 CHAPTER VIII. Now when the time was come and the court set, commandment was sent to Mr. Truman, the jailer, to bring the prisoners down to the bar. When 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, their recorder, and the rest of the honourable bench, first the jury was impaneled, and then the witnesses sawn. 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 Will-Be-Will 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, Jailer. 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, and intruder upon the town of Mansoul, for that thou hast penitiously and daltishly 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? No. Know him? Yes, my lord, I have here to fore 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? No. My lord, I and he were once in villains lane together, and he at that time did briskly talk of diverse 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 to 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? No. Upon mine oath I heard him say thus. Then said the clerk, Mr. Teltru, 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 blasphemous 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. Haight lies, look upon the prisoner at the bar. Do you know him? Haight. 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 whorehouse as to go to hear a sermon. Clerk. Where did you hear him say these things? Haight. In drunkard's row, just at Rascals Lane end, at a house in which Mr. Impiety lived. Clerk. Let him by jail 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 a 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 sayest thou, 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 your evidence for our Lord the King against the prisoner at the bar. Clerk, come, Mr. Knowall, look upon the prisoner at the bar. Do you know him? No. Yes, my Lord, I know him. Clerk, what is his name? No. His name is Lustings, he was the son of one beastly, and his mother bear 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? No. My Lord, he has, as he sayeth, 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? No. I know him to be a swearer, a liar, a sabbathbreaker. 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? No. All the town over, my Lord? Clerk, come, Mr. Teltru, 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 childish, 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 jail 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 art 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 saith 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 at my duty to be true to my old prince, I thought at 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 jailer, and set Mr. Forgetgood to the bar. Forgetgood set to the bar. Clerk, Mr. Forgetgood, thou art here indicted by the name of Forgetgood, 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 Shaddai, the breach of his law, and the endangering of the destruction of the famous town of Mansoul. What says thou to this indictment? Art thou guilty or not guilty? Then said Forgetgood, 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, Forgetgood, Forgetgood, thy forgetfulness of good was not simply a frailty but of purpose, and for that thou didst loath 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 Yusof to blind the court with all, and as a cloak to cover thy navery. 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 Forgetgood 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 bay slain at a house next door to the sign of the conscience seared with a hot iron. Clerk, Mr. Knowall, what can you say for our lord the king against the prisoner at the bar? No. 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? No. In flesh slain right opposite to the church. Then said the clerk, Come, Mr. Telltrue, 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 valourless 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 Nausea 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. Jailer, set Mr. Hardheart to the bar. He is set to the bar. Clerk. Mr. Hardheart, thou art here indicted by the name of Hardheart, an intruder upon the town of Mansoul, for that thou didst most desperately and wickedly possess the town of Mansoul with impenitency and obturateness, and its keep them from remorse and sorrow for their evils, all the time of their apostasy from and rebellion against the Blessed King Shaddai. What sayest thou to this indictment? What 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 Jailer, and set Mr. Falsepeace to the bar. Falsepeace set to the bar. Mr. Falsepeace, thou art here indicted by the name of Falsepeace, 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 apostasy 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. Falsepeace, gentlemen, and you now pointed to be my judges, I acknowledge that my name is Mr. Peace, but that my name is Falsepeace I utterly deny. If your honours shall please the said 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 Falsepeace, but Peace. Wherefore I cannot plead to this indictment, for as much 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 name as 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 one, 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 what they had done, but I, as one troubled to see them disquieted, presently sought out means to get them quiet again. Two, when the ways of the old world and of Sodom were in fashion, if anything happened to molest those that were filled with customs of the present times, I laboured to make them quiet again, and to cause them to act without molestation. Three, to come nearer home, when the walls 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 peacemaker is, and if a peacemaker 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 deserves not this inhuman way of treatment, but liberty, and also a licence to seek damage of those that have been my accusers. Then said the clerk, Cryer, make a proclamation. Cryer, oh yes, for as much as the prisoner at the bar had denied his name to be that which is mentioned in this indictment, the court required 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 swear 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. Search-truth, 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 used 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 used 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 swear him in. 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. Soothup, 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 Mark and Nick name him. But this was in the time when Mr. False Peace was a great man, and when the Diabolonians were the brave men in man's soul. 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 peacemaker among your neighbours, but for that you did wickedly and satanically bring, keep, and hold the town of man's soul, both under its apostasy from and in its rebellion against its king, in a false, lying, and damnable peace. Glory to the law of Shaddai, and to the hazard of the destruction of the then miserable town of man's soul. 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 to matter of fact, and see what they have to say for our lord the king against the prisoner at the bar. No. My lord, this man hath of a long time made it to my knowledge his business to keep the town of man's soul 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 groundsoever it comes, and let us be for a quiet and peaceable life. Let us fly from all trouble, on what groundsoever 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 jailer, 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. No All did first give in his evidence against him. No. 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 Jailer, and set Mr. Pitiless to the bar. Mr. Pitiless, thou art here indicted by the name of Pitiless, and intruder upon the town of Mansoul, for that thou didst most traitorously and wickedly shut up all bowels of compassion, and would 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 them in a tendency to lead her to repentance. What says 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. 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? No. 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. Covertousness 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. Teltrue, 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 stage should be shunned by them. Clerk. Set Mr. Horty to the bar jailer. Mr. Horty, thou art he undighted by the name of Horty, 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 it's moreover encouraged, 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? Horty. Gentlemen, I have always been a man of courage and valor and have not used, when under the greatest clouds, to sneak or hang down the head like a bullrush. 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 seem to have ten times the advantage of them. I did not used 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. Horty, 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 and without confusion you may consider 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. Trueheart, 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, Quothee, for the men, the prisoners at the bar, for my part I believe that they all deserve death. Very right, said Mr. Trueheart, I am wholly of your opinion. Oh, what a mercy is it, said Mr. Hate Bad, that such villains as these are apprehended. I, I, said Mr. Love God, this is one of the joyfulest 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 man's soul, 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 woefully blind who sayeth 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 man's soul. Thus, therefore, being all agreed in their verdict, they come instantly into the court. Clerk, gentlemen of the jury, answer all to your names. Leaf, 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 impaneled 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 which they stand here indicted? Or are they not guilty? Foreman. Guilty, my lord. Clerk, look to your prisoners, jailer. This was done in the morning, and in the afternoon they received the sentence of death according to the law. The jailer, 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, break prison and made his escape, and gets him away quite out of the town of Mansoul, and they lurking in such places and holes as he might, until he should again have opportunity to do them town of Mansoul a mischief for their thus handling of him as they did. End of chapter 8 Chapter 9 of The Holy War Now when Mr. Truman, the jailer, 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 acquaint's my Lord Mayor, Mr. Recorder, and my Lord Wilby Will 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 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. Didsy that he ranged all over dry places till he met with Diabolus his friend, and where should they meet one another but just upon Hellgate Hill? But oh, what a lamentable story did the old gentleman tell to Diabolus concerning what sad alteration Emmanuel had made in Mansoul. At 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. That said in credulity, which is the sore respectation to me, is that he had pulled down father, thy image and set up his own. Pulled down thy officers and set up his own. Yea and will be will that rebel who one would have thought should never have turned from us. He is now in as great favor with Emmanuel as ever he was with thee. But besides all this, this will be will has received a special commission from his master to search for, to apprehend and to put to death all and all manner of Diabolonium that he shall find in Mansoul. Yea and this will be will 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 Diabolos 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 swear that he would try to be revenged on Mansoul for this. So they both he and his old friend in credulity 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 foradness 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 struggleings 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 sea, 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 he 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 minister experience that waited upon that noble captain, the captain credence, and bid him come hither to me. So the messenger that waited upon the good Prince Immanuel 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 Immanuel and he came to obey his sense before him. Now the men of the town knew Mr. Experience well, for he was torn 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 a man over a band of men. So with one consent they bowed the knee before Immanuel and with a shout said let Immanuel live forever. Then said the Prince to the young gentleman whose name was Mr. Experience. I have thought good to confer upon the a place of trust and honour in this my town of Mansoul. Then the young man bowed his head and worshipped. It is said Immanuel that thou shouldst be a captain, a captain of 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 Immanuel and he set his seal there too. Then by the hand of Mr. Waity he sent it away to the Captain. Now so 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 Immanuel for the good of the town of Mansoul. He had for his lieutenant one Mr. Skillful and for his cornet one Mr. Memory. His under offices I need not name. His colours were the white colours for the town of Mansoul and his scutching was the deadline 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 will be will went to congratulate him and in special way to thank him for his love, care and the tender compassion which he showed obliged the 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. Immanuel 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 hero of take as follows Immanuel, Prince of Peace and a great lover of the town of Mansoul I do in the name of my father and of my 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 neighbor or themselves second I do give them the holy law in 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 and shall stand with the honor of my father my glory and their comfort yea, I grant them the benefit of life and death and of things present and things to come this privilege no other city, town and inspiration 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 more over 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 enslave and destroy all and all manner of Diabolonias that at any time from whence ever 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 the true inhabitants thereof to them I say and to their right seed after them but all Diabolonians of what sort, birth, country or kingdom so ever shall be devoured to 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 the epitome a set before you they carried it to audience that is to the marketplace 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 there might be increase 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 trumpet 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 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 is 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 how come this teacher therefore must of necessity have the preeminence both in your affections and judgment before your other teacher his personal dignity the excellency of his teaching also the great dexterity that he had to help you to make and draw up petitions to my father for your help and to his pleasing must lay obligators upon you to love him fear him and to take he that you give him not this person can put life and vigor 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 you 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 in your hearts and Mansoul would 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 my name and told him that for as much 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 terrain and domestic matters to 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 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 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 persons inspiration must give him understanding wherefore oh 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 vice-regent 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 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 during thou shall drive from thy heart and stomach all foul, gross and hurtful humours it will also lighten thine eyes and will strengthen thine memory for the reception and keeping of all that their 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 Immanuel 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 has passed 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 artistic for therein lieeth his work he is not by what I have said the barred of telling to Mansoul anything that he have heard and received at the mouth of the Lord High Secretary only he shall not attempt presumed to pretend to be a revealer of those high mysteries himself for the breaking of them up and the discovery of them to Mansoul lieeth only in the power authority and skill of the Lord High Secretary himself of them he mains so may the rest of the town of Mansoul 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 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 we 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 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 discontent cast upon them from the town of Mansoul will reject 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, succor 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 is 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 harken 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 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 Diabolos therefore look about you they used heretofore to lodge with their prince in the castle when incudulity 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 has 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 find out their haunts assault them and paint no peace with them wherever they haunt lurk or abide and what terms of peace so ever they offer you a bore 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 the 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 lascivasness the lord deceit the lord evil eye mr drunkenness mr reveling mr adultery mr witchcraft mr variance mr emulation mr wroth mr strife mr sedition mr heresy these are some of the chief of Mansoul the king and there thou shalt find their physiognomy and such other characteristic notes of them by which they certainly may be known these are 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 shoulders break the bars and bolts of your gates and turn your now most flourishing Mansoul your barren and desolate wilderness and ruinous heap wherefore that you may take courage to yourselves apprehend these villains wherever you find them I give to you my lord mayor the lord will be will 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 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 or 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 renegades by name so I will tell you that among yourselves some of them shall creep in to begall you even such as would seem and that in appearance are very rife and hot for religion and there if you watch not will do you a mischief such and 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 End of Chapter 9 Chapter 10 of the Holy War this is a LibriVox recording all LibriVox recordings are in the public domain for more information or to volunteer please visit LibriVox.org Recording by Joy Chan The Holy War by John Bunyan Chapter 10 When the Prince had thus far new modeled 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 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 Immanuel made a short speech unto them and did for them as he had said and unto them as he had promised My Mansoul said he that of 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 had 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 bad 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 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 give it 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 good 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 not fall 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 forever 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 should I 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 heed 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 will be will 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 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 pour 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 the 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 light 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 favor 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 nor did her conduits run sweet wine nor 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 favor in his eyes how honorable 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 will be will 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 Goodhope 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 general and I made great observation of it in Mansoul as this sweet natured gentleman would the town was in most happy condition now there are 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 in all 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 Willoughby Will of whom we have written so much before now the Lord Willoughby Will being in those days very well pleased with him and with his achievements gave him his daughter the Lady Fear Nothing to Wife 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 Willoughby Will 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 conceded 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 Immanuel 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 Immanuel and when he also saw what was become of Diabolus and how he was unroosted by Mansoul 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 slightly 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 Immanuel's things by the end being bold he ventures himself into the company of the townsmen 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 that Mansoul should be happy forever 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 to some other matters now Immanuel 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 he that they were not beguiled with any Diabolonian slight he had further told them that the security of the now flourishing town of Mansoul did not so much line her present fortifications and force as in her so using of what she had as might oblige her Immanuel to abide within her castle for the right doctrine of Immanuel 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 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 their ways of the sea now when Immanuel 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 condols their state with the secretary saying oh that my people had harkened 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 his manifest in these particulars one they left off their former way of visiting him they came not to his royal palace as a foal two they did not regard nor yet take notice that he came or came not to visit them three the love feasts that had want 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 four they waited not for his councils 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 forever now as was said Emmanuel perceiving that by the craft of Mr. Karno security the power 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 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 Mr. Karno security's parlor and perceiving also that they were not willing to reason about matters concerning their good he took grief and went his way the witch 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 with us one even while he was yet with them in Mansoul he kept himself close formally two his speech was not now if he came in their company so pleasant and familiar as formally three nor did he as in times past send to Mansoul from his table those dainty bits which he was want to do four 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 yay twice but he would seem not at all to regard them whereas formally at the sound of their feet he would up and run and meet them half way and take them to and lay them in his bosom but thus Emmanuel carried it now and by this his carriage he sought to make them rethink themselves and return to him but alas they did not consider they did not know his ways they regarded not 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 where in this old gentleman Mr. Carnal security did again make a feast for the town of Mansoul 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 abhorch 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 they were merry even all but this one man for Mr. Godly fear sat like a stranger and did neither eat nor was merry the witch 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 goods making the witch serve you will take a dram off I hope it may make you lonely and blind 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 there too but a word to the natives of Mansoul you the elders and chief of Mansoul to me it is strange to see you so jock and a merry when the town of Mansoul is in such woeful case then said Mr. Carnal security you want sleep good sir 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 they pray interrupt me not it is true the town of Mansoul was strong and with a proviso impregnable but you the townsman 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 willily 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 gone if any shall question the truth of my words I will answer him by this and such like 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 and 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 fine fine Mr. Godly fear fine will you never shake off your timorousness are you afraid of being sparrow tired who have hurt you behold I am on your side only yonor for doubting and I am for being confident besides is this a time to be sad in a feast is made for mirth widen 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 but he is gone for Mansoul I say again he is gone and you sir are the man that has driven him away yeah 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 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 in 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 quote he I fear that Mr. Godly fear tells us true I for my part had not seen my prince a long season I cannot remember the day for my part nor can I answer Mr. Godly fierce question I doubt I am afraid that all is not with Mansoul Godly nay I know that you shall not find him in Mansoul for he is departed and gone yay and gone for the fault the elders and for that they regarded his grace with unkindness then did the subordinate preacher look as if he would fall down dead at the table also all their 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 in his sayings they began to consult what was best to be done now Mr. Carno security was gone into his withdrawing room for he liked not such dumbish doings both to the man of the house for drawing them into evil and also to recover Immanuel's love and with that that saying of their prince came very hot into their minds for he had bidden them due to such as were false prophets that should arise to delude the town of Mansoul so they took Mr. Carno 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 Immanuel their prince and they sought him but they found him not then were they more confirmed in the truth of Mr. Godly fear 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 Immanuel 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 of man's soul 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 man's soul 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 End of Chapter 10