now magnifying their captains and their slings, and their rams; then crying up their fortifications and strongholds; and, lastly, the assurances that they had from their Prince, that Mansoul should be happy for ever.  But when he saw that some of the men of the town were tickled and taken with his discourse, he makes it his business, and walking from street to street, house to house, and man to man, he at last brought Mansoul to dance after his pipe, and to grow almost as carnally secure as himself; so from talking they went to feasting, and from feasting to sporting; and so to some other matters.  Now Emmanuel was yet in the town of Mansoul, and he wisely observed their doings.  My Lord Mayor, my Lord Willbewill, and Mr. Recorder were also all taken with the words of this tattling Diabolonian gentleman, forgetting that their Prince had given them warning before to take heed that they were not beguiled with any Diabolonian sleight; he had further told them that the security of the now flourishing town of Mansoul did not so much lie in her present fortifications and force, as in her so using of what she had, as might oblige her Emmanuel to abide within her castle.  For the right doctrine of Emmanuel was, that the town of Mansoul should take heed that they forgot not his Father’s love and his; also, that they should so demean themselves as to continue to keep themselves therein.  Now this was not the way to do it, namely, to fall in love with one of the Diabolonians, and with such an one too as Mr. Carnal-Security was, and to be led up and down by the nose by him; they should have heard their Prince, feared their Prince, loved their Prince, and have stoned this naughty pack to death, and took care to have walked in the ways of their Prince’s prescribing:  for then should their peace have been as a river, when their righteousness had been like the waves of the sea.

Now when Emmanuel perceived that through the policy of Mr. Carnal-Security the hearts of the men of Mansoul were chilled and abated in their practical love to him,

First.  He bemoans them, and, condoles their state with the Secretary, saying, ’Oh that my people had hearkened unto me, and that Mansoul had walked in my ways!  I would have fed them with the finest of the wheat; and with honey out of the rock would I have sustained them.’  This done, he said in his heart, ’I will return to the court, and go to my place, till Mansoul shall consider and acknowledge their offence.’  And he did so, and the cause and manner of his going away from them was, that Mansoul declined him, as is manifest in these particulars.

’1.  They left off their former way of visiting him, they came not to his royal palace as afore.

’2.  They did not regard, nor yet take notice, that he came or came not to visit them.

’3.  The love-feasts that had wont to be between their Prince and them, though he made them still, and called them to them, yet they neglected to come to them, or to be delighted with them.