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Emmanuel also, when he had thus set forward to go to recover the
town of Mansoul, took with him, at the commandment of his Father,
forty-four battering-rams, and twelve slings,[148] to whirl stones
withal. Every one of these was made of pure gold; and these they
carried with them in the heart and body of their army, all along
as they went to Mansoul.

So they marched till they came within less than a league of the
town. And there they lay till the first four captains came thither,
to acquaint him with matters. Then they took their journey to go
to the town of Mansoul, and unto Mansoul they came. But when the
old soldiers that were in the camp saw that they had new forces
to join with, they again gave such a shout before the walls of
the town of Mansoul, that it put Diabolus into another fright. So
they sat down before the town, not now as the other four captains
did, to wit, against the gates of Mansoul only; but they environed
it round on every side, and beset it behind and before; so that
now, let Mansoul look which way it will, it saw force and power
lie in siege against it. Besides, there were mounts cast up against
it.

The Mount Gracious was on the one side, and Mount Justice was on
the other; further, there were several small banks and advance-ground--as
Plain-truth Hill, and No-sin Banks--where many of the slings were
placed against the town. Upon Mount Gracious were planted four,
and upon Mount Justice were planted as many; and the rest were
conveniently placed in several parts round about the town. Five
of the best battering-rams--that is, of the biggest of them--were
placed upon Mount Hearken; a mount cast up hard by Ear-gate, with
intent to break that open.[149]

Now, when the men of the town saw the multitude of the soldiers
that were come up against the place, and the rams and slings, and
the mounts on which they were planted, together with the glittering
of the armour and the waving of their colours, they were forced
to shift and shift, and again to shift their thoughts, but they
hardly changed for thoughts more stout, but rather for thoughts
more faint. For though before they thought themselves sufficiently
guarded, yet now they began to think that no man knew what would
be their hap or lot.

When the good Prince Emmanuel had thus beleaguered Mansoul; in
the first place he hangs out the white flag, which he caused to
be set up among the golden slings that were planted upon Mount
Gracious. And this he did for two reasons: 1. To give notice to
Mansoul that he could and would yet be gracious if they turned
to him. 2. And that he might leave them the more without excuse,
should he destroy them, they continuing in their rebellion.

So the white flag, with the three golden doves on it, was hanged
out for two days together, to give them time and space to consider.
But they, as was hinted before, as if they were unconcerned, made
no reply to the favourable signal of the Prince. Then he commanded,
and they set the red flag upon that mount called Mount Justice.
It was the red flag of Captain Judgment, whose scutcheon was the
burning fiery furnace, and this also stood waving before them in
the wind for several days together. But look how they carried it
under the white flag when that was hanged out, so did they also
when the red one was, and yet he took no advantage of them.

Then he commanded again that his servants would hang out the
black flag of defiance against them, whose scutcheon was the three
burning thunder-bolts. But as unconcerned was Mansoul at this as
at those that went before. But when the Prince saw that neither
mercy, nor judgment, nor execution of judgment, would or could come
near the heart of Mansoul, he was touched with much compunction,
and said, 'Surely this strange carriage of the town of Mansoul
doth rather arise from ignorance of the manner and feats of war,
than from a secret defiance of us, and abhorrence of their own
lives; or, if they know the manner of the war of their own, yet not
the rites and ceremonies of the wars in which we are concerned,
when I make wars upon mine enemy Diabolus.'

Therefore, he sent to the town of Mansoul, to let them know what
he meant by those signs and ceremonies of the flag, and also to
know of them which of the things they would choose, whether grace
and mercy, or judgment and the execution of judgment. All this
while they kept their gates shut with locks, bolts, and bars, as
fast as they could; their guards, also, were doubled, and their
watch made as strong as they could. Diabolus also did pluck up
what heart he could to encourage the town to make resistance.

The townsmen also made answer to the Prince's messenger, in
substance, according to that which follows:--

'Great Sir, as to what by your messenger you have signified to us,
whether we will accept of your mercy or fall by your justice, we
are bound by the law and custom of this place, and can give you no
positive answer. For it is against the law, government, and the
prerogative royal of our king, to make either peace or war without
him. But this we will do, we will petition that our prince will
come down to the wall, and there give you such treatment as he
shall think fit, and profitable for us.'

When the good Prince Emmanuel heard this answer, and saw the
slavery and bondage of the people, and how much content they were
to abide in the chains of the tyrant Diabolus, it grieved him at
the heart. And, indeed, when at any time he perceived that any
were contented under the slavery of the giant, he would be affected
with it.

But to return again to our purpose. After the town had carried this
news to Diabolus, and had told him, moreover, that the Prince that
lay in the leaguer[150] without the wall, waited upon them for an
answer, he refused, and huffed as well as he could, but in heart
he was afraid. Then, said he, I will go down to the gates myself,
and give him such an answer as I think fit. So he went down to
Mouth-gate, and there addressed himself to speak to Emmanuel, but
in such language as the town understood not, the contents whereof
were as follows:--

'O thou great Emmanuel, Lord of all the world, I know thee that
thou art the Son of the great Shaddai! Wherefore art thou come
to torment me, and to cast me out of my possession? This town of
Mansoul, as thou very well knowest, is mine, and that by twofold
right. 1. It is mine by right of conquest, I won it in the open
field. And shall the prey be taken from the mighty, or the lawful
captive be delivered? 2. This town of Mansoul is mine also by
their subjection. They have opened the gates of their town unto
me, they have sworn fidelity to me, and have openly chosen me to
be their king. They have also given their castle into my hands;
yea, they have put the whole strength of Mansoul under me.

Moreover, this town of Mansoul hath disavowed thee; yea, they have
cast thy law, thy name, thy image, and all that is thine, behind
their back, and have accepted, and set up in their room, my law,
my name, mine image, and all that ever is mine. Ask else thy
captains, and they will tell thee that Mansoul hath, in answer to
all their summons, shown love and loyalty to me; but always disdain,
despite, contempt, and scorn to thee and thine. Now thou art the
Just One and the Holy, and shouldest do no iniquity; depart then, I
pray thee, therefore, from me, and leave me to my just inheritance,
peaceably.'

This oration was made in the language of Diabolus himself. For
although he can, to every man, speak in their own language--else he
could not tempt them all as he does--yet he has a language proper
to himself, and it is the language of the infernal cave, or black
pit.

Wherefore the town of Mansoul, poor hearts, understood him not, nor
did they see how he crouched and cringed, while he stood before
Emmanuel their Prince. Yea, they all this while took him to be
one of that power and force that by no means could be resisted.
Wherefore, while he was thus entreating that he might yet have his
residence there, and that Emmanuel would not take it from him by
force, the inhabitants boasted even of his valour, saying, 'Who is
able to make war with him?'

Well, when this pretended king had made an end of what he would
say, Emmanuel, the golden Prince, stood up and spake, the contents
of whose words follow:--

'Thou deceiving one,' said he, 'I have in my Father's name, in
mine own name, and on the behalf and for the good of this wretched
town of Mansoul, somewhat to say unto thee. Thou pretendest
a right, a lawful right, to the deplorable town of Mansoul, when
it is most apparent to all my Father's court, that the entrance
which thou hast obtained in at the gates of Mansoul was through
thy lies and falsehood. Thou beliedst my Father, thou beliedst
his law, and so deceivedst the people of Mansoul. Thou pretendest
that the people have accepted thee for their king, their captain,
and right liege-Lord, but that also was by the exercise of deceit
and guile. Now, if lying wiliness, sinful craft, and all manner
of horrible hypocrisy, will go in my Father's court for equity
and right, in which court thou must be tried, then will I confess
unto thee that thou hast made a lawful conquest. But alas, what
thief, what tyrant, what devil is there that may not conquer
after this sort? But I can make it appear, O Diabolus, that thou,
in all thy pretences to a conquest of Mansoul, hast nothing of
truth to say. Thinkest thou this to be right, that thou didst put
the lie upon my Father, and madest him, to Mansoul, the greatest
deluder in the world? And what sayest thou to thy perverting,
knowingly, the right purport and intent of the law? Was it good
also that thou madest a prey of the innocency and simplicity of
the now miserable town of Mansoul? Yea, thou didst overcome Mansoul
by promising to them happiness in their transgressions against my
Father's law, when thou knewest, and couldest not but know, hadst
thou consulted nothing but thine own experience, that that was the
way to undo them. Thou hast also thyself--O thou master of enmity,
of despite--defaced my Father's image in Mansoul, and set up thy
own in its place, to the great contempt of my Father, the heightening
of thy sin, and to the intolerable damage of the perishing town
of Mansoul. Thou hast, moreover--as if all these were but little
things with thee--not only deluded and undone this place, but, by
thy lies and fradulent carriage hast set them against their own
deliverance. How hast thou stirred them up against my Father's
captains, and made them to fight against those that were sent of
him to deliver them from their bondage! All these things and very
many more thou hast done against thy light, and in contempt of
my Father and of his law; yea, and with design to bring under his
displeasure for ever the miserable town of Mansoul. I am therefore
come to avenge the wrong that thou hast done to my Father, and to
deal with thee for the blasphemies wherewith thou hast made poor
Mansoul blaspheme his name. Yea, upon thy head, thou prince of
the infernal cave, will I require it.

'As for myself, O Diabolus, I am come against thee by lawful power,
and to take, by strength of hand, this town of Mansoul out of thy
burning fingers. For this town of Mansoul is mine, O Diabolus,
and that by undoubted right, as all shall see that will diligently
search the most ancient and most authentic records, and I will
plead my title to it, to the confusion of thy face.

'First. For the town of Mansoul, my Father built and did fashion it
with his hand. The palace also that is in the midst of that town,
he built it for his own delight. This town of Mansoul therefore is
my Father's, and that by the best of titles; and he that gainsays
the truth of this must lie against his soul.

'Second. O thou master of the lie, this town of Mansoul is mine.

'1. For that I am my Father's heir, his firstborn, and the only
delight of his heart. I am therefore come up against thee in mine
own right, even to recover mine own inheritance out of thine hand
(Heb 1:2; John 16:15).

'2. But further, as I have a right and title to Mansoul, by being
my Father's heir, so I have also by my Father's donation. His it
was, and he gave it me (John 17); nor have I at any time offended
my Father, that he should take it from me and give it to thee.
Nor have I been forced by playing the bankrupt to sell, or set to
sale to thee, my beloved town of Mansoul (Isa 1:1). Mansoul is my
desire, my delight, and the joy of my heart. But,

'3. Mansoul is mine by right of purchase. I have bought it, O
Diabolus, I have bought it to myself. Now, since it was my Father's
and mine, as I was his heir; and since also I have made it mine
by virtue of a great purchase, it followeth that, by all lawful
right the town of Mansoul is mine, and that thou art an usurper, a
tyrant, and traitor, in thy holding possession thereof. Now, the
cause of my purchasing of it was this: Mansoul had trespassed
against my Father; now my Father had said, that in the day that
they broke his law they should die. Now it is more possible for
heaven and earth to pass away, than for my Father to break his
word (Matt 5:18). Wherefore, when Mansoul had sinned indeed by
hearkening to thy lie, I put in and became a surety to my Father,
body for body, and soul for soul, that I would make amends for
Mansoul's transgressions; and my Father did accept thereof. So
when the time appointed was come, I gave body for body, soul for
soul, life for life, blood for blood, and so redeemed my beloved
Mansoul.

'4. Nor did I do this to the halves; my Father's law and justice
that were both concerned in the threatening upon transgression,
are both now satisfied, and very well content that Mansoul should
be delivered.

'5. Nor am I come out this day against thee but by commandment of
my Father; it was he that said unto me, Go down and deliver Mansoul.

'Wherefore, be it known unto thee, O thou fountain of deceit, and
be it also known to the foolish town of Mansoul, that I am not
come against thee this day without my Father.

'And now,' said the golden-headed Prince, 'I have a word to the
town of Mansoul'; but so soon as mention was made that he had
a word to speak to the besotted town of Mansoul, the gates were
double-guarded, and all men commanded not to give him audience, so
he proceeded, and said, 'O unhappy town of Mansoul, I cannot but
be touched with pity and compassion for thee. Thou hast accepted
of Diabolus for thy king, and art become a nurse and minister of
Diabolonians against thy Sovereign Lord. Thy gates thou hast opened
to him, but hast shut them fast against me; thou hast given him
an hearing, but hast stopped thine ears at my cry; he brought
to thee thy destruction, and thou didst receive both him and it:
I am come to thee bringing salvation, but thou regardest me not.
Besides, thou hast, as with sacrilegious hands, taken thyself
with all that was mine in thee, and hast given all to my foe, and
to the greatest enemy my Father has. You have bowed and subjected
yourselves to him; you have vowed and sworn yourselves to be his.
Poor Mansoul! what shall I do unto thee? Shall I save thee? shall
I destroy thee? What shall I do unto thee? shall I fall upon thee
and grind thee to powder, or make thee a monument of the richest
grace? What shall I do unto thee? Hearken, therefore, thou town of
Mansoul, hearken to my word, and thou shalt live. I am merciful,
Mansoul, and thou shalt find me so; shut me not out of thy gates
(Cant 5:2).

'O Mansoul, neither is my commission, nor inclination, at all to do
thee hurt; why fliest thou so fast from thy friend, and stickest
so close to thine enemy? Indeed, I would have thee, because it
becomes thee, to be sorry for thy sin; but do not despair of life,
this great force is not to hurt thee, but to deliver thee from
thy bondage, and to reduce thee to thy obedience (Luke 9:56; John
12:47).

'My commission, indeed, is to make a war upon Diabolus thy king,
and upon all Diabolonians with him; for he is the strong man armed
that keeps the house, and I will have him out; his spoils I must
divide,[151] his armour I must take from him, his hold I must cast
him out of, and must make it an habitation for myself. And this,
O Mansoul, shall Diabolus know, when he shall be made to follow
me in chains, and when Mansoul shall rejoice to see it so.

'I could, would I now put forth my might, cause that forthwith he
should leave you and depart; but I have it in my heart so to deal
with him, as that the justice of the war that I shall make upon
him may be seen and acknowledged by all. He hath taken Mansoul
by fraud, and keeps it by violence and deceit; and I will make
him bare and naked in the eyes of all observers. All my words are
true, I am mighty to save, and will deliver my Mansoul out of his
hand.'[152]

This speech was intended chiefly for Mansoul, but Mansoul would
not have the hearing of it. They shut up Ear-gate, they barricaded
it up, they kept it locked and bolted; they set a guard thereat,
and commanded that no Mansoulonian should go out to him, nor that
any from the camp should be admitted into the town; all this they
did, so horribly had Diabolus enchanted them to do, and seek to
do for him, against their rightful Lord and Prince; wherefore no
man, nor voice, nor sound of man that belonged to the glorious
host, was to come into the town.[153]

[CHAPTER VII.]

[CONTENTS:--Emmanuel prepares to make war upon Mansoul--Diabolus
sends Mr. Loth-to-stoop with proposals for peace--These proposals
being dishonourable to Emmanuel, are all rejected--Again Diabolus
proposes to patch up a peace by reformation, offering to become
Emmanuel's deputy in that business--This proposal also rejected--New
preparations made for battle--Diabolus, expecting to be obliged to
abandon the town, does much mischief--Ear-gate, violently assaulted
by the battering-rams, at length gives way, and is broken to
pieces--Emmanuel's forces enter the town, and take possession of
the Recorder's house--Several mischievous Diabolonians are killed.]

So when Emmanuel saw that Mansoul was thus involved in sin, he
calls his army together, since now also his words were despised,
and gave out a commandment throughout all his host to be ready
against the time appointed. Now, forasmuch as there was no way
lawfully to take the town of Mansoul, but to get in by the gates,
and at Ear-gate as the chief, therefore he commanded his captains
and commanders to bring their rams, their slings, and their men,
and place them at Eye-gate and Ear-gate, in order to his taking
the town.

When Emmanuel had put all things in readiness to give Diabolus battle,
he sent again to know of the town of Mansoul if in peaceable manner
they would yield themselves, or whether they were yet resolved
to put him to try the utmost extremity. Then they together, with
Diabolus their king, called a council of war, and resolved upon
certain propositions that should be offered to Emmanuel, if he
will accept thereof, so they agreed; and then the next was who
should be sent on this errand. Now there was in the town of Mansoul
an old man, a Diabolonian, and his name was Mr. Loth-to-stoop, a
stiff man in his way, and a great doer for Diabolus; him therefore
they sent, and put into his mouth what he should say.[154] So he
went, and came to the camp to Emmanuel; and when he was come, a
time was appointed to give him audience. So at the time he came,
and after a Diabolonian ceremony or two, he thus began, and said,
'Great Sir, that it may be known unto all men how good-natured a
prince my master is, he hath sent me to tell your Lordship that
he is very willing, rather than to go to war, to deliver up into
your hands one-half of the town of Mansoul (Titus 1:16). I am therefore
to know if your Mightiness will accept of this proposition.'[155]

Then said Emmanuel, 'The whole is mine by gift and purchase,
wherefore I will never lose one-half.'

Then said Mr. Loth-to-stoop, 'Sir, my master hath said, that he
will be content that you shall be the nominal and titular Lord of
all, if he may possess but a part' (Luke 13:25).

Then Emmanuel answered, 'The whole is mine really; not in name
and word only: wherefore I will be the sole Lord and possessor of
all, or of none at all of Mansoul.'

Then Mr. Loth-to-stoop said again, 'Sir, behold the condescension
of my master! He says that he will be content, if he may but have
assigned to him some place in Mansoul as a place to live privately
in, and you shall be Lord of all the rest' (Acts 5:1-5).

Then said the golden Prince, 'All that the Father giveth me, shall
come to me; and of all that he hath given me I will lose nothing,
no, not a hoof, nor a hair. I will not therefore, grant him, no,
not the least corner of Mansoul to dwell in, I will have all to
myself.'

Then Loth-to-stoop said again, 'But, sir, suppose that my Lord
should resign the whole town to you, only with this proviso,
that he sometimes, when he comes into this country, may, for old
acquaintance' sake, be entertained as a way-faring man for two
days, or ten days or a month, or so; may not this small matter be
granted?'

Then said Emmanuel, 'No: he came as a way-faring man to David, nor
did he stay long with him, and yet it had like to have cost David
his soul (2 Sam 12:1-5). I will not consent that he ever should
have any harbour more there.'

Then said Mr. Loth-to-stoop, 'Sir, you seem to be very hard.
Suppose my master should yield to all that your lordship hath said,
provided that his friends and kindred in Mansoul may have liberty
to trade in the town, and to enjoy their present dwellings; may
not that be granted, sir?'

Then said Emmanuel, 'No: that is contrary to my Father's will; for
all, and all manner of Diabolonians that now are, or that at any
time shall be found in Mansoul, shall not only lose their lands and
liberties, but also their lives' (Rom 6:13; Gal 5:24; Col 3:5).

Then said Mr. Loth-to-stoop again, 'But, sir, may not my master, and
great Lord, by letters, by passengers, by accidental opportunities,
and the like, maintain, if he shall deliver up all unto thee, some
kind of old friendship with Mansoul' (John 10:8).

Emmanuel answered, 'No, by no means; forasmuch as any such fellowship,
friendship, intimacy, or acquaintance in what way, sort, or mode
soever maintained, will tend to the corrupting of Mansoul, the
alienating of their affections from me, and the endangering of
their peace with my Father.'

Mr. Loth-to-stoop yet added further; saying, 'But, great sir,
since my master hath many friends, and those that are dear to him
in Mansoul, may he not, if he shall depart from them, even of his
bounty and good-nature, bestow upon them, as he sees fit, some
tokens of his love and kindness, that he had for them, to the end
that Mansoul, when he is gone, may look upon such tokens of kindness
once received from their old friend, and remember him who was
once their King, and the merry times that they sometimes enjoyed
one with another, while he and they lived in peace together.'

Then said Emmanuel, 'No; for if Mansoul come to be mine, I shall
not admit of, nor consent that there should be the least scrap,
shred, or dust of Diabolus left behind, as tokens or gifts bestowed
upon any in Mansoul, thereby to call to remembrance the horrible
communion that was betwixt them and him' (Rom 6:12-13).

'Well sir,' said Mr. Loth-to-stoop, 'I have one thing more to
propound, and then I am got to the end of my commission. Suppose
that when my master is gone from Mansoul, any that shall yet live
in the town should have such business of high concerns to do, that
if they be neglected the party shall be undone; and suppose, sir,
that nobody can help in that case so well as my master and Lord;
may not now my master be sent for upon so urgent an occasion as
this? Or if he may not be admitted into the town, may not he and
the person concerned meet in some of the villages near Mansoul, and
there lay their heads together, and there consult of matters?'[156]
(2 Kings 1:3,6,7).

This was the last of those ensnaring propositions that Mr.
Loth-to-stoop had to propound to Emmanuel on behalf of his master
Diabolus; but Emmanuel would not grant it, for he said, 'There can
be no case, or thing, or matter, fall out in Mansoul, when thy
master shall be gone, that may not be salved[157] by my Father;
besides, it will be a great disparagement to my Father's wisdom and
skill to admit any from Mansoul to go out to Diabolus for advice,
when they are bid before, in everything, by prayer and supplication,
to let their requests be made known to my Father (1 Sam 28:15; 2
Kings 1:2-3). Further, this, should it be granted, would be to grant
that a door should be set open for Diabolus and the Diabolonians
in Mansoul, to hatch, and plot, and bring to pass treasonable designs,
to the grief of my Father and me, and to the utter destruction of
Mansoul.'[158]

When Mr. Loth-to-stoop had heard this answer, he took his leave of
Emmanuel and departed, saying, that he would do word to his master
concerning this whole affair. So he departed and came to Diabolus
to Mansoul, and told him the whole of the matter, and how Emmanuel
would not admit, no, not by any means, that he, when he was once
gone out, should for ever have anything more to do, either in,
or with any that are of, the town of Mansoul. When Mansoul and
Diabolus had heard this relation of things, they with one consent
concluded to use their best endeavour to keep Emmanuel out of
Mansoul, and sent old Ill-pause, of whom you have heard before,
to tell the Prince and his captains so. So the old gentleman came
up to the top of Ear-gate, and called to the camp for a hearing;
who, when they gave audience, he said, 'I have in commandment
from my high Lord to bid you tell it to your Prince Emmanuel, that
Mansoul and their King are resolved to stand and fall together,
and that it is in vain for your Prince to think of ever having
of Mansoul in his hand, unless he can take it by force.' So some
went and told to Emmanuel what old Ill-pause, a Diabolonian in
Mansoul, had said. Then said the Prince, 'I must try the power
of my sword, for I will not, for all the rebellions and repulses
that Mansoul has made against me, raise my siege and depart, but
will assuredly take my Mansoul, and deliver it from the hand of
her enemy' (Eph 6:17). And with that he gave out a commandment
that Captain Boanerges, Captain Conviction, Captain Judgment,
and Captain Execution, should forthwith march up to Ear-gate
with trumpets sounding, colours flying, and with shouting for the
battle. Also he would that Captain Credence should join himself
with them. Emmanuel, moreover, gave order that Captain Good-hope
and Captain Charity should draw themselves up before Eye-gate.
He bid also that the rest of his Captains, and their men, should
place themselves for the best of their advantage against the
enemy, round about the town, and all was done as he had commanded.
Then he bid that the word should be given forth, and the word
was at that time 'EMMANUEL.' Then was an alarm sounded, and the
battering-rams were played, and the slings did whirl stones into
the town amain, and thus the battle began. Now Diabolus himself did
manage the townsmen in the war, and that at every gate; wherefore
their resistance was the more forcible, hellish, and offensive
to Emmanuel. Thus was the good Prince engaged and entertained by
Diabolus and Mansoul for several days together. And a sight worth
seeing it was, to behold how the captains of Shaddai behaved
themselves in this war.