Let all genuine students, then, who would know the best that has been written on experimental religion, and who would preach to the deepest and divinest experience of their best people, let them keep continually within their reach John Owen's _Temptation_, his _Mortification of Sin in Believers_, his _Nature and Power of Indwelling Sin_, and John Bunyan's _Holy War made for the Regaining of the Metropolis of this World_.
Well, then, as He who dwells on high would have it, there was one whose name was Mr.Prywell, a great lover of Mansoul.

And he, as his manner was, did go listening up and down in Mansoul to see and hear, if at any time he might, whether there was any design against it or no.

For he was always a jealous man, and feared some mischief would befall it, either from within or from some power without.

Mr.Prywell was always a lover of Mansoul, a sober and a judicious man, a man that was no tattler, nor a raiser of false reports, but one that loves to look into the very bottom of matters, and talks nothing of news but by very solid arguments.

And then, after our historian has told us some of the eminent services that Mr.Prywell was able to perform both for the King and for the city, he goes on to tell us how the captains determined that public thanks should be given by the town of Mansoul to Mr.Prywell for his so diligent seeking of the welfare of the town; and, further, that, forasmuch as he was so naturally inclined to seek their good, and also to undermine their foes, they gave him the commission of Scoutmaster-general for the good of Mansoul.