What rest, then, could be to the
inhabitants, what peace could Mansoul have, and what sun could
shine upon it? Had the enemy lain so long without in the plain
against the town, it had been enough to have famished them: but
now, when they shall be within, when the town shall be their tent,
their trench and fort against the castle that was in the town; when
the town shall be against the town, and shall serve to be a defence
to the enemies of her strength and life: I say, when they shall
make use of the forts and town-holds to secure themselves in, even
till they shall take, spoil, and demolish the castle,--this was
terrible! and yet this was now the state of the town of Mansoul.
After the town of Mansoul had been in this sad and lamentable
condition, for so long a time as I have told you, and no petitions
that they presented their Prince with, all this while, could
prevail, the inhabitants of the town, namely, the elders and chief
of Mansoul, gathered together, and, after some time spent in
condoling their miserable state and this miserable judgment coming
upon them, they agreed together to draw up yet another petition,
and to send it away to Emmanuel for relief.
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