'I will call him, and you shall hear him your own selves;' so he
called him, and he came and told his tale so punctually, and
affirmed its truth with such ample grounds, that Mansoul fell
presently under a conviction of the truth of what he said. The
preacher did also back him, saying, 'Sirs, it is not irrational for
us to believe it, for we have provoked Shaddai to anger, and have
sinned Emmanuel out of the town; we have had too much
correspondence with Diabolonians, and have forsaken our former
mercies: no marvel then, if the enemy both within and without
should design and plot our ruin; and what time like this to do it?
The sickness is now in the town, and we have been made weak
thereby. Many a good meaning man is dead, and the Diabolonians of
late grow stronger and stronger.
'Besides,' quoth the subordinate preacher, 'I have received from
this good truth-teller this one inkling further, that he understood
by those that he overheard, that several letters have lately passed
between the furies and the Diabolonians in order to our
destruction.' When Mansoul heard all this, and not being able to
gainsay it, they lift up their voice and wept.
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