' But Diabolus answered, 'Do you hope, do you wait, do you
look for help and deliverance? You have sent to Emmanuel, but your
wickedness sticks too close in your skirts, to let innocent prayers
come out of your lips. Think you that you shall be prevailers and
prosper in this design? You will fail in your wish, you will fail
in your attempts; for it is not only I, but your Emmanuel is
against you: yea, it is he that hath sent me against you to subdue
you. For what, then, do you hope? or by what means will you
escape?'
Then said the Lord Mayor, 'We have sinned indeed; but that shall be
no help to thee, for our Emmanuel hath said it, and that in great
faithfulness, "and him that cometh to me I will in no wise cast
out." He hath also told us, O our enemy, that "all manner of sin
and blasphemy shall be forgiven" to the sons of men. Therefore we
dare not despair, but will look for, wait for, and hope for
deliverance still.'
Now, by this time, Captain Credence was returned and come from the
court from Emmanuel to the castle of Mansoul, and he returned to
them with a packet. So my Lord Mayor, hearing that Captain
Credence was come, withdrew himself from the noise of the roaring
of the tyrant, and left him to yell at the wall of the town, or
against the gates of the castle.
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