THE HOLY WAR

Made by Shaddai upon Diabolus
for the Regaining of the Metropolis
of the World
or
The Losing and Taking Again
of the Town of Mansoul

JOHN BUNYAN
BAKER BOOK HOUSE
Grand Rapids, Michigan 49506

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 anatomise.
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, despised 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 arm'd 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 combined
To ruin Mansoul, and to make away
Her primum mobilewithout 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 ope 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 seem'd 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 trumpets 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 parleys, 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' patronise.
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 wrote 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 scandalise.
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.  Ay, 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 of
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 further 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
be 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), sank 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 an 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 an 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 doting 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, '0 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, 0 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 especially 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 as 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.

CHAPTER 2

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
aforenamed, 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 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 Diabolonian 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 licence 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 woful
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 addresses
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 ease, 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
yourself 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 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 cloth 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 1 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.

CHAPTER 3

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 1
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 forenamed 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 thunderbolts, 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 summons
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 forever.  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 naught but thorns and briers.  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 tothy root before it
be laid atthy root; it must first be laid tothy root in a way of
threatening, before it is laid atthy 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 atas well as tothy 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?  0 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 keep 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 whizz, 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
sally-port 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 their 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.

 CHAPTER 4

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