desperate designs, the which he managed better, and more to the
pleasing of his lord, than most that came with him from the dens
could do. Wherefore, finding him so fit for his purpose, he
preferred him, and made him next to the great Lord Willbewill, of
whom we have written so much before. Now the Lord Willbewill being
in those days very well pleased with him, and with his
achievements, gave him his daughter, the Lady Fear-Nothing, to
wife. Now, of my Lady Fear-nothing, did this Mr. Self-Conceit
beget this gentleman, Mr. Carnal-Security. Wherefore, there being
then in Mansoul those strange kinds of mixtures, it was hard for
them, in some cases, to find out who were natives, who not, for Mr.
Carnal-Security sprang from my Lord Willbewill by mother's side,
though he had for his father a Diabolonian by nature.

Well, this Carnal-Security took much after his father and mother;
he was self-conceited, he feared nothing, he was also a very busy
man: nothing of news, nothing of doctrine, nothing of alteration,
or talk of alteration, could at any time be on foot in Mansoul, but
be sure Mr. Carnal-Security would be at the head or tail of it:
but, to be sure, he would decline those that he deemed the weakest,
and stood always with them in his way of standing, that he supposed
was the strongest side.

Now, when Shaddai the mighty, and Emmanuel his Son, made war upon
Mansoul, to take it, this Mr. Carnal-Security was then in town, and
was a great doer among the people, encouraging them in their
rebellion, putting them upon hardening themselves in their
resisting the King's forces: but when he saw that the town of
Mansoul was taken, and converted to the use of the glorious Prince
Emmanuel; and when he also saw what was become of Diabolus, and how