Captain Good-hope at Eye-gate, a mortal wound in the breaft.

There was, moreover, one Mr Feeling, but he was no captain, but a great stickler to encourage Manfoul to rebellion; he received a wound in the eye Mr Feeling by the hand of one of Boanerges' foldiers, hurt. and had by the captain himfelf been flain, but that he made a fudden retreat.

hurt.

But I never faw Willbewill fo daunted in all my life, he was not able to do what he was wont; Willbewili and fome fay that he also received a wound in the leg, and that fome of the men in the Prince's army have certainly feen him limp as he afterwards walked on the wall.

Many of the

foldiers in Manfoul Пlain.

I shall not give you a particular account of the names of the foldiers that were flain in the Town, for many were maimed and wounded, and flain for when they faw that the pofts of Ear-gate did shake, and Eye-gate was well nigh broken quite open, and alfo that their captains were flain, this took away the hearts of many of the Diabolonians; they fell alfo by the force of the fhot that were fent by the golden flings into the midst of the town of Manfoul.

Of the townfmen there was one Love-no-good, he was a townfman, but a Diabolonian; he Love-no-good alfo received his mortal wound in Mansoul, wounded. but he died not very foon.

Mr Ill-paufe alfo, who was the man that came along with Diabolus when at firft he attempted the taking of Mansoul, he also received a grievous wound

Ill-paufe wounded.

in the head, fome fay that his brain-pan was crackt; this I have taken notice of, that he was never after this able to do that mischief to Manfoul as he had done in times paft. Alfo old Prejudice and Mr Anything fled, 02

Now,

The white flag hung

Now, when the battle was over, the Prince com, manded that yet once more the white flag fhould be fet upon Mount Gracious, in out again. fight of the town of Manfoul, to fhew that yet Emmanuel had grace for the wretched town of Manfoul.

When Diabolus faw the white flag hanged out again, 2nd knowing that it was not for him but Manfoul, he caft in his mind to play another prank, to

Itabolus's

new peak wit, to fee if Emmanuel would raife his fiege, and be gone, upon promise of a reformation. So he comes down to the gate one evening, a good while after fun was gone down, and calls to fpeak with Emmanuel, who prefently came down to the gate; and Diabolus faith unto him,

"Forafmuch as thou makeft it appear by thy white His fpeech to flag, that thou art wholly given to peace and Emmanuel. quiet, I thought meet to acquaint thee, that we are ready to accept thereof upon terms which thou mayeft admit,

I know that thou art given to devotion, and that holiness pleases thee; yea, that thy great end in making a war upon Mansoul is, that it may be an holy habitas tion. Well, draw off thy forces from the Town, and I will bend Manfoul to thy bow.

Diabolus

would be Em

First, I will lay down all acts of hoftility against thee, and will be willing to become thy demanuel's deputy, and will, as I have formerly been against thee, now ferve thee in the town of Manfoul. And more particularly,

puty, &c.

I.

"1. I will perfuade Manfoul to receive thee for their Lord; and I know that they will do it the fooner, when they shall understand that I am thy deputy.

2. I will fhew them wherein they have erred, and that tranfgreffion ftands in the way to life,

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3. I will fhew them the holy law unto which they must conform, even that which they have broken. "4. I will prefs upon them the neceffity of a reformation according to thy law,

5. And, moreover, that none of these things may fail, I myself, at my own proper coft and charge, will fet up and maintain a fufficient miniftry, befides lecturers, in Manfoul.

"6. Thou shalt receive, as a token of our fubjetion to thee, continually, year by year, what thou shalt think fit to lay and levy upon us, in token of our fabjection to thee."

The answer.

Then faid Emmanuel to him, "O full of deceit, how moveable are thy ways! how often haft thou changed and rechanged, if fo be thou mightest still keep poffeffion of my Manfoul, though, as has been plainly declared before, I am the right heir thereof? Often haft thou made thy proposals already, nor is this last a whit better than they. And, failing to deceive, when thou fhewedft thyself in thy black, thou haft now transformed thyfelf into an angel of light, and wouldeft to deceive, be now as a minifter of righteoufnefs.

2 Cor. xi. 14.

Diabolus has no confcience love to Man

to God, nor

"But know now, O Diabolus, that nothing must be regarded that thou canft propound, for nothing is done by thee but to deceive; thou neither haft confcience to God, nor love to the town of Manfoul; whence, then, fhould thefe thy fayings arife but from finful craft and deceit? He that can of lift and will propound what he pleases, and that wherewith he may deftroy them that believe him, is to be abandoned with all that he fhall fay. But, if righteoufnefs be fuch a beauty-fpot in thine eyes now, how is it that wickednefs was fo clofely ftuck to by thee before? But this is by the bye,

foul.

"Thou talkest now of a reformation in Mansoul, and that thou thyself, if I will pleafe, will be at the head of that reformation; all the while knowing, that the

He knows that what he

propounds for the health of

dɔ no good.

greatest proficiency that man can make in the law, and the righteousness thereof, will amount to no more for the taking away of Manfoul will the curfe from Manfoul, than just nothing at all: for a law being broken by Manfoul, that had before, upon a fuppofition of the breach thereof curfe pronounced against him for it of God, can never, by his obeying of the law, deliver himself therefrom, (to fay nothing of what a reformation is like to be fet up in Manfoul, when the devil is become the correcter of vice.) Thou knowest that all that thou haft now faid in this matter is nothing but guile and deceit; and as it was the firft, fo is it the laft, card that thou haft to play. Many there be that do foon difcern thee when thou fhewedft them the cloven foot; but in thy white, thy light, and in thy transformation, thou art seen but of a few. But thou shalt not do thus with my Manfoul, O Diabolus, for I do still love my Manfoul.

Besides, I am not come to put Mansoul upon works, to live thereby, (fhould I do fo, I fhould be like unto thee) but I am come, that by me, and by what I have and shall do for Manfoul, they may to my Father be reconciled, though by their fin they have provoked him to anger, and though by the law they cannot obtain mercy.

"Thou talkest of fubjecting of this Town to good, when none defireth it at thy hands. I am fent by my Father to poffefs it myself, and to guide it by the fkilfulness of my hands, into fuch a conformity to him as fhall be pleafing in his

All things

must be new

in Manfoul.

fight. I will therefore poffefs it myself, I will dipoffefs and caft thee out; I will fet up mine own ftandard in the midst of them; I will alfo govern them by new laws, new officers, new motives, and new ways: yea, I will pull down this Town, and build it again; and it fhall be as though it had not been, and it fhall then be the glory of the whole univerfe."

Diabota

When Diabolus heard this, and perceived that he was difcovered in all his deceits, he was confounded, and utterly put to a nonplus; confcurred, but having in himself the fountain of iniquity, rage, and malice, against both Shaddai and his Son,,and the beloved town of Manfoul, what doth he but ftrengthen himself what he could to give fresh battle to the noble Prince Emmanuel? So then, now we must have another fight before the town of Manfoul is taken. Come up then to the mountains, you that love to fee military actions, and behold, by both fides, how the fatal blow is given; while one feeks to hold, and the other feeks to make himself master of, the famous town of Manfoul.

New prepara

Diabolus, therefore, having withdrawn himself from the wall to his force that was in the heart of the town of Manfoul, Emmanuel alfo re- tions for to turned to the camp; and both of them, after their diverse ways, put themselves in a pofture fit to bid battle one to another.

fight.

Diabolus, as filled with defpair of retaining in his hands the famous town of Manfoul, refolved Diabolus deto do what mischief he could, (if indeed he fpairs of holdcould do any to the army of the Prince, and ing of Manfoul, and thereto the famous town of Manfoul; for, alas! fore contrives it was not the happiness of the filly town of chief if he Manfoul that was defigned by Diabolus, but can.

to do it mif

the