because he was to rule +under the Prince for the good of the town of Mansoul now, as he had +before under the tyrant Diabolus for the hurt and damage thereof. + +6. And throughout the rest of the town were quartered Emmanuel's +forces; but Captain Credence, with his men, abode still in the +castle. So the Prince, his captains, and his soldiers, were lodged +in the town of Mansoul. + +Now, the ancients and elders of the town of Mansoul thought that +they never should have enough of the Prince Emmanuel; his person, +his actions, his words, and behaviour, were so pleasing, so taking, +so desirable to them. Wherefore they prayed him, that though the +castle of Mansoul was his place of residence, (and they desired +that he might dwell there for ever,) yet that he would often visit +the streets, houses, and people of Mansoul. 'For,' said they, +'dread Sovereign, thy presence, thy looks, thy smiles, thy words, +are the life, and strength, and sinews of the town of Mansoul.' + +Besides this, they craved that they might have, without difficulty +or interruption, continual access unto him, (so for that very +purpose he commanded that the gates should stand open,) that they +might there see the manner of his doings, the fortifications of the +place, and the royal mansion-house of the Prince. + +When he spake, they all stopped their mouths and gave audience; and +when he walked, it was their delight to imitate him in his goings. + +Now, upon a time, Emmanuel made a feast for the town of Mansoul; +and upon the feasting-day the townsfolk were come to the castle to +partake of his banquet; and he feasted them with all manner of +outlandish food;--food that grew not in the fields of Mansoul; nor +in all the whole Kingdom of Universe; it was food that came from +his Father's court. And so there was dish after dish set before +them, and they were commanded freely to eat. But still, when a +fresh dish was set before them, they would whisperingly say to each +other, 'What is it?' for they wist not what to call it. They drank +also of the water that was made wine, and were very merry with him. +There was music also all the while at the table; and man did eat +angels' food, and had honey given him out of the rock. So Mansoul +did eat the food that was peculiar to the court; yea, they had now +thereof to the full. + +I must not forget to tell you, that as at this table there were +musicians, so they were not those of the country, nor yet of the +town of Mansoul; but they were the masters of the songs that were +sung at the court of Shaddai. + +Now, after the feast was over, Emmanuel was for entertaining the +town of Mansoul with some curious riddles of secrets drawn up by +his Father's secretary, by the skill and wisdom of Shaddai; the +like to these there is not in any kingdom. These riddles were made +upon the King Shaddai himself, and upon Emmanuel his Son, and upon +his wars and doings with Mansoul. + +Emmanuel also expounded unto them some of those riddles himself; +but, oh! how they were lightened! They saw what they never saw; +they could not have thought that such rarities could have been +couched in so few and such ordinary words. I told you before, whom +these riddles did concern; and as they were opened, the people did +evidently see it was so. Yea, they did gather that the things +themselves were a kind of a portraiture, and that of Emmanuel +himself; for when they read in the scheme where the riddles were +writ, and looked in the face of the Prince, things looked so like +the one to the other, that Mansoul could not forbear but say, 'This +is the lamb! this is the sacrifice! this is the rock! this is the +red cow! this is the door! and this is the way!' with a great many +other things more. + +And thus he dismissed the town of Mansoul. But can you imagine how +the people of the corporation were taken with this entertainment! +Oh! they were transported with joy, they were drowned with +wonderment, while they saw and understood, and considered what +their Emmanuel entertained them withal, and what mysteries he +opened to them. And when they were at home in their houses, and in +their most retired places, they could not but sing of him and of +his actions. Yea, so taken were the townsmen now with their +Prince, that they would sing of him in their sleep. + +Now, it was in the heart of the Prince Emmanuel to new-model the +town of Mansoul, and to put it into such a condition as might be +most pleasing to him, and that might best stand with the profit and +security of the now flourishing town of Mansoul. He provided also +against insurrections at home, and invasions from abroad, such love +had he for the famous town of Mansoul. + +Wherefore he first of all commanded that the great slings that were +brought from his Father's court, when he came to the war of +Mansoul, should be mounted, some upon the battlements of the +castle, some upon the towers; for there were towers in the town of +Mansoul, towers, new-built by Emmanuel since he came hither. There +was also an instrument, invented by Emmanuel, that was to throw +stones from the castle of Mansoul, out at Mouth-gate; an instrument +that could not be resisted, nor that would miss of execution. +Wherefore, for the wonderful exploits that it did when used, it +went without a name; and it was committed to the care of, and to be +managed by the brave captain, the Captain Credence, in case of war. + +This done, Emmanuel called the Lord Willbewill to him, and gave him +in commandment to take care of the gates, the wall, and towers in +Mansoul; also the Prince gave him the militia into his hand, and a +special charge to withstand all insurrections and tumults that +might be made in Mansoul against the peace of our Lord the King, +and the peace and tranquillity of the town of Mansoul. He also +gave him in commission, that if he found any of the Diabolonians +lurking in any corner of the famous town of Mansoul, he should +forthwith apprehend them, and stay them, or commit them to safe +custody, that they may be proceeded against according to law. + +Then he called unto him the Lord Understanding, who was the old +Lord Mayor, he that was put out of place when Diabolus took the +town, and put him into his former office again, and it became his +place for his lifetime. He bid him also that he should build him a +palace near Eye-gate; and that he should build it in fashion like a +tower for defence. He bid him also that he should read in the +Revelation of Mysteries all the days of his life, that he might +know how to perform his office aright. + +He also made Mr. Knowledge the Recorder, not of contempt to old Mr. +Conscience, who had been Recorder before, but for that it was in +his princely mind to confer upon Mr. Conscience another employ, of +which he told the old gentleman he should know more hereafter. + +Then he commanded that the image of Diabolus should be taken down +from the place where it was set up, and that they should destroy it +utterly, beating it into powder, and casting it into the wind +without the town wall; and that the image of Shaddai, his Father, +should be set up again, with his own, upon the castle gates; and +that it should be more fairly drawn than ever, forasmuch as both +his Father and himself were come to Mansoul in more grace and mercy +than heretofore. He would also that his name should be fairly +engraven upon the front of the town, and that it should be done in +the best of gold, for the honour of the town of Mansoul. + +After this was done, Emmanuel gave out a commandment that those +three great Diabolonians should be apprehended, namely, the two +late Lord Mayors, to wit, Mr. Incredulity, Mr. Lustings, and Mr. +Forget-Good, the Recorder. Besides these, there were some of them +that Diabolus made burgesses and aldermen in Mansoul, that were +committed to ward by the hand of the now valiant and now right +noble, the brave Lord Willbewill. + +And these were their names: Alderman Atheism, Alderman Hard-Heart, +and Alderman False-Peace. The burgesses were, Mr. No-Truth, Mr. +Pitiless, Mr. Haughty, with the like. These were committed to +close custody, and the gaoler's name was Mr. True-Man. This True- +Man was one of those that Emmanuel brought with him from his +Father's court when at the first he made a war upon Diabolus in the +town or Mansoul. + +After this, the Prince gave a charge that the three strongholds +that, at the command of Diabolus, the Diabolonians built in +Mansoul, should be demolished and utterly pulled down; of which +holds and their names, with their captains and governors, you read +a little before. But this was long in doing, because of the +largeness of the places, and because the stones, the timber, the +iron, and all rubbish, was to be carried without the town. + +When this was done, the Prince gave order that the Lord Mayor and +aldermen of Mansoul should call a court of judicature for the trial +and execution of the Diabolonians in the corporation now under the +charge of Mr. True-Man, the gaoler. + +Now, when the time was come, and the court set, commandment was +sent to Mr. True-Man, the gaoler, to bring the prisoners down to +the bar. Then were the prisoners brought down, pinioned and +chained together, as the custom of the town of Mansoul was. So, +when they were presented before the Lord Mayor, the Recorder, and +the rest of the honourable bench, first, the jury was empannelled, +and then the witnesses sworn. The names of the jury were these: +Mr. Belief, Mr. True-Heart, Mr. Upright, Mr. Hate-Bad, Mr. Love- +God, Mr. See-Truth, Mr. Heavenly-Mind, Mr. Moderate, Mr. Thankful, +Mr. Good-Work, Mr. Zeal-for-God, and Mr. Humble. + +The names of the witnesses were--Mr. Know-All, Mr. Tell-True, Mr. +Hate-Lies, with my Lord Willbewill and his man, if need were. + +So the prisoners were set to the bar. Then said Mr. Do-Right, (for +he was the Town-Clerk,) 'Set Atheism to the bar, gaoler.' So he +was set to the bar. Then said the Clerk, 'Atheism, hold up thy +hand. Thou art here indicted by the name of Atheism, (an intruder +upon the town of Mansoul,) for that thou hast perniciously and +doltishly taught and maintained that there is no God, and so no +heed to be taken to religion. This thou hast done against the +being, honour, and glory of the King, and against the peace and +safety of the town of Mansoul. What sayest thou? Art thou guilty +of this indictment, or not? + +Atheism. Not guilty. + +Crier. Call Mr. Know-All, Mr. Tell-True, and Mr. Hate-Lies into +the court. + +So they were called, and they appeared. + +Then said the Clerk, 'You, the witnesses for the King, look upon +the prisoner at the bar; do you know him?' + +Then said Mr. Know-All, 'Yes, my lord, we know him; his name is +Atheism; he has been a very pestilent fellow for many years in the +miserable town of Mansoul.' + +Clerk. You are sure you know him? + +Know. Know him! Yes my lord; I have heretofore too often been in +his company to be at this time ignorant of him. He is a +Diabolonian, the son of a Diabolonian: I knew his grandfather and +his father. + +Clerk. Well said. He standeth here indicted by the name of +Atheism, etc., and is charged that he hath maintained and taught +that there is no God, and so no heed need be taken to any religion. +What say you, the King's witnesses, to this? Is he guilty or not? + +Know. My lord, I and he were once in Villain's Lane together, and +he at that time did briskly talk of divers opinions; and then and +there I heard him say, that, for his part, he did believe that +there was no God. 'But,' said he, 'I can profess one, and be as +religious too, if the company I am in, and the circumstances of +other things,' said he, 'shall put me upon it.' + +Clerk. You are sure you heard him say thus? + +Know. Upon mine oath, I heard him say thus. + +Then said the Clerk, 'Mr. Tell-True, what say you to the King's +judges touching the prisoner at the bar?' + +Tell. My lord, I formerly was a great companion of his, for the +which I now repent me, and I have often heard him say, and that +with very great stomachfulness, that he believed there was neither +God, angel, nor spirit. + +Clerk. Where did you hear him say so? + +Tell. In Blackmouth Lane and in Blasphemer's Row, and in many +other places besides. + +Clerk. Have you much knowledge of him? + +Tell. I know him to be a Diabolonian, the son of a Diabolonian, +and a horrible man to deny a Deity. His father's name was Never- +be-good, and he had more children than this Atheism. I have no +more to say, + +Clerk. Mr. Hate-Lies, look upon the prisoner at the bar; do you +know him? + +Hate. My lord, this Atheism is one of the vilest wretches that +ever I came near, or had to do with in my life. I have heard him +say that there is no God; I have heard him say that there is no +world to come, no sin, nor punishment hereafter, and, moreover, I +have heard him say that it was as good to go to a whore-house as to +go to hear a sermon. + +Clerk. Where did you hear him say these things? + +Hate. In Drunkard's Row, just at Rascal-Lane's End, at a house in +which Mr. Impiety lived. + +Clerk. Set him by, gaoler, and set Mr. Lustings to the bar. Mr. +Lustings, thou art here indicted by the name of Lustings, (an +intruder upon the town of Mansoul,) for that thou hast devilishly +and traitorously taught, by practice and filthy words, that it is +lawful and profitable to man to give way to his carnal desires; and +that thou, for thy part, hast not, nor never wilt, deny thyself of +any sinful delight as long as thy name is Lustings. How sayest +thou? Art thou guilty of this indictment, or not? + +Then said Mr. Lustings, 'My lord, I am a man of high birth, and +have been used to pleasures and pastimes of greatness. I have not +been wont to be snubbed for my doings, but have been left to follow +my will as if it were law. And it seems strange to me that I +should this day be called into question for that, that not only I, +but almost all men, do either secretly or openly countenance, love, +and approve of.' + +Clerk. Sir, we concern not ourselves with your greatness; (though +the higher, the better you should have been;) but we are concerned, +and so are you now, about an indictment preferred against you. How +say you? Are you guilty of it, or not? + +Lust. Not guilty. + +Clerk. Crier, call upon the witnesses to stand forth and give +their evidence. + +Crier. Gentlemen, you, the witnesses for the King, come in and +give in your evidence for our Lord the King against the prisoner at +the bar. + +Clerk. Come, Mr. Know-All, look upon the prisoner at the bar; do +you know him? + +Know. Yes, my lord, I know him. + +Clerk. What is his name? + +Know. His name is Lustings; he was the son of one Beastly, and his +mother bare him in Flesh Street: she was one Evil-Concupiscence's +daughter. I knew all the generation of them. + +Clerk. Well said. You have heard his indictment; what say you to +it? Is he guilty of the things charged against him, or not? + +Know. My lord, he has, as he saith, been a great man indeed, and +greater in wickedness than by pedigree more than a thousandfold. + +Clerk. But what do you know of his particular actions, and +especially with reference to his indictment? + +Know. I know him to be a swearer, a liar, a Sabbath-breaker; I +know him to be a fornicator and an unclean person; I know him to be +guilty of abundance of evils. He has been, to my knowledge, a very +filthy man. + +Clerk. But where did he use to commit his wickedness? in some +private corners, or more open and shamelessly? + +Know. All the town over, my lord. + +Clerk. Come, Mr. Tell-True, what have you to say for our Lord the +King against the prisoner at the bar? + +Tell. My lord, all that the first witness has said I know to be +true, and a great deal more besides. + +Clerk. Mr. Lustings, do you hear what these gentlemen say? + +Lust. I was ever of opinion that the happiest life that a man +could live on earth was to keep himself back from nothing that he +desired in the world; nor have I been false at any time to this +opinion of mine, but have lived in the love of my notions all my +days. Nor was I ever so churlish, having found such sweetness in +them myself, as to keep the commendations of them from others. + +Then said the Court, 'There hath proceeded enough from his own +mouth to lay him open to condemnation; wherefore, set him by, +gaoler, and set Mr. Incredulity to the bar.' + +Incredulity set to the bar. + +Clerk. Mr. Incredulity, thou art here indicted by the name of +Incredulity, (an intruder upon the town of Mansoul,) for that thou +hast feloniously and wickedly, and that when thou wert an officer +in the town of Mansoul, made head against the captains of the great +King Shaddai when they came and demanded possession of Mansoul; +yea, thou didst bid defiance to the name, forces, and cause of the +King, and didst also, as did Diabolus thy captain, stir up and +encourage the town of Mansoul to make head against and resist the +said force of the King. What sayest thou to this indictment? Art +thou guilty of it, or not? + +Then said Incredulity, 'I know not Shaddai; I love my old prince; I +thought it my duty to be true to my trust, and to do what I could +to possess the minds of the men of Mansoul to do their utmost to +resist strangers and foreigners, and with might to fight against +them. Nor have I, nor shall I, change mine opinion for fear of +trouble, though you at present are possessed of place and power.' + +Then said the Court, 'The man, as you see, is incorrigible; he is +for maintaining his villainies by stoutness of words, and his +rebellion with impudent confidence; and therefore set him by, +gaoler, and set Mr. Forget-Good to the bar. + +Forget-Good set to the bar. + +Clerk. Mr. Forget-Good, thou art here indicted by the name of +Forget-Good, (an intruder upon the town of Mansoul,) for that thou, +when the whole affairs of the town of Mansoul were in thy hand, +didst utterly forget to serve them in what was good, and didst fall +in with the tyrant Diabolus against Shaddai the King, against his +captains, and all his host, to the dishonour of Shaddai, the breach +of his law, and the endangering of the destruction of the famous +town of Mansoul. What sayest thou to this indictment? Art thou +guilty or not guilty? + +Then said Forget-Good: 'Gentlemen, and at this time my judges, as +to the indictment by which I stand of several crimes accused before +you, pray attribute my forgetfulness to mine age, and not to my +wilfulness; to the craziness of my brain, and not to the +carelessness of my mind; and then I hope I may be by your charity +excused from great punishment, though I be guilty.' + +Then said the Court, 'Forget-Good, Forget-Good, thy forgetfulness +of good was not simply of frailty, but of purpose, and for that +thou didst loathe to keep virtuous things in thy mind. What was +bad thou couldst retain, but what was good thou couldst not abide +to think of; thy age, therefore, and thy pretended craziness, thou +makest use of to blind the court withal, and as a cloak to cover +thy knavery. But let us hear what the witnesses have to say for +the King against the prisoner at the bar. Is he guilty of this +indictment, or not?' + +Hate. My lord, I have heard this Forget-Good say, that he could +never abide to think of goodness, no, not for a quarter of an hour. + +Clerk. Where did you hear him say so? + +Hate. In All-base Lane, at a house next door to the sign of the +Conscience seared with a hot iron. + +Clerk. Mr. Know-All, what can you say for our Lord the King +against the prisoner at the bar? + +Know. My lord, I know this man well. He is a Diabolonian, the son +of a Diabolonian: his father's name was Love-Naught; and for him, +I have often heard him say, that he counted the very thoughts of +goodness the most burdensome thing in the world. + +Clerk. Where have you heard him say these words? + +Know. In Flesh Lane, right opposite to the church. + +Then said the Clerk, 'Come, Mr. Tell-True, give in your evidence +concerning the prisoner at the bar, about that for which he stands +here, as you see, indicted by this honourable Court.' + +Tell. My lord, I have heard him often say he had rather think of +the vilest thing than of what is contained in the Holy Scriptures. + +Clerk. Where did you hear him say such grievous words? + +Tell. Where?--in a great many places, particularly in Nauseous +Street, in the house of one Shameless, and in Filth Lane, at the +sign of the Reprobate, next door to the Descent into the Pit. + +Court. Gentlemen, you have heard the indictment, his plea, and the +testimony of the witnesses. Gaoler, set Mr. Hard-Heart to the bar. + +He is set to the bar. + +Clerk. Mr. Hard-Heart, thou art here indicted by the name of Hard- +Heart, (an intruder upon the town of Mansoul,) for that thou didst +most desperately and wickedly possess the town of Mansoul with +impenitency and obdurateness; and didst keep them from remorse and +sorrow for their evils, all the time of their apostacy from and +rebellion against the blessed King Shaddai. What sayest thou to +this indictment? Art thou guilty, or not guilty? + +Hard. My lord, I never knew what remorse or sorrow meant in all my +life. I am impenetrable. I care for no man; nor can I be pierced +with men's griefs; their groans will not enter into my heart. +Whomsoever I mischief, whomsoever I wrong, to me it is music, when +to others mourning. + +Court. You see the man is a right Diabolonian, and has convicted +himself. Set him by, gaoler, and set Mr. False-Peace to the bar. + +False-Peace set to the bar. + +"Mr. False-Peace, thou art here indicted by the name of False- +Peace, (an intruder upon the town of Mansoul,) for that thou didst +most wickedly and satanically bring, hold, and keep the town of +Mansoul, both in her apostacy and in her hellish rebellion, in a +false, groundless, and dangerous peace, and damnable security, to +the dishonour of the King, the transgression of his law, and the +great damage of the town of Mansoul. What sayest thou? Art thou +guilty of this indictment, or not? + +Then said Mr. False-Peace: 'Gentlemen, and you now appointed to be +my judges, I acknowledge that my name is Mr. Peace; but that my +name is False-Peace I utterly deny. If your honours shall please +to send for any that do intimately know me, or for the midwife that +laid my mother of me, or for the gossips that were at my +christening, they will, any or all of them, prove that my name is +not False-Peace, but Peace. Wherefore I cannot plead to this +indictment, forasmuch as my name is not inserted therein; and as is +my true name, so are also my conditions. I was always a man that +loved to live at quiet, and what I loved myself, that I thought +others might love also. Wherefore, when I saw any of my neighbours +to labour under a disquieted mind, I endeavoured to help them what +I could; and instances of this good temper of mine many I could +give; as, + +'1. When, at the beginning, our town of Mansoul did decline the +ways of Shaddai, they, some of them, afterwards began to have +disquieting reflections upon themselves for what they had done; but +I, as one troubled to see them disquieted, presently sought out +means to get them quiet again. + +'2. When the ways of the old world, and of Sodom, were in fashion, +if anything happened to molest those that were for the customs of +the present times, I laboured to make them quiet again, and to +cause them to act without molestation. + +'3. To come nearer home: when the wars fell out between Shaddai +and Diabolus, if at any time I saw any of the town of Mansoul +afraid of destruction, I often used, by some way, device, +invention, or other, to labour to bring them to peace again. +Wherefore, since I have been always a man of so virtuous a temper +as some say a peace-maker is, and if a peace-maker be so deserving +a man as some have been bold to attest he is, then let me, +gentlemen, be accounted by you, who have a great name for justice +and equity in Mansoul, for a man that deserveth not this inhuman +way of treatment, but liberty, and also a license to seek damage of +those that have been my accusers.' + +Then said the clerk, 'Crier, make a proclamation.' + +Crier. Oyes! Forasmuch as the prisoner at the bar hath denied his +name to be that which is mentioned in the indictment, the Court +requireth that if there be any in this place that can give +information to the Court of the original and right name of the +prisoner, they would come forth and give in their evidence; for the +prisoner stands upon his own innocency. + +Then came two into the court, and desired that they might have +leave to speak what they knew concerning the prisoner at the bar: +the name of the one was Search-Truth, and the name of the other +Vouch-Truth. So the Court demanded of these men if they knew the +prisoner, and what they could say concerning him, 'for he stands,' +said they, 'upon his own vindication.' + +Then said Mr. Search-Truth, 'My Lord, I--' + +Court. Hold! give him his oath. + +Then they sware him. So he proceeded. + +Search. My lord, I know and have known this man from a child, and +can attest that his name is False-Peace. I know his father; his +name was Mr. Flatter: and his mother, before she was married, was +called by the name of Mrs. Sooth-Up: and these two, when they came +together, lived not long without this son; and when he was born, +they called his name False-Peace. I was his play-fellow, only I +was somewhat older than he; and when his mother did use to call him +home from his play, she used to say, 'False-Peace, False-Peace, +come home quick, or I'll fetch you.' Yea, I knew him when he +sucked; and though I was then but little, yet I can remember that +when his mother did use to sit at the door with him, or did play +with him in her arms, she would call him, twenty times together, +'My little False-Peace! my pretty False-Peace!' and, 'Oh! my sweet +rogue, False-Peace!' and again, 'Oh! my little bird, False-Peace!' +and 'How do I love my child!' The gossips also know it is thus, +though he has had the face to deny it in open court. + +Then Mr. Vouch-Truth was called upon to speak what he knew of him. +So they sware him. + +Then said Mr. Vouch-Truth, 'My lord, all that the former witness +hath said is true. His name is False-Peace, the son of Mr. +Flatter, and of Mrs. Sooth-Up, his mother: and I have in former +times seen him angry with those that have called him anything else +but False-Peace, for he would say that all such did mock and +nickname him; but this was in the time when Mr. False-Peace was a +great man, and when the Diabolonians were the brave men in Mansoul. + +Court. Gentlemen, you have heard what these two men have sworn +against the prisoner at the bar. And now, Mr. False-Peace, to you: +you have denied your name to be False-Peace, yet you see that these +honest men have sworn that that is your name. As to your plea, in +that you are quite besides the matter of your indictment, you are +not by it charged for evil-doing because you are a man of peace, or +a peace-maker among your neighbours; but for that you did wickedly +and satanically bring, keep, and hold the town of Mansoul, both +under its apostasy from, and in its rebellion against its King, in +a false, lying, and damnable peace, contrary to the law of Shaddai, +and to the hazard of the destruction of the then miserable town of +Mansoul. All that you have pleaded for yourself is, that you have +denied your name, etc.; but here, you see, we have witnesses to +prove that you are the man. For the peace that you so much boast +of making among your neighbours, know that peace that is not a +companion of truth and holiness, but that which is without this +foundation, is grounded upon a lie, and is both deceitful and +damnable, as also the great Shaddai hath said. Thy plea, +therefore, has not delivered thee from what by the indictment thou +art charged with, but rather it doth fasten all upon thee. But +thou shalt have very fair play. Let us call the witnesses that are +to testify as to matter of fact, and see what they have to say for +our Lord the King against the prisoner at the bar. + +Clerk. Mr. Know-All, what say you for our Lord the King against +the prisoner at the bar? + +Know. My lord, this man hath of a long time made it, to my +knowledge, his business to keep the town of Mansoul in a sinful +quietness in the midst of all her lewdness, filthiness, and +turmoils, and hath said, and that in my hearing, Come, come, let us +fly from all trouble, on what ground soever it comes, and let us be +for a quiet and peaceable life, though it wanteth a good +foundation. + +Clerk. Come, Mr. Hate-Lies, what have you to say? + +Hate. My lord, I have heard him say, that peace, though in a way +of unrighteousness, is better than trouble with truth. + +Clerk. Where did you hear him say this? + +Hate. I heard him say it in Folly-yard, at the house of one Mr. +Simple, next door to the sign of the Self-deceiver. Yea, he hath +said this to my knowledge twenty times in that place. + +Clerk. We may spare further witness; this evidence is plain and +full. Set him by, gaoler, and set Mr. No-Truth to the bar. Mr. +No-Truth, thou art here indicted by the name of No-Truth, (an +intruder upon the town of Mansoul,) for that thou hast always, to +the dishonour of Shaddai, and the endangering of the utter ruin of +the famous town of Mansoul, set thyself to deface, and utterly to +spoil, all the remainders of the law and image of Shaddai that have +been found in Mansoul after her deep apostasy from her king to +Diabolus, the envious tyrant. What sayest thou, art thou guilty of +this indictment, or not? + +No. Not guilty, my lord. + +Then the witnesses were called, and Mr. Know-All did first give in +his evidence against him. + +Know. My lord, this man was at the pulling down of the image of +Shaddai; yea, this is he that did it with his own hands. I myself +stood by and saw him do it, and he did it at the commandment of +Diabolus. Yea, this Mr. No-Truth did more than this, he did also +set up the horned image of the beast Diabolus in the same place. +This also is he that, at the bidding of Diabolus, did rend and +tear, and cause to be consumed, all that he could of the remainders +of the law of the King, even whatever he could lay his hands on in +Mansoul. + +Clerk. Who saw him do this besides yourself? + +Hate. I did, my lord, and so did many more besides; for this was +not done by stealth, or in a corner, but in the open view of all; +yea, he chose himself to do it publicly, for he delighted in the +doing of it. + +Clerk. Mr. No-Truth, how could you have the face to plead not +guilty, when you were so manifestly the doer of all this +wickedness? + +No. Sir, I thought I must say something, and as my name is, so I +speak. I have been advantaged thereby before now, and did not know +but by speaking no truth, I might have reaped the same benefit now. + +Clerk. Set him by, gaoler, and set Mr. Pitiless to the bar. Mr. +Pitiless, thou art here indicted by the name of Pitiless, (an +intruder upon the town of Mansoul,) for that thou didst most +traitorously and wickedly shut up all bowels of compassion, and +wouldest not suffer poor Mansoul to condole her own misery when she +had apostatised from her rightful King, but didst evade, and at all +times turn her mind awry from those thoughts that had in them a +tendency to lead her to repentance. What sayest thou to this +indictment? Guilty or not guilty? + +'Not guilty of pitilessness: all I did was to cheer up, according +to my name, for my name is not Pitiless, but Cheer-up; and I could +not abide to see Mansoul inclined to melancholy.' + +Clerk. How! do you deny your name, and say it is not Pitiless, but +Cheer-up? Call for the witnesses. What say you, the witnesses, to +this plea? + +Know. My lord, his name is Pitiless; so he hath written himself in +all papers of concern wherein he has had to do. But these +Diabolonians love to counterfeit their names: Mr. Covetousness +covers himself with the name of Good-Husbandry, or the like; Mr. +Pride can, when need is, call himself Mr. Neat, Mr. Handsome, or +the like; and so of all the rest of them. + +Clerk. Mr. Tell-True, what say you? + +Tell. His name is Pitiless, my lord. I have known him from a +child, and he hath done all that wickedness whereof he stands +charged in the indictment; but there is a company of them that are +not acquainted with the danger of damning, therefore they call all +those melancholy that have serious thoughts how that state should +be shunned by them. + +Clerk. Set Mr. Haughty to the bar, gaoler. Mr. Haughty, thou art +here indicted by the name of Haughty, (an intruder upon the town of +Mansoul,) for that thou didst most traitorously and devilishly +teach the town of Mansoul to carry it loftily and stoutly against +the summons that was given them by the captains of the King +Shaddai. Thou didst also teach the town of Mansoul to speak +contemptuously and vilifyingly of their great King Shaddai; and +didst moreover encourage, both by words and examples, Mansoul, to +take up arms both against the King and his son Emmanuel. How +sayest thou, art thou guilty of this indictment, or not? + +Haughty. Gentlemen, I have always been a man of courage and +valour, and have not used, when under the greatest clouds, to sneak +or hang down the head like a bulrush; nor did it at all at any time +please me to see men veil their bonnets to those that have opposed +them; yea, though their adversaries seemed to have ten times the +advantage of them. I did not use to consider who was my foe, nor +what the cause was in which I was engaged. It was enough to me if +I carried it bravely, fought like a man, and came off a victor. + +Court. Mr. Haughty, you are not here indicted for that you have +been a valiant man, nor for your courage and stoutness in times of +distress, but for that you have made use of this your pretended +valour to draw the town of Mansoul into acts of rebellion both +against the great King, and Emmanuel his Son. This is the crime +and the thing wherewith thou art charged in and by the indictment. + +But he made no answer to that. + +Now when the Court had thus far proceeded against the prisoners at +the bar, then they put them over to the verdict of their jury, to +whom they did apply themselves after this manner: + +'Gentlemen of the jury, you have been here, and have seen these +men; you have heard their indictments, their pleas, and what the +witnesses have testified against them: now what remains, is, that +you do forthwith withdraw yourselves to some place, where without +confusion you may consider of what verdict, in a way of truth and +righteousness, you ought to bring in for the King against them, and +so bring it in accordingly.' + +Then the jury, to wit, Mr. Belief, Mr. True-Heart, Mr. Upright, Mr. +Hate-bad, Mr. Love-God, Mr. See-Truth, Mr. Heavenly-Mind, Mr. +Moderate, Mr. Thankful, Mr. Humble, Mr. Good-Work, and Mr. Zeal- +for-God, withdrew themselves in order to their work. Now when they +were shut up by themselves, they fell to discourse among themselves +in order to the drawing up of their verdict. + +And thus Mr. Belief (for he was the foreman) began: 'Gentlemen,' +quoth he, 'for the men, the prisoners at the bar, for my part I +believe that they all deserve death.' 'Very right,' said Mr. True- +Heart; 'I am wholly of your opinion.' 'Oh what a mercy is it,' +said Mr. Hate-Bad, 'that such villains as these are apprehended!' +'Ay! ay!' said Mr. Love-God, 'this is one of the joyfullest days +that ever I saw in my life.' Then said Mr. See-Truth, 'I know that +if we judge them to death, our verdict shall stand before Shaddai +himself' 'Nor do I at all question it,' said Mr. Heavenly-Mind; he +said, moreover, 'When all such beasts as these are cast out of +Mansoul, what a goodly town will it be then!' 'Then,' said Mr. +Moderate, 'it is not my manner to pass my judgment with rashness; +but for these their crimes are so notorious, and the witness so +palpable, that that man must be wilfully blind who saith the +prisoners ought not to die.' 'Blessed be God,' said Mr. Thankful, +'that the traitors are in safe custody.' 'And I join with you in +this upon my bare knees,' said Mr. Humble. 'I am glad also,' said +Mr. Good-Work. Then said the warm man, and true-hearted Mr. Zeal- +for-God, 'Cut them off; they have been the plague, and have sought +the destruction of Mansoul.' + +Thus, therefore, being all agreed in their verdict, they come +instantly into the Court. + +Clerk. Gentlemen of the jury, answer all to your names: Mr. +Belief, one; Mr. True-Heart, two; Mr. Upright, three; Mr. Hate-Bad, +four; Mr. Love-God, five; Mr. See-Truth, six; Mr. Heavenly-mind, +seven; Mr. Moderate, eight; Mr. Thankful, nine; Mr. Humble, ten; +Mr. Good-Work, eleven; and Mr. Zeal-for-God, twelve. Good men and +true, stand together in your verdict: are you all agreed? + +Jury. Yes, my lord. + +Clerk. Who shall speak for you? + +Jury. Our foreman. + +Clerk. You, the gentlemen of the jury, being empannelled for our +Lord the King, to serve here in a matter of life and death, have +heard the trials of each of these men, the prisoners at the bar: +what say you? are they guilty of that, and those crimes for which +they stand here indicted, or are they not guilty? + +Foreman. Guilty, my lord. + +Clerk. Look to your prisoners, gaoler. + +This was done in the morning, and in the afternoon they received +the sentence of death according to the law. + +The gaoler, therefore, having received such a charge, put them all +in the inward prison, to preserve them there till the day of +execution, which was to be the next day in the morning. + +But now to see how it happened, one of the prisoners, Incredulity +by name, in the interim betwixt the sentence and the time of +execution, brake prison and made his escape, and gets him away +quite out of the town of Mansoul, and lay lurking in such places +and holes as he might, until he should again have opportunity to do +the town of Mansoul a mischief for their thus handling of him as +they did. + +Now when Mr. Trueman, the gaoler, perceived that he had lost his +prisoner, he was in a heavy taking, because that prisoner was, to +speak on, the very worst of all the gang: wherefore first he goes +and acquaints my Lord Mayor, Mr. Recorder, and my Lord Willbewill, +with the matter, and to get of them an order to make search for him +throughout the town of Mansoul. So an order he got, and search was +made, but no such man could now be found in all the town of +Mansoul. + +All that could be gathered was, that he had lurked a while about +the outside of the town, and that here and there one or other had a +glimpse of him as he did make his escape out of Mansoul; one or two +also did affirm that they saw him without the town, going apace +quite over the plain. Now when he was quite gone, it was affirmed +by one Mr. Did-see, that he ranged all over dry places, till he met +with Diabolus, his friend, and where should they meet one another +but just upon Hell-gate hill. + +But oh! what a lamentable story did the old gentleman tell to +Diabolus concerning what sad alteration Emmanuel had made in +Mansoul! + +As, first, how Mansoul had, after some delays, received a general +pardon at the hands of Emmanuel, and that they had invited him into +the town, and that they had given him the castle for his +possession. He said, moreover, that they had called his soldiers +into the town, coveted who should quarter the most of them; they +also entertained him with the timbrel, song, and dance. 'But +that,' said Incredulity, 'which is the sorest vexation to me is, +that he hath pulled down, O father, thy image, and set up his own; +pulled down thy officers and set up his own. Yea, and Willbewill, +that rebel, who, one would have thought, should never have turned +from us, he is now in as great favour with Emmanuel as ever he was +with thee. But, besides all this, this Willbewill has received a +special commission from his master to search for, to apprehend, and +to put to death all, and all manner of Diabolonians that he shall +find in Mansoul: yea, and this Willbewill has taken and committed +to prison already eight of my Lord's most trusty friends in +Mansoul. Nay, further, my Lord, with grief I speak it, they have +been all arraigned, condemned, and, I doubt, before this executed +in Mansoul. I told my Lord of eight, and myself was the ninth, who +should assuredly have drunk of the same cup, but that through +craft, I, as thou seest, have made mine escape from them.' + +When Diabolus had heard this lamentable story, he yelled and +snuffed up the wind like a dragon, and made the sky to look dark +with his roaring; he also sware that he would try to be revenged on +Mansoul for this. So they, both he and his old friend Incredulity, +concluded to enter into great consultation, how they might get the +town of Mansoul again. + +Now, before this time, the day was come in which the prisoners in +Mansoul were to be executed. So they were brought to the cross, +and that by Mansoul, in most solemn manner; for the Prince said +that this should be done by the hand of the town of Mansoul, 'that +I may see,' said he, 'the forwardness of my now redeemed Mansoul to +keep my word, and to do my commandments; and that I may bless +Mansoul in doing this deed. Proof of sincerity pleases me well; +let Mansoul therefore first lay their hands upon these Diabolonians +to destroy them.' + +So the town of Mansoul slew them, according to the word of their +Prince; but when the prisoners were brought to the cross to die, +you can hardly believe what troublesome work Mansoul had of it to +put the Diabolonians to death; for the men, knowing that they must +die, and every of them having implacable enmity in their hearts to +Mansoul, what did they but took courage at the cross, and there +resisted the men of the town of Mansoul? Wherefore the men of +Mansoul were forced to cry out for help to the captains and men of +war. Now the great Shaddai had a secretary in the town, and he was +a great lover of the men of Mansoul, and he was at the place of +execution also; so he, hearing the men of Mansoul cry out against +the strugglings and unruliness of the prisoners, rose up from his +place, and came and put his hands upon the hands of the men of +Mansoul. So they crucified the Diabolonians that had been a +plague, a grief, and an offence to the town of Mansoul. + +Now, when this good work was done, the Prince came down to see, to +visit, and to speak comfortably to the men of Mansoul, and to +strengthen their hands in such work. And he said to them that, by +this act of theirs he had proved them, and found them to be lovers +of his person, observers of his laws, and such as had also respect +to his honour. He said, moreover, (to show them that they by this +should not be losers, nor their town weakened by the loss of them,) +that he would make them another captain, and that of one of +themselves. And that this captain should be the ruler of a +thousand, for the good and benefit of the now flourishing town of +Mansoul. + +So he called one to him whose name was Waiting, and bid him, 'Go +quickly up to the castle gate, and inquire there for one Mr. +Experience, that waiteth upon that noble captain, the Captain +Credence, and bid him come hither to me.' So the messenger that +waited upon the good Prince Emmanuel went and said as he was +commanded. Now the young gentleman was waiting to see the captain +train and muster his men in the castle yard. Then said Mr. Waiting +to him, 'Sir, the Prince would that you should come down to his +highness forthwith.' So he brought him down to Emmanuel, and he +came and made obeisance before him. Now the men of the town knew +Mr. Experience well, for he was born and bred in Mansoul; they also +knew him to be a man of conduct, of valour, and a person prudent in +matters; he was also a comely person, well-spoken, and very +successful in his undertakings. + +Wherefore the hearts of the townsmen were transported with joy when +they saw that the Prince himself was so taken with Mr. Experience, +that he would needs make him a captain over a band of men. + +So with one consent they bowed the knee before Emmanuel, and with a +shout said, 'Let Emmanuel live for ever!' Then said the Prince to +the young gentleman, whose name was Mr. Experience, 'I have thought +good to confer upon thee a place of trust and honour in this my +town of Mansoul.' Then the young man bowed his head and +worshipped. 'It is,' said Emmanuel, 'that thou shouldest be a +captain, a captain over a thousand men in my beloved town of +Mansoul.' Then said the captain, 'Let the King live!' So the +Prince gave out orders forthwith to the King's secretary, that he +should draw up for Mr. Experience a commission to make him a +captain over a thousand men. 'And let it be brought to me,' said +he, 'that I may set to my seal.' So it was done as it was +commanded. The commission was drawn up, brought to Emmanuel, and +he set his seal thereto. Then, by the hand of Mr. Waiting, he sent +it away to the captain. + +Now as soon as the captain had received his commission, he sounded +his trumpet for volunteers, and young men came to him apace; yea, +the greatest and chief men in the town sent their sons, to be +listed under his command. Thus Captain Experience came under +command to Emmanuel, for the good of the town of Mansoul. He had +for his lieutenant one Mr. Skilful, and for his cornet one Mr. +Memory. His under officers I need not name. His colours were the +white colours for the town of Mansoul; and his scutcheon was the +dead lion and dead bear. So the Prince returned to his royal +palace again. + +Now when he was returned thither, the elders of the town of +Mansoul, to wit, the Lord Mayor, the Recorder, and the Lord +Willbewill, went to congratulate him, and in special way to thank +him for his love, care, and the tender compassion which he showed +to his ever-obliged town of Mansoul. So after a while, and some +sweet communion between them, the townsmen having solemnly ended +their ceremony, returned to their place again. + +Emmanuel also at this time appointed them a day wherein he would +renew their charter, yea, wherein he would renew and enlarge it, +mending several faults therein, that Mansoul's yoke might be yet +more easy. And this he did without any desire of theirs, even of +his own frankness and noble mind. So when he had sent for and seen +their old one, he laid it by, and said, 'Now that which decayeth +and waxeth old is ready to vanish away.' He said, moreover, 'The +town of Mansoul shall have another, a better, a new one, more +steady and firm by far.' An epitome hereof take as follows:- + +'Emmanuel, Prince of Peace, and a great lover of the town of +Mansoul, I do in the name of my Father, and of mine own clemency, +give, grant, and bequeath to my beloved town of Mansoul. + +'First. Free, full, and everlasting forgiveness of all wrongs, +injuries, and offences done by them against my Father, me, their +neighbour, or themselves. + +'Second. I do give them the holy law and my testament, with all +that therein is contained, for their everlasting comfort and +consolation. + +'Third. I do also give them a portion of the self-same grace and +goodness that dwells in my Father's heart and mine. + +'Fourth. I do give, grant, and bestow upon them freely, the world +and what is therein, for their good; and they shall have that power +over them, as shall stand with the honour of my Father, my glory, +and their comfort: yea, I grant them the benefits of life and +death, and of things present, and things to come. This privilege +no other city, town, or corporation, shall have, but my Mansoul +only. + +'Fifth. I do give and grant them leave, and free access to me in +my palace at all seasons--to my palace above or below--there to +make known their wants to me, and I give them, moreover, a promise +that I will hear and redress all their grievances. + +'Sixth. I do give, grant to, and invest the town of Mansoul with +full power and authority to seek out, take, enslave, and destroy +all, and all manner of Diabolonians that at any time, from +whencesoever, shall be found straggling in or about the town of +Mansoul. + +'Seventh. I do further grant to my beloved town of Mansoul, that +they shall have authority not to suffer any foreigner, or stranger, +or their seed, to be free in, and of the blessed town of Mansoul, +nor to share in the excellent privileges thereof. But that all the +grants, privileges, and immunities that I bestow upon the famous +town of Mansoul, shall be for those the old natives, and true +inhabitants thereof; to them, I say, and to their right seed after +them. + +'But all Diabolonians, of what sort, birth, country, or kingdom +soever, shall be debarred a share therein.' + +So when the town of Mansoul had received at the hand of Emmanuel +their gracious charter, (which in itself is infinitely more large +than by this lean epitome is set before you,) they carried it to +audience, that is, to the market place, and there Mr. Recorder read +it in the presence of all the people. This being done, it was had +back to the castle gates, and there fairly engraven upon the doors +thereof, and laid in letters of gold, to the end that the town of +Mansoul, with all the people thereof, might have it always in their +view, or might go where they might see what a blessed freedom their +Prince had bestowed upon them, that their joy might be increased in +themselves, and their love renewed to their great and good +Emmanuel. + +But what joy, what comfort, what consolation, think you, did now +possess the hearts of the men of Mansoul! The bells rung, the +minstrels played, the people danced, the captains shouted, the +colours waved in the wind, and the silver trumpets sounded; and the +Diabolonians now were glad to hide their heads, for they looked +like them that had been long dead. + +When this was over, the Prince sent again for the elders of the +town of Mansoul, and communed with them about a ministry that he +intended to establish among them; such a ministry that might open +unto them, and that might instruct them in the things that did +concern their present and future state. + +'For,' said he, 'you, of yourselves, unless you have teachers and +guides, will not be able to know, and, if not to know, to be sure +not to do the will of my Father.' + +At this news, when the elders of Mansoul brought it to the people, +the whole town came running together, (for it pleased them well, as +whatever the Prince now did pleased the people,) and all with one +consent implored his Majesty that he would forthwith establish such +a ministry among them as might teach them both law and judgment, +statute and commandment; that they might be documented in all good +and wholesome things. So he told them that he would grant them +their requests, and would establish two among them; one that was of +his Father's court, and one that was a native of Mansoul. + +'He that is from the court,' said he, 'is a person of no less +quality and dignity than my Father and I; and he is the Lord Chief +Secretary of my Father's house: for he is, and always has been, +the chief dictator of all my Father's laws, a person altogether +well skilled in all mysteries, and knowledge of mysteries, as is my +Father, or as myself is. Indeed he is one with us in nature, and +also as to loving of, and being faithful to, and in the eternal +concerns of the town of Mansoul. + +'And this is he,' said the Prince, 'that must be your chief +teacher; for it is he, and he only, that can teach you clearly in +all high and supernatural things. He, and he only, it is that +knows the ways and methods of my Father at court, nor can any like +him show how the heart of my Father is at all times, in all things, +upon all occasions, towards Mansoul; for as no man knows the things +of a man but that spirit of a man which is in him, so the things of +my Father knows no man but this his high and mighty Secretary. Nor +can any, as he, tell Mansoul how and what they shall do to keep +themselves in the love of my Father. He also it is that can bring +lost things to your remembrance, and that can tell you things to +come. This teacher, therefore, must of necessity have the pre- +eminence, both in your affections and judgment, before your other +teacher; his personal dignity, the excellency of his teaching, also +the great dexterity that he hath to help you to make and draw up +petitions to my Father for your help, and to his pleasing, must lay +obligations upon you to love him, fear him, and to take heed that +you grieve him not. + +'This person can put life and vigour into all he says; yea, and can +also put it into your heart. This person can make seers of you, +and can make you tell what shall be hereafter. By this person you +must frame all your petitions to my Father and me; and without his +advice and counsel first obtained, let nothing enter into the town +or castle of Mansoul, for that may disgust and grieve this noble +person. + +'Take heed, I say, that you do not grieve this minister; for if you +do, he may fight against you; and should he once be moved by you to +set himself against you in battle array, that will distress you +more than if twelve legions should from my Father's court be sent +to make war upon you. + +'But, as I said, if you shall hearken unto him, and shall love him; +if you shall devote yourselves to his teaching, and shall seek to +have converse, and to maintain communion with him, you shall find +him ten times better than is the whole world to any; yea, he will +shed abroad the love of my Father in your hearts, and Mansoul will +be the wisest, and most blessed of all people.' + +Then did the Prince call unto him the old gentleman, who before had +been the Recorder of Mansoul, Mr. Conscience by name, and told him, +That, forasmuch as he was well skilled in the law and government of +the town of Mansoul, and was also well-spoken, and could +pertinently deliver to them his Master's will in all terrene and +domestic matters, therefore he would also make him a minister for, +in, and to the goodly town of Mansoul, in all the laws, statutes, +and judgments of the famous town of Mansoul. 'And thou must,' said +the Prince, 'confine thyself to the teaching of moral virtues, to +civil and natural duties; but thou must not attempt to presume to +be a revealer of those high and supernatural mysteries that are +kept close in the bosom of Shaddai, my Father: for those things +knows no man, nor can any reveal them but my Father's Secretary +only. + +'Thou art a native of the town of Mansoul, but the Lord Secretary +is a native with my Father; wherefore, as thou hast knowledge of +the laws and customs of the corporation, so he of the things and +will of my Father. + +'Wherefore, O Mr. Conscience, although I have made thee a minister +and a preacher to the town of Mansoul, yet as to the things which +the Lord Secretary knoweth, and shall teach to this people, there +thou must be his scholar and a learner, even as the rest of Mansoul +are. + +'Thou must therefore, in all high and supernatural things, go to +him for information and knowledge; for though there be a spirit in +man, this person's inspiration must give him understanding. +Wherefore, O thou Mr. Recorder, keep low and be humble, and +remember that the Diabolonians that kept not their first charge, +but left their own standing, are now made prisoners in the pit. Be +therefore content with thy station. + +'I have made thee my Father's vicegerent on earth, in such things +of which I have made mention before: and thou, take thou power to +teach them to Mansoul, yea, and to impose them with whips and +chastisements, if they shall not willingly hearken to do thy +commandments. + +'And, Mr. Recorder, because thou art old, and through many abuses +made feeble; therefore I give thee leave and license to go when +thou wilt to my fountain, my conduit, and there to drink freely of +the blood of my grape, for my conduit doth always run wine. Thus +doing, thou shalt drive from thine heart and stomach all foul, +gross, and hurtful humours. It will also lighten thine eyes, and +will strengthen thy memory for the reception and keeping of all +that the King's most noble Secretary teacheth.' + +When the Prince had thus put Mr. Recorder (that once so was) into +the place and office of a minister to Mansoul, and the man had +thankfully accepted thereof, then did Emmanuel address himself in a +particular speech to the townsmen themselves. + +'Behold,' said the Prince to Mansoul, 'my love and care towards +you; I have added to all that is past, this mercy, to appoint you +preachers; the most noble Secretary to teach you in all high and +sublime mysteries; and this gentleman,' pointing to Mr. Conscience, +'is to teach you in all things human and domestic, for therein +lieth his work. He is not, by what I have said, debarred of +telling to Mansoul anything that he hath heard and received at the +mouth of the lord high Secretary; only he shall not attempt to +presume to pretend to be a revealer of those high mysteries +himself; for the breaking of them up, and the discovery of them to +Mansoul lieth only in the power, authority, and skill of the lord +high Secretary himself. Talk of them he may, and so may the rest +of the town of Mansoul; yea, and may, as occasion gives them +opportunity, press them upon each other for the benefit of the +whole. These things, therefore, I would have you observe and do, +for it is for your life, and the lengthening of your days. + +'And one thing more to my beloved Mr. Recorder, and to all the town +of Mansoul: You must not dwell in, nor stay upon, anything of that +which he hath in commission to teach you, as to your trust and +expectation of the next world; (of the next world, I say, for I +purpose to give another to Mansoul, when this with them is worn +out;) but for that you must wholly and solely have recourse to, and +make stay upon his doctrine that is your Teacher after the first +order. Yea, Mr. Recorder himself must not look for life from that +which he himself revealeth; his dependence for that must be founded +in the doctrine of the other preacher. Let Mr. Recorder also take +heed that he receive not any doctrine, or point of doctrine, that +is not communicated to him by his Superior Teacher, nor yet within +the precincts of his own formal knowledge.' + +Now, after the Prince had thus settled things in the famous town of +Mansoul, he proceeded to give to the elders of the corporation a +necessary caution, to wit, how they should carry it to the high and +noble captains that he had, from his Father's court, sent or +brought with him, to the famous town of Mansoul. + +'These captains,' said he, 'do love the town of Mansoul, and they +are picked men, picked out of abundance, as men that best suit, and +that will most faithfully serve in the wars of Shaddai against the +Diabolonians, for the preservation of the town of Mansoul. 'I +charge you therefore,' said he, 'O ye inhabitants of the now +flourishing town of Mansoul, that you carry it not ruggedly or +untowardly to my captains, or their men; since, as I said, they are +picked and choice men--men chosen out of many for the good of the +town of Mansoul. I say, I charge you, that you carry it not +untowardly to them: for though they have the hearts and faces of +lions, when at any time they shall be called forth to engage and +fight with the King's foes, and the enemies of the town of Mansoul; +yet a little discountenance cast upon them from the town of Mansoul +will deject and cast down their faces, will weaken and take away +their courage. Do not, therefore, O my beloved, carry it unkindly +to my valiant captains and courageous men of war, but love them, +nourish them, succour them, and lay them in your bosoms; and they +will not only fight for you, but cause to fly from you all those +the Diabolonians that seek, and will, if possible, be, your utter +destruction. + +'If, therefore, any of them should at any time be sick or weak, and +so not able to perform that office of love, which, with all their +hearts, they are willing to do (and will do also when well and in +health), slight them not, nor despise them, but rather strengthen +them and encourage them, though weak and ready to die, for they are +your fence, and your guard, your wall, your gates, your locks, and +your bars. And although, when they are weak, they can do but +little, but rather need to be helped by you, than that you should +then expect great things from them, yet, when well, you know what +exploits, what feats and warlike achievements they are able to do, +and will perform for you. + +'Besides, if they be weak, the town of Mansoul cannot be strong; if +they be strong, then Mansoul cannot be weak; your safety, +therefore, doth lie in their health, and in your countenancing +them. Remember, also, that if they be sick, they catch that +disease of the town of Mansoul itself. + +'These things I have said unto you because I love your welfare and +your honour: observe, therefore, O my Mansoul, to be punctual in +all things that I have given in charge unto you, and that not only +as a town corporate, and so to your officers and guard, and guides +in chief, but to you as you are a people whose well-being, as +single persons, depends on the observation of the orders and +commandments of their Lord. + +'Next, O my Mansoul, I do warn you of that, of which, +notwithstanding that reformation that at present is wrought among +you, you have need to be warned about: wherefore hearken +diligently unto me. I am now sure, and you will know hereafter, +that there are yet of the Diabolonians remaining in the town of +Mansoul, Diabolonians that are sturdy and implacable, and that do +already while I am with you, and that will yet more when I am from +you, study, plot, contrive, invent, and jointly attempt to bring +you to desolation, and so to a state far worse than that of the +Egyptian bondage; they are the avowed friends of Diabolus, +therefore look about you. They used heretofore to lodge with their +Prince in the Castle, when Incredulity was the Lord Mayor of this +town; but since my coming hither, they lie more in the outsides and +walls, and have made themselves dens, and caves, and holes, and +strongholds therein. Wherefore, O Mansoul! thy work, as to this, +will be so much the more difficult and hard; that is, to take, +mortify, and put them to death according to the will of my Father. +Nor can you utterly rid yourselves of them, unless you should pull +down the walls of your town, the which I am by no means willing you +should. Do you ask me, What shall we do then? Why, be you +diligent, and quit you like men; observe their holes; find out +their haunts; assault them, and make no peace with them. Wherever +they haunt, lurk, or abide, and what terms of peace soever they +offer you, abhor, and all shall be well betwixt you and me. And +that you may the better know them from those that are the natives +of Mansoul, I will give you this brief schedule of the names of the +chief of them; and they are these that follow:- The Lord +Fornication, the Lord Adultery, the Lord Murder, the Lord Anger, +the Lord Lasciviousness, the Lord Deceit, the Lord Evil-Eye, Mr. +Drunkenness, Mr. Revelling, Mr. Idolatry, Mr. Witch-craft, Mr. +Variance, Mr. Emulation, Mr. Wrath, Mr. Strife, Mr. Sedition, and +Mr. Heresy. These are some of the chief, O Mansoul! of those that +will seek to overthrow thee for ever. These, I say, are the +skulkers in Mansoul; but look thou well into the law of thy King, +and there thou shalt find their physiognomy, and such other +characteristical notes of them, by which they certainly may be +known. + +'These, O my Mansoul, (and I would gladly that you should certainly +know it,) if they be suffered to run and range about the town as +they would, will quickly, like vipers, eat out your bowels; yea, +poison your captains, cut the sinews of your soldiers, break the +bars and bolts of your gates, and turn your now most flourishing +Mansoul into a barren and desolate wilderness, and ruinous heap. +Wherefore, that you may take courage to yourselves to apprehend +these villains wherever you find them, I give to you, my Lord +Mayor, my Lord Willbewill, and Mr. Recorder, with all the +inhabitants of the town of Mansoul, full power and commission to +seek out, to take, and to cause to be put to death by the cross, +all, and all manner of Diabolonians, when and wherever you shall +find them to lurk within, or to range without the walls of the town +of Mansoul. + +'I told you before that I had placed a standing ministry among you; +not that you have but these with you, for my first four captains +who came against the master and lord of the Diabolonians that was +in Mansoul, they can, and if need be, and if they be required, will +not only privately inform, but publicly preach to the corporation +both good and wholesome doctrine, and such as shall lead you in the +way. Yea, they will set up a weekly, yea, if need be, a daily +lecture in thee, O Mansoul! and will instruct thee in such +profitable lessons, that, if heeded, will do thee good at the end. +And take good heed that you spare not the men that you have a +commission to take and crucify. + +'Now, as I have set before your eyes the vagrants and runagates by +name, so I will tell you, that among yourselves, some of them shall +creep in to beguile you, even such as would seem, and that in +appearance are, very rife and hot for religion. And they, if you +watch not, will do you a mischief, such an one as at present you +cannot think of. + +'These, as I said, will show themselves to you in another hue than +those under description before. Wherefore, Mansoul, watch and be +sober, and suffer not thyself to be betrayed.' + +When the Prince had thus far new modelled the town of Mansoul, and +had instructed them in such matters as were profitable for them to +know, then he appointed another day in which he intended, when the +townsfolk came together, to bestow a further badge of honour upon +the town of Mansoul,--a badge that should distinguish them from all +the people, kindreds, and tongues that dwell in the kingdom of +Universe. Now it was not long before the day appointed was come, +and the Prince and his people met in the King's palace, where first +Emmanuel made a short speech unto them, and then did for them as he +had said, and unto them as he had promised. + +'My Mansoul,' said he, 'that which I now am about to do, is to make +you known to the world to be mine, and to distinguish you also in +your own eyes, from all false traitors that may creep in among +you.' + +Then he commanded that those that waited upon him should go and +bring forth out of his treasury those white and glistening robes +'that I,' said he, 'have provided and laid up in store for my +Mansoul.' So the white garments were fetched out of his treasury, +and laid forth to the eyes of the people. Moreover, it was granted +to them that they should take them and put them on, 'according,' +said he, 'to your size and stature.' So the people were put into +white, into fine linen, white and clean. + +Then said the Prince unto them, 'This, O Mansoul, is my livery, and +the badge by which mine are known from the servants of others. +Yea, it is that which I grant to all that are mine, and without +which no man is permitted to see my face. Wear them, therefore, +for my sake, who gave them unto you; and also if you would be known +by the world to be mine.' + +But now! can you think how Mansoul shone? It was fair as the sun, +clear as the moon, and terrible as an army with banners. + +The Prince added further, and said, 'No prince, potentate, or +mighty one of Universe, giveth this livery but myself: behold, +therefore, as I said before, you shall be known by it to be mine. + +'And now,' said he, 'I have given you my livery, let me give you +also in commandment concerning them; and be sure that you take good +heed to my words. + +'First. Wear them daily, day by day, lest you should at sometimes +appear to others as if you were none of mine. + +'Second. Keep them always white; for if they be soiled, it is +dishonour to me. + +'Third. Wherefore gird them up from the ground, and let them not +lag with dust and dirt. + +'Fourth. Take heed that you lose them not, lest you walk naked, +and they see your shame. + +'Fifth. But if you should sully them, if you should defile them, +the which I am greatly unwilling you should, and the prince +Diabolus will be glad if you would, then speed you to do that which +is written in my law, that yet you may stand, and befall before me, +and before my throne. Also, this is the way to cause that I may +not leave you, nor forsake you while here, but may dwell in this +town of Mansoul for ever.' + +And now was Mansoul, and the inhabitants of it, as the signet upon +Emmanuel's right hand. Where was there now a town, a city, a +corporation, that could compare with Mansoul! a town redeemed from +the hand, and from the power of Diabolus! a town that the King +Shaddai loved, and that he sent Emmanuel to regain from the Prince +of the infernal cave; yea, a town that Emmanuel loved to dwell in, +and that he chose for his royal habitation; a town that he +fortified for himself, and made strong by the force of his army. +What shall I say, Mansoul has now a most excellent Prince, golden +captains and men of war, weapons proved, and garments as white as +snow. Nor are these benefits to be counted little, but great; can +the town of Mansoul esteem them so, and improve them to that end +and purpose for which they are bestowed upon them? + +When the Prince had thus completed the modelling of the town, to +show that he had great delight in the work of his hands and took +pleasure in the good that he had wrought for the famous and +flourishing Mansoul, he commanded, and they set his standard upon +the battlements of the castle. And then, + +First. He gave them frequent visits; not a day now but the elders +of Mansoul must come to him, or he to them, into his palace. Now +they must walk and talk together of all the great things that he +had done, and yet further promised to do, for the town of Mansoul. +Thus would he often do with the Lord Mayor, my Lord Willbewill, and +the honest subordinate preacher Mr. Conscience, and Mr. Recorder. +But oh, how graciously, how lovingly, how courteously, and tenderly +did this blessed Prince now carry it towards the town of Mansoul! +In all the streets, gardens, orchards, and other places where he +came, to be sure the poor should have his blessing and benediction; +yea, he would kiss them, and if they were ill he would lay hands on +them, and make them well. The captains, also, he would daily, yea, +sometimes hourly, encourage with his presence and goodly words. +For you must know that a smile from him upon them would put more +vigour, more life, and stoutness into them, than would anything +else under heaven. + +The Prince would now also feast them, and be with them continually: +hardly a week would pass but a banquet must be had betwixt him and +them. You may remember that, some pages before, we make mention of +one feast that they had together; but now to feast them was a thing +more common: every day with Mansoul was a feast-day now. Nor did +he, when they returned to their places, send them empty away, +either they must have a ring, a gold chain, a bracelet, a white +stone, or something; so dear was Mansoul to him now; so lovely was +Mansoul in his eyes. + +Second. When the elders and townsmen did not come to him, he would +send in much plenty of provision unto them; meat that came from +court, wine and bread that were prepared for his Father's table; +yea, such delicates would he send unto them, and therewith would so +cover their table, that whoever saw it confessed that the like +could not be seen in any kingdom. + +Third. If Mansoul did not frequently visit him as he desired they +should, he would walk out to them, knock at their doors, and desire +entrance, that amity might be maintained betwixt them and him; if +they did hear and open to him, as commonly they would, if they were +at home, then would he renew his former love, and confirm it too +with some new tokens, and signs of continued favour. + +And was it not now amazing to behold, that in that very place where +sometimes Diabolus had his abode, and entertained his Diabolonians +to the almost utter destruction of Mansoul, the Prince of princes +should sit eating and drinking with them, while all his mighty +captains, men of war, trumpeters, with the singing-men and singing- +women of his Father, stood round about to wait upon them! Now did +Mansoul's cup run over, now did her conduits run sweet wine, now +did she eat the finest of the wheat, and drink milk and honey out +of the rock! Now, she said, How great is his goodness! for since I +found favour in his eyes, how honourable have I been! + +The blessed Prince did also ordain a new officer in the town, and a +goodly person he was; his name was Mr. God's-Peace: this man was +set over my Lord Willbewill, my Lord Mayor, Mr. Recorder, the +subordinate preacher, Mr. Mind, and over all the natives of the +town of Mansoul. Himself was not a native of it, but came with the +Prince Emmanuel from the court. He was a great acquaintance of +Captain Credence and Captain Good-Hope; some say they were kin, and +I am of that opinion too. This man, as I said, was made governor +of the town in general, especially over the castle, and Captain +Credence was to help him there. And I made great observation of +it, that so long as all things went in Mansoul as this sweet- +natured gentleman would, the town was in most happy condition. Now +there were no jars, no chiding, no interferings, no unfaithful +doings in all the town of Mansoul; every man in Mansoul kept close +to his own employment. The gentry, the officers, the soldiers, and +all in place observed their order. And as for the women and +children of the town, they followed their business joyfully; they +would work and sing, work and sing, from morning till night: so +that quite through the town of Mansoul now nothing was to be found +but harmony, quietness, joy, and health. And this lasted all that +summer. + +But there was a man in the town of Mansoul, and his name was Mr. +Carnal-Security; this man did, after all this mercy bestowed on +this corporation, bring the town of Mansoul into great and grievous +slavery and bondage. A brief account of him and of his doings take +as followeth:- + +When Diabolus at first took possession of the town of Mansoul, he +brought thither, with himself, a great number of Diabolonians, men +of his own conditions. Now among these there was one whose name +was Mr. Self-Conceit, and a notable brisk man he was, as any that +in those days did possess the town of Mansoul. Diabolus, then, +perceiving this man to be active and bold, sent him upon many +desperate designs, the which he managed better, and more to the +pleasing of his lord, than most that came with him from the dens +could do. Wherefore, finding him so fit for his purpose, he +preferred him, and made him next to the great Lord Willbewill, of +whom we have written so much before. Now the Lord Willbewill being +in those days very well pleased with him, and with his +achievements, gave him his daughter, the Lady Fear-Nothing, to +wife. Now, of my Lady Fear-nothing, did this Mr. Self-Conceit +beget this gentleman, Mr. Carnal-Security. Wherefore, there being +then in Mansoul those strange kinds of mixtures, it was hard for +them, in some cases, to find out who were natives, who not, for Mr. +Carnal-Security sprang from my Lord Willbewill by mother's side, +though he had for his father a Diabolonian by nature. + +Well, this Carnal-Security took much after his father and mother; +he was self-conceited, he feared nothing, he was also a very busy +man: nothing of news, nothing of doctrine, nothing of alteration, +or talk of alteration, could at any time be on foot in Mansoul, but +be sure Mr. Carnal-Security would be at the head or tail of it: +but, to be sure, he would decline those that he deemed the weakest, +and stood always with them in his way of standing, that he supposed +was the strongest side. + +Now, when Shaddai the mighty, and Emmanuel his Son, made war upon +Mansoul, to take it, this Mr. Carnal-Security was then in town, and +was a great doer among the people, encouraging them in their +rebellion, putting them upon hardening themselves in their +resisting the King's forces: but when he saw that the town of +Mansoul was taken, and converted to the use of the glorious Prince +Emmanuel; and when he also saw what was become of Diabolus, and how +he was unroosted, and made to quit the castle in the greatest +contempt and scorn; and that the town of Mansoul was well lined +with captains, engines of war, and men, and also provision; what +doth he but slyly wheel about also; and as he had served Diabolus +against the good Prince, so he feigned that he would serve the +Prince against his foes. + +And having got some little smattering of Emmanuel's things by the +end, being bold, he ventures himself into the company of the +townsmen, any attempts also to chat among them. Now he knew that +the power and strength of the town of Mansoul was great, and that +it could not but be pleasing to the people, if he cried up their +might and their glory. Wherefore he beginneth his tale with the +power and strength of Mansoul, and affirmed that it was +impregnable; now magnifying their captains and their slings, and +their rams; then crying up their fortifications and strongholds; +and, lastly, the assurances that they had from their Prince, that +Mansoul should be happy for ever. But when he saw that some of the +men of the town were tickled and taken with his discourse, he makes +it his business, and walking from street to street, house to house, +and man to man, he at last brought Mansoul to dance after his pipe, +and to grow almost as carnally secure as himself; so from talking +they went to feasting, and from feasting to sporting; and so to +some other matters. Now Emmanuel was yet in the town of Mansoul, +and he wisely observed their doings. My Lord Mayor, my Lord +Willbewill, and Mr. Recorder were also all taken with the words of +this tattling Diabolonian gentleman, forgetting that their Prince +had given them warning before to take heed that they were not +beguiled with any Diabolonian sleight; he had further told them +that the security of the now flourishing town of Mansoul did not so +much lie in her present fortifications and force, as in her so +using of what she had, as might oblige her Emmanuel to abide within +her castle. For the right doctrine of Emmanuel was, that the town +of Mansoul should take heed that they forgot not his Father's love +and his; also, that they should so demean themselves as to continue +to keep themselves therein. Now this was not the way to do it, +namely, to fall in love with one of the Diabolonians, and with such +an one too as Mr. Carnal-Security was, and to be led up and down by +the nose by him; they should have heard their Prince, feared their +Prince, loved their Prince, and have stoned this naughty pack to +death, and took care to have walked in the ways of their Prince's +prescribing: for then should their peace have been as a river, +when their righteousness had been like the waves of the sea. + +Now when Emmanuel perceived that through the policy of Mr. Carnal- +Security the hearts of the men of Mansoul were chilled and abated +in their practical love to him, + +First. He bemoans them, and, condoles their state with the +Secretary, saying, 'Oh that my people had hearkened unto me, and +that Mansoul had walked in my ways! I would have fed them with the +finest of the wheat; and with honey out of the rock would I have +sustained them.' This done, he said in his heart, 'I will return +to the court, and go to my place, till Mansoul shall consider and +acknowledge their offence.' And he did so, and the cause and +manner of his going away from them was, that Mansoul declined him, +as is manifest in these particulars. + +'1. They left off their former way of visiting him, they came not +to his royal palace as afore. + +'2. They did not regard, nor yet take notice, that he came or came +not to visit them. + +'3. The love-feasts that had wont to be between their Prince and +them, though he made them still, and called them to them, yet they +neglected to come to them, or to be delighted with them. + +'4. They waited not for his counsels, but began to be headstrong +and confident in themselves, concluding that now they were strong +and invincible, and that Mansoul was secure, and beyond all reach +of the foe, and that her state must needs be unalterable for ever.' + +Now, as was said, Emmanuel perceiving that by the craft of Mr. +Carnal-Security, the town of Mansoul was taken off from their +dependence upon him, and upon his Father by him, and set upon what +by them was bestowed upon it; he first, as I said, bemoaned their +state, then he used means to make them understand that the way that +they went on in was dangerous: for he sent my Lord High Secretary +to them, to forbid them such ways; but twice when he came to them, +he found them at dinner in Mr. Carnal-Security's parlour; and +perceiving also that they were not willing to reason about matters +concerning their good, he took grief and went his way; the which +when he had told to the Prince Emmanuel, he took offence, and was +grieved also, and so made provision to return to his Father's +court. + +Now, the methods of his withdrawing, as I was saying before, were +thus:- + +'1. Even while he was yet with them in Mansoul, he kept himself +close, and more retired than formerly. + +'2. His speech was not now, if he came in their company, so +pleasant and familiar as formerly. + +'3. Nor did he, as in times past, send to Mansoul, from his table, +those dainty bits which he was wont to do. + +'4. Nor when they came to visit him, as now and then they would, +would he be so easily spoken with as they found him to be in times +past. They might now knock once, yea, twice, but he would seem not +at all to regard them; whereas formerly at the sound of their feet +he would up and run, and meet them halfway, and take them too, and +lay them in his bosom.' + +But thus Emmanuel carried it now, and by this his carriage he +sought to make them bethink themselves, and return to him. But, +alas! they did not consider, they did not know his ways, they +regarded not, they were not touched with these, nor with the true +remembrance of former favours. Wherefore what does he but in +private manner withdraw himself, first from his palace, then to the +gate of the town, and so away from Mansoul he goes, till they +should acknowledge their offence, and more earnestly seek his face. +Mr. God's-Peace also laid down his commission, and would for the +present act no longer in the town of Mansoul. + +Thus they walked contrary to him, and he again, by way of +retaliation, walked contrary to them. But, alas! by this time they +were so hardened in their way, and had so drunk in the doctrine of +Mr. Carnal-Security, that the departing of their Prince touched +them not, nor was he remembered by them when gone; and so, of +consequence, his absence not condoled by them. + +Now, there was a day wherein this old gentleman, Mr. Carnal- +Security, did again make a feast for the town of Mansoul; and there +was at that time in the town one Mr. Godly-Fear, one now but little +set by, though formerly one of great request. This man, old +Carnal-Security, had a mind, if possible, to gull, and debauch, and +abuse, as he did the rest, and therefore he now bids him to the +feast with his neighbours. So the day being come, they prepare, +and he goes and appears with the rest of the guests; and being all +set at the table, they did eat and drink, and were merry, even all +but this one man: for Mr. Godly-Fear sat like a stranger, and did +neither eat nor was merry. The which, when Mr. Carnal-Security +perceived, he presently addressed himself in a speech thus to him:- + +'Mr. Godly-Fear, are you not well? You seem to be ill of body or +mind, or both. I have a cordial of Mr. Forget-Good's making, the +which, sir, if you will take a dram of, I hope it may make you +bonny and blithe, and so make you more fit for us, feasting +companions.' + +Unto whom the good old gentleman discreetly replied, 'Sir, I thank +you for all things courteous and civil; but for your cordial I have +no list thereto. But a word to the natives of Mansoul: You, the +elders and chief of Mansoul, to me it is strange to see you so +jocund and merry, when the town of Mansoul is in such woeful case.' + +Then said Mr. Carnal-Security, 'You want sleep, good air, I doubt. +If you please, lie down, and take a nap, and we meanwhile will be +merry.' + +Then said the good man as follows: 'Sir, if you were not destitute +of an honest heart, you could not do as you have done and do.' + +Then said Mr. Carnal-Security, 'Why?' + +Godly. Nay, pray interrupt me not. It is true the town of Mansoul +was strong, and, with a proviso, impregnable; but you, the +townsmen, have weakened it, and it now lies obnoxious to its foes. +Nor is it a time to flatter, or be silent; it is you, Mr. Carnal- +Security, that have wilily stripped Mansoul, and driven her glory +from her; you have pulled down her towers, you have broken down her +gates, you have spoiled her locks and bars. + +And now, to explain myself: from that time that my lords of +Mansoul, and you, sir, grew so great, from that time the Strength +of Mansoul has been offended, and now he is arisen and is gone. If +any shall question the truth of my words, I will answer him by +this, and suchlike questions. 'Where is the Prince Emmanuel? When +did a man or woman in Mansoul see him? When did you hear from him, +or taste any of his dainty bits?' You are now a feasting with this +Diabolonian monster, but he is not your Prince. I say, therefore, +though enemies from without, had you taken heed, could not have +made a prey of you, yet since you have sinned against your Prince, +your enemies within have been too hard for you. + +Then said Mr. Carnal-Security, 'Fie! fie! Mr. Godly-Fear, fie!-- +will you never shake off your timorousness? Are you afraid of +being sparrow-blasted? Who hath hurt you? Behold, I am on your +side; only you are for doubting, and I am for being confident. +Besides, is this a time to be sad in? A feast is made for mirth; +why, then, do you now, to your shame, and our trouble, break out +into such passionate melancholy language, when you should eat and +drink, and be merry?' + +Then said Mr. Godly-Fear again, 'I may well be sad, for Emmanuel is +gone from Mansoul. I say again, he is gone, and you, sir, are the +man that has driven him away; yea, he is gone without so much as +acquainting the nobles of Mansoul with his going; and if that is +not a sign of his anger, I am not acquainted with the methods of +godliness. + +'And now, my lords and gentlemen, for my speech is still to you, +your gradual declining from him did provoke him gradually to depart +from you, the which he did for some time, if perhaps you would have +been made sensible thereby, and have been renewed by humbling +yourselves; but when he saw that none would regard, nor lay these +fearful beginnings of his anger and judgment to heart, he went away +from this place; and this I saw with mine eye. Wherefore now, +while you boast, your strength is gone; you are like the man that +had lost his locks that before did wave about his shoulders. You +may, with this lord of your feast, shake yourselves, and conclude +to do as at other times; but since without him you can do nothing, +and he is departed from you, turn your feast into a sigh, and your +mirth into lamentation.' + +Then the subordinate preacher, old Mr. Conscience by name, he that +of old was Recorder of Mansoul, being startled at what was said, +began to second it thus:- + +'Indeed, my brethren,' quoth he, 'I fear that Mr. Godly-Fear tells +us true: I, for my part, have not seen my Prince a long season. I +cannot remember the day, for my part; nor can I answer Mr. Godly- +Fear's question. I doubt, I am afraid that all is nought with +Mansoul.' + +Godly. Nay, I know that you shall not find him in Mansoul, for he +is departed and gone; yea, and gone for the faults of the elders, +and for that they rewarded his grace with unsufferable unkindness. + +Then did the subordinate preacher look as if he would fall down +dead at the table; also all there present, except the man of the +house, began to look pale and wan. But having a little recovered +themselves, and jointly agreeing to believe Mr. Godly-Fear and his +sayings, they began to consult what was best to be done, (now Mr. +Carnal-Security was gone into his withdrawing-room, for he liked +not such dumpish doings,) both to the man of the house for drawing +them into evil, and also to recover Emmanuel's love. + +And, with that, that saying of their Prince came very hot into +their minds, which he had bidden them do to such as were false +prophets that should arise to delude the town of Mansoul. So they +took Mr. Carnal-Security (concluding that he must be he) and burned +his house upon him with fire; for he also was a Diabolonian by +nature. + +So when this was passed and over, they bespeed themselves to look +for Emmanuel their Prince; and they sought him, but they found him +not. Then were they more confirmed in the truth of Mr. Godly- +Fear's sayings, and began also severely to reflect upon themselves +for their so vile and ungodly doings; for they concluded now that +it was through them that their Prince had left them. + +Then they agreed and went to my Lord Secretary, (him whom before +they refused to hear--him whom they had grieved with their doings,) +to know of him, for he was a seer, and could tell where Emmanuel +was, and how they might direct a petition to him. But the Lord +Secretary would not admit them to a conference about this matter, +nor would admit them to his royal place of abode, nor come out to +them to show them his face or intelligence. + +And now was it a day gloomy and dark, a day of clouds and of thick +darkness with Mansoul. Now they saw that they had been foolish, +and began to perceive what the company and prattle of Mr. Carnal- +Security had done, and what desperate damage his swaggering words +had brought poor Mansoul into. But what further it was likely to +cost them they were ignorant of. Now Mr. Godly-Fear began again to +be in repute with the men of the town; yea, they were ready to look +upon him as a prophet. + +Well, when the Sabbath day was come, they went to hear their +subordinate preacher; but oh, how he did thunder and lighten this +day! His text was that in the prophet Jonah: 'They that observe +lying vanities forsake their own mercy.' But there was then such +power and authority in that sermon, and such a dejection seen in +the countenances of the people that day, that the like hath seldom +been heard or seen. The people, when sermon was done, were scarce +able to go to their homes, or to betake themselves to their employs +the week after; they were so sermon-smitten, and also so sermon- +sick by being smitten, that they knew not what to do. + +He did not only show to Mansoul their sin, but did tremble before +them, under the sense of his own, still crying out of himself, as +he preached to them, 'Unhappy man that I am! that I should do so +wicked a thing! That I, a preacher! whom the Prince did set up to +teach to Mansoul his law, should myself live senseless and +sottishly here, and be one of the first found in transgression! +This transgression also fell within my precincts; I should have +cried out against the wickedness; but I let Mansoul lie wallowing +in it, until it had driven Emmanuel from its borders!' With these +things he also charged all the lords and gentry of Mansoul, to the +almost distracting of them. + +About this time, also, there was a great sickness in the town of +Mansoul, and most of the inhabitants were greatly afflicted. Yea, +the captains also, and men of war, were brought thereby to a +languishing condition, and that for a long time together; so that +in case of an invasion, nothing could to purpose now have been +done, either by the townsmen or field officers. Oh, how many pale +faces, weak hands, feeble knees, and staggering men were now seen +to walk the streets of Mansoul! Here were groans, there pants, and +yonder lay those that were ready to faint. + +The garments, too, which Emmanuel had given them were but in a +sorry case; some were rent, some were torn, and all in a nasty +condition; some also did hang so loosely upon them, that the next +bush they came at was ready to pluck them off. + +After some time spent in this sad and desolate condition, the +subordinate preacher called for a day of fasting, and to humble +themselves for being so wicked against the great Shaddai and his +Son. And he desired that Captain Boanerges would preach. So he +consented to do it; and the day being come, and his text was this, +'Cut it down, why cumbereth it the ground?' And a very smart +sermon he made upon the place. First, he showed what was the +occasion of the words, namely, because the fig-tree was barren; +then he showed what was contained in the sentence, namely, +repentance, or utter desolation. He then showed, also, by whose +authority this sentence was pronounced, and that was by Shaddai +himself. And, lastly, he showed the reasons of the point, and then +concluded his sermon. But he was very pertinent in the +application, insomuch that he made poor Mansoul tremble. For this +sermon, as well as the former, wrought much upon the hearts of the +men of Mansoul; yea, it greatly helped to keep awake those that +were roused by the preaching that went before. So that now +throughout the whole town, there was little or nothing to be heard +or seen but sorrow, and mourning, and woe. + +Now, after sermon, they got together and consulted what was best to +be done. 'But,' said the subordinate preacher, 'I will do nothing +of mine own head, without advising with my neighbour Mr. Godly- +Fear. For if he had aforehand understood more of the mind of our +Prince than we, I do not know but he also may have it now, even now +we are turning again to virtue.' + +So they called and sent for Mr. Godly-Fear, and he forthwith +appeared. Then they desired that he would further show his opinion +about what they had best to do. Then said the old gentleman as +followeth: 'It is my opinion that this town of Mansoul should, in +this day of her distress, draw up and send an humble petition to +their offended Prince Emmanuel, that he, in his favour and grace, +will turn again unto you, and not keep anger for ever.' + +When the townsmen had heard this speech, they did, with one +consent, agree to his advice; so they did presently draw up their +request, and the next was, But who shall carry it? At last they +did all agree to send it by my Lord Mayor. So he accepted of the +service, and addressed himself to his journey; and went and came to +the court of Shaddai, whither Emmanuel the Prince of Mansoul was +gone. But the gate was shut, and a strict watch kept thereat; so +that the petitioner was forced to stand without for a great while +together. Then he desired that some would go into the Prince and +tell him who stood at the gate, and what his business was. So one +went and told to Shaddai, and to Emmanuel his Son, that the Lord +Mayor of the town of Mansoul stood without at the gate of the +King's court, desiring to be admitted into the presence of the +Prince, the King's Son. He also told what was the Lord Mayor's +errand, both to the King and his Son Emmanuel. But the Prince +would not come down, nor admit that the gate should be opened to +him, but sent him an answer to this effect: 'They have turned +their back unto me, and not their face; but now in the time of +their trouble they say to me, Arise, and save us. But can they not +now go to Mr. Carnal-Security, to whom they went when they turned +from me, and make him their leader, their lord, and their +protection now in their trouble; why now in their trouble do they +visit me, since in their prosperity they went astray?' + +The answer made my Lord Mayor look black in the face; it troubled, +it perplexed, it rent him sore. And now he began again to see what +it was to be familiar with Diabolonians, such as Mr. Carnal- +Security was. When he saw that at court, as yet, there was little +help to be expected, either for himself or friends in Mansoul, he +smote upon his breast, and returned weeping, and all the way +bewailing the lamentable state of Mansoul. + +Well, when he was come within sight of the town, the elders and +chief of the people of Mansoul went out at the gate to meet him, +and to salute him, and to know how he sped at court. But he told +them his tale in so doleful a manner, that they all cried out, and +mourned, and wept. Wherefore they threw ashes and dust upon their +heads, and put sackcloth upon their loins, and went crying out +through the town of Mansoul; the which, when the rest of the +townsfolk saw, they all mourned and wept. This, therefore, was a +day of rebuke and trouble, and of anguish to the town of Mansoul, +and also of great distress. + +After some time, when they had somewhat refrained themselves, they +came together to consult again what by them was yet to be done; and +they asked advice, as they did before, of that reverend Mr. Godly- +Fear, who told them that there was no way better than to do as they +had done, nor would he that they should be discouraged at all with +that they had met with at court; yea, though several of their +petitions should be answered with nought but silence or rebuke: +'For,' said he, 'it is the way of the wise Shaddai to make men wait +and to exercise patience, and it should be the way of them in want, +to be willing to stay his leisure. + +Then they took courage, and sent again and again, and again, and +again; for there was not now one day, nor an hour that went over +Mansoul's head, wherein a man might not have met upon the road one +or other riding post, sounding the horn from Mansoul to the court +of the King Shaddai; and all with letters petitionary in behalf of, +and for the Prince's return to Mansoul. The road, I say, was now +full of messengers, going and returning, and meeting one another; +some from the court, and some from Mansoul; and this was the work +of the miserable town of Mansoul, all that long, that sharp, that +cold and tedious winter. + +Now if you have not forgot, you may yet remember that I told you +before, that after Emmanuel had taken Mansoul, yea, and after that +he had new modelled the town, there remained in several lurking +places of the corporation many of the old Diabolonians, that either +came with the tyrant when he invaded and took the town, or that had +there, by reason of unlawful mixtures, their birth and breeding, +and bringing up. And their holes, dens, and lurking places were +in, under, or about the wall of the town. Some of their names are +the Lord Fornication, the Lord Adultery, the Lord Murder, the Lord +Anger, the Lord Lasciviousness, the Lord Deceit, the Lord Evil-eye, +the Lord Blasphemy, and that horrible villain, the old and +dangerous Lord Covetousness. These, as I told you, with many more, +had yet their abode in the town of Mansoul, and that after that +Emmanuel had driven their prince Diabolus out of the castle. + +Against these the good Prince did grant a commission to the Lord +Willbewill and others, yea, to the whole town of Mansoul, to seek, +take, secure, and destroy any or all that they could lay hands of, +for that they were Diabolonians by nature, enemies to the Prince, +and those that sought to ruin the blessed town of Mansoul. But the +town of Mansoul did not pursue this warrant, but neglected to look +after, to apprehend, to secure, and to destroy these Diabolonians. +Wherefore what do these villains but by degrees take courage to put +forth their heads, and to show themselves to the inhabitants of the +town. Yea, and as I was told, some of the men of Mansoul grew too +familiar with some of them, to the sorrow of the corporation, as +you yet will hear more of in time and place. + +Well, when the Diabolonian lords that were left perceived that +Mansoul had, through sinning, offended Emmanuel their Prince, and +that he had withdrawn himself and was gone, what do they but plot +the ruin of the town of Mansoul. So upon a time they met together +at the hold of one Mr. Mischief, who was also a Diabolonian, and +there consulted how they might deliver up Mansoul into the hands of +Diabolus again. Now some advised one way, and some another, every +man according to his own liking. At last my Lord Lasciviousness +propounded, whether it might not be best, in the first place, for +some of those that were Diabolonians in Mansoul, to adventure to +offer themselves for servants to some of the natives of the town; +'for,' said he, 'if they so do, and Mansoul shall accept of them, +they may for us, and for Diabolus our Lord, make the taking of the +town of Mansoul more easy than otherwise it will be.' But then +stood up the Lord Murder, and said, 'This may not be done at this +time; for Mansoul is now in a kind of a rage, because by our +friend, Mr. Carnal-Security, she hath been once ensnared already, +and made to offend against her Prince; and how shall she reconcile +herself unto her lord again, but by the heads of these men? +Besides, we know that they have in commission to take and slay us +wherever they shall find us; let us, therefore, be wise as foxes: +when we are dead, we can do them no hurt; but while we live, we +may.' Thus, when they had tossed the matter to and fro, they +jointly agreed that a letter should forthwith be sent away to +Diabolus in their name, by which the state of the town of Mansoul +should be showed him, and how much it is under the frowns of their +Prince. 'We may also,' said some, 'let him know our intentions, +and ask of him his advice in the case.' + +So a letter was presently framed, the contents of which were +these:- + +'To our great lord, the Prince Diabolus, dwelling below in the +infernal cave: + +'O great father, and mighty Prince Diabolus, we, the true +Diabolonians yet remaining in the rebellious town of Mansoul, +having received our beings from thee, and our nourishment at thy +hands, cannot with content and quiet endure to behold, as we do +this day, how thou art dispraised, disgraced, and reproached among +the inhabitants of this town; nor is thy long absence at all +delightful to us, because greatly to our detriment. + +'The reason of this our writing unto our lord, is for that we are +not altogether without hope that this town may become thy +habitation again; for it is greatly declined from its Prince +Emmanuel; and he is uprisen, and is departed from them: yea, and +though they send, and send, and send, and send after him to return +to them, yet can they not prevail, nor get good words from him. + +'There has been also of late, and is yet remaining, a very great +sickness and fainting among them; and that not only upon the poorer +sort of the town, but upon the lords, captains, and chief gentry of +the place, (we only who are of the Diabolonians by nature remain +well, lively, and strong,) so that through their great +transgression on the one hand, and their dangerous sickness on the +other, we judge they lie open to thy hand and power. If, +therefore, it shall stand with thy horrible cunning, and with the +cunning of the rest of the princes with thee, to come and make an +attempt to take Mansoul again, send us word, and we shall to our +utmost power be ready to deliver it into thy hand. Or if what we +have said shall not by thy fatherhood be thought best and most meet +to be done, send us thy mind in a few words, and we are all ready +to follow thy counsel to the hazarding of our lives, and what else +we have. + +'Given under our hands the day and date above-written, after a +close consultation at the house of Mr. Mischief, who yet is alive +and hath his place in our desirable town of Mansoul.' + +When Mr. Profane (for he was the carrier) was come with his letter +to Hell-Gate Hill, he knocked at the brazen gates for entrance. +Then did Cerberus, the porter, for he is the keeper of that gate, +open to Mr. Profane, to whom he delivered his letter, which he had +brought from the Diabolonians in Mansoul. So he carried it in, and +presented it to Diabolus his lord, and said, 'Tidings, my lord, +from Mansoul, from our trusty friends in Mansoul.' + +Then came together from all places of the den Beelzebub, Lucifer, +Apollyon, with the rest of the rabblement there, to hear what news +from Mansoul. So the letter was broken up and read, and Cerberus +he stood by. When the letter was openly read, and the contents +thereof spread into all the corners of the den, command was given +that, without let or stop, dead-man's bell should be rung for joy. +So the bell was rung, and the princes rejoiced that Mansoul was +likely to come to ruin. Now, the clapper of the bell went, 'The +town of Mansoul is coming to dwell with us: make room for the town +of Mansoul.' This bell therefore they did ring, because they did +hope that they should have Mansoul again. + +Now, when they had performed this their horrible ceremony, they got +together again to consult what answer to send to their friends in +Mansoul; and some advised one thing, and some another: but at +length, because the business required haste, they left the whole +business to the prince Diabolus, judging him the most proper lord +of the place. So he drew up a letter as he thought fit, in answer +to what Mr. Profane had brought, and sent it to the Diabolonians +that did dwell in Mansoul, by the same hand that had brought theirs +to him; and these were the contents thereof:- + +'To our offspring, the high and mighty Diabolonians that yet dwell +in the town of Mansoul, Diabolus, the great prince of Mansoul, +wisheth a prosperous issue and conclusion of those many brave +enterprises, conspiracies, and designs, that you, of your love and +respect to our honour, have in your hearts to attempt to do against +Mansoul. Beloved children and disciples, my Lord Fornication, +Adultery, and the rest, we have here, in our desolate den, +received, to our highest joy and content, your welcome letter, by +the hand of our trusty Mr. Profane; and to show how acceptable your +tidings were, we rang out our bell for gladness; for we rejoiced as +much as we could, when we perceived that yet we had friends in +Mansoul, and such as sought our honour and revenge in the ruin of +the town of Mansoul. We also rejoiced to hear that they are in a +degenerated condition, and that they have offended their Prince, +and that he is gone. Their sickness also pleaseth us, as does also +your health, might, and strength. Glad also would we be, right +horribly beloved, could we get this town into our clutches again. +Nor will we be sparing of spending our wit, our cunning, our craft, +and hellish inventions to bring to a wished conclusion this your +brave beginning in order thereto. + +'And take this for your comfort, (our birth, and our offspring,) +that shall we again surprise it and take it, we will attempt to put +all your foes to the sword, and will make you the great lords and +captains of the place. Nor need you fear, if ever we get it again, +that we after that shall be cast out any more; for we will come +with more strength, and so lay far more fast hold than at the first +we did. Besides, it is the law of that Prince that now they own, +that if we get them a second time, they shall be ours for ever. + +'Do you, therefore, our trusty Diabolonians, yet more pry into, and +endeavour to spy out the weakness of the town of Mansoul. We also +would that you yourselves do attempt to weaken them more and more. +Send us word also by what means you think we had best to attempt +the regaining thereof: namely, whether by persuasion to a vain and +loose life; or, whether by tempting them to doubt and despair; or, +whether by blowing up of the town by the gunpowder of pride, and +self-conceit. Do you also, O ye brave Diabolonians, and true sons +of the pit, be always in a readiness to make a most hideous assault +within, when we shall be ready to storm it without. Now speed you +in your project, and we in our desires, to the utmost power of our +gates, which is the wish of your great Diabolus, Mansoul's enemy, +and him that trembles when he thinks of judgment to come. All the +blessings of the pit be upon you, and so we close up our letter. + +'Given at the pit's mouth, by the joint consent of all the princes +of darkness, to be sent, to the force and power that we have yet +remaining in Mansoul, by the hand of Mr. Profane, by me, Diabolus.' + +This letter, as was said, was sent to Mansoul, to the Diabolonians +that yet remained there, and that yet inhabited the wall, from the +dark dungeon of Diabolus, by the hand of Mr. Profane, by whom they +also in Mansoul sent theirs to the pit. Now, when this Mr. Profane +had made his return, and was come to Mansoul again, he went and +came as he was wont to the house of Mr. Mischief, for there was the +conclave, and the place where the contrivers were met. Now, when +they saw that their messenger was returned safe and sound, they +were greatly gladded thereat. Then he presented them with his +letter which he had brought from Diabolus for them; the which, when +they had read and considered, did much augment their gladness. +They asked him after the welfare of their friends, as how their +Lord Diabolus, Lucifer, and Beelzebub did, with the rest of those +of the den. To which this Profane made answer, 'Well, well, my +lords; they are well, even as well as can be in their place. They +also,' said he, 'did ring for joy at the reading of your letter, as +you well perceived by this when you read it.' + +Now, as was said, when they had read their letter, and perceived +that it encouraged them in their work, they fell to their way of +contriving again, namely, how they might complete their Diabolonian +design upon Mansoul. And the first thing that they agreed upon was +to keep all things from Mansoul as close as they could. 'Let it +not be known, let not Mansoul be acquainted with what we design +against it.' The next thing was, how, or by what means, they +should try to bring to pass the ruin and overthrow of Mansoul; and +one said after this manner, and another said after that. Then +stood up Mr. Deceit, and said, 'My right Diabolonian friends, our +lords, and the high ones of the deep dungeon, do propound unto us +these three ways. + +'1. Whether we had best to seek its ruin by making Mansoul loose +and vain. + +'2. Or whether by driving them to doubt and despair. + +'3. Or whether by endeavouring to blow them up by the gunpowder of +pride and self-conceit. + +'Now, I think, if we shall tempt them to pride, that may do +something; and if we tempt them to wantonness, that may help. But, +in my mind, if we could drive them into desperation, that would +knock the nail on the head; for then we should have them, in the +first place, question the truth of the love of the heart of their +Prince towards them, and that will disgust him much. This, if it +works well, will make them leave off quickly their way of sending +petitions to him; then farewell earnest solicitations for help and +supply; for then this conclusion lies naturally before them, "As +good do nothing, as do to no purpose."' So to Mr. Deceit they +unanimously did consent. + +Then the next question was, But how shall we do to bring this our +project to pass? and it was answered by the same gentleman--that +this might be the best way to do it: 'Even let,' quoth he, 'so +many of our friends as are willing to venture themselves for the +promoting of their prince's cause, disguise themselves with +apparel, change their names, and go into the market like far +country-men, and proffer to let themselves for servants to the +famous town of Mansoul, and let them pretend to do for their +masters as beneficially as may be; for by so doing they may, if +Mansoul shall hire them, in little time so corrupt and defile the +corporation, that her now Prince shall be not only further offended +with them, but in conclusion shall spue them out of his mouth. And +when this is done, our prince Diabolus shall prey upon them with +ease: yea, of themselves they shall fall into the mouth of the +cater.' + +This project was no sooner propounded, but was as highly accepted, +and forward were all Diabolonians now to engage in so delicate an +enterprise: but it was not thought fit that all should do thus; +wherefore they pitched upon two or three, namely, the Lord +Covetousness, the Lord Lasciviousness, and the Lord Anger. The +Lord Covetousness called himself by the name of Prudent-Thrifty; +the Lord Lasciviousness called himself by the name of Harmless- +Mirth; and the Lord Anger called himself by the name of Good-Zeal. + +So upon a market-day they came into the market-place, three lusty +fellows they were to look on, and they were clothed in sheep's +russet, which was also now in a manner as white as were the white +robes of the men of Mansoul. Now the men could speak the language +of Mansoul well. So when they were come into the market-place, and +had offered to let themselves to the townsmen, they were presently +taken up; for they asked but little wages, and promised to do their +masters great service. + +Mr. Mind hired Prudent-Thrifty, and Mr. Godly-Fear hired Good-Zeal. +True, this fellow Harmless-Mirth did hang a little in hand, and +could not so soon get him a master as the others did, because the +town of Mansoul was now in Lent, but after a while, because Lent +was almost out, the Lord Willbewill hired Harmless-Mirth to be both +his waiting man and his lackey: and thus they got them masters. + + These villains now being got thus far into the houses of the men +of Mansoul, quickly began to do great mischief therein; for, being +filthy, arch, and sly, they quickly corrupted the families where +they were; yea, they tainted their masters much, especially this +Prudent-Thrifty, and him they call Harmless-Mirth. True, he that +went under the visor of Good-Zeal, was not so well liked of his +master; for he quickly found that he was but a counterfeit rascal; +the which when the fellow perceived, with speed he made his escape +from the house, or I doubt not but his master had hanged him. + +Well, when these vagabonds had thus far carried on their design, +and had corrupted the town as much as they could, in the next place +they considered with themselves at what time their prince Diabolus +without, and themselves within the town, should make an attempt to +seize upon Mansoul; and they all agreed upon this, that a market- +day would be best for that work; for why? Then will the townsfolk +be busy in their ways: and always take this for a rule, when +people are most busy in the world, they least fear a surprise. 'We +also then,' said they, 'shall be able with less suspicion to gather +ourselves together for the work of our friends and lords; yea, and +in such a day, if we shall attempt our work, and miss it, we may, +when they shall give us the rout, the better hide ourselves in the +crowd, and escape.' + +These things being thus far agreed upon by them, they wrote another +letter to Diabolus, and sent it by the hand to Mr. Profane, the +contents of which were these:- + +'The lords of Looseness send to the great and high Diabolus from +our dens, caves, holes, and strongholds, in and about the wall of +the town of Mansoul, greeting: + +'Our great lord, and the nourisher of our lives, Diabolus--how glad +we were when we heard of your fatherhood's readiness to comply with +us, and help forward our design in our attempts to ruin Mansoul, +none can tell but those who, as we do, set themselves against all +appearance of good, when and wheresoever we find it. + +'Touching the encouragement that your greatness is pleased to give +us to continue to devise, contrive, and study the utter desolation +of Mansoul, that we are not solicitous about: for we know right +well that it cannot but be pleasing and profitable to us to see our +enemies, and them that seek our lives, die at our feet, or fly +before us. We therefore are still contriving, and that to the best +of our cunning, to make this work most facile and easy to your +lordships, and to us. + +'First, we considered of that most hellishly cunning, compacted, +threefold project, that by you was propounded to us in your last; +and have concluded, that though to blow them up with the gunpowder +of pride would do well, and to do it by tempting them to be loose +and vain will help on, yet to contrive to bring them into the gulf +of desperation, we think will do best of all. Now we, who are at +your beck, have thought or two ways to do this: first we, for our +parts, will make them as vile as we can, and then you with us, at a +time appointed, shall be ready to fall upon them with the utmost +force. And of all the nations that are at your whistle, we think +that an army of doubters may be the most likely to attack and +overcome the town of Mansoul. Thus shall we overcome these +enemies, else the pit shall open her mouth upon them, and +desperation shall thrust them down into it. We have also, to +effect this so much by us desired design, sent already three of our +trusty Diabolonians among them; they are disguised in garb, they +have changed their names, and are now accepted of them; namely, +Covetousness, Lasciviousness, and Anger. The name of Covetousness +is changed to Prudent-Thrifty, and him Mr. Mind has hired, and is +almost become as bad as our friend. Lasciviousness has changed his +name to Harmless-Mirth, and he is got to be the Lord Willbewill's +lackey; but he has made his master very wanton. Anger changed his +name into Good-Zeal, and was entertained by Mr. Godly-Fear; but the +peevish old gentleman took pepper in the nose, and turned our +companion out of his house. Nay, he has informed us since that he +ran away from him, or else his old master had hanged him up for his +labour. + +'Now these have much helped forward our work and design upon +Mansoul; for notwithstanding the spite and quarrelsome temper of +the old gentleman last mentioned, the other two ply their business +well, and are likely to ripen the work apace. + +'Our next project is, that it be concluded that you come upon the +town upon a market-day, and that when they are upon the heat of +their business; for then, to be sure, they will be most secure, and +least think that an assault will be made upon them. They will also +at such a time be less able to defend themselves, and to offend you +in the prosecution of our design. And we your trusty (and we are +sure your beloved) ones shall, when you shall make your furious +assault without, be ready to second the business within. So shall +we, in all likelihood, be able to put Mansoul to utter confusion, +and to swallow them up before they can come to themselves. If your +serpentine heads, most subtile dragons, and our highly esteemed +lords can find out a better way than this, let us quickly know your +minds. + +'To the monsters of the infernal cave, from the house of Mr. +Mischief in Mansoul, by the hand of Mr. Profane.' + +Now all the while that the raging runagates and hellish +Diabolonians were thus contriving the ruin of the town of Mansoul, +they (namely, the poor town itself) was in a sad and woeful case; +partly because they had so grievously offended Shaddai and his Son, +and partly because that the enemies thereby got strength within +them afresh; and also because, though they had by many petitions +made suit to the Prince Emmanuel, and to his Father Shaddai by him, +for their pardon and favour, yet hitherto obtained they not one +smile; but contrariwise, through the craft and subtilty of the +domestic Diabolonians, their cloud was made to grow blacker and +blacker, and their Emmanuel to stand at further distance. + +The sickness also did still greatly rage in Mansoul, both among the +captains and the inhabitants of the town; and their enemies only +were now lively and strong, and likely to become the head, whilst +Mansoul was made the tail. + +By this time the letter last mentioned, that was written by the +Diabolonians that yet lurked in the town of Mansoul, was conveyed +to Diabolus in the black den, by the hand of Mr. Profane. He +carried the letter by Hell-Gate Hill as afore, and conveyed it by +Cerberus to his lord. + +But when Cerberus and Mr. Profane did meet, they were presently as +great as beggars, and thus they fell into discourse about Mansoul, +and about the project against her. + +'Ah! old friend,' quoth Cerberus, 'art thou come to Hell-Gate Hill +again? By St. Mary, I am glad to see thee!' + +Prof. Yes, my lord, I am come again about the concerns of the town +of Mansoul. + +Cerb. Prithee, tell me what condition is that town of Mansoul in +at present? + +Prof. In a brave condition, my lord, for us, and for my lords, the +lords of this place, I trow for they are greatly decayed as to +godliness, and that is as well as our heart can wish; their Lord is +greatly out with them, and that doth also please us well. We have +already also a foot in their dish, for our Diabolonian friends are +laid in their bosoms, and what do we lack but to be masters of the +place! Besides, our trusty friends in Mansoul are daily plotting +to betray it to the lords of this town; also the sickness rages +bitterly among them; and that which makes up all, we hope at last +to prevail.' + +Then said the dog of Hell-Gate, 'No time like this to assault them. +I wish that the enterprise be followed close, and that the success +desired may be soon effected: yea, I wish it for the poor +Diabolonians' sakes, that live in the continual fear of their lives +in that traitorous town of Mansoul.' + +Prof. The contrivance is almost finished, the lords in Mansoul +that are Diabolonians are at it day and night, and the other are +like silly doves; they want heart to be concerned with their state +and to consider that ruin is at hand. Besides you may, yea, must +think, when you put all things together, that there are many +reasons that prevail with Diabolus to make what haste he can. + +Cerb. Thou hast said as it is; I am glad things are at this pass. +Go in, my brave Profane, to my lords, they will give thee for thy +welcome as good a coranto as the whole of this kingdom will afford. +I have sent thy letter in already. + +Then Mr. Profane went into the den, and his lord Diabolus met him, +and saluted him with, 'Welcome, my trusty servant: I have been +made glad with thy letter.' The rest of the lords of the pit gave +him also their salutations. Then Profane, after obeisance made to +them all, said, 'Let Mansoul be given to my lord Diabolus, and let +him be her king for ever.' And with that, the hollow belly and +yawning gorge of hell gave so loud and hideous a groan, (for that +is the music of that place,) that it made the mountains about it +totter, as if they would fall in pieces. + +Now, after they had read and considered the letter, they consulted +what answer to return; and the first that did speak to it was +Lucifer. + +Then said he, 'The first project of the Diabolonians in Mansoul is +likely to be lucky, and to take; namely, that they will, by all the +ways and means they can, make Mansoul yet more vile and filthy: no +way to destroy a soul like this. Our old friend Balaam went this +way and prospered many years ago; let this therefore stand with us +for a maxim, and be to Diabolonians for a general rule in all ages; +for nothing can make this to fail but grace, in which I would hope +that this town has no share. But whether to fall upon them on a +market-day, because of their cumber in business, that I would +should be under debate. And there is more reason why this head +should be debated, than why some other should; because upon this +will turn the whole of what we shall attempt. If we time not our +business well, our whole project may fail. Our friends, the +Diabolonians, say that a market-day is best; for then will Mansoul +be most busy, and have fewest thoughts of a surprise. But what if +also they should double their guards on those days? (and methinks +nature and reason should teach them to do it;) and what if they +should keep such a watch on those days as the necessity of their +present case doth require? yea, what if their men should be always +in arms on those days? then you may, my lords, be disappointed in +your attempts, and may bring our friends in the town to utter +danger of unavoidable ruin.' + +Then said the great Beelzebub, 'There is something in what my lord +hath said; but his conjecture may, or may not fall out. Nor hath +my lord laid it down as that which must not be receded from; for I +know that he said it only to provoke to a warm debate thereabout. +Therefore we must understand, if we can, whether the town of +Mansoul has such sense and knowledge of her decayed state, and of +the design that we have on foot against her, as doth provoke her to +set watch and ward at her gates, and to double them on market-days. +But if, after inquiry made, it shall be found that they are asleep, +then any day will do, but a market-day is best; and this is my +judgment in this case.' + +Then quoth Diabolus, 'How should we know this?' and it was +answered, 'Inquire about it at the mouth of Mr. Profane.' So +Profane was called in, and asked the question, and he made his +answer as follows:- + +Prof. My lords, so far as I can gather, this is at present the +condition of the town of Mansoul: they are decayed in their faith +and love; Emmanuel, their Prince, has given them the back; they +send often by petition to fetch him again, but he maketh not haste +to answer their request, nor is there much reformation among them. + +Diab. I am glad that they are backward in a reformation, but yet I +am afraid of their petitioning. However, their looseness of life +is a sign that there is not much heart in what they do, and without +the heart things are little worth. But go on, my masters; I will +divert you, my lords, no longer. + +Beel. If the case be so with Mansoul, as Mr. Profane has described +it to be, it will be no great matter what day we assault it; not +their prayers, nor their power will do them much service. + +When Beelzebub had ended his oration, then Apollyon did begin. 'My +opinion,' said he, 'concerning this matter, is, that we go on fair +and softly, not doing things in a hurry. Let our friends in +Mansoul go on still to pollute and defile it, by seeking to draw it +yet more into sin (for there is nothing like sin to devour +Mansoul). If this be done, and it takes effect, Mansoul, of +itself, will leave off to watch, to petition, or anything else that +should tend to her security and safety; for she will forget her +Emmanuel, she will not desire his company, and can she be gotten +thus to live, her Prince will not come to her in haste. Our trusty +friend, Mr. Carnal-Security, with one of his tricks did drive him +out of the town; and why may not my Lord Covetousness, and my Lord +Lasciviousness, by what they may do, keep him out of the town? And +this I will tell you, (not because you know it not,) that two or +three Diabolonians, if entertained and countenanced by the town of +Mansoul, will do more to the keeping of Emmanuel from them, and +towards making the town of Mansoul your own, than can an army of a +legion that should be sent out from us to withstand him. Let, +therefore, this first project that our friends in Mansoul have set +on foot, be strongly and diligently carried on, with all cunning +and craft imaginable; and let them send continually, under one +guise or another, more and other of their men to play with the +people of Mansoul; and then, perhaps, we shall not need to be at +the charge of making a war upon them; or if that must of necessity +be done, yet the more sinful they are, the more unable, to be sure, +they will be to resist us, and then the more easily we shall +overcome them. And besides, suppose (and that is the worst that +can be supposed) that Emmanuel should come to them again, why may +not the same means, or the like, drive him from them once more? +Yea, why may he not, by their lapse into that sin again, be driven +from them for ever, for the sake of which he was at the first +driven from them for a season? And if this should happen, then +away go with him his rams, his slings, his captains, his soldiers, +and he leaveth Mansoul naked and bare. Yea, will not this town, +when she sees herself utterly forsaken of her Prince, of her own +accord open her gates again unto you, and make of you as in the +days of old? But this must be done by time, a few days will not +effect so great a work as this.' + +So soon as Apollyon had made an end of speaking, Diabolus began to +blow out his own malice, and to plead his own cause; and he said, +'My lords, and powers of the cave, my true and trusty friends, I +have with much impatience, as becomes me, given ear to your long +and tedious orations. But my furious gorge, and empty paunch, so +lusteth after a repossession of my famous town of Mansoul, that +whatever comes out, I can wait no longer to see the events of +lingering projects. I must, and that without further delay, seek, +by all means I can, to fill my insatiable gulf with the soul and +body of the town of Mansoul. Therefore lend me your heads, your +hearts, and your help, now I am going to recover my town of +Mansoul.' + +When the lords and princes of the pit saw the flaming desire that +was in Diabolus to devour the miserable town of Mansoul, they left +off to raise any more objections, but consented to lend him what +strength they could, though had Apollyon's advice been taken, they +had far more fearfully distressed the town of Mansoul. But, I say, +they were willing to lend him what strength they could, not knowing +what need they might have of him, when they should engage for +themselves, as he. Wherefore they fell to advising about the next +thing propounded, namely, what soldiers they were, and also how +many, with whom Diabolus should go against the town of Mansoul to +take it; and after some debate, it was concluded, according as in +the letter the Diabolonians had suggested, that none were more fit +for that expedition than an army of terrible doubters. They +therefore concluded to send against Mansoul an army of sturdy +doubters. The number thought fit to be employed in that service +was between twenty and thirty thousand. So then the result of that +great council of those high and mighty lords was--That Diabolus +should even now, out of hand, beat up his drum for men in the land +of Doubting, which land lieth upon the confines of the place called +Hell-Gate Hill, for men that might be employed by him against the +miserable town of Mansoul. It was also concluded, that these lords +themselves should help him in the war, and that they would to that +end head and manage his men. So they drew up a letter, and sent +back to the Diabolonians that lurked in Mansoul, and that waited +for the back-coming of Mr. Profane, to signify to them into what +method and forwardness they at present had put their design. The +contents whereof now follow:- + +'From the dark and horrible dungeon of hell, Diabolus with all the +society of the princes of darkness, sends to our trusty ones, in +and about the walls of the town of Mansoul, now impatiently waiting +for our most devilish answer to their venomous and most poisonous +design against the town of Mansoul. + +'Our native ones, in whom from day to day we boast, and in whose +actions all the year long we do greatly delight ourselves, we +received your welcome, because highly esteemed letter, at the hand +of our trusty and greatly beloved, the old gentleman, Mr. Profane. +And do give you to understand, that when we had broken it up, and +had read the contents thereof, to your amazing memory be it spoken, +our yawning hollow-bellied place, where we are, made so hideous and +yelling a noise for joy, that the mountains that stand round about +Hell-Gate Hill, had like to have been shaken to pieces at the sound +thereof. + +'We could also do no less than admire your faithfulness to us, with +the greatness of that subtilty that now hath showed itself to be in +your heads to serve us against the town of Mansoul. For you have +invented for us so excellent a method for our proceeding against +that rebellious people, a more effectual cannot be thought of by +all the wits of hell. The proposals, therefore, which now, at +last, you have sent us, since we saw them, we have done little else +but highly approved and admired them. + +'Nay, we shall, to encourage you in the profundity of your craft, +let you know, that, at a full assembly and conclave of our princes +and principalities of this place, your project was discoursed and +tossed from one side of our cave to the other by their +mightinesses; but a better, and as was by themselves judged, a more +fit and proper way by all their wits, could not be invented, to +surprise, take, and make our own, the rebellious town of Mansoul. + +'Wherefore, in fine, all that was said that varied from what you +had in your letter propounded, fell of itself to the ground, and +yours only was stuck to by Diabolus, the prince; yea, his gaping +gorge and yawning paunch was on fire to put your invention into +execution. + +'We therefore give you to understand that our stout, furious, and +unmerciful Diabolus is raising, for your relief, and the ruin of +the rebellious town of Mansoul, more than twenty thousand doubters +to come against that people. They are all stout and sturdy men, +and men that of old have been accustomed to war, and that can +therefore well endure the drum. I say, he is doing this work of +his with all the possible speed he can; for his heart and spirit is +engaged in it. We desire, therefore, that, as you have hitherto +stuck to us, and given us both advice and encouragement thus far, +you still will prosecute our design; nor shall you lose, but be +gainers thereby; yea, we intend to make you the lords of Mansoul. + +'One thing may not by any means be omitted, that is, those with us +do desire that every one of you that are in Mansoul would still use +all your power, cunning, and skill, with delusive persuasions, yet +to draw the town of Mansoul into more sin and wickedness, even that +sin may be finished and bring forth death. + +'For thus it is concluded with us, that the more vile, sinful, and +debauched the town of Mansoul is, more backward will be their +Emmanuel to come to their help, either by presence or other relief; +yea, the more sinful, the more weak, and so the more unable will +they be to make resistance when we shall make our assault upon them +to swallow them up. Yea, that may cause that their mighty Shaddai +himself may cast them out of his protection; yea, and send for his +captains and soldiers home, with his slings and rams, and leave +them naked and bare; and then the town of Mansoul will of itself +open to us, and fall as the fig into the mouth of the eater. Yea, +to be sure. that we then with a great deal of ease shall come upon +her and overcome her. + +'As to the time of our coming upon Mansoul, we, as yet, have not +fully resolved upon that, though at present some of us think as +you, that a market-day, or a market-day at night, will certainly be +the best. However, do you be ready, and when you shall hear our +roaring drum without, do you be as busy to make the most horrible +confusion within. So shall Mansoul certainly be distressed before +and behind, and shall not know which way to betake herself for +help. My Lord Lucifer, my Lord Beelzebub, my Lord Apollyon, my +Lord Legion, with the rest, salute you, as does also my Lord +Diabolus; and we wish both you, with all that you do, or shall +possess, the very self-same fruit and success for their doing as we +ourselves at present enjoy for ours. + +'From our dreadful confines in the most fearful pit, we salute you, +and so do those many legions here with us, wishing you may be as +hellishly prosperous as we desire to be ourselves. By the letter- +carrier, Mr. Profane.' + +Then Mr. Profane addressed himself for his return to Mansoul, with +his errand from the horrible pit to the Diabolonians that dwelt in +that town. So he came up the stairs from the deep to the mouth of +the cave where Cerberus was. Now when Cerberus saw him, he asked +how did matters go below, about and against the town of Mansoul. + +Prof. Things go as well as we can expect. The letter that I +carried thither was highly approved, and well liked by all my +lords, and I am returning to tell our Diabolonians so. I have an +answer to it here in my bosom, that I am sure will make our masters +that sent me glad; for the contents thereof are to encourage them +to pursue their design to the utmost, and to be ready also to fall +on within, when they shall see my Lord Diabolus beleaguering the +town of Mansoul. + +Cerb. But does he intend to go against them himself? + +Prof. Does he! Ay! and he will take along with him more than +twenty thousand, all sturdy Doubters, and men of war, picked men +from the land of Doubting, to serve him in the expedition. + +Then was Cerberus glad, and said, 'And is there such brave +preparations a-making to go against the miserable town of Mansoul? +And would I might be put at the head of a thousand of them, that I +might also show my valour against the famous town of Mansoul.' + +Prof. Your wish may come to pass; you look like one that has +mettle enough, and my lord will have with him those that are +valiant and stout. But my business requires haste. + +Cerb. Ay, so it does. Speed thee to the town of Mansoul, with all +the deepest mischiefs that this place can afford thee. And when +thou shalt come to the house of Mr. Mischief, the place where the +Diabolonians meet to plot, tell them that Cerberus doth wish them +his service, and that if he may, he will with the army come up +against the famous town of Mansoul. + +Prof. That I will. And I know that my lords that are there will +be glad to hear it, and to see you also. + +So after a few more such kind of compliments, Mr. Profane took his +leave of his friend Cerberus; and Cerberus again, with a thousand +of their pit-wishes, bid him haste, with all speed, to his masters. +The which when he had heard, he made obeisance, and began to gather +up his heels to run. + +Thus, therefore, he returned, and went and came to Mansoul; and +going, as afore, to the house of Mr. Mischief, there he found the +Diabolonians assembled, and waiting for his return. Now when he +was come, and had presented himself, he also delivered to them his +letter, and adjoined this compliment to them therewith: 'My lords, +from the confines of the pit, the high and mighty principalities +and powers of the den salute you here, the true Diabolonians of the +town of Mansoul. Wishing you always the most proper of their +benedictions, for the great service, high attempts, and brave +achievements that you have put yourselves upon, for the restoring +to our prince Diabolus the famous town of Mansoul.' + +This was therefore the present state of the miserable town of +Mansoul: she had offended her Prince, and he was gone; she had +encouraged the powers of hell, by her foolishness, to come against +her to seek her utter destruction. + +True, the town of Mansoul was somewhat made sensible of her sin, +but the Diabolonians were gotten into her bowels; she cried, but +Emmanuel was gone, and her cries did not fetch him as yet again. +Besides, she knew not now whether, ever or never, he would return +and come to his Mansoul again; nor did they know the power and +industry of the enemy, nor how forward they were to put in +execution that plot of hell that they had devised against her. + +They did, indeed, still send petition after petition to the Prince, +but he answered all with silence. They did neglect reformation, +and that was as Diabolus would have it; for he knew, if they +regarded iniquity in their heart, their King would not hear their +prayer; they therefore did still grow weaker and weaker, and were +as a rolling thing before the whirlwind. They cried to their King +for help, and laid Diabolonians in their bosoms: what therefore +should a King do to them? Yea, there seemed now to be a mixture in +Mansoul; the Diabolonians and the Mansoulians would walk the +streets together. Yea, they began to seek their peace; for they +thought that, since the sickness had been so mortal in Mansoul, it +was in vain to go to handygripes with them. Besides, the weakness +of Mansoul was the strength of their enemies; and the sins of +Mansoul, the advantage of the Diabolonians. The foes of Mansoul +did also now begin to promise themselves the town for a possession: +there was no great difference now betwixt Mansoulians and +Diabolonians: both seemed to be masters of Mansoul. Yea, the +Diabolonians increased and grew, but the town of Mansoul diminished +greatly. There were more than eleven thousand men, women, and +children that died by the sickness in Mansoul. + +But now, as Shaddai would have it, there was one whose name was Mr. +Prywell, a great lover of the people of Mansoul. And he, as his +manner was, did go listening up and down in Mansoul to see, and to +hear, if at any time he might, whether there was any design against +it or no. For he was always a jealous man, and feared some +mischief sometime would befal it, either from the Diabolonians +within, or from some power without. Now upon a time it so +happened, as Mr. Prywell went listening here and there, that he +lighted upon a place called Vilehill, in Mansoul, where +Diabolonians used to meet; so hearing a muttering, (you must know +that it was in the night,) he softly drew near to hear; nor had he +stood long under the house-end, (for there stood a house there,) +but he heard one confidently affirm, that it was not, or would not +be long before Diabolus should possess himself again of Mansoul; +and that then the Diabolonians did intend to put all Mansoulians to +the sword, and would kill and destroy the King's captains, and +drive all his soldiers out of the town. He said, moreover, that he +knew there were above twenty thousand fighting men prepared by +Diabolus for the accomplishing of this design, and that it would +not be months before they all should see it. + +When Mr. Prywell had heard this story, he did quickly believe it +was true: wherefore he went forthwith to my Lord Mayor's house, +and acquainted him therewith; who, sending for the subordinate +preacher, brake the business to him; and he as soon gave the alarm +to the town; for he was now the chief preacher in Mansoul, because, +as yet, my Lord Secretary was ill at ease. And this was the way +that the subordinate preacher did take to alarm the town therewith. +The same hour he caused the lecture bell to be rung; so the people +came together: he gave them then a short exhortation to +watchfulness, and made Mr. Prywell's news the argument thereof. +'For,' said he, 'an horrible plot is contrived against Mansoul, +even to massacre us all in a day, nor is this story to be slighted; +for Mr. Prywell is the author thereof. Mr. Prywell was always a +lover of Mansoul, a sober and judicious man, a man that is no +tattler, nor raiser of false reports, but one that loves to look +into the very bottom of matters, and talks nothing of news, but by +very solid arguments. + +'I will call him, and you shall hear him your own selves;' so he +called him, and he came and told his tale so punctually, and +affirmed its truth with such ample grounds, that Mansoul fell +presently under a conviction of the truth of what he said. The +preacher did also back him, saying, 'Sirs, it is not irrational for +us to believe it, for we have provoked Shaddai to anger, and have +sinned Emmanuel out of the town; we have had too much +correspondence with Diabolonians, and have forsaken our former +mercies: no marvel then, if the enemy both within and without +should design and plot our ruin; and what time like this to do it? +The sickness is now in the town, and we have been made weak +thereby. Many a good meaning man is dead, and the Diabolonians of +late grow stronger and stronger. + +'Besides,' quoth the subordinate preacher, 'I have received from +this good truth-teller this one inkling further, that he understood +by those that he overheard, that several letters have lately passed +between the furies and the Diabolonians in order to our +destruction.' When Mansoul heard all this, and not being able to +gainsay it, they lift up their voice and wept. Mr. Prywell did +also, in the presence of the townsmen, confirm all that their +subordinate preacher had said. Wherefore they now set afresh to +bewail their folly, and to a doubling of petitions to Shaddai and +his Son. They also brake the business to the captains, high +commanders, and men of war in the town of Mansoul, entreating them +to use the means to be strong, and to take good courage; and that +they would look after their harness, and make themselves ready to +give Diabolus battle by night and by day, shall he come, as they +are informed he will, to beleaguer the town of Mansoul. + +When the captains heard this, they being always true lovers of the +town of Mansoul, what do they but like so many Samsons they shake +themselves, and come together to consult and contrive how to defeat +those bold and hellish contrivances that were upon the wheel by the +means of Diabolus and his friends against the now sickly, weakly, +and much impoverished town of Mansoul; and they agreed upon these +following particulars:- + +1. That the gates of Mansoul should be kept shut, and made fast +with bars and locks, and that all persons that went out, or came +in, should be very strictly examined by the captains of the guards, +'to the end,' said they, 'that those that are managers of the plot +amongst us, may, either coming or going, be taken; and that we may +also find out who are the great contrivers, amongst us, of our +ruin.' + +2. The next thing was, that a strict search should be made for all +kind of Diabolonians throughout the whole town of Mansoul; and that +every man's house from top to bottom should be looked into, and +that, too, house by house, that if possible a further discovery +might be made of all such among them as had a hand in these +designs. + +3. It was further concluded upon, that wheresoever or with +whomsoever any of the Diabolonians were found, that even those of +the town of Mansoul that had given them house and harbour, should +to their shame, and the warning of others, take penance in the open +place. + +4. It was, moreover, resolved by the famous town of Mansoul, that a +public fast, and a day of humiliation, should be kept throughout +the whole corporation, to the justifying of their Prince, the +abasing of themselves before him for their transgressions against +him, and against Shaddai, his Father. It was further resolved, +that all such in Mansoul as did not on that day endeavour to keep +that fast, and to humble themselves for their faults, but that +should mind their worldly employs, or be found wandering up and +down the streets, should be taken for Diabolonians, and should +suffer as Diabolonians for such their wicked doings. + +5. It was further concluded then, that with what speed, and with +what warmth of mind they could, they would renew their humiliation +for sin, and their petitions to Shaddai for help; they also +resolved, to send tidings to the court of all that Mr. Prywell had +told them. + +6. It was also determined, that thanks should be given by the town +of Mansoul to Mr. Prywell, for his diligent seeking of the welfare +of their town: and further, that forasmuch as he was so naturally +inclined to seek their good, and also to undermine their foes, they +gave him a commission of scout-master-general, for the good of the +town of Mansoul. + +When the corporation, with their captains, had thus concluded, they +did as they had said; they shut up their gates, they made for +Diabolonians strict search, they made those with whom any were +found to take penance in the open place: they kept their fast, and +renewed their petitions to their Prince, and Mr. Prywell managed +his charge and the trust that Mansoul had put in his hands, with +great conscience and good fidelity; for he gave himself wholly up +to his employ, and that not only within the town, but he went out +to pry, to see, and to hear. + +And not many days after he provided for his journey, and went +towards Hell-Gate Hill, into the country where the Doubters were, +where he heard of all that had been talked of in Mansoul, and he +perceived also that Diabolus was almost ready for his march, etc. +So he came back with speed, and, calling the captains and elders of +Mansoul together, he told them where he had been, what he had +heard, and what he had seen. Particularly, he told them that +Diabolus was almost ready for his march, and that he had made old +Mr. Incredulity, that once brake prison in Mansoul, the, general of +his army; that his army consisted all of Doubters, and that their +number was above twenty thousand. He told, moreover, that Diabolus +did intend to bring with him the chief princes of the infernal pit, +and that he would make them chief captains over his Doubters. He +told them, moreover, that it was certainly true that several of the +black den would, with Diabolus, ride reformades to reduce the town +of Mansoul to the obedience of Diabolus, their prince. + +He said, moreover, that he understood by the Doubters, among whom +he had been, that the reason why old Incredulity was made general +of the whole army, was because none truer than he to the tyrant; +and because he had an implacable spite against the welfare of the +town of Mansoul. Besides, said he, he remembers the affronts that +Mansoul has given him, and he is resolved to be revenged of them. + +But the black princes shall be made high commanders, only +Incredulity shall be over them all; because, which I had almost +forgot, he can more easily, and more dexterously, beleaguer the +town of Mansoul, than can any of the princes besides. + +Now, when the captains of Mansoul, with the elders of the town, had +heard the tidings that Mr. Prywell did bring, they thought it +expedient, without further delay, to put into execution the laws +that against the Diabolonians their Prince had made for them, and +given them in commandment to manage against them. Wherefore, +forthwith a diligent and impartial search was made in all houses in +Mansoul, for all and all manner of Diabolonians. Now, in the house +of Mr. Mind, and in the house of the great Lord Willbewill, were +two Diabolonians found. In Mr. Mind's house was one Lord +Covetousness found; but he had changed his name to Prudent-Thrifty. +In my Lord Willbewill's house, one Lasciviousness was found; but he +had changed his name to Harmless-Mirth. These two the captains and +elders of the town of Mansoul took, and committed them to custody +under the hand of Mr. Trueman, the gaoler; and this man handled +them so severely, and loaded them so well with irons, that in time +they both fell into a very deep consumption, and died in the +prison-house; their masters also, according to the agreement of the +captains and elders, were brought to take penance in the open place +to their shame, and for a warning to the rest of the town of +Mansoul. + +Now, this was the manner of penance in those days: the persons +offending being made sensible of the evil of their doings, were +enjoined open confession of their faults, and a strict amendment of +their lives. + +After this, the captains and elders of Mansoul sought yet to find +out more Diabolonians, wherever they lurked, whether in dens, +caves, holes, vaults, or where else they could, in or about the +wall or town of Mansoul. But though they could plainly see their +footing, and so follow them by their track and smell to their +holds, even to the mouths of their caves and dens, yet take them, +hold them, and do justice upon them, they could not; their ways +were so crooked, their holds so strong, and they so quick to take +sanctuary there. + +But Mansoul did now with so stiff an hand rule over the +Diabolonians that were left, that they were glad to shrink into +corners: time was when they durst walk openly, and in the day; but +now they were forced to embrace privacy and the night: time was +when a Mansoulian was their companion; but now they counted them +deadly enemies. This good change did Mr. Prywell's intelligence +make in the famous town of Mansoul. + +By this time, Diabolus had finished his army which he intended to +bring with him for the ruin of Mansoul; and had set over them +captains, and other field officers, such as liked his furious +stomach best: himself was lord paramount, Incredulity was general +of his army, their highest captains shall be named afterwards; but +now for their officers, colours, and scutcheons. + +1. Their first captain was Captain Rage: he was captain over the +election doubters, his were the red colours; his standard-bearer +was Mr. Destructive, and the great red dragon he had for his +scutcheon. + +2. The second captain was Captain Fury: he was captain over the +vocation doubters; his standard-bearer was Mr. Darkness, his +colours were those that were pale, and he had for his scutcheon the +fiery flying serpent. + +3. The third captain was Captain Damnation: he was captain over +the grace doubters; his were the red colours, Mr. No-Life bare +them, and he had for his scutcheon the black den. + +4. The fourth captain was Captain Insatiable; he was captain over +the faith doubters: his were the red colours, Mr. Devourer bare +them, and he had for a scutcheon the yawning jaws. + +5. The fifth captain was Captain Brimstone: he was captain over +the perseverance doubters; his also were the red colours, Mr. +Burning bare them, and his scutcheon was the blue and stinking +flame. + +6. The sixth captain was Captain Torment: he was captain over the +resurrection doubters; his colours were those that were pale; Mr. +Gnaw was his standard-bearer, and he had the black worm for his +scutcheon. + +7. The seventh captain was Captain No-Ease; he was captain over the +salvation doubters; his were the red colours, Mr. Restless bare +them, and his scutcheon was the ghastly picture of death. + +8. The eighth captain was the Captain Sepulchre: he was captain +over the glory doubters; his also were the pale colours, Mr. +Corruption was his standard-bearer, and he had for his scutcheon a +skull, and dead men's bones. + +9. The ninth captain was Captain Past-Hope; he was captain of those +that are called the felicity doubters; his standard-bearer was Mr. +Despair; his also were the red colours, and his scutcheon was a hot +iron and the hard heart. + +These were his captains, and these were their forces, these were +their standards, these were their colours, and these were their +scutcheons. Now, over these did the great Diabolus make superior +captains, and they were in number seven: as, namely, the Lord +Beelzebub, the Lord Lucifer, the Lord Legion, the Lord Apollyon, +the Lord Python, the Lord Cerberus, and the Lord Belial; these +seven he set over the captains, and Incredulity was lord-general, +and, Diabolus was king. The reformades also, such as were like +themselves, were made some of them captains of hundreds, and some +of them captains of more. And thus was the army of Incredulity +completed. + +So they set out at Hell-Gate Hill, for there they had their +rendezvous, from whence they came with a straight course upon their +march toward the town of Mansoul. Now, as was hinted before, the +town had, as Shaddai would have it, received from the mouth of Mr. +Prywell the alarm of their coming before. Wherefore they set a +strong watch at the gates, and had also doubled their guards: they +also mounted their slings in good places, where they might +conveniently cast out their great stones to the annoyance of their +furious enemy. + +Nor could those Diabolonians that were in the town do that hurt as +was designed they should; for Mansoul was now awake. But alas! +poor people, they were sorely affrighted at the first appearance of +their foes, and at their sitting down before the town, especially +when they heard the roaring of their drum. This, to speak truth, +was amazingly hideous to hear; it frighted all men seven miles +round, if they were but awake and heard it. The streaming of their +colours was also terrible and dejecting to behold. + +When Diabolus was come up against the town, first he made his +approach to Ear-gate, and gave it a furious assault, supposing, as +it seems, that his friends in Mansoul had been ready to do the work +within; but care was taken of that before, by the vigilance of the +captains. Wherefore, missing of the help that he expected from +them, and finding his army warmly attended with the stones that the +slingers did sling, (for that I will say for the captains, that +considering the weakness that yet was upon them by reason of the +long sickness that had annoyed the town of Mansoul, they did +gallantly behave themselves,) he was forced to make some retreat +from Mansoul, and to entrench himself and his men in the field +without the reach of the slings of the town. + +Now having entrenched himself, he did cast up four mounts against +the town: the first he called Mount Diabolus, putting his own name +thereon, the more to affright the town of Mansoul; the other three +he called thus--Mount Alecto, Mount Megara, and Mount Tisiphone; +for these are the names of the dreadful furies of hell. Thus he +began to play his game with Mansoul, and to serve it as doth the +lion his prey, even to make it fall before his terror. But, as I +said, the captains and soldiers resisted so stoutly, and did do +such execution with their stones, that they made him, though +against stomach, to retreat, wherefore Mansoul began to take +courage. + +Now upon Mount Diabolus, which was raised on the north side of the +town, there did the tyrant set up his standard, and a fearful thing +it was to behold; for he had wrought in it by devilish art, after +the manner of a scutcheon, a flaming flame fearful to behold, and +the picture of Mansoul burning in it. + +When Diabolus had thus done, he commanded that his drummer should +every night approach the walls of the town of Mansoul, and so to +beat a parley; the command was to do it at nights, for in the +daytime they annoyed him with their slings; for the tyrant said, +that he had a mind to parley with the now trembling town of +Mansoul, and he commanded that the drums should beat every night, +that through weariness they might at last, if possible, (at the +first they were unwilling yet,) be forced to do it. + +So this drummer did as commanded: he arose, and did beat his drum. +But when his drum did go, if one looked toward the town of Mansoul, +'Behold darkness and sorrow, and the light was darkened in the +heaven thereof.' No noise was ever heard upon earth more terrible, +except the voice of Shaddai when he speaketh. But how did Mansoul +tremble! it now looked for nothing but forthwith to be swallowed +up. + +When this drummer had beaten for a parley, he made this speech to +Mansoul: 'My master has bid me tell you, that if you will +willingly submit, you shall have the good of the earth; but if you +shall be stubborn, he is resolved to take you by force.' But by +that the fugitive had done beating his drum, the people of Mansoul +had betaken themselves to the captains that were in the castle, so +that there was none to regard, nor to give this drummer an answer; +so he proceeded no further that night, but returned again to his +master to the camp. + +When Diabolus saw that by drumming he could not work out Mansoul to +his will, the next night he sendeth his drummer without his drum, +still to let the townsmen know that he had a mind to parley with +them. But when all came to all, his parley was turned into a +summons to the town to deliver up themselves: but they gave him +neither heed nor hearing: for they remembered what at first it +cost them to hear him a few words. + +The next night he sends again, and then who should be his messenger +to Mansoul but the terrible Captain Sepulchre; so Captain Sepulchre +came up to the walls of Mansoul, and made this oration to the +town:- + +'O ye inhabitants of the rebellious town of Mansoul! I summon you +in the name of the Prince Diabolus, that, without any more ado, you +set open the gates of your town, and admit the great lord to come +in. But if you shall still rebel, when we have taken to us the +town by force, we will swallow you up as the grave; wherefore if +you will hearken to my summons, say so, and if not then let me +know. + +'The reason of this my summons,' quoth he, 'is, for that my lord is +your undoubted prince and lord, as you yourselves have formerly +owned. Nor shall that assault that was given to my lord, when +Emmanuel dealt so dishonourably by him, prevail with him to lose +his right, and to forbear to attempt to recover his own. Consider, +then, O Mansoul, with thyself, wilt thou show thyself peaceable, or +no? If thou shalt quietly yield up thyself, then our old +friendship shall be renewed; but if thou shalt yet refuse and +rebel, then expect nothing but fire and sword.' + +When the languishing town of Mansoul had heard this summoner and +his summons, they were yet more put to their dumps, but made to the +captain no answer at all; so away he went as he came. + +But, after some consultation among themselves, as also with some of +their captains, they applied themselves afresh to the Lord +Secretary for counsel and advice from him; for this Lord Secretary +was their chief preacher, (as also is mentioned some pages before,) +only now he was ill at ease; and of him they begged favour in these +two or three things - + +1. That he would look comfortably upon them, and not keep himself +so much retired from them as formerly. Also, that he would be +prevailed with to give them a hearing, while they should make known +their miserable condition to him. But to this he told them as +before, that 'as yet he was but ill at ease, and therefore could +not do as he had formerly done.' + +2. The second thing that they desired was, that he would be pleased +to give them his advice about their now so important affairs, for +that Diabolus was come and set down before the town with no less +than twenty thousand doubters. They said, moreover, that both he +and his captains were cruel men, and that they were afraid of them. +But to this he said, 'You must look to the law of the Prince, and +there see what is laid upon you to do.' + +3. Then they desired that his highness would help them to frame a +petition to Shaddai, and unto Emmanuel his Son, and that he would +set his own hand thereto as a token that he was one with them in +it: 'For,' said they, 'my Lord, many a one have we sent, but can +get no answer of peace; but now, surely, one with thy hand unto it +may obtain good for Mansoul.' + +But all the answer that he gave to this was, 'that they had +offended their Emmanuel, and had also grieved himself, and that +therefore they must as yet partake of their own devices.' + +This answer of the Lord Secretary fell like a millstone upon them; +yea, it crushed them so that they could not tell what to do; yet +they durst not comply with the demands of Diabolus, nor with the +demands of his captain. So then here were the straits that the +town of Mansoul was betwixt, when the enemy came upon her: her +foes were ready to swallow her up, and her friends did forbear to +help her. + +Then stood up my Lord Mayor, whose name was my Lord Understanding, +and he began to pick and pick, until he had picked comfort out of +that seemingly bitter saying of the Lord Secretary; for thus he +descanted upon it: 'First,' said he, 'this unavoidably follows +upon the saying of my Lord, "that we must yet suffer for our sins." +Secondly, But,' quoth he, 'the words yet sound as if at last we +should be saved from our enemies, and that after a few more +sorrows, Emmanuel will come and be our help.' Now the Lord Mayor +was the more critical in his dealing with the Secretary's words, +because my lord was more than a prophet, and because none of his +words were such, but that at all times they were most exactly +significant; and the townsmen were allowed to pry into them, and to +expound them to their best advantage. + +So they took their leaves of my lord, and returned, and went, and +came to the captains, to whom they did tell what my Lord High +Secretary had said; who, when they had heard it, were all of the +same opinion as was my Lord Mayor himself. The captains, +therefore, began to take some courage unto them, and to prepare to +make some brave attempt upon the camp of the enemy, and to destroy +all that were Diabolonians, with the roving doubters that the +tyrant had brought with him to destroy the poor town of Mansoul. + +So all betook themselves forthwith to their places--the Captains to +theirs, the Lord Mayor to his, the subordinate preacher to his, and +my Lord Willbewill to his. The captains longed to be at some work +for their prince; for they delighted in warlike achievements. The +next day, therefore, they came together and consulted; and after +consultation had, they resolved to give an answer to the captain of +Diabolus with slings; and so they did at the rising of the sun on +the morrow; for Diabolus had adventured to come nearer again, but +the sling-stones were to him and his like hornets. For as there is +nothing to the town of Mansoul so terrible as the roaring of +Diabolus's drum, so there is nothing to Diabolus so terrible as the +well playing of Emmanuel's slings. Wherefore Diabolus was forced +to make another retreat, yet further off from the famous town of +Mansoul. Then did the Lord Mayor of Mansoul cause the bells to be +rung, 'and that thanks should be sent to the Lord High Secretary by +the mouth of the subordinate preacher; for that by his words the +captains and elders of Mansoul had been strengthened against +Diabolus.' + +When Diabolus saw that his captains and soldiers, high lords and +renowned, were frightened, and beaten down by the stones that came +from the golden slings of the Prince of the town of Mansoul, he +bethought himself, and said, 'I will try to catch them by fawning, +I will try to flatter them into my net.' + +Wherefore, after a while, he came down again to the wall, not now +with his drum, nor with Captain Sepulchre; but having all besugared +his lips, he seemed to be a very sweet-mouthed, peaceable prince, +designing nothing for humour's sake, nor to be revenged on Mansoul +for injuries by them done to him; but the welfare, and good, and +advantage of the town and people therein was now, as he said, his +only design. Wherefore, after he had called for audience, and +desired that the townsfolk would give it to him, he proceeded in +his oration, and said:- + +'Oh, the desire of my heart, the famous town of Mansoul! how many +nights have I watched, and how many weary steps have I taken, if +perhaps I might do thee good! Far be it, far be it from me to +desire to make a war upon you; if ye will but willingly and quietly +deliver up yourselves unto me. You know that you were mine of old. +Remember also, that so long as you enjoyed me for your lord, and +that I enjoyed you for my subjects, you wanted for nothing of all +the delights of the earth, that I, your lord and prince, could get +for you, or that I could invent to make you bonny and blithe +withal. Consider, you never had so many hard, dark, troublesome, +and heart-afflicting hours, while you were mine, as you have had +since you revolted from me; nor shall you ever have peace again, +until you and I become one as before. But, be but prevailed with +to embrace me again, and I will grant, yea, enlarge your old +charter with abundance of privileges; so that your license and +liberty shall be to take, hold, enjoy, and make your own all that +is pleasant from the east to the west. Nor shall any of those +incivilities, wherewith you have offended me, be ever charged upon +you by me, so long as the sun and moon endure. Nor shall any of +those dear friends of mine that now, for the fear of you, lie +lurking in dens, and holes, and caves in Mansoul, be hurtful to you +any more; yea, they shall be your servants, and shall minister unto +you of their substance, and of whatever shall come to hand. I need +speak no more; you know them, and have sometime since been much +delighted in their company. Why, then, should we abide at such +odds? Let us renew our old acquaintance and friendship again. + +'Bear with your friend; I take the liberty at this time to speak +thus freely unto you. The love that I have to you presses me to do +it, as also does the zeal of my heart for my friends with you: put +me not therefore to further trouble, nor yourselves to further +fears and frights. Have you I will, in a way of peace or war; nor +do you flatter yourselves with the power and force of your +captains, or that your Emmanuel will shortly come in to your help; +for such strength will do you no pleasure. + +'I am come against you with a stout and valiant army, and all the +chief princes of the den are even at the head of it. Besides, my +captains are swifter than eagles, stronger than lions, and more +greedy of prey than are the evening wolves. What is Og of Bashan! +what is Goliath of Gath! and what are an hundred more of them, to +one of the least of my captains! How, then, shall Mansoul think to +escape my hand and force?' + +Diabolus having thus handed his flattering, fawning, deceitful, and +lying speech to the famous town of Mansoul, the Lord Mayor replied +to him as follows: 'O Diabolus, prince of darkness, and master of +all deceit; thy lying flatteries we have had and made sufficient +probation of, and have tasted too deeply of that destructive cup +already. Should we therefore again hearken unto thee, and so break +the commandments of our great Shaddai, to join in affinity with +thee, would not our Prince reject us, and cast us off for ever? +And, being cast off by him, can the place that he has prepared for +thee be a place of rest for us? Besides, O thou that art empty and +void of all truth, we are rather ready to die by thy hand, than to +fall in with thy flattering and lying deceits.' + +When the tyrant saw that there was little to be got by parleying +with my Lord Mayor, he fell into an hellish rage, and resolved that +again, with his army of doubters, he would another time assault the +town of Mansoul. + +So he called for his drummer, who beat up for his men (and while he +did beat, Mansoul did shake) to be in a readiness to give battle to +the corporation: then Diabolus drew near with his army, and thus +disposed of his men. Captain Cruel and Captain Torment, these he +drew up and placed against Feel-gate, and commanded them to sit +down there for the war. And he also appointed that, if need were, +Captain No-Ease should come in to their relief. At Nose-gate he +placed the Captain Brimstone and Captain Sepulchre, and bid them +look well to their ward, on that side of the town of Mansoul. But +at Eye-gate he placed that grim-faced one, the Captain Past-Hope, +and there also now he did set up his terrible standard. + +Now Captain Insatiable, he was to look to the carriages of +Diabolus, and was also appointed to take into custody that, or +those persons and things, that should at any time as prey be taken +from the enemy. + +Now Mouth-gate the inhabitants of Mansoul kept for a sally-port; +wherefore that they kept strong; for that it was it by and out at +which the townsfolk did send their petitions to Emmanuel their +Prince. That also was the gate from the top of which the captains +did play their slings at the enemies; for that gate stood somewhat +ascending, so that the placing of them there, and the letting of +them fly from that place, did much execution against the tyrant's +army. Wherefore, for these causes, with others, Diabolus sought, +if possible, to land up Mouth-gate with dirt. + +Now, as Diabolus was busy and industrious in preparing to make his +assault upon the town of Mansoul, without, so the captains and +soldiers in the corporation were as busy in preparing within; they +mounted their slings, they set up their banners, they sounded their +trumpets, and put themselves in such order as was judged most for +the annoyance of the enemy, and for the advantage of Mansoul, and +gave to their soldiers orders to be ready at the sound of the +trumpet for war. The Lord Willbewill also, he took the charge of +watching against the rebels within, and to do what he could to take +them while without, or to stifle them within their caves, dens, and +holes in the town-wall of Mansoul. And, to speak the truth of him, +ever since he took penance for his fault, he has showed as much +honesty and bravery of spirit as any he in Mansoul; for he took one +Jolly, and his brother Griggish, the two sons of his servant +Harmless-Mirth, (for to that day, though the father was committed +to ward, the sons had a dwelling in the house of my lord,)--I say, +he took them, and with his own hands put them to the cross. And +this was the reason why he hanged them up: after their father was +put into the hands of Mr. True-Man the gaoler, they, his sons, +began to play his pranks, and to be ticking and toying with the +daughters of their lord; nay, it was jealoused that they were too +familiar with them, the which was brought to his lordship's ear. +Now his lordship being unwilling unadvisedly to put any man to +death, did not suddenly fall upon them, but set watch and spies to +see if the thing was true; of the which he was soon informed, for +his two servants, whose names were Find-Out and Tell-All, catched +them together in uncivil manner more than once or twice, and went +and told their lord. So when my Lord Willbewill had sufficient +ground to believe the thing was true, he takes the two young +Diabolonians, (for such they were, for their father was a +Diabolonian born,) and has them to Eye-gate, where he raised a very +high cross, just in the face of Diabolus, and of his army, and +there he hanged the young villains, in defiance to Captain Past- +Hope, and of the horrible standard of the tyrant. + +Now this Christian act of the brave Lord Willbewill did greatly +abash Captain Past-Hope, discouraged the army of Diabolus, put fear +into the Diabolonian runagates in Mansoul, and put strength and +courage into the captains that belonged to Emmanuel, the Prince; +for they without did gather, and that by this very act of my Lord, +that Mansoul was resolved to fight, and that the Diabolonians +within the town could not do such things as Diabolus had hopes they +would. Nor was this the only proof of the brave Lord Willbewill's +honesty to the town, nor of his loyalty to his Prince, as will +afterwards appear. + +Now, when the children of Prudent-Thrifty, who dwelt with Mr. Mind, +(for Thrift left children with Mr. Mind, when he was also committed +to prison, and their names were Gripe and Rake-All; these he begat +of Mr. Mind's bastard daughter, whose name was Mrs. Hold-fast- +Bad;)--I say, when his children perceived how the Lord Willbewill +had served them that dwelt with him, what do they but, lest they +should drink of the same cup, endeavour to make their escape. But +Mr. Mind, being wary of it, took them and put them in hold in his +house till morning; (for this was done over night;) and remembering +that by the law of Mansoul all Diabolonians were to die, (and to be +sure they were at least by father's side such, and some say by +mother's side too,) what does he but takes them and puts them in +chains, and carries them to the selfsame place where my lord hanged +his two before, and there he hanged them. + +The townsmen also took great encouragement at this act of Mr. Mind, +and did what they could to have taken some more of these +Diabolonian troublers of Mansoul; but at that time the rest lay so +squat and close, that they could not be apprehended; so they set +against them a diligent watch, and went every man to his place. + +I told you a little before, that Diabolus and his army were +somewhat abashed and discouraged at the sight of what my Lord +Willbewill did, when he hanged up those two young Diabolonians; but +his discouragement quickly turned itself into furious madness and +rage against the town of Mansoul, and fight it he would. Also the +townsmen and captains within, they had their hopes and their +expectations heightened, believing at last the day would be theirs; +so they feared them the less. Their subordinate preacher, too, +made a sermon about it; and he took that theme for his text, 'Gad, +a troop shall overcome him: but he shall overcome at the last.' +Whence he showed, that though Mansoul should be sorely put to it at +the first, yet the victory should most certainly be Mansoul's at +the last. + +So Diabolus commanded that his drummer should beat a charge against +the town; and the captains also that were in the town sounded a +charge against them, but they had no drum: they were trumpets of +silver with which they sounded against them. Then they which were +of the camp of Diabolus came down to the town to take it, and the +captains in the castle, with the slingers at Mouth-gate, played +upon them amain. And now there was nothing heard in the camp of +Diabolus but horrible rage and blasphemy; but in the town good +words, prayer, and singing of psalms. The enemy replied with +horrible objections, and the terribleness of their drum; but the +town made answer with the slapping of their slings, and the +melodious noise of their trumpets. And thus the fight lasted for +several days together, only now and then they had some small +intermission, in the which the townsmen refreshed themselves, and +the captains made ready for another assault. + +The captains of Emmanuel were clad in silver armour, and the +soldiers in that which was of proof; the soldiers of Diabolus were +clad in iron which was made to give place to Emmanuel's engine- +shot. In the town, some were hurt, and some were greatly wounded. +Now, the worst of it was, a chirurgeon was scarce in Mansoul, for +that Emmanuel at present was absent. Howbeit, with the leaves of a +tree the wounded were kept from dying; yet their wounds did greatly +putrefy, and some did grievously stink. Of the townsmen, these +were wounded, namely, my Lord Reason; he was wounded in the head. +Another that was wounded was the brave Lord Mayor; he was wounded +in the eye. Another that was wounded was Mr. Mind; he received his +wound about the stomach. The honest subordinate preacher also, he +received a shot not far off the heart but none of these were +mortal. + +Many also of the inferior sort were not only wounded but slain +outright. + +Now, in the camp of Diabolus were wounded and slain a considerable +number; for instance, Captain Rage, he was wounded, and so was +Captain Cruel. Captain Damnation was made to retreat, and to +intrench himself further off of Mansoul. The standard also of +Diabolus was beaten down, and his standard-bearer, Captain Much- +Hurt, had his brains beat out with a sling-stone, to the no little +grief and shame of his prince Diabolus. + +Many also of the doubters were slain outright, though enough of +them were left alive to make Mansoul shake and totter. Now the +victory that day being turned to Mansoul, did put great valour into +the townsmen and captains, and did cover Diabolus's camp with a +cloud, but withal it made them far more furious. So the next day +Mansoul rested, and commanded that the bells should be rung; the +trumpets also joyfully sounded, and the captains shouted round the +town. + +My Lord Willbewill also was not idle, but did notable service +within against the domestics, or the Diabolonians that were in the +town, not only by keeping them in awe, for he lighted on one at +last whose name was Mr. Anything, a fellow of whom mention was made +before; for it was he, if you remember, that brought the three +fellows to Diabolus, whom the Diabolonians took out of Captain +Boanerges's companies, and that persuaded them to list themselves +under the tyrant, to fight against the army of Shaddai. My Lord +Willbewill did also take a notable Diabolonian, whose name was +Loose-Foot: this Loose-Foot was a scout to the vagabonds in +Mansoul, and that did use to carry tidings out of Mansoul to the +camp, and out of the camp to those of the enemies in Mansoul. Both +these my lord sent away safe to Mr. True-Man, the gaoler, with a +commandment to keep them in irons; for he intended then to have +them out to be crucified, when it would be for the best to the +corporation, and most for the discouragement of the camp of the +enemies. + +My Lord Mayor also, though he could not stir about so much as +formerly, because of the wound that he lately received, yet gave he +out orders to all that were the natives of Mansoul, to look to +their watch, and stand upon their guard, and, as occasion should +offer, to prove themselves men. + +Mr. Conscience, the preacher, he also did his utmost to keep all +his good documents alive upon the hearts of the people of Mansoul. + +Well, awhile after, the captains and stout ones of the town of +Mansoul agreed and resolved upon a time to make a sally out upon +the camp of Diabolus, and this must be done in the night; and there +was the folly of Mansoul, (for the night is always the best for the +enemy, but the worst for Mansoul to fight in,) but yet they would +do it, their courage was so high; their last victory also still +stuck in their memories. + +So the night appointed being come, the Prince's brave captains cast +lots who should lead the van in this new and desperate expedition +against Diabolus, and against his Diabolonian army; and the lot +fell to Captain Credence, to Captain Experience, and to Captain +Good-Hope, to lead the forlorn hope. (This Captain Experience the +Prince created such when himself did reside in the town of +Mansoul.) So, as I said, they made their sally out upon the army +that lay in the siege against them; and their hap was to fall in +with the main body of their enemies. Now Diabolus and his men +being expertly accustomed to night-work, took the alarm presently, +and were as ready to give them battle, as if they had sent them +word of their coming. Wherefore to it they went amain, and blows +were hard on every side; the hell drum also was beat most +furiously, while the trumpets of the Prince most sweetly sounded. +And thus the battle was joined; and Captain Insatiable looked to +the enemy's carriages, and waited when he should receive some prey. + +The Prince's captains fought it stoutly, beyond what indeed could +be expected they should; they wounded many; they made the whole +army of Diabolus to make a retreat. But I cannot tell how, but the +brave Captain Credence, Captain Good-Hope, and Captain Experience, +as they were upon the pursuit, cutting down, and following hard +after the enemy in the rear, Captain Credence stumbled and fell, by +which fall he caught so great a hurt, that he could not rise till +Captain Experience did help him up, at which their men were put in +disorder. The captain also was so full of pain, that he could not +forbear but aloud to cry out: at this, the other two captains +fainted, supposing that Captain Credence had received his mortal +wound; their men also were more disordered, and had no list to +fight. Now Diabolus being very observing, though at this time as +yet he was put to the worst, perceiving that a halt was made among +the men that were the pursuers, what does he but, taking it for +granted that the captains were either wounded or dead, he therefore +makes at first a stand, then faces about, and so comes up upon the +Prince's army with as much of his fury as hell could help him to; +and his hap was to fall in just among the three captains, Captain +Credence, Captain Good-Hope, and Captain Experience, and did cut, +wound, and pierce them so dreadfully, that what through +discouragement, what through disorder, and what through the wounds +that they had received, and also the loss of much blood, they +scarce were able, though they had for their power the three best +hands in Mansoul, to get safe into the hold again. + +Now, when the body of the Prince's army saw how these three +captains were put to the worst, they thought it their wisdom to +make as safe and good a retreat as they could, and so returned by +the sally-port again; and so there was an end of this present +action. But Diabolus was so flushed with this night's work, that +he promised himself, in few days, an easy and complete conquest +over the town of Mansoul; wherefore, on the day following, he comes +up to the sides thereof with great boldness, and demands entrance, +and that forthwith they deliver themselves up to his government. +The Diabolonians, too, that were within, they began to be somewhat +brisk, as we shall show afterward. + +But the valiant Lord Mayor replied, that what he got he must get by +force; for as long as Emmanuel, their Prince, was alive, (though he +at present was not so with them as they wished,) they should never +consent to yield Mansoul up to another. + +And with that the Lord Willbewill stood up, and said, 'Diabolus, +thou master of the den, and enemy to all that is good, we poor +inhabitants of the town of Mansoul are too well acquainted with thy +rule and government, and with the end of those things that for +certain will follow submitting to thee, to do it. Wherefore though +while we were without knowledge we suffered thee to take us, (as +the bird that saw not the snare fell into the hands of the fowler,) +yet since we have been turned from darkness to light, we have also +been turned from the power of Satan to God. And though through thy +subtlety, and also the subtlety of the Diabolonians within, we have +sustained much loss, and also plunged ourselves into much +perplexity, yet give up ourselves, lay down our arms, and yield to +so horrid a tyrant as thou, we shall not; die upon the place we +choose rather to do. Besides, we have hopes that in time +deliverance will come from court unto us, and therefore we yet will +maintain a war against thee.' + +This brave speech of the Lord Willbewill, with that also of the +Lord Mayor, did somewhat abate the boldness of Diabolus, though it +kindled the fury of his rage. It also succoured the townsmen and +captains; yea, it was as a plaster to the brave Captain Credence's +wound; for you must know that a brave speech now (when the captains +of the town with their men of war came home routed, and when the +enemy took courage and boldness at the success that he had obtained +to draw up to the walls, and demand entrance, as he did) was in +season, and also advantageous. + +The Lord Willbewill also did play the man within; for while the +captains and soldiers were in the field, he was in arms in the +town, and wherever by him there was a Diabolonian found, they were +forced to feel the weight of his heavy hand, and also the edge of +his penetrating sword: many therefore of the Diabolonians he +wounded, as the Lord Cavil, the Lord Brisk, the Lord Pragmatic, and +the Lord Murmur; several also of the meaner sort he did sorely +maim; though there cannot at this time an account be given you of +any that he slew outright. The cause, or rather the advantage that +my Lord Willbewill had at this time to do thus, was for that the +captains were gone out to fight the enemy in the field. 'For now,' +thought the Diabolonians within, 'is our time to stir and make an +uproar in the town.' What do they therefore but quickly get +themselves into a body, and fall forthwith to hurricaning in +Mansoul, as if now nothing but whirlwind and tempest should be +there. Wherefore, as I said, he takes this opportunity to fall in +among them with his men, cutting and slashing with courage that was +undaunted; at which the Diabolonians with all haste dispersed +themselves to their holds, and my lord to his place as before. + +This brave act of my lord did somewhat revenge the wrong done by +Diabolus to the captains, and also did let them know that Mansoul +was not to be parted with for the loss of a victory or two; +wherefore the wing of the tyrant was clipped again, as to +boasting,--I mean in comparison of what he would have done, if the +Diabolonians had put the town to the same plight to which he had +put the captains. + +Well, Diabolus yet resolves to have the other bout with Mansoul. +'For,' thought he, 'since I beat them once, I may beat them twice.' +Wherefore he commanded his men to be ready at such an hour of the +night, to make a fresh assault upon the town; and he gave it out in +special that they should bend all their force against Feel-gate, +and attempt to break into the town through that. The word that +then he did give to his officers and soldiers was Hell-fire. +'And,' said he, 'if we break in upon them, as I wish we do, either +with some, or with all our force, let them that break in look to +it, that they forget not the word. And let nothing be heard in the +town of Mansoul but, "Hell-fire! Hell-fire! Hell-fire!"' The +drummer was also to beat without ceasing, and the standard-bearers +were to display their colours; the soldiers, too, were to put on +what courage they could, and to see that they played manfully their +parts against the town. + +So when night was come, and all things by the tyrant made ready for +the work, he suddenly makes his assault upon Feel-gate, and after +he had awhile struggled there, he throws the gate wide open: for +the truth is, those gates were but weak, and so most easily made to +yield. When Diabolus had thus far made his attempt, he placed his +captains (namely, Torment and No-Ease) there; so he attempted to +press forward, but the Prince's captains came down upon him, and +made his entrance more difficult than he desired. And, to speak +truth, they made what resistance they could; but the three of their +best and most valiant captains being wounded, and by their wounds +made much incapable of doing the town that service they would, (and +all the rest having more than their hands full of the doubters, and +their captains that did follow Diabolus,) they were overpowered +with force, nor could they keep them out of the town. Wherefore +the Prince's men and their captains betook themselves to the +castle, as to the stronghold of the town: and this they did partly +for their own security, partly for the security of the town, and +partly, or rather chiefly, to preserve to Emmanuel the prerogative- +royal of Mansoul; for so was the castle of Mansoul. + +The captains therefore being fled into the castle, the enemy, +without much resistance, possess themselves of the rest of the +town, and spreading themselves as they went into every corner, they +cried out as they marched, according to the command of the tyrant, +'Hell-fire! Hell-fire! Hell-fire!' so that nothing for a while +throughout the town of Mansoul could be heard but the direful noise +of 'Hell-fire!' together with the roaring of Diabolus's drum. And +now did the clouds hang black over Mansoul, nor to reason did +anything but ruin seem to attend it. Diabolus also quartered his +soldiers in the houses of the inhabitants of the town of Mansoul. +Yea, the subordinate preacher's house was as full of these +outlandish doubters as ever it could hold, and so was my Lord +Mayor's, and my Lord Willbewill's also. Yea, where was there a +corner, a cottage, a barn, or a hogstye, that now was not full of +these vermin? Yea, they turned the men of the town out of their +houses, and would lie in their beds, and sit at their tables +themselves. Ah, poor Mansoul! now thou feelest the fruits of sin, +yea, what venom was in the flattering words of Mr. Carnal-Security! +They made great havoc of whatever they laid their hands on; yea, +they fired the town in several places; many young children also +were by them dashed in pieces; and those that were yet unborn they +destroyed in their mothers' wombs: for you must needs think that +it could not now be otherwise; for what conscience, what pity, what +bowels of compassion can any expect at the hands of outlandish +doubters? Many in Mansoul that were women, both young and old, +they forced, ravished, and beastlike abused, so that they swooned, +miscarried, and many of them died, and so lay at the top of every +street, and in all by-places of the town. + +And now did Mansoul seem to be nothing but a den of dragons, an +emblem of hell, and a place of total darkness. Now did Mansoul lie +almost like the barren wilderness; nothing but nettles, briars, +thorns, weeds, and stinking things seemed now to cover the face of +Mansoul. I told you before, how that these Diabolonian doubters +turned the men of Mansoul out of their beds, and now I will add, +they wounded them, they mauled them, yea, and almost brained many +of them. Many did I say, yea most, if not all of them. Mr. +Conscience they so wounded, yea, and his wounds so festered, that +he could have no ease day nor night, but lay as if continually upon +a rack; but that Shaddai rules all, certainly they had slain him +outright. Mr. Lord Mayor they so abused that they almost put out +his eyes; and had not my Lord Willbewill got into the castle, they +intended to have chopped him all to pieces; for they did look upon +him, as his heart now stood, to be one of the very worst that was +in Mansoul against Diabolus and his crew. And indeed he hath shown +himself a man, and more of his exploits you will hear of +afterwards. + +Now, a man might have walked for days together in Mansoul, and +scarcely have seen one in the town that looked like a religious +man. Oh, the fearful state of Mansoul now! now every corner +swarmed with outlandish doubters; red-coats and black-coats walked +the town by clusters, and filled up all the houses with hideous +noises, vain songs, lying stories, and blasphemous language against +Shaddai and his Son. Now also those Diabolonians that lurked in +the walls and dens and holes that were in the town of Mansoul, came +forth and showed themselves; yea, walked with open face in company +with the doubters that were in Mansoul. Yea, they had more +boldness now to walk the streets, to haunt the houses, and to show +themselves abroad, than had any of the honest inhabitants of the +now woful town of Mansoul. + +But Diabolus and his outlandish men were not at peace in Mansoul; +for they were not there entertained as were the captains and forces +of Emmanuel: the townsmen did browbeat them what they could; nor +did they partake or make stroy of any of the necessaries of +Mansoul, but that which they seized on against the townsmen's will: +what they could, they hid from them, and what they could not, they +had with an ill-will. They, poor hearts! had rather have had their +room than their company; but they were at present their captives, +and their captives for the present they were forced to be. But, I +say, they discountenanced them as much as they were able, and +showed them all the dislike that they could. + +The captains also from the castle did hold them in continual play +with their slings, to the chafing and fretting of the minds of the +enemies. True, Diabolus made a great many attempts to have broken +open the gates of the castle, but Mr. Godly-Fear was made the +keeper of that; and he was a man of that courage, conduct, and +valour, that it was in vain, as long as life lasted within him, to +think to do that work, though mostly desired; wherefore all the +attempts that Diabolus made against him were fruitless. I have +wished sometimes that that man had had the whole rule of the town +of Mansoul. + +Well, this was the condition of the town of Mansoul for about two +years and a half: the body of the town was the seat of war, the +people of the town were driven into holes, and the glory of Mansoul +was laid in the dust. What rest, then, could be to the +inhabitants, what peace could Mansoul have, and what sun could +shine upon it? Had the enemy lain so long without in the plain +against the town, it had been enough to have famished them: but +now, when they shall be within, when the town shall be their tent, +their trench and fort against the castle that was in the town; when +the town shall be against the town, and shall serve to be a defence +to the enemies of her strength and life: I say, when they shall +make use of the forts and town-holds to secure themselves in, even +till they shall take, spoil, and demolish the castle,--this was +terrible! and yet this was now the state of the town of Mansoul. + +After the town of Mansoul had been in this sad and lamentable +condition, for so long a time as I have told you, and no petitions +that they presented their Prince with, all this while, could +prevail, the inhabitants of the town, namely, the elders and chief +of Mansoul, gathered together, and, after some time spent in +condoling their miserable state and this miserable judgment coming +upon them, they agreed together to draw up yet another petition, +and to send it away to Emmanuel for relief. But Mr. Godly-Fear +stood up and answered, that he knew that his Lord the Prince never +did nor ever would receive a petition for these matters, from the +hand of any whoever, unless the Lord Secretary's hand was to it; +'and this,' quoth he, 'is the reason that you prevailed not all +this while.' Then they said they would draw up one, and get the +Lord Secretary's hand unto it. But Mr. Godly-Fear answered again, +that he knew also that the Lord Secretary would not set his hand to +any petition that himself had not an hand in composing and drawing +up. 'And besides,' said he, 'the Prince doth know my Lord +Secretary's hand from all the hands in the world; wherefore he +cannot be deceived by any pretence whatever. Wherefore my advice +is that you go to my Lord, and implore him to lend you his aid.' +(Now he did yet abide in the castle, where all the captains and +men-at-arms were.) + +So they heartily thanked Mr. Godly-Fear, took his counsel, and did +as he had bidden them. So they went and came to my Lord, and made +known the cause of their coming to him; namely, that since Mansoul +was in so deplorable a condition, his Highness would be pleased to +undertake to draw up a petition for them to Emmanuel, the Son of +the mighty Shaddai, and to their King and his Father by him. + +Then said the Secretary to them, 'What petition is it that you +would have me draw up for you?' But they said, 'Our Lord knows +best the state and condition of the town of Mansoul; and how we are +backslidden and degenerated from the Prince: thou also knowest who +is come up to war against us, and how Mansoul is now the seat of +war. My Lord knows, moreover, what barbarous usages our men, +women, and children have suffered at their hands; and how our +homebred Diabolonians do walk now with more boldness than dare the +townsmen in the streets of Mansoul. Let our Lord therefore, +according to the wisdom of God that is in him, draw up a petition +for his poor servants to our Prince Emmanuel.' 'Well,' said the +Lord Secretary, 'I will draw up a petition for you, and will also +set my hand thereto.' Then said they, 'But when shall we call for +it at the hands of our Lord?' But he answered, 'Yourselves must be +present at the doing of it; yea, you must put your desires to it. +True, the hand and pen shall be mine, but the ink and paper must be +yours; else how can you say it is your petition? Nor have I need +to petition for myself, because I have not offended.' He also added +as followeth: 'No petition goes from me in my name to the Prince, +and so to his Father by him, but when the people that are chiefly +concerned therein do join in heart and soul in the matter, for that +must be inserted therein.' + +So they did heartily agree with the sentence of the Lord, and a +petition was forthwith drawn up for them. But now, who should +carry it? that was next. But the Secretary advised that Captain +Credence should carry it; for he was a well-spoken man. They +therefore called for him, and propounded to him the business. +'Well,' said the captain, 'I gladly accept of the motion; and +though I am lame, I will do this business for you with as much +speed, and as well as I can.' + +The contents of the petition were to this purpose + +'O our Lord, and Sovereign Prince Emmanuel, the potent, the long- +suffering Prince! grace is poured into thy lips, and to thee belong +mercy and forgiveness, though we have rebelled against thee. We, +who are no more worthy to be called thy Mansoul, nor yet fit to +partake of common benefits, do beseech thee, and thy Father by +thee, to do away our transgressions. We confess that thou mightest +cast us away for them; but do it not for thy name's sake: let the +Lord rather take an opportunity, at our miserable condition, to let +out his bowels and compassions to us. We are compassed on every +side, Lord; our own backslidings reprove us; our Diabolonians +within our town fright us; and the army of the angel of the +bottomless pit distresses us. Thy grace can be our salvation, and +whither to go but to thee we know not. + +'Furthermore, O gracious Prince, we have weakened our captains, and +they are discouraged, sick, and, of late, some of them grievously +worsted and beaten out of the field by the power and force of the +tyrant. Yea, even those of our captains, in whose valour we did +formerly use to put most of our confidence, they are as wounded +men. Besides, Lord, our enemies are lively, and they are strong; +they vaunt and boast themselves, and do threaten to part us among +themselves for a booty. They are fallen also upon us, Lord, with +many thousand doubters, such as with whom we cannot tell what to +do; they are all grim-looked and unmerciful ones, and they bid +defiance to us and thee. + +'Our wisdom is gone, our power is gone, because thou art departed +from us; nor have we what we may call ours but sin, shame, and +confusion of face for sin. Take pity upon us, O Lord, take pity +upon us, thy miserable town of Mansoul, and save us out of the +hands of our enemies. Amen.' + +This petition, as was touched afore, was handed by the Lord +Secretary, and carried to the court by the brave and most stout +Captain Credence. Now he carried it out at Mouth-gate, (for that, +as I said, was the sally-port of the town,) and he went and came to +Emmanuel with it. Now how it came out, I do not know; but for +certain it did, and that so far as to reach the ears of Diabolus. +Thus I conclude, because that the tyrant had it presently by the +end, and charged the town of Mansoul with it, saying, 'Thou +rebellious and stubborn-hearted Mansoul, I will make thee to leave +off petitioning. Art thou yet for petitioning? I will make thee +to leave.' Yea, he also knew who the messenger was that carried +the petition to the Prince, and it made him both to fear and rage. + +Wherefore he commanded that his drum should be beat again, a thing +that Mansoul could not abide to hear: but when Diabolus will have +his drum beat, Mansoul must abide the noise. Well, the drum was +beat, and the Diabolonians were gathered together. + +Then said Diabolus, 'O ye stout Diabolonians, be it known unto you, +that there is treachery hatched against us in the rebellious town +of Mansoul; for albeit the town is in our possession, as you see, +yet these miserable Mansoulians have attempted to dare, and have +been so hardy as yet to send to the court to Emmanuel for help. +This I give you to understand, that ye may yet know how to carry it +to the wretched town of Mansoul. Wherefore, O my trusty +Diabolonians, I command that yet more and more ye distress this +town of Mansoul, and vex it with your wiles, ravish their women, +deflower their virgins, slay their children, brain their ancients, +fire their town, and what other mischief you can; and let this be +the reward of the Mansoulians from me, for their desperate +rebellions against me.' + +This, you see, was the charge; but something stepped in betwixt +that and execution, for as yet there was but little more done than +to rage. + +Moreover, when Diabolus had done thus, he went the next way up to +the castle gates, and demanded that, upon pain of death, the gates +should be opened to him, and that entrance should be given him and +his men that followed after. To whom Mr. Godly-Fear replied, (for +he it was that had the charge of that gate,) that the gate should +not be opened unto him, nor to the men that followed after him. He +said, moreover, that Mansoul, when she had suffered awhile, should +be made perfect, strengthened, settled. + +Then said Diabolus, 'Deliver me, then, the men that have petitioned +against me, especially Captain Credence, that carried it to your +Prince; deliver that varlet into my hands, and I will depart from +the town.' + +Then up starts a Diabolonian, whose name was Mr. Fooling, and said, +'My lord offereth you fair: it is better for you that one man +perish, than that your whole Mansoul should be undone.' + +But Mr. Godly-Fear made him this replication, 'How long will +Mansoul be kept out of the dungeon, when she hath given up her +faith to Diabolus! As good lose the town, as lose Captain +Credence; for if one be gone the other must follow.' But to that +Mr. Fooling said nothing. + +Then did my Lord Mayor reply, and said, 'O thou devouring tyrant, +be it known unto thee, we shall hearken to none of thy words; we +are resolved to resist thee as long as a captain, a man, a sling, +and a stone to throw at thee shall be found in the town of +Mansoul.' But Diabolus answered, 'Do you hope, do you wait, do you +look for help and deliverance? You have sent to Emmanuel, but your +wickedness sticks too close in your skirts, to let innocent prayers +come out of your lips. Think you that you shall be prevailers and +prosper in this design? You will fail in your wish, you will fail +in your attempts; for it is not only I, but your Emmanuel is +against you: yea, it is he that hath sent me against you to subdue +you. For what, then, do you hope? or by what means will you +escape?' + +Then said the Lord Mayor, 'We have sinned indeed; but that shall be +no help to thee, for our Emmanuel hath said it, and that in great +faithfulness, "and him that cometh to me I will in no wise cast +out." He hath also told us, O our enemy, that "all manner of sin +and blasphemy shall be forgiven" to the sons of men. Therefore we +dare not despair, but will look for, wait for, and hope for +deliverance still.' + +Now, by this time, Captain Credence was returned and come from the +court from Emmanuel to the castle of Mansoul, and he returned to +them with a packet. So my Lord Mayor, hearing that Captain +Credence was come, withdrew himself from the noise of the roaring +of the tyrant, and left him to yell at the wall of the town, or +against the gates of the castle. So he came up to the captain's +lodgings, and saluting him, he asked him of his welfare, and what +was the best news at court. But when he asked Captain Credence +that, the water stood in his eyes. Then said the captain, 'Cheer +up, my lord, for all will be well in time.' And with that he first +produced his packet, and laid it by; but that the Lord Mayor, and +the rest of the captains, took for sign of good tidings. Now a +season of grace being come, he sent for all the captains and elders +of the town, that were here and there in their lodgings in the +castle and upon their guard, to let them know that Captain Credence +was returned from the court, and that he had something in general, +and something in special, to communicate to them. So they all came +up to him, and saluted him, and asked him concerning his journey, +and what was the best news at the court. And he answered them as +he had done the Lord Mayor before, that all would be well at last. +Now, when the captain had thus saluted them, he opened his packet, +and thence did draw out his several notes for those that he had +sent for. + +And the first note was for my Lord Mayor, wherein was signified:- +That the Prince Emmanuel had taken it well that my Lord Mayor had +been so true and trusty in his office, and the great concerns that +lay upon him for the town and people of Mansoul. Also, he bid him +to know, that he took it well that he had been so bold for his +Prince Emmanuel, and had engaged so faithfully in his cause against +Diabolus. He also signified, at the close of his letter, that he +should shortly receive his reward. + +The second note that came out, was for the noble Lord Willbewill, +wherein there was signified:- That his Prince Emmanuel did well +understand how valiant and courageous he had been for the honour of +his Lord, now in his absence, and when his name was under contempt +by Diabolus. There was signified also, that his Prince had taken +it well that he had been so faithful to the town of Mansoul, in his +keeping of so strict a hand and eye over and so strict a rein upon +the neck of the Diabolonians, that did still lie lurking in their +several holes in the famous town of Mansoul. He signified, +moreover, how that he understood that my Lord had, with his own +hand, done great execution upon some of the chief of the rebels +there, to the great discouragement of the adverse party and to the +good example of the whole town of Mansoul; and that shortly his +lordship should have his reward. + +The third note came out for the subordinate preacher, wherein was +signified:- That his Prince took it well from him, that he had so +honestly and so faithfully performed his office, and executed the +trust committed to him by his Lord, while he exhorted, rebuked, and +forewarned Mansoul according to the laws of the town. He +signified, moreover, that he took it well at his hand that he +called to fasting, to sackcloth, and ashes, when Mansoul was under +her revolt. Also, that he called for the aid of the Captain +Boanerges to help in so weighty a work; and that shortly he also +should receive his reward. + +The fourth note came out for Mr. Godly-Fear, wherein his Lord thus +signified:- That his Lordship observed, that he was the first of +all the men in Mansoul that detected Mr. Carnal-Security as the +only one that, through his subtlety and cunning, had obtained for +Diabolus a defection and decay of goodness in the blessed town of +Mansoul. Moreover, his Lord gave him to understand, that he still +remembered his tears and mourning for the state of Mansoul. It was +also observed, by the same note, that his Lord took notice of his +detecting of this Mr. Carnal-Security, at his own table among his +guests, in his own house, and that in the midst of his jolliness, +even while he was seeking to perfect his villanies against the town +of Mansoul. Emmanuel also took notice that this reverend person, +Mr. Godly-Fear, stood stoutly to it, at the gates of the castle, +against all the threats and attempts of the tyrant; and that he had +put the townsmen in a way to make their petition to their Prince, +so as that he might accept thereof, and as they might obtain an +answer of peace; and that therefore shortly he should receive his +reward. + +After all this, there was yet produced a note which was written to +the whole town of Mansoul, whereby they perceived--That their Lord +took notice of their so often repeating of petitions to him; and +that they should see more of the fruits of such their doings in +time to come. Their Prince did also therein tell them, that he +took it well, that their heart and mind, now at last, abode fixed +upon him and his ways, though Diabolus had made such inroads upon +them; and that neither flatteries on the one hand, nor hardships on +the other, could make them yield to serve his cruel designs. There +was also inserted at the bottom of this note--That his Lordship had +left the town of Mansoul in the hands of the Lord Secretary, and +under the conduct of Captain Credence, saying, 'Beware that you yet +yield yourselves unto their governance; and in due time you shall +receive your reward.' + +So, after the brave Captain Credence had delivered his notes to +those to whom they belonged, he retired himself to my Lord +Secretary's lodgings, and there spends time in conversing with him; +for they too were very great one with another, and did indeed know +more how things would go with Mansoul than did all the townsmen +besides. The Lord Secretary also loved the Captain Credence +dearly; yea, many a good bit was sent him from my Lord's table; +also, he might have a show of countenance, when the rest of Mansoul +lay under the clouds: so, after some time for converse was spent, +the captain betook himself to his chambers to rest. But it was not +long after when my Lord did send for the captain again; so the +captain came to him, and they greeted one another with usual +salutations. Then said the captain to the Lord Secretary, 'What +hath my Lord to say to his servant?' So the Lord Secretary took +him and had him aside, and after a sign or two of more favour, he +said, 'I have made thee the Lord's lieutenant over all the forces +in Mansoul; so that, from this day forward, all men in Mansoul +shall be at thy word; and thou shalt be he that shall lead in, and +that shall lead out Mansoul. Thou shalt therefore manage, +according to thy place, the war for thy Prince, and for the town of +Mansoul, against the force and power of Diabolus; and at thy +command shall the rest of the captains be.' + +Now the townsmen began to perceive what interest the captain had, +both with the court, and also with the Lord Secretary in Mansoul; +for no man before could speed when sent, nor bring such good news +from Emmanuel as he. Wherefore what do they, after some +lamentation that they made no more use of him in their distresses, +but send by their subordinate preacher to the Lord Secretary, to +desire him that all that ever they were and had might be put under +the government, care, custody, and conduct of Captain Credence. + +So their preacher went and did his errand, and received this answer +from the mouth of his Lord: that Captain Credence should be the +great doer in all the King's army, against the King's enemies, and +also for the welfare of Mansoul. So he bowed to the ground, and +thanked his Lordship, and returned and told his news to the +townsfolk. But all this was done with all imaginable secrecy, +because the foes had yet great strength in the town. But to return +to our story again. + +When Diabolus saw himself thus boldly confronted by the Lord Mayor, +and perceived the stoutness of Mr. Godly-Fear, he fell into a rage, +and forthwith called a council of war, that he might be revenged on +Mansoul. So all the princes of the pit came together, and old +Incredulity at the head of them, with all the captains of his army. +So they consult what to do. Now the effect and conclusion of the +council that day was how they might take the castle, because they +could not conclude themselves masters of the town so long as that +was in the possession of their enemies. + +So one advised this way, and another advised that; but when they +could not agree in their verdict, Apollyon, that president of the +council, stood up, and thus he began: 'My brotherhood,' quoth he, +'I have two things to propound unto you; and my first is this. Let +us withdraw ourselves from the town into the plain again, for our +presence here will do us no good, because the castle is yet in our +enemies' hands; nor is it possible that we should take that, so +long as so many brave captains are in it, and that this bold +fellow, Godly-Fear, is made the keeper of the gates of it. Now, +when we have withdrawn ourselves into the plain, they, of their own +accord, will be glad of some little ease; and it may be, of their +own accord, they again may begin to be remiss, and even their so +being will give them a bigger blow than we can possibly give them +ourselves. But if that should fail, our going forth of the town +may draw the captains out after us; and you know what it cost them +when we fought them in the field before. Besides, can we but draw +them out into the field, we may lay an ambush behind the town, +which shall, when they are come forth abroad, rush in and take +possession of the castle.' + +But Beelzebub stood up, and replied, saying: 'It is impossible to +draw them all off from the castle; some, you may be sure, will lie +there to keep that; wherefore it will be but in vain thus to +attempt, unless we were sure that they will all come out.' He +therefore concluded that what was done must be done by some other +means. And the most likely means that the greatest of their heads +could invent, was that which Apollyon had advised to before, +namely, to get the townsmen again to sin. 'For,' said he, 'it is +not our being in the town, nor in the field, nor our fighting, nor +our killing of their men, that can make us the masters of Mansoul; +for so long as one in the town is able to lift up his finger +against us, Emmanuel will take their parts; and if he shall take +their parts, we know what time of day it will be with us. +Wherefore, for my part,' quoth he, 'there is, in my judgment, no +way to bring them into bondage to us, like inventing a way to make +them sin. Had we,' said he, 'left all our doubters at home, we had +done as well as we have done now, unless we could have made them +the masters and governors of the castle; for doubters at a distance +are but like objections refelled with arguments. Indeed, can we +but get them into the hold, and make them possessors of that, the +day will be our own. Let us, therefore, withdraw ourselves into +the plain, (not expecting that the captains in Mansoul should +follow us,) but yet, I say, let us do this, and before we so do, +let us advise again with our trusty Diabolonians that are yet in +their holds of Mansoul, and set them to work to betray the town to +us; for they indeed must do it, or it will be left undone for +ever.' By these sayings of Beelzebub, (for I think it was he that +gave this counsel,) the whole conclave was forced to be of his +opinion, namely, that the way to get the castle was to get the town +to sin. Then they fell to inventing by what means they might do +this thing. + +Then Lucifer stood up, and said: 'The counsel of Beelzebub is +pertinent. Now, the way to bring this to pass, in mine opinion, is +this: let us withdraw our force from the town of Mansoul; let us +do this, and let us terrify them no more, either with summons, or +threats, or with the noise of our drum, or any other awakening +means. Only let us lie in the field at a distance, and be as if we +regarded them not; for frights, I see, do but awaken them, and make +them more stand to their arms. I have also another stratagem in my +head: you know Mansoul is a market-town, and a town that delights +in commerce; what, therefore, if some of our Diabolonians shall +feign themselves far-country men, and shall go out and bring to the +market of Mansoul some of our wares to sell; and what matter at +what rates they sell their wares, though it be but for half the +worth? Now, let those that thus shall trade in their market be +those that are witty and true to us, and I will lay my crown to +pawn it will do. There are two that are come to my thoughts +already, that I think will be arch at this work, and they are Mr. +Penny-wise-pound-foolish, and Mr. Get-i'the-hundred-and-lose-i'the- +shire; nor is this man with the long name at all inferior to the +other. What, also, if you join with them Mr. Sweet-world and Mr. +Present-good; they are men that are civil and cunning, but our true +friends and helpers. Let these, with as many more, engage in this +business for us, and let Mansoul be taken up in much business, and +let them grow full and rich, and this is the way to get ground of +them. Remember ye not that thus we prevailed upon Laodicea, and +how many at present do we hold in this snare? Now, when they begin +to grow full, they will forget their misery; and if we shall not +affright them, they may happen to fall asleep, and so be got to +neglect their town watch, their castle watch, as well as their +watch at the gates. + +'Yea, may we not, by this means, so cumber Mansoul with abundance, +that they shall be forced to make of their castle a warehouse, +instead of a garrison fortified against us, and a receptacle for +men of war. Thus, if we get our goods and commodities thither, I +reckon that the castle is more than half ours. Besides, could we +so order it that it shall be filled with such kind of wares, then +if we made a sudden assault upon them, it would be hard for the +captains to take shelter there. Do you not know that of the +parable, "The deceitfulness of riches choke the word"? and again, +"When the heart is over-charged with surfeiting and drunkenness, +and the cares of this life," all mischief comes upon them at +unawares? + +'Furthermore, my lords,' quoth he, 'you very well know that it is +not easy for a people to be filled with our things, and not to have +some of our Diabolonians as retainers to their houses and services. +Where is a Mansoulian that is full of this world, that has not for +his servants and waiting-men, Mr. Profuse, or Mr. Prodigality, or +some other of our Diabolonian gang, as Mr. Voluptuous, Mr. +Pragmatical, Mr. Ostentation, or the like? Now these can take the +castle of Mansoul, or blow it up, or make it unfit for a garrison +for Emmanuel, and any of these will do. Yea, these, for aught I +know, may do it for us sooner than an army of twenty thousand men. +Wherefore, to end as I began, my advice is, that we quietly +withdraw ourselves, not offering any further force, or forcible +attempts, upon the castle, at least at this time; and let us set on +foot our new project, and let us see if that will not make them +destroy themselves.' + +This advice was highly applauded by them all, and was accounted the +very masterpiece of hell, namely, to choke Mansoul with a fulness +of this world, and to surfeit her heart with the good things +thereof. But see how things meet together! Just as this +Diabolonian council was broken up, Captain Credence received a +letter from Emmanuel, the contents of which were these: That upon +the third day he would meet him in the field in the plains about +Mansoul. 'Meet me in the field!' quoth the Captain; 'what meaneth +my lord by this? I know not what he meaneth by meeting me in the +field.' So he took the note in his hand, and did carry it to my +Lord Secretary, to ask his thoughts thereupon; for my Lord was a +seer in all matters concerning the King, and also for the good and +comfort of the town of Mansoul. So he showed my Lord the note, and +desired his opinion thereof. 'For my part,' quoth Captain +Credence, 'I know not the meaning thereof.' So my lord did take +and read it and, after a little pause, he said, 'The Diabolonians +have had against Mansoul a great consultation to-day; they have, I +say, this day been contriving the utter ruin of the town; and the +result of their council is, to set Mansoul into such a way which, +if taken, will surely make her destroy herself. And, to this end, +they are making ready for their own departure out of the town, +intending to betake themselves to the field again,' and there to +lie till they shall see whether this their project will take or no. +But be thou ready with the men of thy Lord, (for on the third day +they will be in the plain,) there to fall upon the Diabolonians; +for the Prince will by that time be in the field; yea, by that it +is break of day, sun-rising, or before, and that with a mighty +force against them. So he shall be before them, and thou shalt be +behind them, and betwixt you both their army shall be destroyed.' + +When Captain Credence heard this, away goes he to the rest of the +captains, and tells them what a note he had a while since received +from the hand of Emmanuel. 'And,' said he, 'that which was dark +therein hath my lord the Lord Secretary expounded unto me.' He +told them, moreover, what by himself and by them must be done to +answer the mind of their Lord. Then were the captains glad; and +Captain Credence commanded that all the King's trumpeters should +ascend to the battlements of the castle, and there, in the audience +of Diabolus and of the whole town of Mansoul, make the best music +that heart could invent. The trumpeters then did as they were +commanded. They got themselves up to the top of the castle, and +thus they began to sound. Then did Diabolus start, and said, 'What +can be the meaning of this? they neither sound Boot-and-saddle, nor +Horse-and-away, nor a charge. What do these madmen mean that yet +they should be so merry and glad?' Then answered one of themselves +and said, 'This is for joy that their Prince Emmanuel is coming to +relieve the town of Mansoul; and to this end he is at the head of +an army, and that this relief is near.' + +The men of Mansoul also were greatly concerned at this melodious +charm of the trumpets; they said, yea, they answered one another, +saying, 'This can be no harm to us; surely this can be no harm to +us.' Then said the Diabolonians, 'What had we best to do?' and it +was answered, 'It was best to quit the town;' and 'that,' said one, +'ye may do in pursuance of your last counsel, and by so doing also +be better able to give the enemy battle, should an army from +without come upon us. So, on the second day, they withdrew +themselves from Mansoul, and abode in the plains without; but they +encamped themselves before Eye-gate, in what terrene and terrible +manner they could. The reason why they would not abide in the town +(besides the reasons that were debated in their late conclave) was, +for that they were not possessed of the stronghold, and 'because,' +said they, 'we shall have more convenience to fight, and also to +fly, if need be, when we are encamped in the open plains.' +Besides, the town would have been a pit for them rather than a +place of defence, had the Prince come up and inclosed them fast +therein. Therefore they betook themselves to the field, that they +might also be out of the reach of the slings, by which they were +much annoyed all the while that they were in the town. + +Well, the time that the captains were to fall upon the Diabolonians +being come, they eagerly prepared themselves for action; for +Captain Credence had told the captains over night, that they should +meet their Prince in the field to-morrow. This, therefore, made +them yet far more desirous to be engaging the enemy; for 'You shall +see the Prince in the field to-morrow' was like oil to a flaming +fire, for of a long time they had been at a distance: they +therefore were for this the more earnest and desirous of the work. +So, as I said, the hour being come, Captain Credence, with the rest +of the men of war, drew out their forces before it was day by the +sally-port of the town. And, being all ready, Captain Credence +went up to the head of the army, and gave to the rest of the +captains the word, and so they to their under-officers and +soldiers: the word was 'The sword of the Prince Emmanuel, and the +shield of Captain Credence;' which is, in the Mansoulian tongue, +'The word of God and faith.' Then the captains fell on, and began +roundly to front, and flank, and rear Diabolus's camp. + +Now, they left Captain Experience in the town, because he was yet +ill of his wounds, which the Diabolonians had given him in the last +fight. But when he perceived that the captains were at it, what +does he but, calling for his crutches with haste, gets up, and away +he goes to the battle, saying, 'Shall I lie here, when my brethren +are in the fight, and when Emmanuel, the Prince, will show himself +in the field to his servants?' But when the enemy saw the man come +with his crutches, they were daunted yet the more; 'for,' thought +they, 'what spirit has possessed these Mansoulians, that they fight +us upon their crutches?' Well, the captains, as I said, fell on, +and did bravely handle their weapons, still crying out and +shouting, as they laid on blows, 'The sword of the Prince Emmanuel, +and the shield of Captain Credence!' + +Now, when Diabolus saw that the captains were come out, and that so +valiantly they surrounded his men, he concluded that, for the +present, nothing from them was to be looked for but blows, and the +dints of their 'two-edged sword.' + +Wherefore he also falls on upon the Prince's army with all his +deadly force: so the battle was joined. Now who was it that at +first Diabolus met with in the fight, but Captain Credence on the +one hand, and the Lord Willbewill on the other: now Willbewill's +blows were like the blows of a giant, for that man had a strong +arm, and he fell in upon the election doubters, for they were the +life-guard of Diabolus, and he kept them in play a good while, +cutting and battering shrewdly. Now when Captain Credence saw my +lord engaged, he did stoutly fall on, on the other hand, upon the +same company also; so they put them to great disorder. Now Captain +Good-Hope had engaged the vocation doubters, and they were sturdy +men; but the captain was a valiant man: Captain Experience did +also send him some aid; so he made the vocation doubters to +retreat. The rest of the armies were hotly engaged, and that on +every side, and the Diabolonians did fight stoutly. Then did my +Lord Secretary command that the slings from the castle should be +played; and his men could throw stones at an hair's breadth. But, +after a while, those that were made to fly before the captains of +the Prince, did begin to rally again, and they came up stoutly upon +the rear of the Prince's army: wherefore the Prince's army began +to faint; but, remembering that they should see the face of their +Prince by-and-by, they took courage, and a very fierce battle was +fought. Then shouted the captains, saying, 'The sword of the +Prince Emmanuel, and the shield of Captain Credence!' and with that +Diabolus gave back, thinking that more aid had been come. But no +Emmanuel as yet appeared. Moreover, the battle did hang in doubt; +and they made a little retreat on both sides. Now, in the time of +respite, Captain Credence bravely encouraged his men to stand to +it; and Diabolus did the like, as well as he could. But Captain +Credence made a brave speech to his soldiers, the contents whereof +here follow:- + +'Gentlemen soldiers, and my brethren in this design, it rejoiceth +me much to see in the field for our Prince, this day, so stout and +so valiant an army, and such faithful lovers of Mansoul. You have +hitherto, as hath become you, shown yourselves men of truth and +courage against the Diabolonian forces; so that, for all their +boast, they have not yet much cause to boast of their gettings. +Now take to yourselves your wonted courage, and show yourselves men +even this once only; for in a few minutes after the next +engagement, this time, you shall see your Prince show himself in +the field; for we must make this second assault upon this tyrant +Diabolus, and then Emmanuel comes.' + +No sooner had the captain made this speech to his soldiers, but one +Mr. Speedy came post to the captain from the Prince, to tell him +that Emmanuel was at hand. This news when the captain had +received, he communicated to the other field-officers, and they +again to their soldiers and men of war. Wherefore, like men raised +from the dead, so the captains and their men arose, made up to the +enemy, and cried as before, 'The sword of the Prince Emmanuel, and +the shield of Captain Credence!' + +The Diabolonians also bestirred themselves, and made resistance as +well as they could; but in this last engagement the Diabolonians +lost their courage, and many of the doubters fell down dead to the +ground. Now, when they had been in heat of battle about an hour or +more, Captain Credence lift up his eyes and saw, and, behold, +Emmanuel came; and he came with colours flying, trumpets sounding, +and the feet of his men scarce touched the ground, they hasted with +that celerity towards the captains that were engaged. Then did +Credence wind with his men to the townward, and gave to Diabolus +the field: so Emmanuel came upon him on the one side, and the +enemies' place was betwixt them both. Then again they fell to it +afresh; and now it was but a little while more but Emmanuel and +Captain Credence met, still trampling down the slain as they came. + +But when the captains saw that the Prince was come, and that he +fell upon the Diabolonians on the other side, and that Captain +Credence and his Highness had got them up betwixt them, they +shouted, (they so shouted that the ground rent again,) saying, 'The +sword of Emmanuel, and the shield of Captain Credence!' Now, when +Diabolus saw that he and his forces were so hard beset by the +Prince and his princely army, what does he, and the lords of the +pit that were with him, but make their escape, and forsake their +army, and leave them to fall by the hand of Emmanuel, and of his +noble Captain Credence: so they fell all down slain before them, +before the Prince, and before his royal army; there was not left so +much as one doubter alive; they lay spread upon the ground dead +men, as one would spread dung upon the land. + +When the battle was over, all things came into order in the camp. +Then the captains and elders of Mansoul came together to salute +Emmanuel, while without the corporation: so they saluted him, and +welcomed him, and that with a thousand welcomes, for that he was +come to the borders of Mansoul again. So he smiled upon them, and +said, 'Peace be to you.' Then they addressed themselves to go to +the town; they went then to go up to Mansoul, they, the Prince, +with all the new forces that now he had brought with him to the +war. Also all the gates of the town were set open for his +reception, so glad were they of his blessed return. And this was +the manner and order of this going of his into Mansoul: + +First. As I said, all the gates of the town were set open, yea, +the gates of the castle also; the elders, too, of the town of +Mansoul placed themselves at the gates of the town, to salute him +at his entrance thither: and so they did; for, as he drew near, +and approached towards the gates, they said, 'Lift up your heads, O +ye gates; and be ye lift up, ye everlasting doors; and the King of +glory shall come in.' And they answered again, 'Who is the King of +glory?' and they made return to themselves, 'The Lord, strong and +mighty; the Lord mighty in battle. Lift up your heads, O ye gates; +even lift them up, ye everlasting doors,' etc. + +Secondly. It was ordered also, by those of Mansoul, that all the +way from the town gates to those of the castle, his blessed Majesty +should be entertained with the song, by them that had the best +skill in music in all the town of Mansoul: then did the elders, +and the rest of the men of Mansoul, answer one another as Emmanuel +entered the town, till he came at the castle gates, with songs and +sound of trumpets, saying, 'They have seen thy goings, O God; even +the goings of my God, my King, in the sanctuary. So the singers +went before, the players on instruments followed after, and among +them were the damsels playing on timbrels.' + +Thirdly. Then the captains, (for I would speak a word of them,) +they in their order waited on the Prince, as he entered into the +gates of Mansoul. Captain Credence went before, and Captain Good- +Hope with him; Captain Charity came behind with other of his +companions, and Captain Patience followed after all; and the rest +of the captains, some on the right hand, and some on the left, +accompanied Emmanuel into Mansoul. And all the while the colours +were displayed, the trumpets sounded, and continual shoutings were +among the soldiers. The Prince himself rode into the town in his +armour, which was all of beaten gold, and in his chariot--the +pillars of it were of silver, the bottom thereof of gold, the +covering of it was of purple, the midst thereof being paved with +love for the daughters of the town of Mansoul. + +Fourthly. When the Prince was come to the entrance of Mansoul, he +found all the streets strewed with lilies and flowers, curiously +decked with boughs and branches from the green trees that stood +round about the town. Every door also was filled with persons, who +had adorned every one their fore-part against their house with +something of variety and singular excellency, to entertain him +withal as he passed in the streets: they also themselves, as +Emmanuel passed by, did welcome him with shouts and acclamations of +joy, saying, 'Blessed be the Prince that cometh in the name of his +Father Shaddai.' + +Fifthly. At the castle gates the elders of Mansoul, namely, the +Lord Mayor, the Lord Willbewill, the subordinate preacher, Mr. +Knowledge, and Mr. Mind, with other of the gentry of the place, +saluted Emmanuel again. They bowed before him, they kissed the +dust of his feet, they thanked, they blessed, and praised his +Highness for not taking advantage against them for their sins, but +rather had pity upon them in their misery, and returned to them +with mercies, and to build up their Mansoul for ever. Thus was he +had up straightway to the castle; for that was the royal palace, +and the place where his honour was to dwell; the which was ready +prepared for his Highness by the presence of the Lord Secretary, +and the work of Captain Credence. So he entered in. + +Sixthly. Then the people and commonalty of the town of Mansoul +came to him into the castle to mourn, and to weep, and to lament +for their wickedness, by which they had forced him out of the town. +So when they were come, bowed themselves to the ground seven times; +they also wept, they wept aloud, and asked forgiveness of the +Prince, and prayed that he would again, as of old, confirm his love +to Mansoul. + +To the which the great Prince replied, 'Weep not, but go your way, +eat the fat, and drink the sweet, and send portions to them for +whom nought is prepared; for the joy of your Lord is your strength. +I am returned to Mansoul with mercies, and my name shall be set up, +exalted, and magnified by it.' He also took these inhabitants, and +kissed them, and laid them in his bosom. + +Moreover, he gave to the elders of Mansoul, and to each town +officer, a chain of gold and a signet. He also sent to their wives +earrings and jewels, and bracelets, and other things. He also +bestowed upon the true-born children of Mansoul many precious +things. + +When Emmanuel, the Prince, had done all these things for the famous +town of Mansoul, then he said unto them, first, 'Wash your +garments, then put on your ornaments, and then come to me into the +castle of Mansoul.' So they went to the fountain that was set open +for Judah and Jerusalem to wash in; and there they washed, and +there they made their 'garments white,' and came again to the +Prince into the castle, and thus they stood before him. + +And now there was music and dancing throughout the whole town of +Mansoul, and that because their Prince had again granted to them +his presence and the light of his countenance; the bells also did +ring, and the sun shone comfortably upon them for a great while +together. + +The town of Mansoul did also now more thoroughly seek the +destruction and ruin of all remaining Diabolonians that abode in +the walls, and the dens that they had in the town of Mansoul; for +there was of them that had, to this day, escaped with life and limb +from the hand of their suppressors in the famous town of Mansoul. + +But my Lord Willbewill was a greater terror to them now than ever +he had been before; forasmuch as his heart was yet more fully bent +to seek, contrive, and pursue them to the death; he pursued them +night and day, and did put them now to sore distress, as will +afterwards appear. + +After things were thus far put into order in the famous town of +Mansoul, care was taken, and order given by the blessed Prince +Emmanuel, that the townsmen should, without further delay, appoint +some to go forth into the plain to bury the dead that were there,-- +the dead that fell by the sword of Emmanuel, and by the shield of +the Captain Credence,--lest the fumes and ill savours that would +arise from them might infect the air, and so annoy the famous town +of Mansoul. This also was a reason of this order, namely, that, as +much as in Mansoul lay, they might cut off the name, and being, and +remembrance of those enemies from the thought of the famous town of +Mansoul and its inhabitants. + +So order was given out by the Lord Mayor, that wise and trusty +friend of the town of Mansoul, that persons should be employed +about this necessary business; and Mr. Godly-Fear, and one Mr. +Upright, were to be overseers about this matter: so persons were +put under them to work in the fields, and to bury the slain that +lay dead in the plains. And these were their places of employment: +some were to make the graves, some to bury the dead, and some were +to go to and fro in the plains, and also round about the borders of +Mansoul, to see if a skull, or a bone, or a piece of a bone of a +doubter, was yet to be found above ground anywhere near the +corporation; and if any were found, it was ordered, that the +searchers that searched should set up a mark thereby, and a sign, +that those that were appointed to bury them might find it, and bury +it out of sight, that the name and remembrance of a Diabolonian +doubter might be blotted out from under heaven; and that the +children, and they that were to be born in Mansoul, might not know, +if possible, what a skull, what a bone, or a piece of a bone of a +doubter was. So the buriers, and those that were appointed for +that purpose, did as they were commanded: they buried the +doubters, and all the skulls and bones, and pieces of bones of +doubters, wherever they found them; and so they cleansed the +plains. Now also Mr. God's-Peace took up his commission, and acted +again as in former days. + +Thus they buried in the plains about Mansoul the election doubters, +the vocation doubters, the grace doubters, the perseverance +doubters, the resurrection doubters, the salvation doubters, and +the glory doubters; whose captains were Captain Rage, Captain +Cruel, Captain Damnation, Captain Insatiable, Captain Brimstone, +Captain Torment, Captain No-Ease, Captain Sepulchre, and Captain +Past-Hope; and old Incredulity was, under Diabolus, their general. +There were also the seven heads of their army; and they were the +Lord Beelzebub, the Lord Lucifer, the Lord Legion, the Lord +Apollyon, the Lord Python, the Lord Cerberus, and the Lord Belial. +But the princes and the captains, with old Incredulity, their +general, did all of them make their escape: so their men fell down +slain by the power of the Prince's forces, and by the hands of the +men of the town of Mansoul. They also were buried as is afore +related, to the exceeding great joy of the now famous town of +Mansoul. They that buried them buried also with them their arms, +which were cruel instruments of death: (their weapons were arrows, +darts, mauls, firebrands, and the like). They buried also their +armour, their colours, banners, with the standard of Diabolus, and +what else soever they could find that did but smell of a +Diabolonian doubter. + +Now when the tyrant had arrived at Hell-Gate Hill, with his old +friend Incredulity, they immediately descended the den, and having +there with their fellows for a while condoled their misfortune and +great loss that they sustained against the town of Mansoul, they +fell at length into a passion, and revenged they would be for the +loss that they sustained before the town of Mansoul. Wherefore +they presently call a council to contrive yet further what was to +be done against the famous town of Mansoul; for their yawning +paunches could not wait to see the result of their Lord Lucifer's +and their Lord Apollyon's counsel that they had given before; for +their raging gorge thought every day, even as long as a short for +ever, until they were filled with the body and soul, with the flesh +and bones, and with all the delicates of Mansoul. They therefore +resolve to make another attempt upon the town of Mansoul, and that +by an army mixed and made up partly of doubters, and partly of +blood-men. A more particular account now take of both. + +The doubters are such as have their name from their nature, as well +as from the land and kingdom where they are born: their nature is +to put a question upon every one of the truths of Emmanuel; and +their country is called the land of Doubting, and that land lieth +off, and farthest remote to the north, between the land of Darkness +and that called the 'valley of the shadow of death.' For though +the land of Darkness, and that called 'the valley of the shadow of +death,' be sometimes called as if they were one and the self-same +place, yet indeed they are two, lying but a little way asunder, and +the land of Doubting points in, and lieth between them. This is +the land of Doubting; and these that came with Diabolus to ruin the +town of Mansoul are the natives of that country. + +The blood-men are a people that have their name derived from the +malignity of their nature, and from the fury that is in them to +execute it upon the town of Mansoul: their land lieth under the +dog-star, and by that they are governed as to their intellectuals. +The name of their country is the province of Loath-good: the +remote parts of it are far distant from the land of Doubting, yet +they do both butt and bound upon the hill called Hell-Gate Hill. +These people are always in league with the doubters, for they +jointly do make question of the faith and fidelity of the men of +the town of Mansoul, and so are both alike qualified for the +service of their prince. + +Now of these two countries did Diabolus, by the beating of his +drum, raise another army against the town of Mansoul, of five-and- +twenty thousand strong. There were ten thousand doubters, and +fifteen thousand blood-men, and they were put under several +captains for the war; and old Incredulity was again made general of +the army. + +As for the doubters, their captains were five of the seven that +were heads of the last Diabolonian army, and these are their names: +Captain Beelzebub, Captain Lucifer, Captain Apollyon, Captain +Legion, and Captain Cerberus; and the captains that they had before +were some of them made lieutenants, and some ensigns of the army. + +But Diabolus did not count that, in this expedition of his, these +doubters would prove his principal men, for their manhood had been +tried before; also the Mansoulians had put them to the worst: only +he did bring them to multiply a number, and to help, if need was, +at a pinch. But his trust he put in his blood-men, for that they +were all rugged villains, and he knew that they had done feats +heretofore. + +As for the blood-men, they also were under command and the names of +their captains were, Captain Cain, Captain Nimrod, Captain Ishmael, +Captain Esau, Captain Saul, Captain Absalom, Captain Judas, and +Captain Pope. + +1. Captain Cain was over two bands, namely, the zealous and the +angry blood-men: his standard-bearer bare the red colours, and his +scutcheon was the murdering club. + +2. Captain Nimrod was captain over two bands, namely, the +tyrannical and encroaching blood-men: his standard-bearer bare the +red colours, and his scutcheon was the great bloodhound. + +3. Captain Ishmael was captain over two bands, namely, the mocking +and scorning blood-men: his standard-bearer bare the red colours, +and his scutcheon was one mocking at Abraham's Isaac. + +4. Captain Esau was captain over two bands, namely, the blood-men +that grudged that another should have the blessing; also over the +blood-men that are for executing their private revenge upon others: +his standard-bearer bare the red colours, and his scutcheon was one +privately lurking to murder Jacob. + +5. Captain Saul was captain over two bands, namely, the +groundlessly jealous and the devilishly furious blood-men: his +standard-bearer bare the red colours, and his scutcheon was three +bloody darts cast at harmless David. + +6. Captain Absalom was captain over two bands, namely, over the +blood-men that will kill a father or a friend for the glory of this +world; also over those blood-men that will hold one fair in hand +with words, till they shall have pierced him with their swords: +his standard-bearer did bear the red colours, and his scutcheon was +the son pursuing the father's blood. + +7. Captain Judas was over two bands, namely, the blood-men that +will sell a man's life for money, and those also that will betray +their friend with a kiss: his standard-bearer bare the red +colours, and his scutcheon was thirty pieces of silver and the +halter. + +8. Captain Pope was captain over one band, for all these spirits +are joined in one under him: his standard-bearer bare the red +colours, and his scutcheon was the stake, the flame, and the good +man in it. + +Now, the reason why Diabolus did so soon rally another force, after +he had been beaten out of the field, was, for that he put mighty +confidence in this army of blood-men; for he put a great deal of +more trust in them than he did before in his army of doubters; +though they had also often done great service for him in the +strengthening of him in his kingdom. But these blood-men, he had +proved them often, and their sword did seldom return empty. +Besides, he knew that these, like mastiffs, would fasten upon any; +upon father, mother, brother, sister, prince, or governor, yea upon +the Prince of princes. And that which encouraged him the more was, +for that they once did force Emmanuel out of the kingdom of +Universe; 'And why,' thought he, 'may they not also drive him from +the town of Mansoul?' + +So this army of five-and-twenty thousand strong was, by their +general, the great Lord Incredulity, led up against the town of +Mansoul. Now Mr. Prywell, the scoutmaster-general, did himself go +out to spy, and he did bring Mansoul tidings of their coming. +Wherefore they shut up their gates, and put themselves in a posture +of defence against these new Diabolonians that came up against the +town. + +So Diabolus brought up his army, and beleaguered the town of +Mansoul; the doubters were placed about Feel-gate, and the blood- +men set down before Eye-gate and Ear-gate. + +Now when this army had thus encamped themselves, Incredulity did, +in the name of Diabolus, his own name, and in the name of the +blood-men and the rest that were with him, send a summons as hot as +a red-hot iron to Mansoul, to yield to their demands; threatening, +that if they still stood it out against them, they would presently +burn down Mansoul with fire. For you must know that, as for the +blood-men, they were not so much that Mansoul should be +surrendered, as that Mansoul should be destroyed, and cut off out +of the land of the living. True, they send to them to surrender; +but should they so do, that would not stench or quench the thirsts +of these men. They must have blood, the blood of Mansoul, else +they die; and it is from hence that they have their name. +Wherefore these blood-men he reserved while now that they might, +when all his engines proved ineffectual, as his last and sure card +be played against the town of Mansoul. + +Now, when the townsmen had received this red-hot summons, it begat +in them at present some changing and interchanging thoughts; but +they jointly agreed, in less than half an hour, to carry the +summons to the Prince, the which they did when they had writ at the +bottom of it, 'Lord, save Mansoul from bloody men!' + +So he took it, and looked upon it, and considered it, and took +notice also of that short petition that the men of Mansoul had +written at the bottom of it, and called to him the noble Captain +Credence, and bid him go and take Captain Patience with him, and go +and take care of that side of Mansoul that was beleaguered by the +blood-men. So they went and did as they were commanded: the +Captain Credence went and took Captain Patience, and they both +secured that side of Mansoul that was besieged by the blood-men. + +Then he commanded that Captain Good-hope and Captain Charity, and +my Lord Willbewill, should take charge of the other side of the +town. 'And I,' said the Prince, 'will set my standard upon the +battlements of your castle, and do you three watch against the +doubters.' This done, he again commanded that the brave captain, +the Captain Experience, should draw up his men in the market-place, +and that there he should exercise them day by day before the people +of the town of Mansoul. Now this siege was long, and many a fierce +attempt did the enemy, especially those called the blood-men, make +upon the town of Mansoul; and many a shrewd brush did some of the +townsmen meet with from them, especially Captain Self-Denial, who, +I should have told you before, was commanded to take the care of +Ear-gate and Eye-gate now against the blood-men. This Captain +Self-Denial was a young man, but stout, and a townsman in Mansoul, +as Captain Experience also was. And Emmanuel, at his second return +to Mansoul, made him a captain over a thousand of the Mansoulians, +for the good of the corporation. This captain, therefore, being an +hardy man, and a man of great courage, and willing to venture +himself for the good of the town of Mansoul, would now and then +sally out upon the blood-men, and give them many notable alarms, +and entered several brisk skirmishes with them, and also did some +execution upon them; but you must think that this could not easily +be done, but he must meet with brushes himself, for he carried +several of their marks in his face; yea, and some in some other +parts of his body. + +So, after some time spent for the trial of the faith, and hope, and +love of the town of Mansoul, the Prince Emmanuel upon a day calls +his captains and men of war together, and divides them into two +companies; this done, he commands them at a time appointed, and +that in the morning very early, to sally out upon the enemy, +saying: 'Let half of you fall upon the doubters, and half of you +fall upon the blood-men. Those of you that go out against the +doubters, kill and slay, and cause to perish so many of them as by +any means you can lay hands on; but for you that go out against the +blood-men, slay them not, but take them alive.' + +So, at the time appointed, betimes in the morning, the captains +went out as they were commanded, against the enemies. Captain +Good-Hope, Captain Charity, and those that were joined with them, +as Captain Innocent and Captain Experience, went out against the +doubters; and Captain Credence, and Captain Patience, with Captain +Self-Denial, and the rest that were to join with them, went out +against the blood-men. + +Now, those that went out against the doubters drew up into a body +before the plain, and marched on to bid them battle. But the +doubters, remembering their last success, made a retreat, not +daring to stand the shock, but fled from the Prince's men; +wherefore they pursued them, and in their pursuit slew many, but +they could not catch them all. Now those that escaped went some of +them home; and the rest by fives, nines, and seventeens, like +wanderers, went straggling up and down the country, where they upon +the barbarous people showed and exercised many of their Diabolonian +actions: nor did these people rise up in arms against them, but +suffered themselves to be enslaved by them. They would also after +this show themselves in companies before the town of Mansoul, but +never to abide in it; for if Captain Credence, Captain Good-Hope, +or Captain Experience did but show themselves, they fled. + +Those that went out against the blood-men did as they were +commanded: they forbore to slay any, but sought to compass them +about. But the blood-men, when they saw that no Emmanuel was in +the field, concluded also that no Emmanuel was in Mansoul; +wherefore they, looking upon what the captains did to be, as they +called it, a fruit of the extravagancy of their wild and foolish +fancies, rather despised them than feared them. But the captains, +minding their business, at last did compass them round; they also +that had routed the doubters came in amain to their aid: so, in +fine, after some little struggling, (for the blood-men also would +have run for it, only now it was too late; for though they are +mischievous and cruel, where they can overcome, yet all blood-men +are chicken-hearted men, when they once come to see themselves +matched and equalled,)--so the captains took them, and brought them +to the Prince. + +Now when they were taken, had before the Prince, and examined, he +found them to be of three several counties, though they all came +out of one land. + +1. One sort of them came out of Blind-man-shire, and they were such +as did ignorantly what they did. + +2. Another sort of them came out of Blind-zeal-shire, and they did +superstitiously what they did. + +3. The third sort of them came out of the town of Malice, in the +county of Envy, and they did what they did out of spite and +implacableness. + +For the first of these, namely, they that came out of Blind-man- +shire, when they saw where they were, and against whom they had +fought, they trembled and cried, as they stood before him; and as +many of these as asked him mercy, he touched their lips with his +golden sceptre. + +They that came out of Blind-zeal-shire, they did not as their +fellows did; for they pleaded that they had a right to do what they +did, because Mansoul was a town whose laws and customs were diverse +from all that dwelt thereabouts. Very few of these could be +brought to see their evil; but those that did, and asked mercy, +they also obtained favour. + +Now, they that came out of the town of Malice, that is in the +county of Envy, they neither wept, nor disputed, nor repented, but +stood gnawing their tongues before him for anguish and madness, +because they could not have their will upon Mansoul. Now these +last, with all those of the other two sorts that did not +unfeignedly ask pardon for their faults,--those he made to enter +into sufficient bond to answer for what they had done against +Mansoul, and against her King, at the great and general assizes to +be holden for our Lord the King, where he himself should appoint +for the country and kingdom of Universe. So they became bound each +man for himself, to come in, when called upon, to answer before our +Lord the King for what they had done as before. + +And thus much concerning this second army that was sent by Diabolus +to overthrow Mansoul. + +But there were three of those that came from the land of Doubting, +who, after they had wandered and ranged the country a while, and +perceived that they had escaped, were so hardy as to thrust +themselves, knowing that yet there were in the town Diabolonians,-- +I say, they were so hardy as to thrust themselves into Mansoul +among them. (Three, did I say? I think there were four.) Now, to +whose house should these Diabolonian doubters go, but to the house +of an old Diabolonian in Mansoul, whose name was Evil-Questioning, +a very great enemy he was to Mansoul, and a great doer among the +Diabolonians there. Well, to this Evil-Questioning's house, as was +said, did these Diabolonians come (you may be sure that they had +directions how to find the way thither), so he made them welcome, +pitied their misfortune, and succoured them with the best that he +had in his house. Now, after a little acquaintance (and it was not +long before they had that), this old Evil-Questioning asked the +doubters if they were all of a town (he knew that they were all of +one kingdom), and they answered: 'No, nor not of one shire +neither; for I,' said one, 'am an election doubter:' 'I,' said +another, 'am a vocation doubter:' then said the third, 'I am a +salvation doubter:' and the fourth said he was a grace doubter. +'Well,' quoth the old gentleman, 'be of what shire you will, I am +persuaded that you are down, boys: you have the very length of my +foot, are one with my heart, and shall be welcome to me.' So they +thanked him, and were glad that they had found themselves an +harbour in Mansoul. + +Then said Evil-Questioning to them: 'How many of your company +might there be that came with you to the siege of Mansoul?' and +they answered: 'There were but ten thousand doubters in all, for +the rest of the army consisted of fifteen thousand blood-men. +These blood-men,' quoth they, 'border upon our country; but, poor +men! as we hear, they were every one taken by Emmanuel's forces.' +'Ten thousand!' quoth the old gentleman; 'I will promise you, that +is a round company. But how came it to pass, since you were so +mighty a number, that you fainted, and durst not fight your foes?' +'Our general,' said they, 'was the first man that did run for it.' +'Pray,' quoth their landlord, 'who was that, your cowardly +general?' 'He was once the Lord Mayor of Mansoul,' said they: +'but pray call him not a cowardly general; for whether any from the +east to the west has done more service for our prince Diabolus, +than has my Lord Incredulity, will be a hard question for you to +answer. But had they catched him, they would for certain have +hanged him; and we promise you, hanging is but a bad business.' +Then said the old gentleman, 'I would that all the ten thousand +doubters were now well armed in Mansoul, and myself at the head of +them; I would see what I could do.' 'Ay,' said they, 'that would +be well if we could see that; but wishes, alas! what are they?' and +these words were spoken aloud. 'Well,' said old Evil-Questioning, +'take heed that you talk not too loud; you must be quat and close, +and must take care of yourselves while you are here, or, I will +assure you, you will be snapped.' 'Why?' quoth the doubters. +'Why!' quoth the old gentleman; 'why! because both the Prince and +Lord Secretary, and their captains and soldiers, are all at present +in town; yea, the town is as full of them as ever it can hold. And +besides, there is one whose name is Willbewill, a most cruel enemy +of ours, and him the Prince has made keeper of the gates, and has +commanded him that, with all the diligence he can, he should look +for, search out, and destroy all, and all manner of Diabolonians. +And if he lighteth upon you, down you go, though your heads were +made of gold.' + +And now, to see how it happened, one of the Lord Willbewill's +faithful soldiers, whose name was Mr. Diligence, stood all this +while listening under old Evil-Questioning's eaves, and heard all +the talk that had been betwixt him and the doubters that he +entertained under his roof. + +The soldier was a man that my lord had much confidence in, and that +he loved dearly; and that both because he was a man of courage, and +also a man that was unwearied in seeking after Diabolonians to +apprehend them. + +Now this man, as I told you, heard all the talk that was between +old Evil-Questioning and these Diabolonians; wherefore what does he +but goes to his lord, and tells him what he had heard. 'And sayest +thou so, my trusty?' quoth my lord. 'Ay,' quoth Diligence, 'that I +do; and if your lordship will be pleased to go with me, you shall +find it as I have said.' 'And are they there?' quoth my lord. 'I +know Evil-Questioning well, for he and I were great in the time of +our apostasy: but I know not now where he dwells.' 'But I do,' +said his man, 'and if your lordship will go, I will lead you the +way to his den.' 'Go!' quoth my lord, 'that I will. Come, my +Diligence, let us go find them out.' + +So my lord and his man went together the direct way to his house. +Now his man went before to show him his way, and they went till +they came even under old Mr. Evil-Questioning's wall. Then said +Diligence, 'Hark! my lord, do you know the old gentleman's tongue +when you hear it?' 'Yes,' said my lord, 'I know it well, but I +have not seen him many a day. This I know, he is cunning; I wish +he doth not give us the slip.' 'Let me alone for that,' said his +servant Diligence. 'But how shall we find the door?' quoth my +lord. 'Let me alone for that, too,' said his man. So he had my +Lord Willbewill about, and showed him the way to the door. Then my +lord, without more ado, broke open the door, rushed into the house, +and caught them all five together, even as Diligence his man had +told him. So my lord apprehended them, and led them away, and +committed them to the hand of Mr. Trueman, the gaoler, and +commanded, and he did put them in ward. This done, my Lord Mayor +was acquainted in the morning with what my Lord Willbewill had done +over night, and his lordship rejoiced much at the news, not only +because there were doubters apprehended, but because that old Evil- +Questioning was taken; for he had been a very great trouble to +Mansoul, and much affliction to my Lord Mayor himself. He had also +been sought for often, but no hand could ever be laid upon him till +now. + +Well, the next thing was to make preparation to try these five that +by my lord had been apprehended, and that were in the hands of Mr. +Trueman, the gaoler. So the day was set, and the court called and +come together, and the prisoners brought to the bar. My Lord +Willbewill had power to have slain them when at first he took them, +and that without any more ado; but he thought it at this time more +for the honour of the Prince, the comfort of Mansoul, and the +discouragement of the enemy, to bring them forth to public +judgment. + +But, I say, Mr. Trueman brought them in chains to the bar; to the +town-hall, for that was the place of judgment. So, to be short, +the jury was panelled, the witnesses sworn, and the prisoners tried +for their lives: the jury was the same that tried Mr. No-Truth, +Pitiless, Haughty, and the rest of their companions. + +And, first, old Questioning himself was set to the bar for he was +the receiver, the entertainer, and comforter of these doubters, +that by nation were outlandish men: then he was bid to hearken to +his charge, and was told that he had liberty to object, if he had +ought to say for himself. So his indictment was read: the manner +and form here follows. + +'Mr. Questioning, Thou art here indicted by the name of Evil- +Questioning, an intruder upon the town of Mansoul, for that thou +art a Diabolonian by nature, and also a hater of the Prince +Emmanuel, and one that hast studied the ruin of the town of +Mansoul. Thou art also here indicted for countenancing the King's +enemies, after wholesome laws made to the contrary: for, 1. Thou +hast questioned the truth of her doctrine and state: 2. In wishing +that ten thousand doubters were in her: 3. In receiving, in +entertaining, and encouraging of her enemies, that came from their +army unto thee. What sayest thou to this indictment? art thou +guilty or not guilty?' + +'My lord,' quoth he, 'I know not the meaning of this indictment, +forasmuch as I am not the man concerned in it; the man that +standeth by this charge accused before this bench is called by the +name of Evil-Questioning, which name I deny to be mine, mine being +Honest-Inquiry. The one indeed sounds like the other; but, I trow, +your lordships know that between these two there is a wide +difference; for I hope that a man, even in the worst of times, and +that, too, amongst the worst of men, may make an honest inquiry +after things, without running the danger of death.' + +Then spake my Lord Willbewill, for he was one of the witnesses: +'My lord, and you the honourable bench and magistrates of the town +of Mansoul, you all have heard with your ears that the prisoner at +the bar has denied his name, and so thinks to shift from the charge +of the indictment. But I know him to be the man concerned, and +that his proper name is Evil-Questioning. I have known him, my +lord, above these thirty years, for he and I (a shame it is for me +to speak it) were great acquaintance, when Diabolus, that tyrant, +had the government of Mansoul; and I testify that he is a +Diabolonian by nature, an enemy to our Prince, and a hater of the +blessed town of Mansoul. He has, in times of rebellion, been at +and lain in my house, my lord, not so little as twenty nights +together, and we did use to talk then, for the substance of talk, +as he and his doubters have talked of late: true, I have not seen +him many a day. I suppose that the coming of Emmanuel to Mansoul +has made him change his lodgings, as this indictment has driven him +to change his name; but this is the man, my lord.' + +Then said the court unto him, 'Hast thou any more to say?' + +'Yes,' quoth the old gentleman, 'that I have; for all that as yet +has been said against me, is but by the mouth of one witness; and +it is not lawful for the famous town of Mansoul, at the mouth of +one witness, to put any man to death.' + +Then stood forth Mr. Diligence, and said, 'My lord, as I was upon +my watch such a night at the head of Bad Street, in this town, I +chanced to hear a muttering within this gentleman's house. Then, +thought I, what is to do here? So I went up close, but very +softly, to the side of the house to listen, thinking, as indeed it +fell out, that there I might light upon some Diabolonian +conventicle. So, as I said, I drew nearer and nearer; and when I +was got up close to the wall, it was but a while before I perceived +that there were outlandish men in the house; but I did well +understand their speech, for I have been a traveller myself. Now, +hearing such language in such a tottering cottage as this old +gentleman dwelt in, I clapped mine ear to a hole in the window, and +there heard them talk as followeth. This old Mr. Questioning asked +these doubters what they were, whence they came, and what was their +business in these parts; and they told him to all these questions, +yet he did entertain them. He also asked what numbers there were +of them; and they told him ten thousand men. He then asked them, +why they made no more manly assault upon Mansoul; and they told +him: so he called their general coward, for marching off when he +should have fought for his prince. Further, this old Evil- +Questioning wished, and I heard him wish, would all the ten +thousand doubters were now in Mansoul, and himself at the head of +them. He bid them also to take heed and lie quat; for if they were +taken they must die, although they had heads of gold.' Then said +the court: 'Mr. Evil-Questioning, here is now another witness +against you, and his testimony is full: 1. He swears that you did +receive these men into your house, and that you did nourish them +there, though you knew that they were Diabolonians, and the King's +enemies. 2. He swears that you did wish ten thousand of them in +Mansoul. 3. He swears that you did give them advice to be quat and +close, lest they were taken by the King's servants. All which +manifesteth that thou art a Diabolonian; but hadst thou been a +friend to the King, thou wouldst have apprehended them.' + +Then said Evil-Questioning: 'To the first of these I answer, The +men that came into mine house were strangers, and I took them in; +and is it now become a crime in Mansoul for a man to entertain +strangers? That I did also nourish them is true; and why should my +charity be blamed? As for the reason why I wished ten thousand of +them in Mansoul, I never told it to the witnesses, nor to +themselves. I might wish them to be taken, and so my wish might +mean well to Mansoul, for aught that any yet knows. I did also bid +them take heed that they fell not into the captains' hands; but +that might be because I am unwilling that any man should be slain, +and not because I would have the King's enemies as such escape.' + +My Lord Mayor then replied: 'That though it was a virtue to +entertain strangers, yet it was treason to entertain the King's +enemies. And for what else thou hast said, thou dost by words but +labour to evade and defer the execution of judgment. But could +there be no more proved against thee but that thou art a +Diabolonian, thou must for that die the death by the law; but to be +a receiver, a nourisher, a countenancer, and a harbourer of others +of them, yea, of outlandish Diabolonians, yea, of them that came +from far on purpose to cut off and destroy our Mansoul--this must +not be borne.' + +Then said Evil-Questioning: 'I see how the game will go: I must +die for my name, and for my charity.' And so he held his peace. + +Then they called the outlandish doubters to the bar, and the first +of them that was arraigned was the election doubter. So his +indictment was read; and because he was an outlandish man, the +substance of it was told him by an interpreter; namely, 'That he +was there charged with being an enemy of Emmanuel the Prince, a +hater of the town of Mansoul, and an opposer of her most wholesome +doctrine.' + +Then the judge asked him if he would plead? but he said only this-- +That he confessed that he was an election doubter, and that that +was the religion that he had ever been brought up in. And said, +moreover, 'If I must die for my religion, I trow, I shall die a +martyr, and so I care the less.' + +Judge. Then it was replied: 'To question election, is to +overthrow a great doctrine of the gospel, namely, the omnisciency, +and power, and will of God; to take away the liberty of God with +his creature, to stumble the faith of the town of Mansoul, and to +make salvation to depend upon works, and not upon grace. It also +belied the word, and disquieted the minds of the men of Mansoul; +therefore by the best of laws he must die.' + +Then was the vocation doubter called, and set to the bar; and his +indictment for substance was the same with the other, only he was +particularly charged with denying the calling of Mansoul. + +The judge asked him also what he had to say for himself? + +So he replied: 'That he never believed that there was any such +thing as a distinct and powerful call of God to Mansoul; otherwise +than by the general voice of the word, nor by that neither, +otherwise than as it exhorted them to forbear evil, and to do that +which is good, and in so doing a promise of happiness is annexed.' + +Then said the judge: 'Thou art a Diabolonian, and hast denied a +great part of one of the most experimental truths of the Prince of +the town of Mansoul; for he has called, and she has heard a most +distinct and powerful call of her Emmanuel, by which she has been +quickened, awakened, and possessed with heavenly grace to desire to +have communion with her Prince, to serve him, and to do his will, +and to look for her happiness merely of his good pleasure. And for +thine abhorrence of this good doctrine, thou must die the death.' + +Then the grace doubter was called, and his indictment was read and +he replied thereto: 'That though he was of the land of doubting, +his father was the offspring of a Pharisee, and lived in good +fashion among his neighbours, and that he taught him to believe, +and believe it I do, and will, that Mansoul shall never be saved +freely by grace.' + +Then said the judge: 'Why, the law of the Prince is plain: 1. +Negatively, "not of works:" 2. Positively, "by grace you are +saved." And thy religion settleth in and upon the works of the +flesh; for the works of the law are the works of the flesh. +Besides, in saying as thou hast done, thou hast robbed God of His +glory, and given it to a sinful man; thou hast robbed Christ of the +necessity of His undertaking, and the sufficiency thereof, and hast +given both these to the works of the flesh. Thou hast despised the +work of the Holy Ghost, and hast magnified the will of the flesh, +and of the legal mind. Thou art a Diabolonian, the son of a +Diabolonian; and for thy Diabolonian principles thou must die.' + +The court then, having proceeded thus far with them, sent out the +jury, who forthwith brought them in guilty of death. Then stood up +the Recorder, and addressed himself to the prisoners: 'You, the +prisoners at the bar, you have been here indicted, and proved +guilty of high crimes against Emmanuel our Prince, and against the +welfare of the famous town of Mansoul, crimes for which you must be +put to death, and die ye accordingly.' So they were sentenced to +the death of the cross. The place assigned them for execution, was +that where Diabolus drew up his last army against Mansoul; save +only that old Evil-Questioning was hanged at the top of Bad Street, +just over against his own door. + +When the town of Mansoul had thus far rid themselves of their +enemies, and of the troublers of their peace, in the next place a +strict commandment was given out, that yet my Lord Willbewill +should, with Diligence his man, search for, and do his best to +apprehend what town Diabolonians were yet left alive in Mansoul. +The names of several of them were, Mr. Fooling, Mr. Let-Good-Slip, +Mr. Slavish-Fear, Mr. No-Love, Mr. Mistrust, Mr. Flesh, and Mr. +Sloth. It was also commanded, that he should apprehend Mr. Evil- +Questioning's children, that he left behind him, and that they +should demolish his house. The children that he left behind him +were these: Mr. Doubt, and he was his eldest son; the next to him +was Legal-Life, Unbelief, Wrong-Thoughts-of-Christ, Clip-Promise, +Carnal-Sense, Live-by-Feeling, Self-Love. All these he had by one +wife, and her name was No-Hope; she was the kinswoman of old +Incredulity, for he was her uncle; and when her father, old Dark, +was dead, he took her and brought her up, and when she was +marriageable, he gave her to this old Evil-Questioning to wife. + +Now the Lord Willbewill did put into execution his commission, with +great Diligence, his man. He took Fooling in the streets, and +hanged him up in Want-wit-Alley, over against his own house. This +Fooling was he that would have had the town of Mansoul deliver up +Captain Credence into the hands of Diabolus, provided that then he +would have withdrawn his force out of the town. He also took Mr. +Let-Good-Slip one day as he was busy in the market, and executed +him according to law. Now there was an honest poor man in Mansoul, +and his name was Mr. Meditation, one of no great account in the +days of apostasy, but now of repute with the best of the town. +This man, therefore, they were willing to prefer. Now Mr. Let- +Good-Slip had a great deal of wealth heretofore in Mansoul, and, at +Emmanuel's coming, it was sequestered to the use of the Prince: +this, therefore, was now given to Mr. Meditation, to improve for +the common good, and after him to his son, Mr. Think-Well; this +Think-Well he had by Mrs. Piety his wife, and she was the daughter +of Mr. Recorder. + +After this, my lord apprehended Clip-Promise: now because he was a +notorious villain, for by his doings much of the King's coin was +abused, therefore he was made a public example. He was arraigned +and judged to be first set in the pillory, then to be whipped by +all the children and servants in Mansoul, and then to be hanged +till he was dead. Some may wonder at the severity of this man's +punishment; but those that are honest traders in Mansoul, are +sensible of the great abuse that one clipper of promises in little +time may do to the town of Mansoul. And truly my judgment is, that +all those of his name and life should be served even as he. + +He also apprehended Carnal-Sense, and put him in hold; but how it +came about, I cannot tell, but he brake prison, and made his +escape: yea, and the bold villain will not yet quit the town, but +lurks in the Diabolonian dens a days, and haunts like a ghost +honest men's houses a nights. Wherefore, there was a proclamation +set up in the market-place in Mansoul, signifying that whosoever +could discover Carnal-Sense, and apprehend him and slay him, should +be admitted daily to the Prince's table, and should be made keeper +of the treasure of Mansoul. Many, therefore, did bend themselves +to do this thing, but take him and slay him they could not, though +often he was discovered. + +But my lord took Mr. Wrong-Thoughts-of-Christ, and put him in +prison, and he died there; though it was long first, for he died of +a lingering consumption. + +Self-Love was also taken and committed to custody; but there were +many that were allied to him in Mansoul, so his judgment was +deferred. But at last Mr. Self-Denial stood up, and said: 'If +such villains as these may be winked at in Mansoul, I will lay down +my commission.' He also took him from the crowd, and had him among +his soldiers, and there he was brained. But some in Mansoul +muttered at it, though none durst speak plainly, because Emmanuel +was in town. But this brave act of Captain Self-Denial came to the +Prince's ears; so he sent for him, and made him a lord in Mansoul. +My Lord Willbewill also obtained great commendations of Emmanuel, +for what he had done for the town of Mansoul. + +Then my Lord Self-Denial took courage, and set to the pursuing of +the Diabolonians, with my Lord Willbewill; and they took Live-by- +Feeling, and they took Legal-Life, and put them in hold till they +died. But Mr. Unbelief was a nimble Jack: him they could never +lay hold of, though they attempted to do it often. He therefore, +and some few more of the subtlest of the Diabolonian tribe, did yet +remain in Mansoul, to the time that Mansoul left off to dwell any +longer in the kingdom of Universe. But they kept them to their +dens and holes: if one of them did appear, or happen to be seen in +any of the streets of the town of Mansoul, the whole town would be +up in arms after them; yea, the very children in Mansoul would cry +out after them as after a thief, and would wish that they might +stone them to death with stones. And now did Mansoul arrive to +some good degree of peace and quiet; her Prince also did abide +within her borders; her captains, also, and her soldiers did their +duties; and Mansoul minded her trade that she had with the country +that was afar off; also she was busy in her manufacture. + +When the town of Mansoul had thus far rid themselves of so many of +their enemies, and the troublers of their peace, the Prince sent to +them, and appointed a day wherein he would, at the market-place, +meet the whole people, and there give them in charge concerning +some further matters, that, if observed, would tend to their +further safety and comfort, and to the condemnation and destruction +of their home-bred Diabolonians. So the day appointed was come, +and the townsmen met together; Emmanuel also came down in his +chariot, and all his captains in their state attending him, on the +right hand and on the left. Then was an oyes made for silence, +and, after some mutual carriages of love, the Prince began, and +thus proceeded:- + +'You, my Mansoul, and the beloved of mine heart, many and great are +the privileges that I have bestowed upon you; I have singled you +out from others, and have chosen you to myself, not for your +worthiness, but for mine own sake. I have also redeemed you, not +only from the dread of my Father's law, but from the hand of +Diabolus. This I have done because I loved you, and because I have +set my heart upon you to do you good. I have also, that all +things, that might hinder thy way to the pleasures of paradise +might be taken out of the way, laid down for thee for thy soul a +plenary satisfaction, and have bought thee to myself; a price not +of corruptible things, as of silver and gold, but a price of blood, +mine own blood, which I have freely spilled upon the ground to make +thee mine. So I have reconciled thee, O my Mansoul, to my Father, +and entrusted thee in the mansion houses that are with my Father in +the royal city, where things are, O my Mansoul, that eye hath not +seen, nor hath entered into the heart of man to conceive. + +'Besides, O my Mansoul, thou seest what I have done, and how I have +taken thee out of the hands of thine enemies: unto whom thou hadst +deeply revolted from my Father, and by whom thou wast content to be +possessed, and also to be destroyed. I came to thee first by my +law, then by my gospel, to awaken thee, and show thee my glory. +And thou knowest what thou wast, what thou saidst, what thou didst, +and how many times thou rebelledst against my Father and me; yet I +left thee not as thou seest this day, but came to thee, have borne +thy manners, have waited upon thee, and, after all, accepted of +thee, even of my mere grace and favour; and would not suffer thee +to be lost, as thou most willingly wouldst have been. I also +compassed thee about, and afflicted thee on every side, that I +might make thee weary of thy ways, and bring down thy heart with +molestation to a willingness to close with thy good and happiness. +And when I had gotten a complete conquest over thee, I turned it to +thy advantage. + +'Thou seest, also, what a company of my Father's host I have lodged +within thy borders: captains and rulers, soldiers and men of war, +engines and excellent devices to subdue and bring down thy foes; +thou knowest my meaning, O Mansoul. And they are my servants, and +thine, too, Mansoul. Yea, my design of possessing of thee with +them, and the natural tendency of each of them is to defend, purge, +strengthen, and sweeten thee for myself, O Mansoul, and to make +thee meet for my Father's presence, blessing, and glory; for thou, +my Mansoul, art created to be prepared unto these. + +'Thou seest, moreover, my Mansoul, how I have passed by thy +backslidings, and have healed thee. Indeed I was angry with thee, +but I have turned mine anger away from thee, because I loved thee +still, and mine anger and mine indignation is ceased in the +destruction of thine enemies, O Mansoul. Nor did thy goodness +fetch me again unto thee, after that I for thy transgressions have +hid my face, and withdrawn my presence from thee. The way of +backsliding was thine, but the way and means of thy recovery was +mine. I invented the means of thy return; it was I that made an +hedge and a wall, when thou wast beginning to turn to things in +which I delighted not. It was I that made thy sweet bitter, thy +day night, thy smooth way thorny, and that also confounded all that +sought thy destruction. It was I that set Mr. Godly-Fear to work +in Mansoul. It was I that stirred up thy conscience and +understanding, thy will and thy affections, after thy great and +woful decay. It was I that put life into thee, O Mansoul, to seek +me, that thou mightest find me, and in thy finding find thine own +health, happiness, and salvation. It was I that fetched the second +time the Diabolonians out of Mansoul; and it was I that overcame +them, and that destroyed them before thy face. + +'And now, my Mansoul, I am returned to thee in peace, and thy +transgressions against me are as if they had not been. Nor shall +it be with thee as in former days, but I will do better for thee +than at thy beginning. + +For yet a little while, O my Mansoul, even after a few more times +are gone over thy head, I will (but be not thou troubled at what I +say) take down this famous town of Mansoul, stick and stone, to the +ground. And I will carry the stones thereof, and the timber +thereof, and the walls thereof, and the dust thereof, and the +inhabitants thereof, into mine own country, even into a kingdom of +my Father; and will there set it up in such strength and glory, as +it never did see in the kingdom where now it is placed. I will +even there set it up for my Father's habitation; for for that +purpose it was at first erected in the kingdom of Universe; and +there will I make it a spectacle of wonder, a monument of mercy, +and the admirer of its own mercy. There shall the natives of +Mansoul see all that, of which they have seen nothing here: there +shall they be equal to those unto whom they have been inferior +here. And there shalt thou, O my Mansoul, have such communion with +me, with my Father, and with your Lord Secretary, as it is not +possible here to be enjoyed, nor ever could be, shouldest thou live +in Universe the space of a thousand years. + +'And there, O my Mansoul, thou shalt be afraid of murderers no +more; of Diabolonians, and their threats, no more. There, there +shall be no more plots, nor contrivances, nor designs against thee, +O my Mansoul. There thou shalt no more hear the evil-tidings, or +the noise of the Diabolonian drum. There thou shalt not see the +Diabolonian standard-bearers, nor yet behold Diabolus's standard. +No Diabolonian mount shall be cast up against thee there; nor shall +there the Diabolonian standard be set up to make thee afraid. +There thou shalt not need captains, engines, soldiers, and men of +war. There thou shalt meet with no sorrow, nor grief, nor shall it +be possible that any Diabolonian should again, for ever, be able to +creep into thy skirts, burrow in thy walls, or be seen again within +thy borders all the days of eternity. Life shall there last longer +than here you are able to desire it should; and yet it shall always +be sweet and new, nor shall any impediment attend it for ever. + +'There, O Mansoul, thou shalt meet with many of those that have +been like thee, and that have been partakers of thy sorrows; even +such as I have chosen, and redeemed, and set apart, as thou, for my +Father's court and city-royal. All they will be glad in thee, and +thou, when thou seest them, shalt be glad in thine heart. + +'There are things, O Mansoul, even things of my Father's providing, +and mine, that never were seen since the beginning of the world; +and they are laid up with my Father, and sealed up among his +treasures for thee, till thou shalt come thither to enjoy them. I +told you before, that I would remove my Mansoul, and set it up +elsewhere; and where I will set it, there are those that love thee, +and those that rejoice in thee now; but how much more, when they +shall see thee exalted to honour! My Father will then send them +for you to fetch you; and their bosoms are chariots to put you in. +And you, O my Mansoul, shall ride upon the wings of the wind. They +will come to convey, conduct, and bring you to that, when your eyes +see more, that will be your desired haven. + +'And thus, O my Mansoul, I have showed unto thee what shall be done +to thee hereafter, if thou canst hear, if thou canst understand; +and now I will tell thee what at present must be thy duty and +practice, until I come and fetch thee to myself, according as is +related in the Scriptures of truth. + +'First, I charge thee that thou dost hereafter keep more white and +clean the liveries which I gave thee before my last withdrawing +from thee. Do it, I say, for this will be thy wisdom. They are in +themselves fine linen, but thou must keep them white and clean. +This will be your wisdom, your honour, and will be greatly for my +glory. When your garments are white, the world will count you +mine. Also, when your garments are white, then I am delighted in +your ways; for then your goings to and fro will be like a flash of +lightning, that those that are present must take notice of; also +their eyes will be made to dazzle thereat. Deck thyself, +therefore, according to my bidding, and make thyself by my law +straight steps for thy feet; so shall thy King greatly desire thy +beauty, for he is thy Lord, and worship thou him. + +'Now, that thou mayest keep them as I bid thee, I have, as I before +did tell thee, provided for thee an open fountain to wash thy +garments in. Look, therefore, that thou wash often in my fountain, +and go not in defiled garments; for as it is to my dishonour and my +disgrace, so it will be to thy discomfort, when you shall walk in +filthy garments. Let not, therefore, my garments, your garments, +the garments that I gave thee, be defiled or spotted by the flesh. +Keep thy garments always white, and let thy head lack no ointment. + +'My Mansoul, I have ofttimes delivered thee from the designs, +plots, attempts, and conspiracies of Diabolus; and for all this I +ask thee nothing, but that thou render not to me evil for my good; +but that thou bear in mind my love, and the continuation of my +kindness to my beloved Mansoul, so as to provoke thee to walk in +thy measure according to the benefit bestowed on thee. Of old, the +sacrifices were bound with coords to the horns of the altar. +Consider what is said to thee, O my blessed Mansoul. + +'O my Mansoul, I have lived, I have died, I live, and will die no +more for thee. I live, that thou mayest not die. Because I live, +thou shalt live also. I reconciled thee to my Father by the blood +of my cross; and being reconciled, thou shalt live through me. I +will pray for thee; I will fight for thee; I will yet do thee good. + +'Nothing can hurt thee but sin; nothing can grieve me but sin; +nothing can make thee base before thy foes but sin: take heed of +sin, my Mansoul. + +'And dost thou know why I at first, and do still, suffer +Diabolonians to dwell in thy walls, O Mansoul? It is to keep thee +wakening, to try thy love, to make thee watchful, and to cause thee +yet to prize my noble captains, their soldiers, and my mercy. + +'It is also, that yet thou mayest be made to remember what a +deplorable condition thou once wast in. I mean when, not some, but +all did dwell, not in thy walls, but in thy castle, and in thy +stronghold, O Mansoul. + +'O my Mansoul, should I slay all them within, many there be +without, that would bring thee into bondage; for were all these +within cut off, those without would find thee sleeping; and then, +as in a moment, they would swallow up my Mansoul. I therefore left +them in thee, not to do thee hurt (the which they yet will, if thou +hearken to them, and serve them,) but to do thee good, the which +they must, if thou watch and fight against them. Know, therefore, +that whatever they shall tempt thee to, my design is, that they +should drive thee, not further off, but nearer to my father, to +learn thee war, to make petitioning desirable to thee, and to make +thee little in thine own eyes. Hearken diligently to this, my +Mansoul. + +'Show me, then, thy love, my Mansoul, and let not those that are +within thy walls, take thy affections off from him that hath +redeemed thy soul. Yea, let the sight of a Diabolonian heighten +thy love to me. I came once, and twice, and thrice, to save thee +from the poison of those arrows that would have wrought thy death: +stand for me, thy Friend, my Mansoul, against the Diabolonians, and +I will stand for thee before my Father, and all his court. Love me +against temptation, and I will love thee notwithstanding thine +infirmities. + +'O my Mansoul, remember what my captains, my soldiers, and mine +engines have done for thee. They have fought for thee, they have +suffered by thee, they have borne much at thy hands to do thee +good, O Mansoul. Hadst thou not had them to help thee, Diabolus +had certainly made a hand of thee. Nourish them, therefore, my +Mansoul. When thou dost well, they will be well; when thou dost +ill, they will be ill, and sick, and weak. Make not my captains +sick, O Mansoul; for if they be sick, thou canst not be well; if +they be weak, thou canst not be strong; if they be faint, thou +canst not be stout and valiant for thy King, O Mansoul. Nor must +thou think always to live by sense: thou must live upon my word. +Thou must believe, O my Mansoul, when I am from thee, that yet I +love thee, and bear thee upon mine heart for ever. + +'Remember, therefore, O my Mansoul, that thou art beloved of me: +as I have, therefore, taught thee to watch, to fight, to pray, and +to make war against my foes; so now I command thee to believe that +my love is constant to thee. O my Mansoul, how have I set my +heart, my love upon thee! Watch. Behold, I lay none other burden +upon thee, than what thou hast already. 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