'But, as I said, if you shall hearken unto him, and shall love him;
if you shall devote yourselves to his teaching, and shall seek to
have converse, and to maintain communion with him, you shall find
him ten times better than is the whole world to any; yea, he will
shed abroad the love of my Father in your hearts, and Mansoul will
be the wisest, and most blessed of all people.'

Then did the Prince call unto him the old gentleman, who before had
been the Recorder of Mansoul, Mr. Conscience by name, and told him,
That, forasmuch as he was well skilled in the law and government of
the town of Mansoul, and was also well-spoken, and could
pertinently deliver to them his Master's will in all terrene and
domestic matters, therefore he would also make him a minister for,
in, and to the goodly town of Mansoul, in all the laws, statutes,
and judgments of the famous town of Mansoul. 'And thou must,' said
the Prince, 'confine thyself to the teaching of moral virtues, to
civil and natural duties; but thou must not attempt to presume to
be a revealer of those high and supernatural mysteries that are
kept close in the bosom of Shaddai, my Father: for those things
knows no man, nor can any reveal them but my Father's Secretary
only.

'Thou art a native of the town of Mansoul, but the Lord Secretary
is a native with my Father; wherefore, as thou hast knowledge of
the laws and customs of the corporation, so he of the things and
will of my Father.

'Wherefore, O Mr. Conscience, although I have made thee a minister
and a preacher to the town of Mansoul, yet as to the things which
the Lord Secretary knoweth, and shall teach to this people, there