put all to quiet again. And that he might leave no argument
unurged that might tend to make them secure, he said, and said it
often, 'O Mansoul! consider that, notwithstanding the old
gentleman's rage, and the rattle of his high and thundering words,
you hear nothing of Shaddai himself;' when, liar and deceiver that
he was, every outcry of Mr. Recorder against the sin of Mansoul was
the voice of God in him to them. But he goes on, and says, 'You
see that he values not the loss nor rebellion of the town of
Mansoul, nor will he trouble himself with calling his town to a
reckoning for their giving themselves to me. He knows that though
you were his, now you are lawfully mine; so, leaving us one to
another, he now hath shaken his hands of us.

'Moreover, O Mansoul!' quoth he, 'consider how I have served you,
even to the uttermost of my power; and that with the best that I
have, could get, or procure for you in all the world: besides, I
dare say that the laws and customs that you now are under, and by
which you do homage to me, do yield you more solace and content
than did the paradise that at first you possessed. Your liberty
also, as yourselves do very well know, has been greatly widened and
enlarged by me; whereas I found you a penned-up people. I have not
laid any restraint upon you; you have no law, statute, or judgment
of mine to fright you; I call none of you to account for your
doings, except the madman--you know who I mean; I have granted you
to live, each man like a prince in his own, even with as little
control from me as I myself have from you.'

And thus would Diabolus hush up and quiet the town of Mansoul, when
the Recorder that was, did at times molest them: yea, and with
such cursed orations as these, would set the whole town in a rage