Mansoul, Diabolonians that are sturdy and implacable, and that do
already while I am with you, and that will yet more when I am from
you, study, plot, contrive, invent, and jointly attempt to bring
you to desolation, and so to a state far worse than that of the
Egyptian bondage; they are the avowed friends of Diabolus,
therefore look about you. They used heretofore to lodge with their
Prince in the Castle, when Incredulity was the Lord Mayor of this
town; but since my coming hither, they lie more in the outsides and
walls, and have made themselves dens, and caves, and holes, and
strongholds therein. Wherefore, O Mansoul! thy work, as to this,
will be so much the more difficult and hard; that is, to take,
mortify, and put them to death according to the will of my Father.
Nor can you utterly rid yourselves of them, unless you should pull
down the walls of your town, the which I am by no means willing you
should. Do you ask me, What shall we do then? Why, be you
diligent, and quit you like men; observe their holes; find out
their haunts; assault them, and make no peace with them. Wherever
they haunt, lurk, or abide, and what terms of peace soever they
offer you, abhor, and all shall be well betwixt you and me. And
that you may the better know them from those that are the natives
of Mansoul, I will give you this brief schedule of the names of the
chief of them; and they are these that follow:- The Lord
Fornication, the Lord Adultery, the Lord Murder, the Lord Anger,
the Lord Lasciviousness, the Lord Deceit, the Lord Evil-Eye, Mr.
Drunkenness, Mr. Revelling, Mr. Idolatry, Mr. Witch-craft, Mr.
Variance, Mr. Emulation, Mr. Wrath, Mr. Strife, Mr. Sedition, and
Mr. Heresy. These are some of the chief, O Mansoul! of those that
will seek to overthrow thee for ever. These, I say, are the
skulkers in Mansoul; but look thou well into the law of thy King,
and there thou shalt find their physiognomy, and such other