Then said Mr. Carnal-Security, ’Fie! fie!  Mr. Godly-Fear, fie!—­ will you never shake off your timorousness?  Are you afraid of being sparrow-blasted?  Who hath hurt you?  Behold, I am on your side; only you are for doubting, and I am for being confident.  Besides, is this a time to be sad in?  A feast is made for mirth; why, then, do you now, to your shame, and our trouble, break out into such passionate melancholy language, when you should eat and drink, and be merry?’

Then said Mr. Godly-Fear again, ’I may well be sad, for Emmanuel is gone from Mansoul.  I say again, he is gone, and you, sir, are the man that has driven him away; yea, he is gone without so much as acquainting the nobles of Mansoul with his going; and if that is not a sign of his anger, I am not acquainted with the methods of godliness.

’And now, my lords and gentlemen, for my speech is still to you, your gradual declining from him did provoke him gradually to depart from you, the which he did for some time, if perhaps you would have been made sensible thereby, and have been renewed by humbling yourselves; but when he saw that none would regard, nor lay these fearful beginnings of his anger and judgment to heart, he went away from this place; and this I saw with mine eye.  Wherefore now, while you boast, your strength is gone; you are like the man that had lost his locks that before did wave about his shoulders.  You may, with this lord of your feast, shake yourselves, and conclude to do as at other times; but since without him you can do nothing, and he is departed from you, turn your feast into a sigh, and your mirth into lamentation.’

Then the subordinate preacher, old Mr. Conscience by name, he that of old was Recorder of Mansoul, being startled at what was said, began to second it thus:-

‘Indeed, my brethren,’ quoth he, ’I fear that Mr. Godly-Fear tells us true:  I, for my part, have not seen my Prince a long season.  I cannot remember the day, for my part; nor can I answer Mr. Godly-Fear’s question.  I doubt, I am afraid that all is nought with Mansoul.’

Godly.  Nay, I know that you shall not find him in Mansoul, for he is departed and gone; yea, and gone for the faults of the elders, and for that they rewarded his grace with unsufferable unkindness.

Then did the subordinate preacher look as if he would fall down dead at the table; also all there present, except the man of the house, began to look pale and wan.  But having a little recovered themselves, and jointly agreeing to believe Mr. Godly-Fear and his sayings, they began to consult what was best to be done, (now Mr. Carnal-Security was gone into his withdrawing-room, for he liked not such dumpish doings,) both to the man of the house for drawing them into evil, and also to recover Emmanuel’s love.

And, with that, that saying of their Prince came very hot into their minds, which he had bidden them do to such as were false prophets that should arise to delude the town of Mansoul.  So they took Mr. Carnal-Security (concluding that he must be he) and burned his house upon him with fire; for he also was a Diabolonian by nature.