intended to establish among them; such a ministry that might open
unto them, and that might instruct them in the things that did
concern their present and future state.

'For,' said he, 'you, of yourselves, unless you have teachers and
guides, will not be able to know, and, if not to know, to be sure
not to do the will of my Father.'

At this news, when the elders of Mansoul brought it to the people,
the whole town came running together, (for it pleased them well, as
whatever the Prince now did pleased the people,) and all with one
consent implored his Majesty that he would forthwith establish such
a ministry among them as might teach them both law and judgment,
statute and commandment; that they might be documented in all good
and wholesome things. So he told them that he would grant them
their requests, and would establish two among them; one that was of
his Father's court, and one that was a native of Mansoul.

'He that is from the court,' said he, 'is a person of no less
quality and dignity than my Father and I; and he is the Lord Chief
Secretary of my Father's house: for he is, and always has been,
the chief dictator of all my Father's laws, a person altogether
well skilled in all mysteries, and knowledge of mysteries, as is my
Father, or as myself is. Indeed he is one with us in nature, and
also as to loving of, and being faithful to, and in the eternal
concerns of the town of Mansoul.

'And this is he,' said the Prince, 'that must be your chief
teacher; for it is he, and he only, that can teach you clearly in
all high and supernatural things. He, and he only, it is that