Bunyan says here that not the Prince only, but
his officer Mr. God's-peace also, was not native to the town of Mansoul,
but came straight down from heaven into that town--and what can the man
do who cometh after two kings like Paul and Bunyan? I have not forgotten
my Edwards where he says that the exquisite sweetness of this peace is
perfectly agreeable to reason. As, indeed, so it is. And yet, if reason
will have a clear and finished and all-round answer to all her
difficulties and objections and fault-findings, I fear she cannot have it
here. The time may come when our reason also shall be so enlarged, and
so sanctified, and so exalted, that she shall be able with all saints to
see the full mystery of that which in this present dispensation passeth
all understanding. But till then, only let God's peace enter our hearts
with God's Son, and then let our hearts say if that peace must not in
some high and deep way be according to the highest and the deepest
reason, since its coming into our hearts has produced in our hearts and
in our lives such reasonable, and right, and harmonious, and peaceful,
and every way joyful results.

3. Governor God's-peace had not many in the town of Mansoul to whom he
could confide all his thoughts and with whom he could consult. But there
were two officer friends of his stationed in the town with whom he was
every day in close correspondence, viz., the Captain Credence and the
Captain Good-hope. Their so close intimacy will not be wondered at when
it is known that those three officers had all come in together with
Emmanuel the Conqueror. Those three young captains had done splendid
service, each at the head of his own battalion, in the days of the
invasion and the conquest of Mansoul, and they had all had their present
titles, and privileges, and lands, and offices, patented to them on the
strength of their past services. The Captain Credence had all along been
the confidential aide-de-camp and secretary of the Prince. Indeed, the
Prince never called Captain Credence a servant at all, but always a
friend. The Prince had always conveyed his mind about all Mansoul's
matters first to Captain Credence, and then that confidential captain
conveyed whatever specially concerned God's-peace and Good-hope to those
excellent and trusty soldiers. Credence first told all matters to God's-
peace and then the two soon talked over Good-hope to their mind and
heart. Some say that the three offi