im, by enlisting under him, by serving under
him, some of the most hurtful and injurious men that ever lived have
lived after to be the most innocent and the most harmless of men, with
their hands washed every day in innocency, and with three golden doves as
the scutcheon of their new nature and their Christian character. Oh come
into my heart, Captain Innocent; there is room in my heart for thee!

5. 'And then the fifth was that truly royal and well-beloved captain,
the Captain Patience. His standard-bearer was Mr. Suffer-long, and for a
scutcheon he had three arrows through a golden heart.' Three arrows
through a golden heart! Most eloquent, most impressive, and most
instructive of emblems! First, a heart of gold, and then that heart of
gold pierced, and pierced, and then pierced again with arrow after arrow.
Patience was the last of Emmanuel's pickt graces. Captain Patience with
his pierced heart always brought up the rear when the army marched. But
when Captain Patience and Mr. Suffer-long did enter and take up their
quarters in any house in Mansoul,--then was there no house more safe,
more protected, more peaceful, more quietly, sweetly, divinely happy than
just that house where this loyal and well-beloved captain bore in his
heart. Entertain patience, my brethren. Practise patience, my brethren.
Make your house at home a daily school to you in which to learn patience.
Be sure that you well understand the times, the occasions, the
opportunities, and the invitations of patience, and take profit out of
them; and thus both your profit and that of others also will be great.
Tribulation worketh patience. Endure tribulation, then, for the sake of
its so excellent work. Nothing worketh patience like tribulation, and
therefore it is that tribulation so abounds in the lives of God's people.
So much does tribulation abound in the lives of God's people that they
are actually known in heaven and described there by their experience of
tribulation. 'These are they which came out of great tribulation, and
therefore are they before the throne.' These are they with the three
sharp arrows shot through and through their hearts of gold.

CHAPTER XVIII--MR. DESIRES-AWAKE

'One thing have I desired.'--_David_.

Mr. Desires-awake dwelt in a very mean cottage in Mansoul. There were
two very mean cottages in Mansoul, and those two cottages stood beside
one another and leaned upon one another and held one another