out of many for the good of the town of Mansoul. Caution I say, I charge you, that you carry it not about the untowardly to them; for though they have the captains 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.1 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

Heb. xii. 12. Isa. xxxv. 3. Rev. iii. 2. I Thess.

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A caution their health, and in your countenancing them. about the Remember also, that if they be sick, they catch Diabolo- that disease of the town of Mansoul itself.

nians "These things I have said unto you because 1

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 warn'd 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; 2 that is, to take, mortify, and put them to death, according to the will of my

some of

Father. Nor can you utterly rid yourselves of The them, unless you should pull down the walls of names of your town, the which I am by no means willing them you should. Do you ask me, What shall we do, then? Why, be you diligent, and quit you like men ; observe their holds; 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 Witchcraft, 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

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A com- yourselves to apprehend these villains wherever you mission find them, I give to you, my Lord Mayor, my to destroy Lord Will-be-will, and Mr Recorder, with all the the Dia- inhabitants of the town of Mansoul, full

bolonians

and

power 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.

eyes the

you,

"Now as I have set before your vagrants and runagates by name, so I will tell 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 a 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 Another the town of Mansoul, and had instructed them in privilege such matters as were profitable for them to know, soul for Manthen 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 glistering 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.1

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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

1 Rev. xix. 8.