and flain: for when they faw that the pofts of Ear-gate fhook, 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, fo that 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-nogood; he was a townfman, but a Diabolonian; he also received his mortal wound in Manfoul, but he died not very foon.

Love-no-good wounded.

Ill-paufe

Mr. Ill-paufe alfo, who came along with Diabolus when at first he attempted the taking of Manfoul, received a grievous wound in the head; fome fay that his brain-pan was cracked: 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 past. Alfo old Prejudice and Mr. Any-thing fled.

wounded.

The white flag

Now when the battle was over, the Prince commanded that yet once more the white flag should be fet upon mount Gracious, in fight of the town of Manfoul; to fhew that yet EMANUEL had grace for the wretched town of Mansoul. (a)

hung out again.

Diabolus's new

prank.

When Diabolus faw the white flag hung out again, and knowing that it was not for him, but Manfoul; he caft in his mind to play another prank, to wit, to fee if EMANUEL would raife his fiege and be gone, upon promise of reformation. So he went down to the gate one evening, a good while after the fun was gone down, and called to fpeak with EMANUEL; who prefently came down to the gate, and Diabolus faith unto him:

• For

(a) No day nor hour but Jefus knocks at human hearts. By his word and Spirit, he gradually fubdues his enemies: and at length fets up his bleffed kingdom. The grace of God brings falvation, Tit. ii. 11.

His speech to
EMANUEL.

Forafmuch as thou makeft it appear by the white flag, that thou art wholly given to peace and quiet; I thought meet to acquaint thee, that we are ready to accept thereof upon terms which thou mayest admit.

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

Firft, I will lay down all acts of hoftility against thee, and will be willing to become thy deputy; and will, as I have formerly been against thee, now ferve thee in the town of Manfoul. (a) And more particularly,

Diabolus would 1. I will perfuade Manfoul to receive be EMANUEL'S thee for their lord; and I know that they will deputy, do it fooner, when they fhall understand that

I am thy deputy.

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

3. I will fhew them the holy law unto which they mult conform, even that which they have broken.

4. I will prefs upon them the neceffity of a reformation, according to law..

and would turn reformer.

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

6. Thou shalt receive, as a token of our fubjection to thee, continually year by year, what thou fhalt think fit to lay and levy upon us, in token of such subjection.'

Then

(a) Many, when under convictions for fin, apply in vain to the condemning law for juftification unto life; whereas the letter killeth, but the Spirit giveth life; and Chrift is the end of the law, for righteoufnefs, to all them that believe, No composition can be admitted: Jelus has done and will do all for, in, and by, us; to him, therefore, all the glory is due.

Rom. x. 4.

Then fail ExANTIT deceit, how ma often hat thedeg be thou mini .. though, ass her right heir heri. already, nos

14. And in t thy black, the la of light, and wi righteoufrelsz "But know regarded that the am by thee but to see. fcience to God, aren foul; whence then for arise, but from frik that can list and therewith hemat abandoned, with a ma be fuch a beauty-Sur wickedness was i

by the bye.

"Thou talket now and that thou thvil“, – that reformation; a proficiency that man an coufnefs thereof, will r away of the curfe free M for a law being broken : 1) a fuppofition of the bra

(a) Refting in an outward godlinefs, is a moft dangerous ... teoufnefs; this fair-looking ipin e too holy to need Christ for their fanm kamor to need him as a physician to heal them, and Matt, xxiii. 13, & feq.

His fpeech to
EMANUEL.

Forafmuch as thou makeft it appear by the white flag, that thou art wholly given to peace and 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 holinefs pleases thee; yea, that thy great end in making a war upon Manfoul, is, that it may be an holy habitation. Well, draw off thy forces from the town, and I will bend Manfoul to thy bow.

First, I will lay down all acts of hoftility against thee, and will be willing to become thy deputy; and will, as I have formerly been against thee, now serve thee in the town of Manfoul. (a) And more particularly,

Diabolus would 1. I will perfuade Manfoul to receive be EMANUEL'S thee for their lord; and I know that they will deputy, do it fooner, when they fhall understand that

I am thy deputy.

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

3. I will fhew them the holy law unto which they mult conform, even that which they have broken.

4. I will prefs upon them the neceffity of a reformation, according to law..

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

reformer.

6. Thou shalt receive, as a token of our fubjection to thee, continually year by year, what thou fhalt think fit to lay and levy upon us, in token of fuch fubjection.'

Then

(a) Many, when under convictions for fin, apply in vain to the condemning law for juftification unto life; whereas the letter killeth, but the Spirit giveth life; and Chrift is the end of the law, for righteoufnefs, to all them that believe, Rom. x. 4. No compofition can be admitted: Jefus has done and will do all for, in, and by, us: to him, therefore, all the glory is due.

EMANUEL'S

Then faid EMANUEL to him, “O full of deceit, how moveable are thy ways! How anfwer to Dioften haft thou changed and re-changed, if fo abolus. be thou mighteft ftill 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, 2 Cor. xi. 14. And failing to deceive when thou thewedft thyself in thy black, thou haft now transformed thyfelf into an angel of light, and wouldft, to deceive, be now as a minifter of righteoufnefs. (a)

Diabolus has no

"But know thou, O Diabolus, that nothing must be regarded that thou canst propound, for nothing is done by thee but to deceive; thou neither haft confcience to God, nor love to the town of Man- confcience to foul; whence then fhould these thy fayings God, nor love arife, but from finful craft and deceit ? He to Manfoul. that can lift and will propound what he pleases, and that therewith he may destroy them that believe him, is to be abandoned, with all that he shall fay. But if righteousness be fuch a beauty-fpot in thine eyes now, how is it that wickedness was so closely stuck to by thee before? But this by the bye.

"Thou talkeft now of a reformation in Mansoul, and that thou thyfelf, if I pleafe, will be at the head of that reformation; all the while knowing, that the greatest proficiency that man can make in the law, and the righteoufnefs thereof, will amount to no more, for the taking away of the curfe from Manfoul, than juft nothing at all; for a law being broken by Manfoul, that had before, upon a fuppofition of the breach thereof, a curfe pronounced against

(a) Refting in an outward reformation, a mere form of godlinefs, is a moft dangerous ftate. Beware of felf-righteoufnefs; this fair-looking fpirit perfuades finners they are too holy to need Chrift for their fanétification, and too healthy to need him as a physician to heal them. See Luke xviii. 9. and Matt. xxiii. 13, & feq.