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A 
 
 TRLE RELATION 
 
 OF THE 
 
 HOLY WAR, 
 
 MADE BY 
 
 KI.KG SH AD D AI 
 
 DI A BOLUS, 
 
 tOR THE 
 
 REGAIMXG OF THE METROPOLIS OF THE WORLD | 
 
 OR, THE LOSING AND TAKINGJ AGAIN OF TUB 
 
 TOWISi OF MANSOUL, 
 
 ^""^ B Y J O II:N B U N Y A N. 
 
 A NEIV EDITION 
 
 ILLUSTRATED BY THE AUTHOR'S OWN'rEFEREXCES, 
 SrX' BEAUTIFUL EXGRAVINaS. 
 
 BUNGAY : 
 
 rRlNTED AilTD PUBLISHES BY BRIGHTLY AND iO. 
 
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Mr, JBUNYAN'S ADVERTISEMENT 
 TO THE READER. 
 
 Some say the Pilgrim's Progress is not mine, 
 Insiuuatinof as if J would shine 
 In name and fame bj the worth of another, 
 Like some made rich by robbing of their brother^ 
 Or that so fond I am of being sire, 
 I '11 father bastards ; or, if need require, 
 I '11 tell a lie in print io get applause : 
 I scorn it ; John such dirt-heap never was 
 Since God converted him. Let this suffice 
 To shew why 1 my Pilgrim patronize. 
 
 li came from mine own heart, so to my headj 
 And thence into ray fingers trickled ; 
 Then to my pen, from whence immediately 
 On paper I did dribble it daintily. 
 
 Maimer and matter too were all mine^own^ 
 Nor was it unto any mortal known. 
 Till I had done it. Nor did any then. 
 By books, by wits, by tongues, or hand or pen^ 
 Add five words to it, or write half a line; 
 Therefore the whole, and every whit is mine. 
 
 Also for this thine eye is now upon. 
 The matter in this manner came from none 
 But the same heart, and head, fingers, and pen. 
 As did the others. Witness all good men ; 
 For none in all the world, without a lie, 
 Can say that this is mine, excepting I. 
 
 I write not this of any ostentation^ 
 Nor 'cause I seek of men their commendation | 
 I do it to keep them from such surmise. 
 As tempt (hem will my name to scandalize ? 
 Witness my name, if anagram 'd to thee, 
 The letters make, Nu hony in a B. 
 
 JOHN BUNrAN 
 
ADDRESS. 
 
 TIS strange to me, inat they (hat love to tell 
 Things done of old, yea, and that do excel 
 Their equals in Historiology, 
 Speak not of Mansoul's wars, but let them lie 
 Dead like old fables, or such worthless things. 
 That to the reader no advantage brings ; 
 When men, like them, make what they will their owti> 
 Till they know this are tothemsieives unknown. 
 
 Of stories I well know there's divers sorts, 
 Some foreign, some domestic ; and reports 
 Are thereof made, as fancy leads the writers ; 
 (By books a man may guess at the inditers.) 
 
 Some will again of that which never was, 
 Nor will be, feign (and that without a cause) 
 Such maUer, raise such mountains, tell such things 
 Of men, of laws, of countries and of kings ; 
 And in their story seem to be so sage, 
 And witli such gravity clothe every page, 
 That though their frontispiece says all is vain, 
 Yet to their way disciples they obtain. 
 
 But, readers, I have somewhat else to do, 
 Than with vain stories thus to trouble you ; 
 "What here I say sonic men do know so well, 
 They can with tears of joy the story tell. 
 
 The town of Mansoul is well known to many. 
 Nor arc hpr troubles doubted of by any 
 That are acquainted with those historiei 
 That Mansoul and her wars anatomize. 
 
 Then lend thine ear to what I do relate 
 Touc|iing tJie town of Mansoul, and her state ; 
 How she Avas lost, took captive, made a slave ; 
 Aiid how against him stt. that should her save j 
 
ADDRESS. 
 
 Vrn, how by hostile VFays she did oppose 
 
 Her Lord, and with his enemy did close ; 
 
 For they are true, he that will them deny, 
 
 Must nce<ls the best of records vilify. 
 
 For my part, I myself was in the town, 
 
 Both when 't was set up, and when pulling down i 
 
 I saw Diabolus in its possession, 
 
 And Mansoul also under his oppression. 
 
 Yea, I was there when she own'd him for lord, 
 
 And to him did submit with one accord. 
 
 When Mansoul trampled upon things divine, 
 And wallowed in filth as doth a swine : 
 When she betook herself unto her arms, 
 Fouglvther Emanuel and despised his charms ; 
 Then I Avas there, and sorely griev'd to see 
 Diabolus and Mansoul so agree. 
 
 Let no man, then, count me a fable-maker, 
 Nor make my name or credit a partaker 
 Of their deiision ; what is here in view. 
 Of mine own knowledge I dare say is true. 
 
 I saw the Prince's armed men come down 
 By troops, by thousands to besiege the town ; 
 I saw the captains, heard the trumpets sound, 
 And how his forces cover'd all the ground: 
 Yea, how they set themselves in battle 'ray, 
 1 shall remember to my dying day. 
 
 I saw the colours waving in the wind, 
 And they withfn to mischief how combin'd 
 To ruin Mansoul, and to take away 
 Her Primum Mobile without delay. 
 I saw the mounts cast up against the town, 
 And how the slings were plac'd to beat it down. 
 I heard the stones fly whizzing by my ears ; 
 (What's longer kepi in mind, than got in fears ?) 
 1 heard them fall, and saw what work they made, 
 And liow old Mors did cover with his shade 
 The face of Mansoul, and I heard her cry, 
 Woe worth the day, " in dyinjj I shall die l" 
 
Xi 
 
 ADBRI^SS, 
 
 I saw tlie bat(ering-raras, and how they play*d 
 To beat up Ear-gate : and I was afraid, 
 Not only Ear-gate, but the very town 
 WouW by these battering-rams be beaten down, 
 i saw the fights, and heard the captains shout, 
 And in euch battle saw who fac'd about : 
 I saw who wounded were, and who were slain, 
 And who, when dead, would come to life again. 
 Uicard the cries of those that wounded were, 
 (While others fought like men bereft of fear ;) 
 And while t!ie cry, Kill, kill was in mine ears, 
 TJie gutters ran not so with blood as tears. 
 
 Indeed the captains did'not always figfit, 
 But w hen they would molest us daj^ and night ; 
 They cry, Up, fall on, let us take the town, 
 Keep us fro;n sleeping, or from lying down. 
 I was (here w hen the gate§ were broken ope. 
 And saw how Mansoul then was stript of hope. 
 J saw the captains march into the town, 
 liow there they fought, and did their foes cutdovB. 
 
 J heard the Prince bid Boanerges go 
 t.'p to the casMc, and there seize his foe ; 
 And saw liim and his fellows bring him do-^n 
 In chains of great contempt quite through the town, 
 
 I saw Emanuel, when he possest 
 Ti is town of Mansoul : and how greatly blest 
 The town, his gallant (own of Mansoul was 
 Wlien she received his pardon, lov'dhis laws. 
 
 "S^Hien the Diabolonians were caught, 
 "^Vhcn tried, and when to execution brought, 
 Then 1 was there : yea, I was standing by 
 'When Mansoul did the rebels crucify. 
 I also saw Mansoul clad all in white, 
 / nd heard her Prince call her his heart's delight j 
 I saw him put npon her chains of gold, 
 And rings and bracelets, goodly to behold. 
 
 What shall I say ? I heard the people's cries. 
 And saw the Prince wipe tears from Mansours eyes. 
 
ADDRESS. '*' 
 
 I heard the groans, and saw the joy of many; 
 Tell you of all, I neither will, nor can I ; 
 But by "what here I say, you well may see 
 That Mansoul's matchless wars no fables be, 
 Mansoul ! the desire of both Princes was, 
 One keep his gain would, t'other gain his loss; 
 Diabolus would cry, The town is mine ; 
 Emanuel would plead a right divine 
 Unto his Mansoul; then to blows they go, 
 And Mansoid cries, " These wars will me imdo !" 
 Mansoul, her wars seemed endless in her eyes, 
 Si\e's lost by one, becomes another's prize ; 
 And he again that lost her last would swear, 
 Have her I will, or her in pieces tear. 
 
 Mansoul thus was the very seat of war ; 
 Wherefore her troubles greater were by far 
 Than only where the noise of war is heard, 
 Or where the shaking of a sword is fear'd ! 
 Or only where small skirmishes arc fought, 
 Or where the fancy fighteth with a thouglit. 
 
 Shc'Saw the swords of fighting raon made red, 
 And heard the cries of those with them wounded. 
 
 Must not her frights, then, be much more by far 
 
 Than they that to such doings strangers are ? 
 
 Or theirs that hear the beating of a drum, 
 
 But need not fly for fear from house and home ? 
 Mansoul not only heard the trumpet sound, 
 
 But saw her gallants gasping on the ground ; 
 
 Wherefore we must not think that she could rest 
 
 With them whose greatest earnest is but jest ; 
 
 Or where the blust'ring threat'nlngs of great waw 
 
 Do end in parlies, or in word in«j jars. 
 
 Mansoul hei miglity warstiiey do portend 
 
 Her weal, her 'vvoe, and (hat \\orld without end ; 
 
 Wherefore she must be more concern 'd than Cncy 
 
 Whose tears begin and end the self-same day ; 
 
 Or where none other harm dotli come to bim 
 
 Ttat is engaged but loss of life and limb ; 
 
tlli ADDRESS^ 
 
 As all must needs that now do dwell 
 In Universe, and can this story tell. 
 
 Count me not, then, with them who to amase 
 The people, set them on the stars to gaze ; 
 Insinuating with much confidence 
 They are the only men that have science 
 Of some brave creatures; yea, a world they will 
 Have in each star, though it be past their skill 
 To make it manifest unto a man 
 That reason hath, or tell his fingers can. 
 
 But 1 have too long held thee in the porch, 
 And kept thee from the sun-shine with a torch. 
 Well, now go forward, step Vrithin the door, 
 And there behold five hundred times much mora 
 Of all sorts of such inward rarities, 
 As please the mind will, and will feed the eyes, 
 AVith those which of a christian, thou wilt sec ; 
 Nor do thou go to work without my key, 
 (In mysteries men do often lose their way) 
 And also turn it right ; if thou would'st know 
 My riddle, and with my lieifer plow ; 
 It lies there in the window. Fare thee well, 
 My neKt may be to ring thy passing beSI. 
 
 JOHN BUNVAri 
 
TUE 
 
 HOLY W A It, 
 
 JLN my travels^ as I walked tljrougli many rcgioiif 
 and countries, it was my cliatlce to arrive at thai 
 famous continent of Universe. A very large and 
 spacious country it is : it lietli between the two 
 poleSj and just amidst the four points of heaven. 
 It is a place well watered, and richly adorned with 
 hills and valleys^ bravely situated ; and for tlie 
 most part^ at least where I was^ very fruitful ; also 
 well peopled, and a very sweet air. 
 
 The people are not all of one complexion, nor 
 yet of one language, mode, or way of religion ; but 
 differ as much, it is said, as do the planets them- 
 selves : some are right and some are wroKg, even 
 as it happeneth to be in lesser regions. 
 
 In this country, as I said, it was my h>tto travel ; 
 there travel I did, and that so long, even till I had 
 learned much of their mother -tongue, together wilh 
 the customs and manners of them among whom I 
 was. And, to speak the tfuih, I was much delight- 
 ed to see and hear many things which I saw and 
 beard among them : yea, I bad, to be sure, even 
 
 A 
 
HOLY WAR. 
 
 Mansoul originally abeautiful place. 
 
 lived and died a native among them, I was so taken 
 with them and their doings^ had not mj Master sent 
 for me home to his house, there to do business for 
 him, and to see business done. 
 
 Now there is, in this gallant country of Uni/erse, 
 a fair and delicate town, a corporation called 
 Mansoul ; a town for its building so curious, for 
 its situation so commodious, for its privileges so ad- 
 vantageous (I mean with reference to its original) 
 that 1 maj say of it, as was said before of the con- 
 tinent in which it is placed, " There is not its equal 
 *' under the whole heaven." 
 
 As to the situation of this town, it lieth between 
 two worlds : and the first founder and builder of it, 
 so far as by the best and most authentic records I 
 can gather, was one SHADDAI ;* and he built iC 
 for his own delight. f He made it the mirror and 
 glory of all that he made, even the top-piece, be- 
 yond any thing else that he did in that country. 
 Yea, so goodly a town was Mansoul, when first 
 built, that it is said by some, the gods, at the setting 
 up thereof, came dowu to see it, and sung for joy, 
 and as he made it goodly to behold, so also mighty 
 to have dominion over all the country round about. 
 Yea all were commanded to acknowledge Man- 
 
 •* Shaddai means the All-sufficient, or Almighty. 
 
 t And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our like- 
 floss ; and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and ovel 
 the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and overall the earth, and 
 «yi>'r every creeping thing that creepctb upon the earth. Gen. i. 8<L 
 
TIOLY WAR. 
 
 The security of Man soul. 
 
 soTiL for tlicir metropolitan;, all were enjoined to do 
 homage to it. Aj, the town itself had positive 
 commission^, and power from her King, to demand 
 service of all^ and also to subdue those that anj/ 
 ways denied it. % 
 
 There was reared up in the midst of this town, 9 
 most famous and stately palace :* for strength, it 
 may be called a castle ; for pleasantness, a paradise , 
 for largeness, a place so copious as to contain all 
 the world. f This place, the King Shaddai in- 
 tended but for himself alone, and not another with 
 him : partly because of his own delights, and partly 
 because he would not that the terror of strangf^rs 
 should be upon the town. This place Shaddai 
 made also a garrison of; but he committed tl}c 
 keeping of it only to the men of the town. 
 
 The walls of thetown w ere well built ; yea, so fast 
 and firm were they knit and compacted together; 
 that, had it not been for the townsmen themselves^ 
 they could not have been shaken or broken for ever. 
 
 For here lay the excellent wisdom of him that 
 built Mansoul, that the walls could never be 
 broken down nor hurt, by the most mighty ad- 
 verse potentates, unless the townsmen gave consent 
 thereto. 
 
 This famous town of Mansoul had five gates. 
 
 * The. heart and comlition of man in his original state. 
 + He hath made every ~thin^ beautiful jr. his time ; a^lso he hatb 
 set the world in their heart. |<lccl. iii. U. 
 
HOLY WAR. 
 
 PiABOLus or Satax attacks Mansoi'i.. 
 
 at which to coine out, and at which to go in ; and 
 these were made likewise answerable to the walls, 
 to wit, impregnable, and such as could never be 
 opened nor forced, but by the will and leave of 
 ^ those within. The names of the gates are these: 
 Ear-gate, Eye-gate, Mouth-gate, Nose-gate, 
 and Feel-gate. 
 
 Other things that were that belonged to the towc 
 of Mansoul, which if jou adjoin to these, will yet 
 give further demonstration to all, of the glory and 
 strength of the place. It had always a sufficiency of 
 provision within its walls; it had the best, most 
 yvholesome and excellent law that was then extant 
 in the world. There was not a rogue, rascal, or 
 traitorous person then within its walls: they were 
 all true men, and fast joined together : and this, you 
 know, is a great matter. And to all these, it had 
 always, so long ^s it had the goodness to keep true 
 to &HADDAI the king, his countenance, his protec- 
 tion, and it was his delight, &c. 
 
 Well, upon a time there was one Diabolus, a 
 might}' giant, ms^de an assault upon the famous 
 town of Mansoul, to take it, and make it l^is own 
 ^labitation. This giant was one of the Blacks or 
 Negroes, and a most raving prince he was. We 
 v/ill, if you please, first discourse of the original oi 
 this Diabolus, and then of his taking of this fa- 
 mous town of Mansoul. 
 
 This Diabolus is indeed a great and inia,bty 
 prince, and yet both poor and beggarly. As to hi« 
 
HOLY WAR. 
 
 Tlie conspiracy of the fallen angels. 
 
 original^ he was at first one of the servants of king 
 Shaddai, by whom he was made, and raised to a 
 Diost high and mighty place, yea, and was put into 
 such pricipalities as belonged to the best of his ter- 
 ritories and dominions. This Diabolus was 
 made son of the morning,* and a brave place he had 
 of it : it brought him much glory, and gave him much 
 brightness : an income that might have contented 
 his Luciferiau heart, had it not been insatiable, and 
 snlarged as hell itself. 
 
 Well, he seeing himself thus exalted to greatness 
 and honour, and raging in his mind for higher state 
 and degree, what doth he but begin to Hunk with 
 himself, how he might be set up as lord over all, 
 and have the sole power over Shaddai. (Now 
 that did the king reserve for his Son, yea, and he 
 liad already bestowed it upon him) ; wherefore he 
 first consults with himself what had best to be done; 
 and then breaks his mind to some others of his com- 
 panions, to which they also agreed. So, in fine, they 
 came to this issue, that they should make an attempt 
 upon the King's Son to destroy him, that the inhe- 
 ritance might be theirs. Well, to be short, the trea- 
 son, as I said, was concluded, the time appointed, 
 the \vord given, the rebels rendezvoused, and the 
 assault attempted. Now the King and his Son 
 beiiig all and always eye, could not but discern all 
 
 * How art thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, sou of the morn- 
 ing! how art thou cut down to the ground, which did weaken the 
 i^atioaj. Isa. xiv. 12. 
 
HOLY WAR. 
 
 The angels ejected from heaven. 
 
 passages in his dominions, and he having always a 
 lore for his Son, as for himself, could not, at what 
 he saw, hui be greatly provoked and ofiended : 
 wherefore what does he but take them in tlie very 
 nick, and first trjp that they made towards theic 
 design, convicts them of the treason, horrid rebellion, 
 and conspiracy that thej had devised, and now at- 
 tempted to put into practice, and casts them alto- 
 gether out of all place of trust, benefit, honour, and 
 preferment : this done, he banishes them the court, 
 turns them down into horrid pits ; never more to 
 e:^pect the least favour from his hands, but to abide 
 the judgment that he had appointed, and that for 
 ever and ever.* 
 
 Now they bemg thus cast out of all place oi 
 trust, profit and honour, and also knowing that they 
 had lost their Prince's favour forever, being banished 
 his court, and caist down to the horrible pits, you 
 may be sure they would now add to their former 
 pride what malice and rage against Shaddai, and 
 against his Son, they could. Wherefore roving f 
 and ranging in much fury from place to place, if 
 perhaps they might find something that was the 
 King's, to revenge themselves on him, by spoiling 
 
 * And the angels which kept not their first estate, but left (heir 
 own habitation, he hath reserved in everlasting chains, nnto dark- 
 ness, unto the judgment of the great day. Jude 6. 
 
 ■f Besober, be vigilant; because your adversary the Dt-Tjl, as 3 
 roaiingllon, walketh about seeking whom lie may devour, i Pec 
 ▼.8 
 
HOI.V VVAK. 
 
 Counsel of the fallen an<rels 
 
 that ; at last they happened into this spacious coun- 
 try of Universe, and steered their course towards 
 the town oFMansoul: and considerinj^ tliat tiiat 
 town was one of the cliief works and delights of 
 King Shaddai ; what do they, hut after counsel 
 taken, make an assault upon that. I saj, they knew 
 that Mansoul belonged unto Shaddai : for thejr 
 were there when he built and beautified it for him- 
 self. So when they had found the place, they 
 shouted horribly for joy, and roared on it like as a 
 lion on its prey ; saying, Now we haye found the 
 prize, and how to be revenged on king Shaddai 
 for what he hath done to us. So they sat down and 
 called a counsel of war ; and considered with them- 
 selves, what ways and methods they had best engage 
 in, for the winning to themselves this famous town 
 of Mansoul : and these four things were then 
 propounded to be considered of. 
 
 First, Whether they had best all of them to shew 
 themselves in this design to the town of Mak- 
 
 SOUL } 
 
 Secondly, Whether they had best to go and sit 
 down against Mansoul, iii their now ragged and 
 beg2;aily guise ? 
 
 Thirdly, Whether tiiey had best shew to Mansoul 
 their intentions, and what design they came about; 
 or whether to as?auU it with words q,nd ways of 
 deceit ? 
 
 Fourthly, Whetirpr they had not best give out 
 private orders, to some of their companions, to take 
 
HOLY WAR. . 
 
 UiAnoLL's apiioiiited to tlie attack. 
 
 the advantage, if they see one or more of the prin- 
 cipal townsmen, to shoot them ; if thereby thev shall 
 judge their cause aiid design Trill the better be pro- 
 moted ? 
 
 It was answered, to the first of these proposals, 
 in the negative ; to wit, that it would not be best 
 that all should shew themselves before the town, 
 because the appearance of many of them might 
 alarm and frighten the town ; whereas a few, or but 
 one of them, was not so likely to do it. And to 
 cause this advice to take place, it was added further 
 that if IMansoul was frighted, or did take the 
 alarm, it is impossible^ said Dia bolus (for he spoke 
 now) that we should take the town: for that none 
 can enter into it without its own consent. Let 
 therefore but a few, or but one assault Mansoul, 
 and, in my opinion, said Diabolus, let me be he. 
 Wherefore to this they all agreed : and then to the 
 fecond proposal they came, namely, 
 
 II. Whether they had best to go and sit down 
 before Mansoul, in their now ragged and beg-garly 
 guise ? 
 
 To which it was answered also in the negative. 
 By no means ; and that because, though the town 
 of Mansoul had been made to know, and to have 
 to do with, before now, things that are invisible : 
 they never did as yet see any of their fellow creatures 
 in ao bad and rascally a condition as they: and this 
 was the advice of the fierce Alecto. Then said 
 Apollion, The advice is pertinent; for one ol 
 
HOLY WAR. 
 
 -se= 
 
 AdTice of the infernal spirits. 
 
 US appearing to them as we are now, must needs 
 both beget and multiply such thoughts in them, as 
 will put them into a consternation of spirit, and ne- 
 cessitate them to put themselves upon their guard : 
 and if so, said he, then, as Diabolus said but now, 
 it is in vain tor us to think of taking the town. 
 Then said that mighty giant Beelzebup, The ad- 
 vice that is already given (is safe ; for though the 
 men of Mansoul hath seen such things as wc were 
 once, yet hitherto they did never behold such things 
 as we now are. And it is best, in my opinion, io 
 come upon them in such a guise as is common to, 
 and most familiar among them. To this when they 
 had consented, the next thing to be considered wag, 
 in what shape, hue, or guise, Diabolus had best to 
 shew himself, when he went about to make Man- 
 soul his own. Then one said one thing and an- 
 other the contrary. At last Lucifer answered. 
 That, in his opinion, it wa« best his lordship should 
 assume the body of one of those creatures that they 
 of the town had dominion over : for, quoth he, 
 those are not only familiar to them, but, being un- 
 der them, they will never imagine that any attempt 
 should by them be made upon the town; and to 
 blind all, let him assume the body of one of (hose 
 beasts that Mansoul deems to be wiser than any 
 of the rest.* This advice was applauded of all; so 
 
 ♦ Now the serpent was more subtile than any beast of the fiald 
 *hich the Lord God had made. And he said imto the woryan, 
 
 B 
 
10 HOLY WAR. 
 
 The third question discussed. 
 
 it was dcterniined that the giant Diabolus should 
 assume the dragon ; for that he was, in those days, 
 as familiar with the town of Mansoul, as now is 
 the bird with the boy ; for nothing that was in its 
 primitive state was at all amazing to them. They 
 then proceeded to the third thing, which was, 
 
 III. Whether they had best shew their inclina- 
 tions, or the design of their coming to Mansoul or 
 no f* 
 
 This also was answered in the negative, because 
 of the weight that was in their former reasons, to witj 
 for that Mansoul were a strong people, a sUong 
 people, in a strong town, whose wall and gates were 
 impregnable (to say nothing of their castles), nor 
 can they by any means be won but by their own 
 censent. Besides, said Legion, for he gave 
 answer to this, a discovery of our intentions may 
 make them send to their king for aid ; and if that 
 be done, I know what time of the day it will be with 
 us : therefore let us assault them in all pretended 
 fairness, covering our intentions with all manner of 
 lies, flatteries, delusive words ; feigning things (hat 
 will never be, and promising that to them which they 
 shall never find : this is the way to win Man- 
 soul, and to make them willingly open their gates 
 to us ; yea, and desire us also to come in to them. 
 
 And the reason why I think that this project will 
 
 Yea, hath God said. Ye shall not eat ef evtry tree of the garden. 
 Gen. iii. 1. 
 
HOLY WAR. n 
 
 The fourth proposition sfcrced on. 
 
 do, IS, because the people ofMiNsouL are now 
 every one simple and innocent ; all honest and 
 true : nor do they as yet know what it is to be as- 
 saulted with fraud, guile, and hypocrisy. They are 
 strangers to lying and dissembling lips ; wherefore 
 we cannot, if thus we be disguised, by them at all be 
 discerned ; our lies shall go for true sayings, and 
 our dissimulations for upright dealings. What we 
 promise them, they will in that believe us ; espe- 
 cially if in all our lies and feigned words we pretend 
 great love to them, and that our design is only theit 
 advantage and honour. Now there was not one 
 bit of a reply against this, for it went as current 
 down as doth the water down a steep descent : 
 whe-refore they go to consider of the last proposal, 
 which was, 
 
 IV. Whether they had not best to give out orders 
 to s©me of their company, to shoot some one or 
 more of the principal of the townsmen; if they 
 judge that their cause might be promoted thereby ? 
 
 This was carried in the affirmative; and the man 
 that was designed by this stratagem to be destroyed, 
 was one Mr. Resistance, otherwise called Cap- 
 tain Resistance, and a great man in Mansoui. 
 this Captain Resistance was; and a man that the 
 giant DiABOLUs, and his band, m(3re feared than 
 they feared the whole town of Mansoll besides. 
 Now who should be the actor to do the muruer ? 
 that was the next : and they appointed owe. T.'Si- 
 fuone, a fury of the lake, to do it, 
 
 Tbey thus having ended the counsel of war, rosf 
 
12 HOLY WAR. 
 
 The parly began. 
 
 up, and assayed to do as they had determined ; tlicj 
 piarchcd towards Mansoul, but all iti a manner 
 invisible, save onlj one ; nor did be approach the 
 town in his own likeness^ but under the shape and 
 in the body of the dragon. 
 
 80 they drew up, and sat down before Ear-gate ; 
 for that was the place of hearing for all without the 
 town, as Eye-gate was the place of perception. 
 So, as I said, he came up with his train to thegate^ 
 and laid his ambuscade for captain Resistance, 
 within bowshot of the town. This done, the giant 
 ascended up close to the gate, and called to the town 
 f)f Mansoul for audience, Nor took he any with 
 him but one Ill-pause, who was his orator in alldif- 
 firuit matters. Now^ as I said, he being come up to 
 the gate ( as the manner of those times was, ) sounded 
 hU trumpet for audience; at which the chief of the 
 town of Mansoul, suchasmylord Innocent, my 
 lord WiLL-BE-wiLL, my Lord-mayor, Mr. Re- 
 corder, and captain Resistance, camedown to the 
 wail to see who was there, and what w^as the matter. 
 And my lord Will-bb^will, when he looked over, 
 and saw who stood at the gate, demanded what he 
 was, and wherefore he wai come, and why he roused 
 the town of Mansoul with so unusual a sovmd? 
 
 DiABOLLiS then, as if he had been a lamb, began 
 his oration, and said, ' Gentlemen of the famous 
 * town of Mansoul, I am, as you may perceive, 
 ' no far dweller from you, but near, and one that is 
 'bound hy the King to do you my homage, aiul 
 ^ what service I can : whertfore that I ri)ay be 
 
HOLY WAR. 13 
 
 Satan suggests hard thoughts of Goo. 
 
 faithful to mvself and to >oii, I have somcwliatof 
 concern to impart unto jou ; m herefore grant me 
 your audience, and hear me patiently. Ai.d, first, 
 I will assure you, it is not myself but you, not 
 mine but your advantagCj that I seek by what I 
 now do, as will full v, ell be made manifest, by that 
 I have opened my mind to you. For, Gentlemen, 
 I am (to tell you the truth ) come to shew you how 
 you may obtain great and ample deliverance from 
 a bondage that unawares to yourselves you are 
 captivated and enslaved under.' At this the town 
 of Mansoul began to prick up its ears. ' And what 
 is it, pray? what is it?' thought they. And he said, 
 I have something to say to you concerning your 
 King, concerning his law, and also touching your- 
 selves. Touching your King, I knovv he is great 
 and patent ; but yet- all that he has said to you is 
 neither true, nor yet for your advantage. 1 , It is 
 not true ; for that wherewith he hath hitherto awed 
 you, shall not come to pass, tho' you do the thing 
 he hath forbidden. But if there was danger, what 
 a slavery is it to live always in fear of the greatest 
 of punishment, for doing so sma'l and trivial a 
 thing as eating a little fruit is ! 2. Touching his 
 laws, this I say, further, they are both unreason- 
 able, intricate, and intolerable. Unreasonable, 
 as was hinted before, for that the punishment is 
 not proportioned to. the oflencc : there is a great 
 difference and dispropotion betwixt tlie life and 
 au ^pple; yet the one must go for the othir, by 
 
14 HOLY WAR. 
 
 Satan excUes to rebellion. 
 
 the law of your Shaddai. But it is also intri- 
 Vdie, in that he saith^ firsts you may eat of all ; 
 and yet, after, forbid tlie eating of one. And 
 theri;, iii the last place, it must needs be intolera- 
 ble ; forasmuch as ilvdt fruit, which you are for- 
 bidden to eat of ( if you are forbidden any, ) is that, 
 and that alone, which is able, by your eating, to 
 minister you a good as yet unknown by you. This 
 is manifest by the very name of Ihe tree, it is call- 
 ed. The Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil : 
 and have you that knowledge as yet ? No, no ; 
 nor can you conceive how good, how pleasant, 
 and how much to be desired to make one wise, it 
 is so long as you stand by your King's command- 
 mcEit, Why should you be holden in ignorance 
 and blindness ? Why should you not be enlarged 
 in know ledge and understanding ? And now, O 
 ye inhabitants of the famous town of Mansoul, 
 to speak more particularly to yourselves, ye are 
 not a free people, ye are kept both in bondage and 
 slavery, and that by a grievous threat, no reason be- 
 ing annexed, but. So I will have it, so it shall be. 
 And is it not grievous to think on, that that very 
 thing you are forbidden to do, might you but doit, 
 would vield you both wisdom and honour ? for then 
 vour eyes will be opened, and you shall be as gods, 
 Now since this is thus, quoth he, canyon bekeptby 
 any prince in more slavery, and in greater bondage, 
 than von are under tliis day ? You are made under- 
 liuiis andarev»ra.;^tap in inconveniences-, as lUave 
 
II .'Cv^ i. 
 
 'lA'.-J/^SsrJ.I^. 
 
 Oj/i//^inJies/s/an(r: h/Jr/^ /:///// /?/^ //rr fu/rk/j 
 
 ■^ 
 
HOLY WAR. ^5 
 
 Resist A.NCE slain. 
 
 * well made appear: for what bondage greater timii 
 ' to be koj)t in blindness? Will not reason tell y>oiJ, 
 ' that it is better to have eyes than to be without 
 " them ? and that to be at liberty is better than to 
 ' be shut up in a dark and stinking cave ?' 
 
 And just now, while Diabolus was speaking 
 these words to Mansoul, Tisiphone shot at cap- 
 tain Resistance, where he stood on the gate, and 
 mortally wounded him in the head : so that he to 
 the amazement of the townsmen, and the encourage- 
 ment of DiABOLUS, fell down dead quite over the 
 wall. Now when captain Resistance was dead, 
 ( and he was the only man of war in the town) poor 
 Mansoul was wholly left naked of courage, nor 
 had she now any heart to resist : but this was as the 
 devil would have it. Then stood forth that He, 
 Mr. Ill-pause, that Diabolus brought witli him, 
 who was his orator, and he addressed himself to 
 speak to the town of Mansoul : the tenour of 
 whose speech here follows : 
 
 Ill-pause. Gentlemen, quoth he, it is my mas- 
 ter's happiness, that he has this day a quiet and 
 teachable auditory ; and it i^ hoped by us, that we 
 shall prevail with you not to cast off good advice : 
 my master has a very great love fur you ; and al- 
 though he very well knows that he runs the hazard 
 of the anger of king ShaddaI; yet love to you will 
 make him do more than that. Nor doth there need 
 that a word more shoxild be spoken to confirm for 
 truth what he hath said ; th^re is not a word but 
 
i6 HOLY WAR. 
 
 Innoceniy gone we become slaves to sin. 
 
 •■• ' ■ = J 
 
 carries with itself evidence in its bowels ; the very 
 name of the tree may put an end to all controversy 
 in this mati.er. I therefore at this time shall only 
 add this advice to you^ under and by the leave of my 
 lord (and with that he made Diabolus a very low 
 congee) : consider his words ; look on the tree, and 
 the promising fruit thereof; remember also, that 
 yet you know but little, and that this is the way to 
 know more: and if your reason be not conquered 
 to accept of such good counsel, you are not the 
 men I took you to be. " But when the townsfolk 
 saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was 
 pleasant to the eye, and a tree to be desired to make 
 one wise," they did as old Ill-pause advised, they 
 took and did eat thereof. 
 
 Now this I should have told you before, that even 
 then, when this Ill-pause was making his speech 
 to the townsmen, my lord Innocency ( whether by 
 a shot from the camp of the giant, or from some 
 qualm that suddenly took him, or whether by the 
 stinking breath of that treacherous villain, old Ill- 
 pause, for so I am most apt to think) sunk down 
 in the place where he stood, nor could he be 
 brought to life again, Thus these two brave men 
 died : brave men I call them, for they were the 
 beauty and glory of Mansoul, so long as they lived 
 therein : nor did there now remain any more a noble 
 spirit in Mansoul ; they all fell down and yielded 
 obedience to Diabolus, and became his slaves aud 
 vas'^aU as you shall hear. 
 
HOLY WAR, 17 
 
 DiABOLLS enters the town. 
 
 Now these being dead, ^vllat do the rest of the 
 townsfolk, but as men that had found a fool's para-^ 
 dise, thej presently, as afore was hinted, fell to 
 prove the truth of the giant's words: and first, they 
 did as Ill-pause had taught them, they looked, 
 fhey considered, they were taken with the forbidden 
 fruit, " they took thereof, and did eat;" and having 
 eaten, they became immediately drunken therewith ; 
 so they opened the gates, both Ear-gate and Eye- 
 gate, and let in Diabolus, with all his bands, 
 quite forgetting their good Shaddai, his law, and 
 the judgments that he had annexed with solemn 
 threatenings to the breach thereof. 
 
 Diabolus, having now obtained entrance in at 
 tlie gates of the town, marches up to the middle 
 thereof, to make his conquest as sure as he could ; 
 and finding, by this time, the affections of the 
 people warmly inclining to him he thinking it was 
 best striking while the iron was hot, made this fur- 
 ther deceivable speech unto them, saying, ' Alas 
 
 * my poor Man soul ! I have done thee indeed 
 ' this service, as to promote thee to honour, and to 
 ' greaten thy liberty ; but alas ! alas ! poor Man- 
 
 * soul, thou "wantest now one to defend thee ; for 
 
 * assure thyself, when Shaddai shall hear what is 
 ' done, he will come ; for sorry will he be that thou 
 ' hast broken his bonds, and cast his cords away 
 ' from thee. What wilt thou do ^ Wilt thou, after 
 'enlargement, suffer thy privileges to be invaded 
 
18 HOLY WAR. 
 
 Satan gains the heart. 
 
 * and taken away ? or what wilt thou resolve with 
 ' thyself.* Then they all with one consent said to 
 this bramble.. Do thou reign over us. So he ac- 
 cepted the motion, and became the king of the 
 town of Mansoul. This being done, the next 
 thing was to give him possession of the castle, and 
 so of the whole strength of the town. Wherefore 
 into the castle he goes (it was that which Sh add ai 
 built in Mansoul, for- his own delight and plea- 
 sure) : this was now become a' den and hold for the 
 giant DiABOLus. Now having got possession of 
 this stately palace or castle, what doth he, but 
 make it a garrison for himself, and strengthens and 
 fortifies it with all sorts of provisions against the 
 king Shaddai, or those that should endeavour the 
 regaining of it to him and his obedience again. 
 
 This done, but not thinking himself yet secure 
 enough, in the next place he bethinks himself of 
 new modelling the town : and so he does, setting 
 up one, and putting down another at pleasure. 
 Wherefore my lord mayor, whose name was my 
 lord Understanding, and Mr. Recorder, whose 
 name was Mr. Conscience, these he put out of 
 place and power. 
 
 As for my lord mayor, though he was an under- 
 standing man, and one too that had complied with 
 the rest of the town of Mansoul in admitting the 
 giant into the town, yet Diabolus thought not fit 
 to lethira abide in his former lustre and glory, be- 
 
HOLY WAR. 19 
 
 He darkens the undeistaudinp. 
 
 cause he was a seeing man,* wherefore he had 
 darkened him not only by taking from him his of- 
 fice and power, but by building of an high and 
 strong towefj just between the sun's reflections and 
 the windows of mj lord's palace; by which means 
 the house, and the whole of his habitation, was 
 made as dark as darkness itself: and thus being 
 alienated from the light, he became as one that was 
 born blind. f To this house my lord was confined, 
 as to a prison ; nor might he upon his parole, go 
 further than within his own bounds. And now had 
 he had an heart to do good for Mansool, what 
 could he do for it, or wherein could he be profitable 
 to her ? So then, so long as Mansoul was under 
 the power and government of Diabolus (and so 
 long it was under him, as it was obedient to him ; 
 which was even until by a war it was rescued out 
 of his hand); so long my lord mayor was rather 
 an impediment in, than an advantage to, the famoui 
 town of Mansoul. 
 
 As for Mr. Recorder, before the town was taken. 
 
 • For the weapons of our warfare are not carnal, but mighty 
 through God to the pulling down of strong holds : Casting dowu 
 imagination$, and every high thing that exaltcth itself against the 
 knowledge of Go;l, and bringing into captivity every thought to the 
 obedience of Christ. 2 Cor. x. 4, 5. 
 
 + Having the understanding darkened, being alienated from the 
 Hfe of God through the ignorance that is in them, because of tho 
 blindness of their heart. AVho being past feeling hare given them- 
 •el ves over unto lasci viousness, to work all uncleanness w ith grcadi- 
 ness. Epti. It. 18, 19. 
 
20 HOLY WAR 
 
 Conscience shakes Ihe sinner at times. 
 
 he was a man well read in the lavs of his king, and 
 also a man of courage and faithfulness to speak truth 
 on every occasion ; and he had a tongue as bravely 
 hung, as he had an head filled with judgment Now 
 this man, Diabolus could by no means abide, be- 
 cause, tho' he gave his consent to his coming into 
 the tow^n, jet he could not by all wiles, trials, stra- 
 tagems, and devices that he could use, make him liis 
 own. True he was much deerenerated from his for- 
 mer king, and also much pleased with the giant's 
 service, and many of his laws. But this would not 
 dOj forasmuch as he was not wholly his : he would 
 now and then think upon Shaddai, and have a 
 dread of his law upon him, and then he would speak 
 against Diabolus with a voice as great, as when a 
 lion roareth : yea, and would also at certain tim»s, 
 when his fits were upon him (for you must know, 
 that sometimes he had terrible fits), make the whole 
 town of Mansoul shake with his voice ; and there- 
 fore the new king of Mansoul could not abide 
 him. 
 
 Diabolus therefore feared the Recorder more 
 than any that was left alive in the town of Man 
 SOUL, because, as I said, his words did shake the 
 whole town ; they were like the rattling of thunder, 
 and also like thunder-claps. Since therefore the 
 giant could not make him wholly his own, what 
 doth hedo, but studies all that he could to debauch 
 the old gentleman, and, by debauchery, to stupify 
 jhis miiid, and more harden his heart in the ways of 
 
HOLY WAR. 21 
 
 Conscience smpified :>nd disregarded. 
 
 vanity. And as he attemptctl so he accomplislied 
 his design ; ho debauched the man, and by little 
 and little so drew him into sin and wickedness,, that 
 at last he was not only debaTiched as at first, and so 
 by consequence defiled, but was almost (at last, I 
 say) ])ast all conscience of sin. And this was the 
 farthest Diabolls could g-o. W herefore he be- 
 thinks him of another project, and that was, to per- 
 suade the men of the town that Mr. Reeorder wa? 
 mad, and so not io be regarded. And for this he 
 urged his fits, and said, if he be himself, why doth 
 lie not do thus aftvays ? But, quoth he, all mad folk 
 have their fits, and in them raving language; so 
 hath this old and doating gentleman. Thus by one 
 means or other he quickly got Mansoul to slight, 
 neglect, and despise whatever Mr. Recorder could 
 say. For, besides what you have already heard, 
 DiABOLus had a way to make the old gentleman, 
 when he was merry, ui say and deny what he in his 
 fits had affirmed. And indeed this was the next way 
 to make himself ridiculous, and to cause that no 
 man should regard him. Also now he never spake 
 freely for king Shaddai, but always by force and 
 constraint. Besides, he would at one time be hot 
 against that about which at another he would hold 
 his peace, so uneven was he now in his doings. 
 Sometimes he would be as if fast asleep, and again 
 sometimes as dead, even then when the whole town 
 of Mansoul was in her career aftef vanity, and iu 
 h*?r dance after the giant's pipe. 
 
HOLY WAR. 
 
 SATAN persua<les that Gon gives up the Sinner. 
 
 Wherefore sometimes^ when Mansoiil did use to 
 be frighted with the thundering voice of the Re- 
 corder that waSj and when they did tell Diabolus 
 of it, he would answer, that what the old gentleman 
 said, was neither out of love to him, nor pity to 
 them, but of a foolish fondness that he had to be 
 prating; and so would hush, still, and put ail to 
 quiet again. Arid that he might leave no argument 
 Uiiurged that might tend to make them secure, he 
 said, and said it often. Oh Mansoul ! cor.sider, that 
 notwithstandir.g ihe old gentleman's rage, and the 
 rattle of his high and thundering* words, you hear 
 nothing of Shaddai himself (v/hen, \ya.r and de- 
 ceiver that he was, every outcry of Mr. Recorder 
 against the sin of Mansoul was the voice of God 
 in him to them). But he goes on, and says. You 
 see that he values not the loss nor rebellion of the 
 town of Mansoul ; nor will he trouble himself 
 with calling his town to a reckoning, for their giv- 
 ing themselves to me. He knows, that though ye 
 were his, now you are lawfully mine ; so leaving 
 us to one another, he hath now shaken his hands of 
 
 Moreover, O Mansoul ! quoth he, consider how 
 I have served you, even to the uttermost of my 
 power ; and thai wilh (he best that I have, could 
 get, or procure for you in ail the world : besides, 
 1 dare say, that the laws and customs (hat you now 
 are under, and by which you do homage to me, do 
 yield you more solace and content than did the 
 
HOLY WAR. 23 
 
 Conscience cannot be quieted or subdued. 
 
 paradise that at first you possessed. Your liberty 
 alsoj as yourselves do very well know^ has been 
 greatly widened and enlarged by me : whereas I 
 found you a pen'd up people, I have not laid any 
 restraint upon you : you have no law, statute, or 
 judgment of mine to fright you : I call none of you 
 to account for your doings except the madman, you 
 know who I mean : I have granted you to live, each 
 man like a prince in his own palace, even with as 
 little controul from me as I have from you. 
 
 And thus would DiABOLus-hush up and quiet 
 the town of Mansoul, when the Recorder that was^ 
 did at times molest them; yea, and with such cursed 
 orations as these would set the whole town in a rage 
 and fury against the old gentleman ; yea, the ras- 
 cally crew at some times would be for destroying 
 him. They have often wished, in my hearing, that 
 he had lived a thousand miles off from them: his 
 company, his words, yea, the very sight of him, 
 and especially when they remembered how in old 
 times he did use to threaten and condemn them (for 
 all he was now so debauched ), did terrify and afflict 
 them sore. 
 
 But all their wishes were vain ; for I don't know 
 how, unless by the power of Shaddai, and his wis« 
 dom, he was preserved in being amongst them. Be- 
 sides, his house was as strong as a castle, and stood 
 hard by a strong hold of the town ; moreover, if at 
 any time any of the crew or rabble aUempted to 
 make him away, he could pull up the sluices^ and 
 
U HOLY WAU. 
 
 The will corrupted by pride. 
 
 let in such floods as would drown all round about 
 him. 
 
 But to l^ave Mr. Recorder, and to come to mj^ 
 lord M''iLL-BE-wiLLj another of the famous town of 
 Mansoul. This Will-be-will was as high-born 
 in MansouLj and was as much, if not more, a free- 
 holder, than many of them were : besides, if I re- 
 member mj tale aright, he had some privileges pe- 
 culiar to himself in the famous town of Mansoul. 
 Now, together with these, he was a man of great 
 strength, resolution, and courage, nor in his occa- 
 sion could any turn him away. But I say, whether 
 he was proud of his estate, privileges, strength, or 
 what (but sure it was through pride of something), 
 he scorns now to be a slave in Mansoul ; and 
 therefore resolves to bear office under Diabolus, 
 that he might (such a one as he was) be a petty 
 ruler and governor in Mansoul ; and (Iicadstrong 
 man that he was) thus he began betimes ; for this 
 man, when Diabolus did ma*ke his oration at 
 Ear-gate, was one of the first that was for con- 
 senting to his words, and for accepting of his coun- 
 sel as wholesome, and that w^as for opening the gate, 
 and lettinghim into the town: wherefore Diabolus, 
 bad a kindness for him, and for that reason designed 
 him for a place ; and, perceiving the valour and 
 stoutness of thc|man, he coveted to have himforone 
 of his great ones, to act and do in matters of the 
 highest concern. 
 
 So he sent for him, and talked with him of that 
 
HOLY WAIt 3a 
 
 The mind and will subject to Satan. 
 
 Becret matter which lay in his breast ; but there 
 needed not much persuasion in the case ; for as at 
 first he was willing that Diabolus should be let 
 into the town, so now he was as willing to serve hiio 
 there. When the tyrant, therefore, perceived the 
 tvillingness of my lord to serve him, and that hia 
 mind stood bending that way, he forthwith made hira 
 captain of the castle, governor of the wall, and 
 keeper of the gates of Mansoul : yea, there was a 
 clause in his commission, that nothing without him 
 should be done, in all the town of Mansoul : so that 
 now, next to Diabolus himself, who but my lord 
 WiLL-BE-wiLL in all the town of Mansoul ! nor 
 could any thing be now done, but at his will and plea- 
 sure, throughout the town of Mansoul,* he had also 
 one Mr. Mind for his clerk ; a man, to speak on, 
 everyway like his master ; for he and his lord wer« 
 in principle one, and in practice not fad- asunder. f 
 And now was Mansoul brought under to purpose, 
 and made to fulfil the lusts of tli« wil!^ and of the 
 mind. 
 
 But it will not be out of my thoughts, what a des- 
 perate one this Will-be -will was, when power 
 vsas put into his hawd. First, he flatly denied that 
 
 ♦ Because the carnal mind is enmily ag,aiust God; for it is not 
 subject to the la^r of God, neither iinleed can be. Horn. viii. 7. 
 
 f Wherein in time past ye walked according to the course of this 
 TTorld,^ according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that 
 now wcrketh in the children of disobedience: among whom also 
 we all had our conyersation in times past in the Justs of our flesh, 
 fulfilling the desires of the flesh and of the mind ; and vvera bjr nj»» 
 tttre til? children of wrath. eTcn as others. Eph. ii. 2, 3. 
 
 O 
 
26 HOLY WAK. 
 
 T/ie law of God hateful to a siuful mind, 
 
 he owed any suit or service to his former prince and 
 liege lord. This done, in the next place he took aa 
 oath, swore fidelity to his great master Diabolus> 
 and then heing stated and settled in his place, office, 
 advancement, and preferment. Oh you cannot 
 think, unless you had seen it, the strange work that 
 this workman made in the town of Mansoul. 
 
 First, He maligned Mr. Recorder to death ; he 
 would neither endure to see him, nor hear the 
 ■words of his mouth : he would shut his eyes when 
 he saw him, and stop his ears when he heard him speak. 
 Also he could not endure thatso much as a fragment 
 of Shaddai should be any where seen in the town. 
 For example, his clerk, Mr. Mind, had some old 
 rent and torn parchments of the law of good Shad- 
 dai inhis house : butwhen WiLL-BE-wiLLsawthem 
 he cast them behind his back.* True, Mr. Recorder 
 had some of the laws in his study ; but my lord could 
 by no means come at them : he also thought, and said, 
 the windows of my old lord mayor's house were al- 
 ways too light for the profit of the town of Mansoul. 
 The light of a candle he could not endure. Now 
 nothing at all pleased Will-be-will, but what 
 pleased Diabolus his lord. 
 
 There was no other like him to trumpet about 
 the streets the brave nature, the wise conduct, and 
 
 • Neyertbeless they were disobedient, and rebelled against thee, 
 and cast thy law behind their backs, ai>d slew thy prophets, which 
 testified against them to turn them to thee ; a»d they wrought groat 
 ^OTOsatiouB. Nchcm. ir. SS. < 
 
iTOr.Y WAR. 27 
 
 I l^l. ■!.* 
 
 The iToducts of vile affections. 
 
 great glorj of the kini;- Diabolus. He would range 
 throughout all the streets of Mansoul, to cry up 
 his illustrious lord; and would make himself even 
 as an abject^, among the base and rascally creWj to 
 cry up his valiant prince. And I say^ when and 
 wheresoever he found those vassals, he would even 
 make himself as one of them. In all ill courses, he 
 would act without bidding, and do mischief without 
 commandment. 
 
 The lord WiLL-BE-wiLLalso had a deputy under 
 him, and his name was Mr. Affection : one that 
 was also greatly debauched in his principles, and an- 
 swered thereto in his life, * he was only given to 
 the flesh, and th'^rcfore they call him Vile Affec- 
 tion. Now there was he, and Carnal-lust, the 
 daughter of Mr. Mind (like to like, quoth the devil 
 to the collier), that fell in love and made a match, 
 and were married ; and, as I take it, they had seve- 
 ral childi'Cn, as Impudence, Bl.\cr-mouth, and 
 Hate- REPROOF. These three were black boys ; 
 and, besides these three, they had three daughters, 
 as Scorn-truth, Slight-God, and the name of 
 the youngest was Revenge ; these were all married 
 in the town, and also begot and yielded many bad 
 brats, too many to be inserted. ' But to pass by 
 
 this. 
 
 When the giant bad tlius ingarrnoned himself in 
 
 • Who changod tbc truth of (toh iuto a lye, and worshipped 
 aad served the creature more than the Creator, who is blessed I'^f 
 f 7cr. Amen. Rom. i. SS 
 
?R HOLY \VA«. 
 
 'I'he imaffp of (tud erased rroni the sinner's mind. 
 
 the town of MansouLj and had put down and set 
 up whom he thought good, he betakes himself to 
 defacing. Now there was in the market-place of 
 Mansoul, and also upon the gates of the castle, an 
 image of the blessed king Shaddai : (his image 
 was so exactly engraven (and it was engraven 
 in gold) that it did tiie mo&t resemble Shaddai 
 himself of any thing that then was extant in (he 
 world. This *he basely commanded to be defacedj 
 and it was basely done by the hand of Mr. No- 
 truth. Now you must know, that as Diabolus 
 had commanded, and that by the hand of Mr. No- 
 TRUTH, the image of Shaddai was defaced; he 
 likewise gave order that the same Mr. No-truth 
 should set up in its stead the horrid and formidable 
 image of Diabolus, to the great contempt of the 
 ftfermer King, and debasing his town of Mansoul. 
 
 Moreover, Diabolus made havoc of all remains 
 ofthelavvsand statutes of Shaddai, that could be 
 found in the town of Mansoul; to wit, such as 
 contained either doctrities or morals, with all civil 
 and natural documents: also relative duties be 
 sought to extinguish. To be short, there was no- 
 tlnngof the remaiiLsofgood in Mansoul, which he 
 and WiLL-BE-wiLL sought not to destroy : for their 
 design was, to turn Mansoul into a brute, and to 
 make it like to the sensual sow, by the hand of Mr. 
 No-truth. 
 
 Vv hen he had destroyed what law and good orders 
 be could, then, further to eft'ect liis design, namdyj, 
 tp alienate Mansoul fiora Shaddai her king, h6 
 
IIOJ.V \VAI{. 5fy 
 
 S\TAN possesses tlic whole souJ. 
 
 commands, and they set up his own vain edictS;, sta- 
 tutes, and commandments, in all places of resort or 
 ccijcourje 1:1 Mansoul, to v.'it, such as gave liberjj 
 to ' the lusts of the flesh, the lusts of the eyes, 
 '' and the pride of life, which are not of Suaddai, 
 *' but of the world."'* lie encouraged, countenanced, 
 and promoted, iasciviousness and all ungcdliiiess 
 there. Yea, much more did Diabolus to encou- 
 rage wickedness in the town of Mansoul; he pro- 
 mised them peace, content, joy, and bliss, in doing 
 his commands, and that thev should never be called 
 to an account for their not doing the contrary. And 
 let this serve to give a taste to them that love to hear 
 of what is done beyond their knowledge, afar oif in 
 other countries. 
 
 Now MaKiSOul being wholly at his beck, and 
 brought wholl} to his bow, nothing was heard or seen 
 therein, but that which tended to set up him. 
 
 But now he, having disabled the lord mayor and 
 Mr. Recorder from bearing any office in MansouLj. 
 and seeing that the town, before he came to it, was 
 the most antient of corporations in the world, and 
 fearing, if be did not maintain greatness, they at any 
 time should object that he had done them an injury ; 
 therefore, I say, (that they might see that he did not 
 intend to lessen their grandeur, or to take from them 
 any of their advantageous things,) he did chuse for 
 them a lord mayor and a recorder to himself; and 
 
 * For all that ib in the World, tholust ol'tho Htsh, uiu' Uic liisi 
 of th.?. cy«',s aiid the pride of life, is not of the father, but is of t^e 
 world. I Jobnii. 16. 
 
30 HOLY WAR. 
 
 The soul governed by its lusr. 
 
 such as contented them to the heart, and such also 
 as pleased him wondrous well. 
 
 The name of the major that was of Diabolus's 
 making, was the lord Lustings. A man that had 
 neither eyes nor ears; all that he did, whether as a 
 man or an officer, he did it naturally as doth the 
 beast; and that which made him yet more ignoble:, 
 though not to Mansoul, yet to them that be- 
 held, and were grieved for its ruin, was that he could 
 never savour good, but evil. 
 
 The recorder was one whose name was Forget- 
 good, and a very sorry fellow he was ; he could re- 
 member nothing but mischief, and to do it with de- 
 light. He was naturally prone to do things that are 
 hurtful; evenhurtful to the town of Mansoul, and 
 to all the dwellers there. These two, therefore, by 
 their power and practice, examples, and smiles upon 
 evil, did much more mischief, and settled the cora-v 
 mon people in hurtful ways; for who doth not per- 
 ceive, that when those that sit aloft are vile and 
 corrupt themselves, they corrupt the whole region 
 md country where they are. 
 
 Besides these, Diabolus made several burgesses 
 ud aldermen in Mansoul; such as out of whom 
 ihe town, when it needed, might chusethem officers, 
 governors, and magistrates ; and these are the 
 namesof the chief of them: Mr. Incredulity, Mr. 
 Haughty, Mr. Swearing, Mr, Whoring, Mr. 
 Hard-heart, Mr. Pitiless, Mr. Fury, Mr. 
 No-truth, Mr.STAND-TO-LiEs Mr.FALSE-pEAci;^ 
 
HOLY WAR. 31 
 
 Satan's stronsr holds. 
 
 Mr, Drunkenness, Mr. Cheating, Mr. Athe- 
 ism ; thirteen in all. Mr. Incredulity is tlie 
 eldest, and Mr. Atheism the joimge.st of the com- 
 panv. 
 
 There was also an election of c.ommon-council- 
 men, and others : as bailiff, Serjeants, constables, &c. 
 but all of them, like those afore-named, being either 
 fathers, brothers, cousins, or nephews, to them, 
 whose names, for brevity sake, I omit to mention. 
 
 When the giant had thus far proceeded in his 
 work, in the next place he betook him to build some 
 strong holds in the town ; and he built three that 
 seemed to be impregnable. The first he called the 
 hold of Defiance, because it was made to com- 
 mand the whole town, and to keep it from the 
 knowledge of its ancient King. The second he 
 called MiDNiGHT-hold, because it was built on pur- 
 pose to keep Mansoul from the true knowledge of 
 itself. The third was called SwEET-siN-hold, be- 
 cause by that he fortified Mansoul against all de- 
 sires of good. The first of these holds stood close by 
 Eye-gate, that the light might as much as possible 
 be darkened there. The second was built hard by 
 the old castle, to the end that that might be made 
 iTiore blind, if possible. And the third stood in the 
 market-place. 
 
 He that DiABOLus made governor over the first 
 of these, was one Spite-God, a most blasphomouJi 
 wretch. He came with the whole rabble of thcni 
 Aiatcame against Mansoul at first, and was him- 
 
"2 HOLY WAR. 
 
 The state of a soul in Satan's possession. 
 
 self one of themselves. He that was made governor 
 of MiDMGHT-hold was one Love-no-light, he 
 was also one of tbeiii that came iirst against the 
 town. And he that was made the governor of the 
 hold called SwEET-siN-hold, was one whose name 
 was Love-flesh ; he was also a very lewd fellow 
 but not of that country trom whence the others are 
 bound. This felloM' could find more sweetness when 
 he was sucking a lust, than he did in the Paradise 
 ofGoD. 
 
 And now Diaeolus thought himself safe ; he 
 had taken Mansoul ; he had ingarrisoned himself 
 (lierein ; he had put down the old officers, and set 
 up new ones ; he had defaced the image of Shad- 
 DAT, and had set up his own ; he bad spoiled the 
 old law books, and had promoted his own vain lies, 
 he had made him new magistrates, and set up new 
 aldermen ; he had built his new holds, and had 
 manned them for himself. And all this he did to 
 make himself secure, in case the good Shaddai or 
 his Son, should come to make an incursion upon 
 them. 
 
 Now you may well think, that, long before thit 
 time, word by some or other could not but be car- 
 ried to tlie good king Shaddai, how his Mansoul 
 OR the continent of Universe was lost; and that 
 the giant Diabolus, once one of his Majesty's 
 servants, had, in rebellion against the King, mad« 
 sure thereof for himself, and that to a very circuai- 
 stance. 
 
nOLY WAR. 33 
 
 The wretched state of a siauer. 
 
 At first. How DiABOLus came upon Mansoul 
 (they being a simple people and innocent) with craft, 
 suhtilty, lies, and guile : Item, That he had treacher- 
 ously slain their right nohle and valiant captain, the 
 captain Resistance, as he stood upon the gate 
 \vith the rest of the townsmen : Item, How my 
 brave lord Innocent fell down dead (with grief 
 some say : or with being poisoned with the stinking 
 breath of one Ill-pause, as say others) at the hear- 
 ing of his just Lord and rightful prince Shaddai so 
 abused by the mouth of so filthy a Diabolonian as 
 that varlet Ill-pause was. The messenger further 
 told, that after this Ill-pause had made a short 
 oration to the townsmen in behalf of Diabolus 
 his master, the simple town, believing to betrue vyhat 
 was said, with one consent did open Ear-gate, the 
 chief gate of the corporation, and did let him with 
 his crew into the possession of the famous town of 
 Mansoul. He further shewed how Diabolus had 
 ierved the lord mayor, and Mr. Recorder ; to wit, 
 that he had put them from all place of power and 
 trust. Item, He shewed also, that my lord Will- 
 be-will was turned a very rebel and runnagate, 
 and that so was one Mr, Mind, his clerk ; and that 
 they two did range and revel it all the town over, 
 and teach the wicked ones their ways. He said 
 moreover, that this Will-be-will was put into 
 great trust, and particularly that Diabolus had put 
 nto WiLL-BE-wibL's hand all the strong places in 
 VUnsoul ; and that Mr Affectign was made my 
 
 E 
 
Sk HOLY WAR. 
 
 The sinner further described. 
 
 lord Will-be-will's depiitj;, in his most rebellious 
 affairs. Yea, said the messenger, this monster, lord 
 WiLL-BE-\yiLL, has openly disavowed the king 
 Shadpai, and hath given his faith and plighted 
 troth to DiABOLUs. 
 
 Also, said the messenger, besides, this the new 
 king, or rather rebellious tjrant, over the once 
 famous, but now perishing townof Mansoul, has 
 set up a lord major and recorder of his own. For 
 ma\or, he has set up one Mr. Lustings ; and for 
 recorder, Mr. Fokget-good ; two of the vilest of 
 all the town of Mansoul. This faithful messenger 
 also proceeded, and told what a sort of a new bur- 
 g-esses DiABOLUS had made ; also that he had built 
 sewral strong forts, towers, and strong-holds in 
 M/LNSOUL. He told too, the which I had almost 
 forgot, how DiAE0LUi5 had put the town of Man- 
 soul into arms, the better to capacitate them on his 
 behalf, to make resistance against Shaddai their 
 king, should he come to reduce them to their forniei 
 t^bedience. 
 
 Now the tidings-teller did not deliver his relation 
 of things in private, but in open court, the King and 
 his Soo, high lords, chief captains, and nobles, being 
 ull there present to hear. But by that they had 
 heard the whole of the story, it would have amazed 
 one to biave seen, had he be^n there to behold it, 
 Vv'hat sorro\y snd gticf, and compunction of spirit, 
 there was among all sorts, to think that the famoua 
 ^lANfiouLwasaowtakeR: only the King and his Son 
 
HOLY WAR. 35 
 
 God's pity towards fallen men. 
 
 foresaw all this long before^ yea, and sufficiently 
 provided for the relief of Mansoul, tho' they told 
 not every body thereof. Yet, because they too 
 would have a share in condoling the misery of Mam^ 
 SOUL, therefore they also did, and that at a rate of 
 the highest degree, bewail the losing of Mansoul. 
 The king said plainly that '' it grieved him at the 
 *' heart,"* and you maybe sure that his Son was not 
 a whit behind him. Thus they gave conviction io 
 all about them, that they had love and compassion 
 for the famous town of Mansoul. Well, when the 
 King and his Son were retired into the privy-cham- 
 ber, they there again consulted about what they had 
 designed before, to wit. That as Mansoul should 
 in time be suffered to be lost, so as certamly ii 
 should be recovered again. Recovered, I say, in such 
 a way, as that both the King and his Son would ^ei 
 tliemselves eternal fame and glory thereby. Where- 
 fore, after this consultation, the Son of Shaddai (a 
 sweet and comely person, and one that had always 
 great affection for those that were in affliction, but 
 one that had mortal enmity in his heart against Dia- 
 coLijs, because he was designed for it, and because 
 he soughthis crown and dignity ), this Son of Shad- 
 DAT, I say, having stricken hands with the Father, 
 ajad promised that he would be his servant to re- 
 
 • And God saw that the wickedness of man was grcai in tlie earth, 
 and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was f»nly 
 DvLl continvKill y. And it repented the Lord that he had made man 
 on ihe earth, and it grieved him at his hear*. Gen. Ti. 6, 0, 
 
36 tlOLY WAR. 
 
 Goi> and Christ determine to save Mansoul. 
 
 cover Mansoul again, stood by his resolution^ nor 
 would he repent of the same. The purport of 
 Avhich agreement was this, to wit. That at a certain 
 time, prefixed by both, the King's Son should take a 
 journey into the country of Universe, and there in 
 a way of justness and equity, by making amends for 
 thie follies of Mansoul, he should lay the founda- 
 tion of her perfect deliverance from DiAEOLUs, and 
 from his tyranny. 
 
 Moreover, Emanuel resolved to make, at a 
 time convenient, a war upon the giant Diabolus., 
 even while he was possessed of the town of Man- 
 sovL ; and that he would fairly^ by strength of hand, 
 drive him out of his hold, his nest, and take it to 
 himself, to be his habitation. 
 
 This being now resolved upon, order was given 
 to the lord chief Secretary, to draw up a fair record 
 of what was determined, and to cause that it should 
 be published in all the corners of the kingdom ol 
 Universe. A short breviate of the contents there- 
 of you may, if you please, take here as follows : 
 
 ' Let all men know, who are concerned, that the 
 ' Son of Shaddai, the great King, is engaged, by 
 ' covenant to his Father, to bring his Mansoul 
 ' to him again : yea, and to put Mansoul too, 
 ' through his love, into a far better and more happy 
 ' condition than it was in before it was taken by 
 • Diabolus.' 
 
 These papers, therefore, were published in seve- 
 ral places, to the no little molestation of the tyrant 
 
HOLY WAR. 57 
 
 Joy in heaven at man's redemption. 
 
 DiABOLUs ; for now^ thought he, I shall be molest- 
 ed, and ray habitation will be taken from me. 
 
 But when this matter^ I mean this purpose of the 
 King and his Son^ did at first take air at court, who 
 can tell how the high lords^ chief captains, and no- 
 ble princes that were there, were taken with the bu- 
 siness ! FiF^t, They whispered to one another, 
 and after that it began to ring throughout the King's 
 palace, all wondering at the glorious design that 
 between the King and his Son was on foot for the 
 miserable town of Mansoul : yea, the courtiers 
 could scarcely do any thing, either for the king or 
 kindom, but they would mix, with the doing there- 
 of, a noise of the love of the King and his Son, that 
 they had for the town of Mansoul, 
 
 Nor could these lords, high captains, and princes, 
 be content to keep this news at court ; yea, before 
 the records thereof were perfected, themselves came 
 down and told it in Universe. At last it came to 
 the e.irs, as I said, of Diabolus, to his no little 
 discontent ; for you must thuik ' it would perplex 
 him to hear of such a design against him. Well, 
 but after a few casts in his mind, he concluded up- 
 on these four things : 
 
 First, That this news, these good tidings (if pos- 
 sible) should be kept from the ears of the town of 
 Mansoul : for, said he, if they should once come 
 to the knowled2;e, that Shaddai their former King* 
 and Emanuel his Son, are contriving good for the 
 town of Mansoul, what can be expected by me 
 
HOLY WAR. 
 
 Satan would prevent the glad tidings of salvation. 
 
 but that Mansoul will revolt from under my hand 
 and government and return again to him ? 
 
 Now to accomplish this his design^ he renevi'shis 
 (lattery with mv lord Will-be-v/ill, and also gives 
 I'Am strict charge and comraandj that he should keep 
 watch by day and night at all the gates of the town, 
 especrally Ear-gats and Eye-gate : for I hear of 
 a design, quoth lie, a design to make us all traitors, 
 ;i ad that Mansoul must be reduced to its first bon- 
 dage again. I hope ihcy are but flying stories, quoth 
 he ; however, let no such news by any means be let 
 into Mansoul, lest the people be, dejected thereat : 
 I think, ray lord, it can be no welcome news to you, 
 I am sure ii is none to me : and I think, that at this 
 time it should be all our wisdoms and care to nip 
 the head of all such rumours as shall tend to trou- 
 ble our people ; wherefore I desire, my lord, that 
 vou will in this matter do as I say. Let there be 
 &lrong guards daily kept at every gate of tlie town. 
 Stop also and examine from whence such come, 
 wliom you perceive do come from far hither to trade : 
 nor let them by an means be admitted into Man- 
 liOUL, unless you shall plainly perceive that they are 
 {uvoarers of our excellent government. I com- 
 iaand moreover, said Diabolus, that there be spies 
 coi.linually walking up and down the town of Man- 
 soul ; and let thera have power to soppress and 
 destroy any they shall see to be plotting agsiiiist us, 
 or that shall prate of whal by Shaddal and EjMA- 
 KUEL is intended. 
 
HOLY WAR. C') 
 
 The sinner joins Satan to oppose the gospel. 
 
 This therefore was accordingly doi*e : my lord 
 WiLL-BE-wiLL hearkened to his lord and master, 
 went willingly after his commandment, and v/itb all 
 the diligence he could, kept any that would frcn 
 £:oing out aliroad, or that sought to tring t!?e£S 
 tidings to Mansoul, from coming in!o the town. 
 
 Secondly, This done, in the next place Diabo- 
 Lus, that he might make Mansoul as snre zs he 
 could, frames and imposes a new oath and horrible 
 covenant upon the town's folk : 
 
 To wit. That they should never desert him, nor 
 his government, nor yet betray him, nor seek to alter 
 his laws: but that they should own, confess, stand 
 by, and acknowledge him for their rightful king, in 
 defiance of any that do, or hereafter shall, by am' 
 pretence, law, or title whatsoever, lay claim to the 
 town of TvIansoul,* thinking belike that Shadd.vi 
 had not power to absolve them from this covenant 
 with death, and 'agreement with hcil. Nor did the 
 silly Mansoul stick or boggle at all at this most 
 monstrous engagement, but as if it had been a sprat 
 in the mouth of a whale, they swallowed it without 
 any chewing. Were they troubled at it ? Nay, they 
 rather bragged and boasted of their so brave fidelity 
 to the tyrant their pretended king; swearing, that 
 
 * Because ye have said, We have made a coven .in t with death, and 
 with hell arc we at agre^raeut ; when the overflo-.ving scourge shall 
 pass through, it shaD not come unto ns : for we have nude lies our 
 refuge, and under falsphooxl hftve vsehid ourselves. Isa. xxviii. 16. 
 
40 ilOLY WAR. 
 
 Satan prompts man to sin. 
 
 they would never be changelings, nor forsake their 
 old lord for a new. 
 
 Thus did Diabolus tie poor Mans oul fast; 
 but jealousy that never thinks itself strong enough, 
 put him in the next place upon another ex- 
 ploitj which was, yet more, if possible, to debauch 
 this town of Mansoul : wherefore he caused by the 
 hand of one Mr. Filth, an odious, nasty, lascivious 
 piece of beastliness, to be drawn up in writing, and 
 set upon the gates : whereby he granted and gave 
 license to all his true and trusty sons in Mansoul 
 to do whatsoever their lustful appetites prompted 
 them to do, and that no man was to let, hinder, or 
 controul them, upon uain of incurring the displea- 
 sure of their prince. 
 
 Now this he did for these reasons : 
 
 1. That the town of Mansoul might be yet made 
 weaker and weaker, and so more unable, should 
 tidings come that their redemption was designed, 
 to believe, hope, or consent to the truth thereof; for 
 reason says, ' the bigger the sinner, the less ground 
 * or hope of mercj^.' 
 
 2. The second reason was, If perhaps Emanuel^ 
 the Son of Shaddai their king, by seeing the hor- 
 rible and profane doings of the town of Mansoul, 
 might repent, though entered into a covenant of re- 
 deeming them, of pursuing that covenant of their 
 redemption ; for he knew that Shaddai was holy ; 
 and that his Son Emanuel was holy ; )ea, 
 he knew it by woeful experience : for, for the 
 
TTOLY WAR. 41 
 
 Satan makes (he sinner dread Goo. 
 
 iniquity and sin of Diabolus was he cast from the 
 highest orbs. Wherefore, what more rational than 
 for him to conclude, that thus for sin it might fare 
 with Mansoul ? But fearing lest also this knot 
 should break, he bethinks himselfof another, to wit: 
 
 Thirdly, To endeavour to possess all hearts in 
 the town of Mansoul, that Shaddai was raising 
 an army, to come to overthrow and utterly to destroy 
 the town of Mansoul (and this he did to forestal 
 any tidings that might come to their ears of their 
 deliverance) ; for, thought he, if I first spread this 
 abroad, the tidings that might come after will be 
 swallo ved up of this ; for what else will Mansoui. 
 say, when they shall hear that they must be de- 
 livered^ but that the true meaning is, Shaddai in- 
 tends to destroy them ? Wherefore he summons the 
 whole town into the market-place, and there with de- 
 ceitful tongue thus he addresses himself unto them : 
 
 ' Gentlemen, and my very good friends, you are 
 ' all, as you know, my legal subjects, and men of the 
 ' famous town of Mansoul; you know how, from 
 ' the (irst day that I have been with you until now, 
 ' I have behaved myself among you, and what li- 
 ' berty and great privileges you have enjoyed under 
 ' my government ; 1 hope to your honour and n)ine, 
 ' and also to your content and delight. Now, ray 
 ' famous MansouLj a noise of trouble there is 
 
 * abroad, of trouble to the town of Mansoul ; sorrv 
 
 * I am therefore for your sakes. For I received 
 
 * but now by the post, from ray lord Lucifer (and 
 
42 HOLY WAR. 
 
 Sinners resolve to oppose Goo. 
 
 ' he used to have good intelligence), that your old 
 
 * king Shaddai is raising an army to come against 
 ' you, to destroy you root and branch : and this, O 
 ' Man SOUL, is now the cause that at this time I have 
 ' called you together, namely, to advise what in this 
 'juncture is best to be done. For my part, I am 
 ' but one, and can with ease shift for myself, did I 
 ' list to seek my own ease, and to leave my Man- 
 ' SOUL in all danger: but my heart is so firmly 
 ^ united to you, and so loth am I to leave you, that 1 
 ' am willing to stand and fall with you, to the utmost 
 ' hazard that shall befal me. What say you, O 
 
 * Mansoul ! will you now desert your old friend ; 
 ' or do you think of standing by me V 
 
 Then as one man, with one mouth, they cried 
 together, ' Let him die the death that will not.' 
 
 Then said Diaboi,us again, ' 'Tis in vain for us 
 ^ to hope for quarter, for this King knows not Iiow 
 
 * to shew it. True, perhaps he, at his first sitting 
 
 * down before us, will talk of, and pretend to mcr 
 
 ' cy, that thereby with the more ease, and lesstrou- 
 ' ble, he may again make himself the master of Man- 
 ^ soul; whatever therefore he should say, believe 
 ' not one syllable or tittle of '\i, for all such lan- 
 ' guage is but to overcome us ; and io make us. 
 ' while we wallow in our blood, the trophies of his 
 ' merciless victory. My mind is, therefore, that we 
 
 * resolve to the last man to resist him, and not to 
 ' believe him on any terms; jfb?" in at that doo) 
 ' will come our danger. But shall we be flatte.ieu 
 
 * out of our Uvea ? I hope you know more of the 
 
HOLY WAR 43 
 
 Satan persuades God has no mercy. 
 
 * rudiments of politics, than to suffer yourselves to 
 ' be so pitifully served. 
 
 ' Butsupposehe should, if he get us to yield, save 
 ' some of our lives, or the lives of some of them that 
 ' are underlings in Mansoul, what help will (hat be 
 ' toyouthat are the chief of the town, especially you 
 
 * whom I have set up, and whose greatness has been 
 ' 'procured by you through your faithful sticking to 
 ' me ? And suppose again, that he should give qua'Or- 
 
 * terto every one of you, be sure he will bring you 
 ' into that bondage under which you were captivat- 
 ' ed before, or a vvorse, andthenwhatgood will your 
 ' lives do you? Shall you with him live in pleasure, 
 ' as you do now «? No, no, you must be bound by 
 ' laws, that will pinch you, s^nd be made to do that 
 ' vvliich at present is hateful to yon. I am for you, 
 ' i\ you are for me ; and it is bettei' to die valiantly, 
 ' than to live like pitiful slaves. But I say, the life 
 ' of a slave wiii be accounted a life too good for 
 
 * MANsocLnow : blood, blood, nothingbut blood, is 
 
 * in every blast of Siiaddai's trumpet against poor 
 ' Mansoul now : pray be concerned, I hear he is 
 
 * comins; up, and stand to your arms, that now, while 
 ' you have leisure, I may teach you some feats of 
 
 * war. Armour for you I have, and by me it is ; 
 ' yea, and it is sufficient for Mansoul, from top to 
 ' toe ; nor can vou l)e hurt bv what his force can do, 
 
 * if you shall keep it well girt and fastened about 
 ' yo^\ : come thetefore to my castle and welcome, 
 
 * and harness yourselves for the war. There is hel- 
 ' met, breast-plate, sword, shield, and what not, 
 ' th^t you will fight like men.* 
 
U HOLY WAR. 
 
 Satan's armour — A false hope, hard heart, 
 
 ' i. My Helmet, otherwise called an head-piece^ 
 ' is hope of doing well at last, what lives soever you 
 '' live. This is tliat which they had, who said, that 
 "'^ they should have peace tho' they walked in the 
 *^ wickedness of their heart, to add drunkenness to 
 " thirst:"* ' a piece of approved armour is this ; and 
 ' whoever has it, and can hold it, so long no arrow 
 
 * dart, sword, or shield, can hurt him ; this there- 
 ' fore keep on, and thou wilt ward off many a blow 
 ' my Mansoul 
 
 ' 2. My Breast-plate is a breast-plate of iron,f 1 
 ' had li forged in mine own country, and all my sol- 
 ' dierg are armed therewith ; in plain language, it is 
 
 * an hard heart, an heart as hard as iron, and as 
 *■ much past feeling as a stone ; the wliich if you get 
 ' and keep, neither mercy shall win you, nor judg- 
 ' ment fright you. This therefore is a piece of ar- 
 ' mour most necessary for ail to put on, that hate 
 ' Shaddai, and that would fight against him under 
 ' my hanner 
 
 ' 3. My Sword is a tongue that is set on tire of 
 ' hellj; a '.A that can bend i^elf to speak evil of 
 
 * Aiui It cumo to pass, when he heareth the words of this curse, 
 that hf bless himself in his heart, saying, I shall have peace though 
 I walk in tho imagination of mine heart, to add drunkenness to 
 thirst Deut. xxix. 19. 
 
 t And they had breast.plates, as it were brcast-jilafcs of iroit ; 
 and '.ill- s,).inii of their wings was as the sound of chariots of many 
 hors.s ( iiiming to battle. Rev. in. 0. 
 
 :}: My soul IS among lions ; ana i .'ic even among them that are set 
 on fire, ev(.n (he sons of men, whose teeth are gpears and arrows, and 
 their tongue a shdf[; sword. Fsal. Ivii. 4. Who whet their tpn^iC 
 like a sword, and bend their bows to shoot their arrov^s, evtn 
 
HOLY WAR. 45 
 
 A deceitful tongue, unbolief. &c. 
 
 ' Shaddai, his Son, his ways, and people; use this, 
 ' it has been tried a thousand times twice told; 
 
 * whoever hath it, keeps it, and makes use of it as I 
 ' would have hini, can never be conquered by mine 
 
 * enemy. 
 
 '4. My Shield is unbelief, or calling into ques- 
 ' tion the truth of the word, or ail the sayings that 
 ' speak of the judgment that Shaddai hasapp{)int- 
 ' ed for wicked men : use this shield : many attempts 
 ' he has made upon it, and sometimes, 'tis true, it has 
 ' been bruised : but thev that have writ of the wars 
 
 * of Emanuel aj;ainst my servants, have testified, 
 ' that '■ he could do no mighty work there because 
 " of their unbelief,"* ' Now, to handle this weapon 
 ' of mint' aright, is. not to believe things because 
 ' they are true, of what sort, or by whomsoever as- 
 
 * scrted : if he speaks of judgment, care not for it ; if 
 ' he speaks of mercy, care not for it ; if he promises, 
 
 * if he swears that he would do for Mansoul, 
 ' if it turns, to no hurt, bul good, regard not what is 
 ' said, question the truth of all ; for this is to wield 
 ' the shield of unbelief aright, and as my servants 
 
 bitter words ; Ixiv. a. And the tongue is a fire, a world of iniqui- 
 ty : so is the tongu. among our menil»ers, that it dcfileth the whole 
 body, and sctteth on fire the course of nature ; and it is set on fire 
 of hell. James iii. 6. 
 
 * He runnerh nponhim, even on his neck, upon the thick bosses 
 of his Ijucklers ; Job xv. 26. Thi-re brake he the arrows of the 
 bow, the shield, and Uic sword, and the battle. Seiah. Psal. Ixxvi. 
 3. And he could there do no mighty work, save that he laid his 
 hands upon a few sick folk, and healed them. And henaarvelletJ 
 because of their unbelief. Mark vi, 3, 6. 
 
46 HOLY WAR. 
 
 Satan tlie kin.": of sinaers. 
 
 ' oughit, and do : and he that does otherwise, lovca 
 
 * me riot, nor do I count him but an eneiuj to 
 ' me 
 
 5, ' Another part or piece/ said Diaijolus, of 
 iuiiie excellent armour, is ' a dumb and prajerless 
 ' spirit/ a spirit that scorns to cry for niercy., let the 
 
 * danger be ever so great ; wherefore be you, my 
 ' MANsouLi sure that you make use of this. What ! 
 
 * cry for quarter ? Never do tliat, if you would be 
 ' mine : 1 know you stout men ; and I arn sure 
 ' that I have clad vou with that wbicb /s armour 
 
 •J 
 
 * cf proof ; v^herefore to cry to Shabdai for mercy, 
 ' let that be far from you. Besides all this I have a 
 ' maul, fire-brands, arrows and death, al! gjoodhand- 
 ^ weapons, and such as will do execution 
 
 After he had thus furnished his inen with armour 
 and arms, he addressed himself to them in such like 
 words as these : ' Remember, quoth he, that I am 
 
 * your rightful king ; and that you have taken an 
 ' oath, and entered into covenant, to be true to me 
 ' and my cause : I say, remember this, and shew 
 
 * yourselves slout and valiant men of Mansoul. 
 " Remember also tlie kindness that I have alwavs 
 ' shewed to you, and that without your petition. I 
 
 * have granted to you external things ; wherefore the 
 ' privileges, grants, immunities, profits and honours, 
 ' wherewith I have endowed you, do call forth at your 
 ' hands returns of loyalty, my lion-like men of Man- 
 ' SOUL : and what so lit a time to shew it, as whea 
 ' others shall seek to take my dominion over you in- 
 ' to tiieir own hands? One vy>rd more, and I have 
 
HOLY WAR. 47 
 
 BOANEKGES, CONVICTION, JUDGMENT, and EnECUTION. 
 
 ' done : Can we but stand, and overcome this one 
 ' shock or brunt, I doubt not but in a little time all 
 ' the world v. ill be ours ; and when that day comes, 
 " my true hearts, I will make you kings, princes, and 
 " captains, and what brave days shall we have then ! ' 
 DiABOLUs having thus armed and fore-armed 
 f^is servants and vassals in Mansoul, against their 
 f^'ood and lawful King Siiaddai, in the next place 
 lie doubletb his guards at the gates of the tov/n, and 
 betakes himself to the castle, which was his strong 
 I]o]d: his vassals also to shevf their wills, and sup- 
 posed (but ignoble) gallantry, exercise them in their 
 arms every day, and teach one another feats of wcr: 
 they also defied their enemies, and sung up the 
 praises of their tyrant ; they threatened also what 
 men they would be, if ever things should rise so 
 high as a war between Siiaddai and their king. 
 
 Now all this time the good King, the KingSnAn- 
 DAi, was preparing to send an army to recover the 
 town of Mansoul again from under the tyranny of 
 their pretended king Diaeolus : but he thought 
 good, at the first, not to send them by the hand and 
 conduct of brave Emanuel his Son, but under the 
 hand of some of his servants, to sec first by them 
 the temper of Mansoul, and whether by them they 
 would be won to the obedience of their King. The 
 army consisted of above forty thousand, all true 
 men; for they came from the King's own ccJKf, 
 and were those of his own chusing. 
 
 They came up to Mansoul under the conduct ot 
 four stout generals, each man being captain of l$:n 
 
48 HOLY WAR. 
 
 The character of God's captains. 
 
 thousand men ; and these are their names and en- 
 sio^ns. The name of the first was captain Boaner- 
 ges ; the name of the second was captain Convic- 
 tion ; the name of the third, captain Judgmlnt ; 
 and the name of the fourth was captain Execution. 
 These were the captains that Shaddai sent to re- 
 gain Mansoui.. 
 
 These four captains^ (as was said) the king 
 thought fit in the first place to send to Mansoul to 
 make an attempt upon it ; for indeed generally, in 
 all his wars, he did use to place these four captains 
 in the van, for they were verv stout and rough-ljewn 
 raen, men that were fit to hreak the ice, and to 
 break their way by dint of sword, and their men 
 were like themselves. 
 
 To each of these captains the king gave a banner,* 
 that it might be displayed, because of tlie goodness 
 of his cause, and because of the right he had to 
 Mansoul. 
 
 First, To captain Boanerges, for he was the 
 chief, to him, I say, were given ten thousand men : 
 bis ensign was Mr. Thunder : he bore the black 
 colours, and his scutcheon was the three burning 
 thunderbolts.! 
 
 The second captain was captain Conviction : 
 to him were given ten thousand men: his ensign's 
 
 * Thou hast given a banner to them that fear thee, that it may 
 be disi)l.ayed berausc of the truth. Schih. Psal. Ix. 4. 
 
 + And James the son of Zebedec, and John the brother of James ; 
 (and he svirnamed them Boanerges, which is. The sons of thunder.) 
 Mark ill. IT. 
 
HOLY WAR. 49 
 
 The army assembled. 
 
 name was Mr. Sorrow : he did bare the pale 
 colours, and his scutcheon was the book of the law 
 wide open, from whence issued a flauie of fire.* 
 
 The third captain was captain Judgment; to 
 him were given ten thousand men : his ensign'i 
 name was Mr. Terror : he bare the red colours, 
 and his scutcheon was a burning fiery furnace. f 
 
 The fourth captain was captain Execution ; to 
 him were given ten thousand men : his ensign was 
 one Mr. Justice: he also bare the red colours, 
 and his scutcheon was a fruitless tree^ with an axe 
 lying at the ro»t thereof. J 
 
 These four captains, as I said, had every one of 
 them under his command ten thousand men, all of 
 good fidelity to the King, and stout at their military 
 actions. 
 
 Well, the captains and their forces, their men and 
 under officers, being had upon a day by Shaddai 
 into the field, and there called over by their names, 
 were then and there put into such harness as be- 
 came their degrees, and that service which now 
 they were going about for their King. 
 
 ♦ And he said, The lord came from Sinai, and rose up from Seir 
 unto them ; he shined forth from mount Paran, and he carac with 
 ten thousands of saints ; from his right hand went a fiery law for 
 them. Dout. xxxiii. 2. 
 
 +. The Son of man shall send forth liis angels, and they shall ga- 
 ther out of his kingdom all things that offend, and them which do 
 iniquity, and shall cast them into a furnace of fire; there shall ba 
 wailing and gnashing of teeth. Mat. xiii. 41, 42. 
 
 X And now also the axe is laid unto the root of the trees : there- 
 fore every tree which bringeth not forth good fruit, is hewn dowa 
 &nd ca£t Into the fire. Mat. iii. 10. 
 
 C 
 
50 HOLY WAR. 
 
 The coinmissioa to olTcr mcrcj, 
 
 'Now, w hen the King had mustered hi§ forces ( for 
 it was he that mustered the host to the battle,) lie 
 gave unto the captains their several coinmissions, 
 with charges and comniandm.^iitj in the audience of 
 all the soldiers, that they should take heed faithfully 
 and courageousiy to do and execute the same 
 Their commissions v*ere, for the substance of them, 
 the same in form, though as to name, title, place, 
 and degree of the captains, there might be some, 
 but very small variatioii : and here let me give ycj 
 an account of the matter and sum contained in thcii 
 commission. 
 
 A Commission from the great King Shaddai, 
 King of Mansoul, to Ids trusty and noble cap- 
 tainy the captain Boanerges, for making war 
 upon the town of Mansoul. 
 
 ' ^^ THOU Boanekges, one of my stout and 
 ' V-r thundering captains, over one ten thousand 
 ' of my valiant and faithful servants, go thou in mj 
 ' name, with this thy force, to the miserable town of 
 
 ' Mansoul ; and when tliou coraest thither, olTer 
 ' them first conditions of peace ;* and command them, 
 ' that, casting off the yoke and tyranny of the wicked 
 ' DiABOLUs, they return to me, their rightful prince 
 ' and lord ; command them also, that they cleanse 
 ' themselves from all that is in the town of P^Iansou l, 
 ' (and look to thyself, that th ou have g ood satisfac- 
 * And into whatsoever city or town ye shall enter, iuquire \\h:\ 
 in it is worthy ; and there abide tifl y«go thence. Mat. x. 11, 
 And into whatsoever house ye cuter, first say, reuGi- be to thh 
 house. Luke x. 5. 
 
HOLY WAR. 51 
 
 And punish rebellion. 
 
 ' tion^ touching the truth of their obedience. ) Thns 
 ' when thou hast commanded them (if they in truth 
 ' submit thereto), then do thou to the uttermost of 
 ' W\y power, what in thee lies, to set up far me a 
 'garrison in the famous town of Mansoul ; no-r do 
 ' thou hurt the least native thatmo\'eth or breatheth 
 ' therein, if they will submit themselves to me, but 
 ' treat thou such as if they were thy friends or 
 
 * brethren ; for all such I love, and they shall be 
 ' dear unto me ; and tell them, that I will take a 
 ' time to come unto them, and to let them know that 
 ' I am merciful.* 
 
 ' But if they shall, notwithstanding thy summons, 
 ' and the producing of my authority, resist, s tand out 
 
 * against thee, and rebel : then I do command thee 
 
 * to make use of all thy curming, power, might, and 
 ' force, to bring them under by strength of hand. 
 ' Farewel.' 
 
 Thus ycu see the sum of their commissions ; for, 
 as I said before, for the substance of them, they 
 were the same that the rest of the noble captains 
 had. 
 
 + 13ut we are gentle among you, even as a nurse cherishetb iier 
 children : so, being affectionately desirous of you, we were willing 
 to Iiave imparted unto you, not the gospel of God only, but also 
 our own souls, because yc were dear unto us. For ye remember, 
 brethren, our labour and travail ; for labouring night and day, be- 
 cause.we would not bo chargeaWc unto any of you, we preached 
 unto you the gospel of God. Ye arc witnesses, and God also, how 
 holily, and justly, aiiil unblameable, we behaved ourselves among 
 you that believe : as ye know, how we exhorted and comforted, 
 and charged e/ory one of you (as a father doth hi« children). 
 I Thess. U. 7..1). 
 
Si HOLY WAR. 
 
 They approach the sinner. 
 
 Wherefore they having received each commander 
 his authority at the hand of their king ; the day be= 
 ing appointed and the place of their rendezvous pre- 
 fixedj each commander appearing in such gallantry 
 as his cause and calling required ; so after a new 
 entertainment from Shaddai, with flying colours 
 they set forward to march towards the famous towjj 
 of Mansoul. Captain Boanerges led the van, 
 captam Conviction and captain Judgment made 
 up the main body, and captain Execution brought 
 up the rear. They then having a great way to go 
 (forthetown of Mansoul was far off from the court 
 ofSHADDAi),* marched through the regions and 
 countries of many people, not hurting or abusing 
 any, but blessing wherever they came. They 
 also lived upon the King's cost, all the way they 
 went. 
 
 Having travelled thus for many days, at last they 
 came within sight of Mansoul ; the which when 
 they saw, the captains could not for their hearts do 
 less than for a while bewail the condition of the 
 town; for they quickly saw that it was prostrate to 
 the will of DiABOLus, and to his ways and de- 
 sisfns. 
 
 * But aon , iu Christ Jesus, ye who sonKtiines were afar off. are, 
 madf nigii by the blood of Cfiris-t. For he is cur peace, who hath 
 made both one, and hath broken down the middle wall of the parti- 
 tion between us ; having abolished in his flesh the enmity, even the 
 law of commandments contained in ordinances ; for to make in him. 
 self of twain one new man, so making peace ; and that he might re- 
 concile both unto God in one body by the cross, having slain the 
 enmity thereby ; and came and preached peace to you which were 
 afar olF. and to tl/cmUiat are ai«h. Epli. U. la.. J7. 
 
HOLY WAR. 53 
 
 Who canuot but gaze. 
 
 Well, to be short, the captains come up before 
 the town, march up to Ear-gate, and sit do\Mi 
 there (for <hatwasthe place of hearing). So when 
 they had pitched their tents, and intrenched them- 
 selves, addressed themselves to make their assault. 
 
 Now the towsfolk at first, beholding so gallant 
 a company, so bravely accoutred, and so excellent- 
 ly disciplined, having on their glittering armour, 
 and displayiiig their colours, could not but come out 
 of their houses and gaze. But the cuiming fox Di- 
 ABOLus, fearing that the people, after this sight, 
 should, on a sudden summons, open the gates 
 io the captains, came down with all haste to the 
 Cistlc, and made them retire into the body of the 
 town ; who when he had them there, made this ly- 
 ing and doceivablc speech unto them, 
 
 ' Gentlemen, qucth he, although 3'ou are my 
 'trusty and well-beloved friends, yet I cannot but 
 
 * ( a little ) chide you for your late uncircumspect ac- 
 ' tion, in going out to gaze on that great and mighty 
 
 * force that but yesterday sat down before, and have 
 
 * now intrenched themselves, in order to the maiu- 
 
 * taining of the siege against the famous town of 
 ' Mansoul. Do you know who they are ? whence 
 ' they came? and what is their purpose in sitting 
 ' down before the town of Mansoul ? They are 
 ' they of whom I have told you long ago, that they 
 ' would come to destroy this town, and against whom 
 ' I have been at tKe cost to arm you cap-a-pie for 
 
 * your body, besides great fortifications for your 
 •' mind. Wherefore then did you not rather, even 
 
51 HOLY WAR. 
 
 SATAN fears to lose the siar.er. 
 
 ' at (he iirst appearr^nce of tSjem, cry out. Fire the 
 
 •' beacons^ and give the whole town an alarm con- 
 
 . ' cerninoj them, that we might all have been in a 
 
 ' posture of d^fecccj and have been ready to have 
 
 * received them with the highest acts of defiance ? 
 ' then had yon shev/ed yourselves men to my liking-, 
 
 * whereas by what you have done, you have made 
 
 * me half afraid ; I say, half afraid, that when they 
 ' and we shall come to push a pike, I shall find you 
 ' want courage to stand it out any longer. Wherc- 
 ' fore have I commanded a v*'atch, and that vou 
 ' should double your guards at the gates? Wherefore 
 ' have I endeavoured to make you as hard as iron and 
 ' your hearts as a piece of the nether millstone ? Was 
 •^ it think you, that you might shev/ yourself women ; 
 ' and that you might go up like a company of inno- 
 
 * cents to gaze onyour mortal foe ? Fie, fie^putyour- 
 ' selves into a posture of defence, beat up the drum, 
 ' gather together in warlike manner, that our foes 
 
 * may know, that^, before they shall conquer this 
 ' corporation, there are valiant men in Mansoul. 
 
 * I will leave off now to chide, and will not further 
 ' rebuke you; but charge you, that henceforwards 
 ' you let me see no more of such actions. Let not 
 
 * henceforwards a man of you, without orders first 
 ' obtained from me, so much as shew his head over 
 *■ the wall of the town of Mansoul: you have now 
 ^ heard me; do as I have commanded, and you shall 
 
 * cause me that I dwell securely with you, and that 
 
 * as I take care for myself, so for your safety and 
 
 * honour also Farewel.' 
 
HOLY WAR. 55 
 
 The gospel aor listened to. 
 
 Now were the townsfolk strangely altered ; tliev 
 were as nven stricken with a panic fear : they ran to 
 and fro in the streets of the town of Mansoul, 
 crying oiitj " Help ! help ! (lie men that turn 
 '^ the world upside down, are come hither also." 
 Nor could any of them be quiet after ; but still, as 
 men bereft of wit, they cried out, " The destroyers 
 *' of our peace and people are ccme." This went 
 down v;ith Diabolus : Ah ! quoih he t^ himself, 
 this I like well, noW it is as I would have it, now 
 you shew your obedience to your prince ; hold you 
 but here, and then let them take the town if they 
 can. 
 
 Well, before the King's forces had set before 
 Mansoul three days, captain Boanerges com- 
 manded his trumpeter to go down to Ear -gate : 
 and there, in the name of the great Shaddai, to 
 summon Mansoul to give audience to the message 
 that he in his Master's name was commanded io de- 
 liver to them, 80 the trumpeter, whose name was 
 Take-iieed-what-you-hear, went up as be was, 
 commanded to Ear-hate, and there sounded his 
 trumpet for a hearing : but there was none that ap- 
 peared, that gave answer or regard, for so had Pi- 
 ABOLUS commanded; so the trumpeter returned to 
 his captain, and told him what he had done, a'.^d 
 also how he had sped; whereat the captain was 
 grieved, but bid the trumpeter go to his tent. Again 
 Boanerges sendeth his trumpeter to Ear-gate, to 
 sound as before for an hearing ; but they again 
 kept close, came not out, nor would they give him 
 
56 HOLY WAR. 
 
 A third offer of the gospel. 
 
 sn answer, so obserranf were they of the coia- 
 mand of Diabolus their king. Then the captains, 
 and other field officers called a council of war, to 
 consider what further was to be done for gaining the 
 town of Mansoul : and after some close and 
 thorough debate upon the contents of their com- 
 missions, they concluded yet to give the town by the 
 hand of the fore-named trumpeter, another summons 
 to hear ; but if that shall be refused, say they, and 
 that the town shall stand it out still,* then they de- 
 termined, and bid the trumpeter tell them so, that 
 they would endeavour by what means they could to 
 compel them by force to the obedience of th&ir 
 King. 
 
 So captain Boanerges commanded his trumpeleir 
 to go up to Ear-gate again, and, in the name of 
 the great King Shaddai, to give it a very loud sum- 
 mons to come down without delay to Ear-gate, 
 there to give audience to the King's most noble cap- 
 tains. So the trumpeter went, and did as fjc was 
 commanded : he went up to Ear-gate, and sound- 
 ed his trumpet, and gave a third summons to Man- 
 soul. f He said moreover, that if this they should 
 still refuse to do, the captains of his Prince would 
 with might come down upon them, and endeavour 
 to reduce them to their obedience by force. 
 
 * And thj lord said iinto his servant. Go out into the higliways 
 and hedges, and compel them to come in, that my house rA3.y be 
 tilled. Luke xiv. 23. 
 
 t Cry aloud, spare not: lift up *hy voice like a trumpet, and 
 shew my people their transgressioii, and the house of Jacob their 
 sins. Isa. Iviii. 1. 
 
HOLY WAR. 5T 
 
 \ conference heiun. 
 
 Then stood up my lord Will-be-will, wlio was 
 the governor of the town (this ^VILL-BE-^VILL Nvas 
 the apostate of whom nuention was made before), 
 and the keeper of the gates of Mansoul. He there- 
 fore, with big and ruffling words^ demanded of the 
 trumpeter, who he was, wlience he came, and what 
 was the cause of his making so hideous a noise at 
 the gate, and speaking such insutferable words 
 against the town of Mansoul ? 
 
 The trumpeter answered, I am servant to the 
 most noble captain, captain Boanerges, general of 
 the forces of the great King Sh ADD 41, against whom 
 thyself, and the whole town of Mansoul, have re- 
 belled, and lift up the heel ; and my master the 
 captain hath a special message to this town, aud 
 to thee as a member thereof: the whicli if you of 
 Mansoul shall peaceably hear, so; if not, take 
 what follows 
 
 Then said the lord Will-be will, I will carry 
 the words to my lord, and will know what he will 
 
 S'lIV. 
 
 But the trumpeter replied, saying. Our messageis 
 not to the giant Diabolus, but to the miserable 
 tDwn of Mansoul : nor shall we at all regard what 
 answer by him is made, nor yet by any for him ; 
 we are sent to this town to recover it from under 
 his cruel tyranny, and persuade it to submit, as in 
 former times it did, to the most excellent King 
 Shaddai. 
 
 Then said the lord Will-be-will I will do youi 
 errand to the town. 
 
 H 
 
58 HOLY WAR. 
 
 Report of the conference. 
 
 The trumpeter then replied. Sir, do not deceive 
 us, lest, in so doing, you deceive yourselves much 
 more. He added moreover. For we are resolved, if 
 in peaceable manner you do not submit yourselves, 
 then to make war upon you, and bring you under 
 by force. And of the truth of what ( say, this shall 
 be a sign unto yon, you shall see the black flag, 
 with its hot burning thunderbolts, set upon the 
 mount to-morrow, a token of defiance against your 
 prince, and of our resolution to reduce you to our 
 Lord and rightful King. 
 
 So the said lord Will-ee-will returned from 
 off the wall, and the trumpeter came into the camp. 
 "When the trumpeter was come into the camp, the 
 captains and officers of the mighty King Shaddai 
 came together to know if he had obtained a hear- 
 ing, and what was the effect of his errand. So the 
 trumpeter told, saying. When I had sounded my 
 trumpet, and called aloud to the town for a hearing, 
 ray lord W ill-be-will, the governor of the town, 
 and that hath charge of the gates, came up, when he 
 heard me sound, and, looking over the wall, he 
 asked me what I was, whence I came, and what was 
 the cause of this noise ? So I told him my errand, 
 and by whose authority I brought it. Then said he, 
 I will tell it the governor, and to Mansoul : and 
 then I returned to my lord. 
 
 Then said the brave Boanerges, Let us yet for 
 a while still lie in our trenches, and see what these 
 rebels v/ill do. Now when the time drew nigh that 
 audience by Maneoul must be given to the brave 
 
HOLY WAR. 59 
 
 ~^ — — ' ■ " ' ■ ■' I ==:ag 
 
 Preparation for war. 
 
 Boanerges and his companions, it was commanded 
 that all the men of war throughout the whole camp 
 of Shaddai should, as one man, stand to their 
 arms, and make themselves ready, if the town of 
 Mansoul shall hear, to receive it forthwith to 
 mercy ; but if not, to force it to a subjection. So 
 the day being come, the trumpeters sounded, and 
 that throughout the whole camp, that the men of 
 war might be in readiness for that which then should 
 be the work of the day. But when they that were 
 in the town of MaNsoul heard the sound of the 
 trumpet throughout the camp of Shaddai, and 
 thinking no other but that it must be in order to 
 storming the coporation, they at first were put to 
 great consternation of spirit : but after they were a 
 little settled again, they made what preparation 
 they could for a war, if they did storm, else to se- 
 cure themselves. 
 
 Well, when the utmost time was comcj, Boaner- 
 ges was resolved to hear their answer ; wherefore 
 he sent out his trumpeter again to summon Man- 
 soul to a hearing of the message that they had 
 brought from Shaddai; so he went and sounded, 
 and the townsmen came up, but made Ear-gate 
 as sure as they could.* Now when they were 
 Come up to the top of the wall, captain Boanerges 
 desired to see the lord mayor; but ray lord In- 
 credulity v/as then lord mayor, for he came in 
 the room of ray lord Lustings: so Incredulit? 
 
 ♦ lint they refused to hearken, and pulled away the. shonlderi 
 and stopped their ears, that thiey should not hear. Zcch. vii. U. 
 
GO HOLY WAR. 
 
 Boanerges' proclamation. 
 
 came up and shewed himself over the wall. But 
 when the captain Boanerges had set his ejesupon 
 him, he cried out aloud. This is not he ; where is 
 my lord Understanding, the antient lord mayor 
 of the town of Mansoul ? for to him I would de- 
 liver my message. 
 
 Then said the giant ( for Diabolus was also come 
 down) to the captain, Mr. Captain you have by 
 your boldness, given to Mansoul at least four sum- 
 monses, to subject herself to your king : by whose 
 authority, I know not ; nor will I dispute that now. 
 I ask, therefore what is the reason of all this ado ? 
 or. what would you be art, if you knew yourselves ? 
 Then captain Boanerges, whose were the black 
 colours, and whose escutcheon was three burning 
 thunderbolts (taking no notice of the giant, or of 
 his S;»eech), thus addressed himself to the town of 
 Mansoul : Be it known unto you, O unhappy and 
 rebellious Mansou l ! that the most grapious King, 
 the great King Shaddai, my master, hath sent me 
 unto you, with commission (and so he shewed to 
 the town his broad seal) to reduce you to his obe- 
 dience. And he hath commanded me, in case you 
 yield upon my summons, to carry it to you as if you 
 were iny friends and brethren ; but he also hath bidj, 
 that if, after summons to submit, you still stand out 
 and rebel, we should endeavour to take you by 
 force. 
 
 Then stood forth captain Conviction, and said, 
 (his were the pale colours, aiid for a scutcheon he 
 had the Dook of the law wide open, &c. ) ' Hear, O 
 
nOLY WAR. 61 
 
 Judgment pleads. 
 
 ^Mansoul: Thou, O Mansoul wast once fa- 
 ' mous for innocency, but now thou art degenerated 
 ' into lies and deceit,* Thou hast heard what my 
 ' brother, the captain Boanerges, hatk just now 
 ' saidj and it is your wisdom, and will be your hap-^ 
 * piness to stoop io, and accept of, conditions of 
 ' peace and mercy, when oifered ; especially when 
 '' offered by one, ag;aingt whom thou hast rebelled, 
 ' and one who is of power to tear thee in pieces, for 
 ' so is Shaddai our king ; for, when he is angry, 
 ' can any tbing stand i efcre bmi. If you say you 
 ' have not sinned, or acted Pebellion against our 
 "" King, the whole of your doings, since the daj 
 
 * As it is written, There is nons righteous, no, not one : there is 
 none that understanJoth, there is none that seeketh after God. 
 They are all gone out of the way, they are together become un- 
 profitable ; there is none that docth good, no, not one. Their throat 
 is an open sepulchre : with their tongues thoy hare used deceit; the 
 poison of asps is under their lips : whose mouth is full of cursing 
 and bitterness : their feet are Srtift to shed blood : destruction and 
 misery are in their ways ; and th.> way of peace have they not 
 known : there is no feariof God before their eyes. Now we know 
 that what things soever the law saith, it saith to them who are un- 
 der the law ; that every mouth may be stopped, and all the world 
 may become guilty before GoA. For all have sinned and come 
 short of the glory of God, Rom. iii. 10.19, 23. Now, I he- 
 seech you, brethren, mark them -.vii'.ch cause divisions and offences, 
 contrary to the doctrine which ye have learned ; and avoid them. 
 For they that arc such serve not our Lord Jesus Christ, but their 
 own belly : and by good words and fair speeches deceive the hearts 
 of the simple. Rom. \vi, 17, 18. These things hast thou done, 
 and I ke[)t silence ; thou thoughtest that 1 was altogether such an 
 one as thyself: but I will reprove thee, and set them in order before 
 thine eyes. Now consider this, ye that forget God, lest I tear you 
 01 pjecesj and there be none to deliver. Psal. 1. 21t 22. 
 
62 HOLY WAR. 
 
 Conviction urges Mansoul to obey. 
 
 ' that joLi cast off his service (and there was tbebe- 
 ' ginning of your sin), will sufnciently testify against 
 ' you ; what else means your hearkening; to the 
 ' tyrant, and your receiving him for your king ? 
 ' What means else your rejecting the laws ofSiiAD- 
 ' DAI, and your obeying Diabolus ? Yea, what 
 
 * means this your taking up arms against, and the 
 ' shutting your gates upon us, the faithful servants 
 ' of your Ring? Be ruled then, ^^and accept of 
 
 * my brother's invitation, and overstand not the time 
 *^ of mercy, butagree with thine adversary quickly.* 
 ' Ah Mansoul ! suffer not thj'self to be kept from 
 ' mercy, and to run into a thousand miseries, by 
 'the flattering wiles of Diabolus: perhaps that 
 'piece of deceit may attempt to make^you believe, 
 
 * that we seek our own profit in this our service : but 
 'know, it is obedience to our King, and love to jour 
 'happiness, that is the cause of this undertaking of 
 '^ours/ 
 
 ' Again, I say unto thee, O Mansoul, consider 
 'if it be not amazing grace, that Shaddai should 
 ^so humble himself as he doth. Now he, by us 
 'reasons with you, in a way of intreaty and sweet 
 'persuasion,f that you would subject yourselves to 
 
 * When thou gocst with thine adversary to the magistrate, as 
 th )u art in the way give diligence that thou mayest be delivered 
 fmm liim ; lest lie hale thee to the judge, and the judge deliver thee 
 to the offieer, and the of&cer cast thee into prison. I tell thee, thou 
 ?halt not depart thence, till thou hast paid the xery last mite. 
 Luke xii.58,53. 
 
 + And all things are of God, who hath reconciled us to himself 
 by JcsiiS Christ, and hath given to us the ministry of reconciliation ; 
 
HOLY WAR. 6» 
 
 Sinners rosolve to oppose God. 
 
 ' him. Has he that need of you, that we are sure you 
 ' have of him ? No, no ; but he is raerciful, and 
 ' will not that Mansoul should die, but turn to him 
 ' and live.' 
 
 Then stood forth captain Judgment, whose 
 were the red colours, and fey: a scutcheon had the 
 burning fiery furnace ; and he said, ' O ye inha- 
 
 * bitants of the town of Mansoul, that have lived 
 ' 30 long in rebellion and acts of treason against the 
 ' King Shaddai ; know, that we come not to-day 
 
 * to this place, in this manner, with our message, of 
 
 * our own minds, or to revenge our own quarrel ; 
 ' it is the King our master that hath sent us to re- 
 ' duce you to your obedience to him ; the whicL if 
 ' you refuse in a peaceable way to yield, we have 
 ' commission to compel you thereto. And never 
 ' think of yourselves, nor yet suffer the tyrant Dia- 
 ' BOLUS to persuade you to think, that our King, 
 ' by his power, is not able to bring 30U down, and 
 ' lay you under his feet : for he is the Former of 
 ' all things ; and if he touches the mountains, they 
 ' smoke. Nor will the gate of the King's clemency 
 ' stand always open : for the day that shal! burn like 
 
 * ail oven is before him : yea, it hasteth greatly. 
 
 To wit, that God was in Christ, reconeiling the world unto himself, 
 not imputing their trespasses unto them; and hath committed imto 
 us the word of reconciliation. Now then, we are ambassadors for 
 Christ, as though God ^id beseech you by us: we pray you in 
 Christ's stead, be ye reconciled to God. For he hath made him to 
 be Bin for us who knew no sio ; that we might be made ih^ righ- 
 teottinoss of God in him. 2 Cor, y. IS.. 21, 
 
54 HOLY WAR. 
 
 Terrors of the Lord. 
 
 * and slumbcretli not.* O Man soul, is it little ia 
 'thine eyes, that our king does offer thee mercVj, 
 
 * and that after so many provocations ? Yea, he 
 
 * still holdeth out his golden sceptre to thee, and 
 ' will not suffer his gate to be shut against thee : 
 ' will thou provoke him to do it ? Consider of 
 ' what I say ; to thee it shall be opened no more for 
 
 * ever. ''If thou sayest thou shalt not see him, 
 *' yet judgment is before him ; therefore trust thou 
 " in him. Yea, because there is wrath, beware lest 
 *' he take thee away with his stroke ; then a great 
 "^ ransom cannot deliver tliee. Will he esteem thy 
 *' riches ? No, not gold, nor all the forces of strength. 
 '•' He hath prepared his throne for judgment; foi 
 '' he will come with fire, and with his chariots, like 
 " a whirlwind, to render his anger with fury, and ve- 
 ", bukeswith flames offire,"f ' Therefore, O Man- 
 
 * For, behold, theday cometh that shal burn as an ovea ; and all 
 the proud, yea, and all that do wickedly, shall be stubble : and 
 tlicday that cometh shall burn them up, saith the Lord of hosts, 
 that it shall leave them neither root nor branch. Mai. iv. 1. And 
 through covctousness shall they with feigned words make mer- 
 chandize of you: whose judgment now of a long time lingertth 
 not, and their damnation slumbereth not. 2 Pet. ii. 3. 
 
 + They die in youth, and their life is among the unclea.n. He 
 delirereth the poor in his atliiction, and openeth their ears in op- 
 pression : even so would he have removed thee out of the strait into 
 a broad place, where there is no straitiiess ; and that which should 
 be set on thy table should be full of fatness. But thou hast fulfilled 
 the judgment of the wicked : judgment and justice take hold on 
 thee. Because there is wrath, beware lest he take thee away with 
 ' his stroke : then a great ransom cannot deliver thee. Job xxxvi. 
 14. .18. But the liOUD shall endure for ever: he hath pre- 
 pared his throne for judgment. Psal. ix. T. For, behold, the 
 Lord will come with lire, and with hii cluuiots like a whirlwind. 
 
HOLY WAR. 
 
 The execution of the law. 
 
 ' SOUL, take heed, lest, after thou hast fulfilled the 
 'judgment of the wicked, justice and judgment 
 'should take hold of thee.' Now, while captain 
 Judgment was making this oration to the town of 
 Mansoul, it was observed by some, that Diabolus 
 trembled. But he proceeded in his speech, and 
 said, ' O thou woeful tjwn of xMaxsoul ! wilt thou 
 
 * nor yet set open the gate to receive ns, the deputies 
 ' of the King, and those that would rejoice to see 
 'thee live.'* '' Can thine heart endure, or can 
 ** thine hands be strong, in the day that he shall 
 *' deal in judgment 'with thee }" ' \ say, canst thou 
 'endure to be forced to drink, as one would drink 
 ' iweet wine, the sea of wrath that our King has pre- 
 ' pared for Diabolus and his angeis ? Consider, 
 ' betimes consider.' 
 
 Tlien stood forth the fourth captain, the noble 
 captain Execution, and said : ' O town of Man- 
 ' SOUL, once famous, but novt*' like the fruitless 
 
 * bough ; once the delight of the high ones, but now 
 'a den for Diabolus: hearken also to me, 
 
 * and to the words that I shall speak to thee in the 
 
 ' name of the great king Shaddai. Behold, " the 
 
 ♦' axe is laid to the foot of the tree, every tree 
 
 " therefore that bringeth not forth good fruit, it 
 
 •' hewn down and cast into the fire*" 
 
 to render his anger with fury, and his rebukes witi; flames of fire. 
 Isa. Ixri. 15. 
 
 * But wh«ii he saw many of the Pharisees and Sadducees com* 
 to his baptism, he said unto- them, Generation of vipers ! who hath 
 warccdjoutofieefrom the wrath tocome? BriQ£ forth, tliercforcr 
 
 1 
 
66 HOLY WAR. 
 
 " "t,, f _M'. i -rV-TTV . T ■ « — M«IM Ill ' -^ ^CJL^ 
 
 TLeaxe laid at the root. 
 
 ' Thou, O town of Mansoul, hast hitherto been 
 
 * this fruitless tree ; thou bearest nought but thorns 
 ' and briers. Thy CTil fruit forespeaks thee not 
 ' to be a good tree : thy grapes arc grapes of gall, 
 ' thy clusters are bitter.* Thou hast rebelled against 
 
 * thy King ; and lo we> the power and force of 
 ' Shaddai, are the axe that is laid to thy roots. 
 ' What sayest thou r Wilt thou return ? I say 
 ' again. Tell me, before the first blow is given, 
 ' wilt thou turn ? Our axe must first be laid to 
 ' thy root, before it be laid at thy root ; it must 
 
 * first be laid to thy root in a way of thregitening, 
 •' before it is laid to thy root by way of execution : 
 
 * and between these two is required thy repentance, 
 ' and this is all the time thou hast. What wilt 
 ' thou do ? Wilt thou turn, or shall I smite ? If 
 
 * 1 fetch my blow, Mansoul, down you go : 
 ' for I have commission to lay my axe at, as well 
 ' to, thy root ; nor will any thing, but yielding to 
 
 * our King, prevent doing of execution. What 
 ' art thou fit for, O ?*Ia\'soul, if mercy preventeth 
 ' not, but to be hewn down and cast into the fire 
 
 * a.nd burnt ? 
 
 * O Mansoul ! patience and forbearance do 
 
 fruits meet for repentance: And think not to say within you rsdvej 
 Wsliave Abraham to our father: for I say unto yoii,ThatGod i« 
 able of those stones to raise up children i;nto Abraham. And now 
 also the axe is laid unto tlie root of the trees : therefore every tree 
 which bringcth not forth good fruit is hewn dowu, and cast into 
 the fire. Matt. iii.7..10. 
 
 *■ For their vine is of the vine of Sodom, and of the fields of Go. 
 morrah; their grapes are grapes of gall, their clusters are bitter. 
 Dcut xxxii. ^, 
 
MOLT WAR. Q7 
 
 M&NsouL refuses to hearken. 
 
 * not act for ever : a year or two or three, they 
 ' may ; but if thou provoke by a three years rcbel- 
 
 * lion (and thou hast already done more than this,) 
 
 * then what follows, " but cut it dewn ?" nay ofter 
 ' that, " thou shalt cut it down/'* And dost thou 
 
 * think that these are but threatenings, or that our 
 ' King has not power to execute his words ? O 
 
 * Mansoul, thou wilt find in the words of our 
 
 * King, when they are by sinners made little or 
 
 * light of, there is not only threatening, but burn- 
 
 * ing C( als of fire. 
 
 ' Thou hast been a cumber-ground long already, 
 ' and wilt thou continue so still ? Thy sin has 
 ' brought his army to thy walls, and shall it bring 
 ' ill judgment to do execution to thy town ? 
 ' Thou hast heard w hat the captains have said, but 
 ' as yet thou sliuttest thy gates : speak out, Man- 
 'soul, wilt thou do so still ; or wilt thou accept of 
 ' conditions of peace ?' 
 
 These brave speeches of these four noble cap- 
 tains the townof Mansoul refused to hear ; yet 
 a sound thereof did beat against Eir-gate, though 
 the force thereof could not break it open. In fine, 
 the town desired a time to prepare their answer to 
 these demands. The captains then told them, 
 ' that \f they would throw out to them one Tll- 
 ' PAUSE, that was in the town, that they might re- 
 ' ward him according to his works, then they would. 
 
 * give them time to consider ; but if they would 
 
 •— — • ' ■ ■ ■ .^1* III! !■ ■ ■ ■ ^ I 1 
 
 ♦And if it boar fruit, wclJ^ andii;aot^ then after that ctii ft 
 do"^n. Lnkexiii. S. 
 
f>^ irOLY WAH. 
 
 m uB- u fm i' j^ - 
 
 Incrbdulity opposes God's mcfisare. 
 
 ' |iot cast \\i\n to tlieiu over the wall of Mansoul, 
 
 * then Ihey would give Ibem none for. said they, 
 ' we know, that so long as Ill-pausb draws breath 
 ' in Mansoul, all good considerations will be con- 
 ' founded, and nothing but mischief will come 
 
 * thereon*. 
 
 Then DiABOLus, who was there present, being 
 loth to lose Ill-pause, because he was his orator 
 (and yet be sure he had, could the captains have 
 laid theic fingers onhim;) was resolved at this instant 
 to give them answer by himself; but then changing 
 his mind, he commanded the then lord mayor, tlie 
 lord Incredulity to do it, saying. My lord, do you 
 give these renegades an answer, and speak out, that 
 Mansoul may hear and understand yon. 
 
 So Incrldulity, at Diabolus's command, be- 
 gan and said, ' Gentlemen, you have here as we do 
 ' behold, to the disturbance of our prince, and mo- 
 ' lestation of the town of Mansoul, encamped 
 'against it : but from whence you come we will 
 ' not know; and what you are we will not believe. 
 ' Indeed, you tell us in your terrible speech, that 
 ' you have this authority from Shaddai: but by 
 
 * what right he commands you to do it^ of that we 
 ' shall be ignorant. ^ - 
 
 ' You have also, by the authority aforesaid, sum- 
 
 ' moned this town to desert her lord, and for pro« 
 
 ' tection to yield up herself to the great Shaddai 
 
 ** your king : flatteringly telling her, that if she will 
 
 * do it, he will pass by, and not charge her with her 
 ' past offences. 
 
IIOI.Y WAR. 69 
 
 CJoii"s wrath ilcfieJ. 
 
 * Further, you have also to the terror of the town 
 ' of Mansoul, threatened with great and sore des- 
 
 * truction to punish tbis corporation, if she consents 
 
 * not to do aiiV'our wilis would have her. 
 
 ^ Now, captains, from whencesoever you come, 
 ' and though your designs he ever so right, yet 
 
 * know ye, that neither my lord Diabolus, nor £ 
 ' his servant Incredulity, nor yet our brave 
 ' Mansoul, doth regard either your persons, ines- 
 ' sage, or the king that you say hath sent you : hiss 
 'power, his greatness, his vengeance we fear* not ; 
 ' nor will we yield at all to your summons. 
 
 ' As for the war that you threaten to make upon 
 ' us, we must therein defend ourselves as well 
 ' as we can : and know ve, that we are not 
 ' without wherewithal to bid tlcfance to you. 
 ' And in short, (for I will not be tedious) I tell you 
 ' that we take you to be some vagabond runagate 
 ' crew, who, having shaken off all obedience to your 
 ' king, have gotten together in a tumultuous manner, 
 ' and are ranging from place to place, to see if, 
 ' through those flatteries you are skilled to make, 
 ' on the one 'side, and threats therewith you think 
 ' to fright on the other, you can make some svlly 
 ' town, city cr country, to desert their place^ and 
 
 * leave it to you : but Mansoul is none of them. 
 
 * To conclude: We dread you not, we fear you 
 'not, nor will we obey your summons: our gates 
 'we will keep shut against you, our place we will 
 ' keep you out of; nor will we long thus sufftr you 
 ' to sit dowu before us. Our people must live in 
 
TO HOLY WAR. 
 
 The liiesseaijers threatened. 
 
 * quiet : your appearance doth disturb them, 
 
 * wherefv'ie, arise with bag and baggagCj and begone 
 
 * or we will let fly from the walls against you/ 
 
 This oration made by old Incredulity, was 
 seconded by desperate Will-be-wilLj in words to 
 this effect.* 
 
 * Gentlemen, We have heard your demand, and 
 ' the noise of your threats, and heard the sound of 
 
 * your summons ; but we fear not your force, wc 
 
 * regard not your threats, but we will abide as you 
 ' found us. And we command vou, that in three 
 ' days time you cease to appear in these parts, or you 
 
 * shall know what it is once to dare to offer to rouse 
 
 * the lion Di a bolus, when asleep in the town 
 
 'ofMANSOUL.' 
 
 The recorder, whose name was Forget-good, 
 he also added as foUoweth : 
 
 * Gentlemen, my lords, as you see, have with 
 ' mild and gentle words answered your rough and 
 
 * angry speeches; they have, moreover, in my hear- 
 ' ing, given you leave quietly to depart as you 
 ' came: wherefore take their kindness sn^d be gone. 
 
 * We might have come out with force upon you, 
 ' and have caused you to feel the dint of ftur swords : 
 
 * but as we love ease and quiet ourselves, so we 
 ' love not to hurt or molest others.' 
 
 Then did the town of Mansoul shout for joy ; 
 as if by Diabolus and his crew some great advan- 
 tage had been obtained over the captains. They 
 * \Vu"a astrong man armed kecpcth his palace, his gopds ^reiai 
 peace. Luke \'u 21 
 
HOLY WAT?. "71 
 
 Prejudice stops men's ears. 
 
 also rang the bells, and made merry, and danced 
 upon the walls. 
 
 DiABOLus also returned to the casde, and the 
 lord major and recorder to their places : but the 
 lord WiLL-»E-wiLL took special care that the gates 
 should he secured vvith double guards, double holts, 
 and double locks and bais. And that Ear-gate 
 especially might be the better looked to (for that 
 -was the gate in at which the King's forces sought 
 most to enter), the lord Will-be-will made one 
 old Mr. Prejudice, an angry and ill-conditioned 
 fellow, captain of the ward at that gate; and put 
 under his power sixty men, called deaf men ; men 
 advantageous for that service, forasmuch as they 
 mattered no words of the captains or of the sol- 
 diery 
 
 Now when the captains heard the answer of the 
 great ones, and they could not get a hearing from 
 the old natives of the town, and that Mansoul was 
 resolved to give the King's army battle ; they pre- 
 pared themselves to receive them, and to try i( out 
 by the power of the arm. And, first, thev made 
 their force more formidable against Ear-gate; 
 for they knew that unless they could penetrate that, 
 no good could be done upon the town, i'his done, 
 they put the rest of their men in their places. After 
 which they gave out the word, which was, Yc must 
 be born again. Then they sounded the trumpet ; 
 then they in the town made answer, with shout 
 against shout, charge against charge rnd so the 
 battle begfiH. Now they in the town bad planted 
 
T2 HOLY WAR. 
 
 Satan's artillery. 
 
 Upon Mansoul, over Ear-gate, two great guns, 
 the one called High-mind, and the other Headit. 
 CJnto these two guns they trusted much ; they were 
 cast in the castle by Diabolus's louiuler, whose 
 name was Mr, Plff-cp: and mischievous pieces 
 they were. But so vig'Uant arid watchful were the 
 captains when they saw thetu, that though some- 
 times their shot would 2:0 bv their ears with a whi?, 
 yet they did them no harm. By these two guns, tiie 
 townsfolk made no question but greatly to annoy 
 the campof Shaddai, and well enough to secure 
 the gate ; but they had not much cause to boast of 
 what execution they did^ as from what follows will 
 1)0 gathered. 
 
 The famous town of Mansoul had also some 
 other small pieces in it, of the which they made use 
 against the camp of Shaddai. 
 
 They from the camp also did as stolitlj, and with 
 as much of that as may in truth be called valour, let 
 fly as fast at the town, and at Ear-gate : for they. 
 ?aw, that unless they could break open Ear-gate, 
 it would be but in vain to batter the wall. Now 
 the King's captains had brought with them several 
 slings, and two or three battering-rams : with their 
 slings, therefore, they battered the houses and 
 people of the town, and with their rams they sought 
 to break Ear-^ate open. 
 
 The camp and town had several skir* 
 mishes and brisk encounters; while the captains, 
 with their engines, made many brave attempts 
 to break open and beat down the tower that 
 
HOLY WAR. 13 
 
 The sinner braves it out. 
 
 was over E r-gate, and at the said gate to make 
 their entrance : but Mansoul stood it out so lus- 
 tily, throui^h the rage of Diabolus, the valour of 
 the lord Will-ee-nvii,l. and the conduct of old 
 Incredulity the niajor^ and Mr. Forget-good 
 the recorder, that the cliarge and expence of that 
 summer's wars (on the King's side) seemed to be al- 
 most entirely los', and the advantage to return to 
 Mansoul : but when the captains saw how it was, 
 they made a fair retreat, and intrenched themselvcfj 
 in their winter quarters. Now in this war, you must 
 reeds think there was much loss on both sides, of 
 which be pleased to takethis brief account, following. 
 The Ring's captains, when they marched from 
 the court to come against Mansoul to war, as they 
 came crossing over the country, they happejicd to 
 light upon three young men that had a mind to go 
 for soldiers ; propermen they were, and men of 
 courage (and skill) to appearance. Their names 
 were Mr, Tradition, Mr. Human-wisdom, and 
 Mr. Man's-intention. So they came up to the 
 captains, and proflered their service to Shaddai, 
 The captains then told them of their design, and bid 
 them not to be rash in their offers ; but the young men 
 told them that they had considered the thing before^ 
 and that hearing they were upon their marc^i for 
 such a design, came hither on purpose to meet 
 them, that they might be listed under their excel- 
 lencies. Then captain Boanerges, for that they 
 were men of courage, listed them into his company^ 
 and so away they went to the war. 
 
n HOl>Y WAR. 
 
 The recraiis cBte* Sataji's sBtvice. 
 
 Now when the war wasbegun^ in ene of the brisk* 
 est skirmishes, so it was, that a company of the 
 lord Will-be-will's men sallied out of the sally 
 ports, or posters of the town, and fell m upon the 
 rear of captain Boanbrges's men where these three 
 fallows happened to be^ so he took them prisor.ers, 
 and away they carried them into the town ; where 
 they had not lain long in durance^ but it began to be 
 noised about the streets of the town, what three no- 
 table prisoners the lord Will-be-will'^ men had 
 taken, and brought in prisoners out of the camp of 
 Sh ADDAi. At length tidings thereof were carried to 
 DiABOLUs totheeaslle, to wit, what my lord Will-- 
 be-will's men had done, and whom they had taken 
 prisoners. 
 
 Then Diaeolus called for Wili,-be-will. to 
 know the certainty of this matter. So he asked hira, 
 and he told him. Then did the giant send for the 
 prisoners, and when they were come, he demanded 
 ofthem who they were, whence they came, and what 
 they did in the camp of Shaddai ? and they told 
 him. Then he sent them into ward again. Not 
 many days after he sent for them to him again, and 
 then asked them, if they would be willing to serve 
 him 'against their former captains ? they then told 
 him, that they did not so much live by religion, as 
 by the fates of fortune ; and that since his lordship 
 was willing to entertain them, they should be wil- 
 ling to serve him. Now while these things v. ere 
 thus in hand, there was one captain Any-thing, a 
 great doer in the town ofMANsouL, and to this 
 
HOLY WAR. g§ 
 
 The effects of the war. 
 
 caf)tain Anv-thing did Dia^olus send tl>e«« 
 three men, with a note uod^r his hand to receitt 
 them into his company ; the contents of which iettif 
 %vere these : 
 
 ' Any-thing, my darling, the three men ihftt 
 ' are the bearers of this letter have a desire to serve 
 ' me in the war : nor know I better to whos« cou- 
 ' duct to commit them, than tt3 thine : receive tbera 
 ' therefore in mj name, and as need shall require* 
 ' make use of Ihem against Shaddai and his men. 
 ' Farewel.' So they came, and he received them^ 
 and he made two of them Serjeants ; but he made 
 Mr. Man's-invention his Armour Bearer. But 
 thus much for this, and now to return to the camp. 
 
 They of the camp did also some execution upon 
 the town ; for they did beat down the roof of the 
 new lord mayor's house, and so laid him more open 
 than he was before. They had almost ( with a sling ) 
 slain my lord WiLL-BE-wiLL out-right, buthema4e 
 shift to recover again. But they made a notable 
 slaughter among the aldermen, for with only oBe 
 shot they cut off six of them: to wit, Mr.SwtAB- 
 ING, Mr. Whoring, Mr. Furt, Mr. Stard-to- 
 iiEs, Mr. Drunkenness, and Mr. CiieATtKO. 
 
 They also dismounted the two great guns that 
 stood upon the tower over EAR-GATfe, and laid 
 them flat in the dirt. I told you before, th^t the 
 King's noble captains had drawn orf to their win- 
 ter-quarters, and had there intrenched themselves 
 and their carriages, so as with th« best advantage 
 to their Kini^, and the greatest tnnoyaRce io the 
 
Tf$ HOLY WAR/ 
 
 The siniier in a state of alarm. 
 
 dneniy, they might give the seasonable and warm 
 alarms to the town of Mansoul. And this desigp 
 ef them did so hit, that I may say they did almost 
 what they would to the molestation of the corpo- 
 ration. 
 
 For now could not Mansoul sleep securely as 
 before, nor could they now go to their debauche- 
 ries with that quietness as in times past: for they 
 had from the camp of Shaddai such frequent 
 warm alarms ; ye-a, alarms upon alarms, first at one 
 g-ate, and then at another, and again at all the gates 
 atonce.; that they were broken as to former peace: 
 yea, they bad their alarms so frequently, and that 
 when the nights were at the longest, the weather 
 coldest, and so consequently the season most un- 
 seasonable, and that that winter was to Mansoll 
 a winter by itself. Sometimes the trumpets would 
 sound, and sometimes the slings would whirl the 
 stones into the town. Sometimes ten thousand of 
 the King's soldiers would be running round the 
 walls of Mansoul at midnight, shouting, and lift- 
 ing up their voice for the battle. Sometimes again, 
 some of them in the town would be wounded, and 
 their cry and lamentable voice would be heard, to 
 the great molestation of the now languishing town 
 of Mansoul. Yea, so distressed were they with 
 those that laid siege against them, that I dare say 
 Diabolus their king had in these days his rest 
 much broken. 
 
 . In those days, as. I was informed, new thoughts, 
 and thoughts that began to ruu counter cne to 
 
HOLY WAR. 77 
 
 Divictod in Fiis thon^hfs. 
 
 another, by degrees possessed the minds of the 
 men of the town of MaxNsoul. "Some would 
 say, 'There is no living- Ihos/ Others -would 
 then reply, ' This will b*^ over shorily. Then would 
 a third stand up and answer, ' Let us turn to king 
 ' Shaddai, and so put an end to all these trou- 
 * bles.* And a fourth would come in with a fair 
 speech, saying, ' I doubt lie will not receive us.' 
 
 The old gentleman too, the recorder, that was 
 so before Diabolus took Mansoul, he also began 
 to talk aloud, and his words were now to the town 
 of Mansoul as if they were great claps of thunder. 
 No noise now so terrible in Mansoul as was his, 
 with the noise of the soldiers, and shoutings of the 
 captains. 
 
 Also things began to grow scarce in Mansoul; 
 now the things that her soul lusted after departed 
 fpom her.* Upon all he,^ pleasant things there was 
 a blast, and burning instead of beauty. Wrinkles 
 now, and some shews of the shadow of death, were 
 upon the inhabitants of Mansoul. And now, O 
 how glad would Mansoul have been to have en- 
 joyed quietness and satisfaction of mind, tho' joined 
 with the tneanest condition in the world ! 
 
 The captriins also, in the deep of winter, did send, 
 by the mouth of Boanerges' trumpeter, a sum- 
 mons to Mansoul, to yield up herself to the King, 
 the great Kiiig SuADDAi. They sent it once, and 
 
 • And, when he had spent aJ!, there iro5c a mighty famine in 
 <Mtlauii ; aud ho began to be in vrat>t. Luke xv. 14. 
 
7S HOLY WAR. 
 
 Oiftrt of mercy renewed. 
 
 twice, and thrice ; not knowing but that at some 
 time there might be in Mansoul some willingness 
 to surrender up themselves unto them, might they 
 but have the colour of aa invitation to do it under. 
 Yea, so far as I could gather, the town had been 
 surrendered up to them before now, had it not been 
 fi>r the opposition of old Inlcredulity, and the 
 fickleness of the thoughts of my lord Will-be- 
 wiLL. DiABOLUs also began to rave; wherefore 
 Mansoul, as to yielding, was not as yet all of one 
 mind, therefore they still lay distressed under these 
 perplexing fears. 
 
 I told you but now, that they of the King's ar- 
 sny had this winter sent three times to Mansoul, to 
 submit herself. 
 
 The first time the trumpeter went, he went with 
 the words o^^ peace, telling them, that the captains, 
 the noble captains of Shaddai, pitied and bewail- 
 ed the miscrj'^ of the now perishing town of Man- 
 soul, and weie troubled to see them stand so much 
 in the May of their own deliverance. He said, 
 moreover, that the captains bid him tell them, 
 that if now poor Mansoul would humble* herself, 
 s.nd turn, her former rebellions and most notorious 
 treasons should, by their most merciful King, be 
 forgiven them, yea, and forgotten too. And hav- 
 ing bid them beware that they stood not in their 
 own way, that they opposed not themselves, nor 
 made themselves their own losers, he returned 
 ^gain into the camp. 
 
 The second time the Irumpeter wcat, he treated 
 
irOLY WAIl. 79 
 
 Tbrcaffiiiiiffs. 
 
 them a little more roughly ; for after sound of trum-' 
 pet he told them, that their continuing; in thtir re- 
 bellion did but chafe and heat the spirit, of the cap- 
 tains, and that they were resolved to make a con- 
 quest of ]\[ansoul, or lay their bones betoiY.; the 
 town walls. 
 
 He went again the thii d time, and dealt with them 
 yet more roughly ; telling them, that now, since they 
 had been so horribly profane, he did not know, not 
 certainly know whether the captains were inclined 
 to mercy or judgment ; only, said he, they com- 
 nr>anded me to give you a suramon&to open the gates 
 unto them : so he returned^ and went into the camp. 
 These three summons, and especially the two last, 
 so distressed the town, that they presently call a 
 consultation, the result of which was this, that my 
 lord WiLL-BE-wiLL should go up to Ear-gate, 
 and there, with sound of trumpet, call to the cap- 
 tains of the camp for a parley. Well, the lord 
 Will-be -WILL sounded upon the wall ; so the 
 captains cam« up in their harness, with their ten 
 thousands at their feet. The townsmen then told 
 the captains that they had heard and considered 
 their summons, and would come to an agreement 
 with them and with their king Shaddai, upon such 
 certain terms, articles and propositions, as, with and 
 by the order of their prince, they to them were ap- 
 pointed to propound : to wit, they would agree up- 
 on these grounds to be one people w ith them. 
 
 1. ' If that those jDf their own company, as the 
 ' now lord mayor, and their Mr. Forget-good, 
 
80 riOLY WAll. 
 
 Sinners want to retain their lusts. 
 
 'with their brave lord Will-bi-will, might, un- 
 ' der Shaddai, be still the governors of the town, 
 
 * castle and gates of Mansoul. 
 
 2 ' Provided that no man, that now served under 
 
 * the great giant Diabolus, be by Shaddai cast 
 
 * out cf house, harbour, or the freedom that he 
 
 * hath hitherto enjojed in the famous town of 
 ' Mansoul. 
 
 3 ' That it shall he granted them, that they of 
 ' the town of Mansoul enjoy certain of their rights 
 
 * and privileges ; to wit, such as have formerly been 
 ' granted them, and that they have long lived in 
 
 * the enjoyment of, under the reign of their king 
 
 * Diabolus, that now is, and long has been, their 
 
 * only lord and great defender. 
 
 4 ' That no new law, officer, or executioner of 
 ' law or office, shall have any power over them^ 
 ' without their own choice and consent. 
 
 'These be our propositions, or conditions of 
 
 * peace : and upon these terms, said they, we will 
 ' submit to your King.' 
 
 Rut when the captains had heard this weak and 
 feeble offer of the town of Mansoul, and their 
 high a:)d bold demands, they made to them again, 
 by their noble captain, the captain Boanerges^ 
 this speech following : 
 
 ' O ye inhabitants of the town of Mansoul> 
 ' when I heard your trumpet sound for a parley 
 
 * with us, I can truly say, I was glad ; but when 
 
 * you said you were willing to submit yourselves to 
 ' our Lord and King, then I was yet more glad *, 
 
HOLY WAR. i\ 
 
 Sin and salvation "annot be joined. 
 
 / but when by voursiilj' provisos and foolish cavils 
 
 * you laid the stuinblmg-block of your iniquity be- 
 ' fore your laces, (hen was my gladness turned into 
 
 * sorrow, and ray hopeful beginnings of your retura 
 
 * into languishing and fainting fears. 
 
 ' I count, that old Ill-pause, the ancient enemy 
 ' of Mansoul, drew up these proposals that now 
 'you present us with, as terms of agreement ; but 
 
 * they deserve not to be admitted to sound in the 
 
 * ear of any man that pretends to have service for 
 
 * Shaddai. We do therefore jointly, and that 
 ' with the highest disdaiu^ refuse and reject such 
 ' things, as thegreatesf of iniquities.* 
 
 'But, O Mansoul, if you will give yourselves 
 ' into our hands, or rather into the hands of out 
 ' King, and will trust him. to make such terms with 
 
 * vou and for you as shall seem good in his eyc^ 
 
 * (and 1 dare say they shall be such as you shall 
 ' find to be most profitable to you), then we will re- 
 ' ceiveyou, and be at peace with 3'ou: but if you like 
 
 * not to trust yourselves in the arms of Suaddax 
 ' our King, then things are but where they were be* 
 ' fore, an vrc know also what we have to do.' 
 
 Then cried out old Incredulity, the lord mayor, 
 and said, ' And who, being out of the hands of theif 
 ' enemies, as we see we are now, will be so foolish as 
 ' to put the staff out of their own hands into the 
 
 • Nevertheless the foundation of God standeth sure, having tliii 
 ileal, The Lord knowcth them that are his. And, Let every one thit 
 Bwueth the name of Chriat depart from isaiquitj. 2 Tim. u. I?. 
 
62 HOLY WAR. 
 
 Evil report of Goa's laws. 
 
 ' hands of they know not who ? I^ for mv part, will 
 ' never yield to so unlimited a proposition. Do you 
 ' know the manner and temper of their King* ? 'Tis 
 ' said by some, that he will be angry with his sub- 
 ' Jects, if but the breadtli of an hair they chance \^ 
 ' step out of the way ; and by the others, that he re- 
 
 * quireth of them much more than they can per- 
 ' form. Wherefore it seems, O Mansoul, to be 
 ' thy wisdom to take good heed what thou dost in 
 ' this-matter ; for if you once yield, you give up 
 
 * yourselves to another, and so you are no more 
 
 * your own : wherefore to give up yourselves to an 
 ' unlimited power, is the greatest folly in the world ; 
 
 * for now indeed you may repent, but can never 
 'justly complain. But do you indeed know, when 
 ' you are his, which of you he will kill, and vvhicli 
 'of you he will save alive? or whether he will not 
 
 * cut off every one of us, and send out of his country 
 Tanother new people, and cause them to inhabit 
 
 * this town ?' 
 
 This speech of the lord mayor undid all, and 
 threw flat to the ground their hopes of an accord : 
 wherefore the captains returned to their trenches^ 
 to their tents, and to their men, as they were; and 
 the mayor to his castle, and to his king. 
 
 Now DiABOLUS had waited for his return, for he 
 had heard that they had been at their points. So 
 when he was come into the chamber of state, 
 DiABOLUS saluted him with, ' Welcome, my lord, 
 
 * how went matters betwixt you to-day ?' Then the 
 lord IwcREDtJLiTY ( with a low congc 1 told him the 
 
HOLY WAR. R3 
 
 Incredulity Satan's best friend. 
 
 whole of the matter, saying ; Thus said the captain 
 ofSHADDAi, and thus and tliussaid I. The which 
 as it- was told to Diabolus, he was very glad to 
 hear ; and said, ' My lord-mayor, my faithful 
 ' Incredulity, I have proved thy fidelity above 
 ' ten times already, but never found thee false. I 
 ' dopromisethee, if we rub over this brunt, to prefer 
 ' thee to a place of honour, a place far better than 
 ' to be lord-mayor of Mansoul : I will make thee 
 
 * my universal deputy ; and thou shalt, next to me, 
 ' have all nations under thy hand ; yea, thou shalt 
 
 * lay hands upon them, that they may not resist 
 ' thee ; nor shall any of our vassals walk more at 
 
 * liberty, but those that shall be content to walk in 
 
 * thy fetters.' 
 
 Now came the lord-mayor out from Diabolus, 
 as if he had obtained a favour indeed : wherefore 
 to his habitation he goes in greatstate, and thinks to 
 feed himself well enough with hopes, imtii the time 
 came that his greatness should be enlarged. 
 
 But now, though the lord-mayor and Diabolus 
 did thus well agree, yet this repulse to the brave 
 captains put Mansoul into a mutiny ; for while 
 old Incredulity went into the castle, to congratu- 
 late with his lord on what had passed, the old lord- 
 mayor that was so before Diaeolus came to the 
 town, to wit, my lord Understanding, and the 
 old recorder Mr. Conscience, gettingintelligenceof 
 what had passed at -Ear-gate (for you must know 
 that they might not be suffered to be at that debate, 
 lest they should then have mutinied for the captains ) ; 
 
8i HOLY WAR. 
 
 , ■■■-iM..iiy.>ww 
 
 Tumult iu the soul at the remonstrance of Conscience. 
 
 but I say, they got intelligence of what had passed 
 there, and were much concerned therewith : where- 
 fore they getting some of the town together, began 
 to possess them with the reasonableness of the noble 
 captains* demands, and with the bad consequences 
 that would follow upon the speech of old Incke- 
 DULiTYthe lord-mayor: to wit, how little reverence 
 he shewed therein, either to the captains, or their 
 King ; also how he implicitly charged thera 
 with unfaithfulness and treachery : for what less, 
 quoth he, could be made of his words, when he said 
 he would not yield to their proposition ? and ad- 
 ded moreover, a supposition that he would destroy 
 us, when befojre he had sent us word, that he would 
 shew us mercy ? The multitude, being now pos- 
 sessed with the conviction of the evil old Incre- 
 dulity had done, began to run together in com- 
 panies in all places, and in every corner of the 
 streets of Mansoul; and first they began to mut- 
 ter, then to talk openi>y ; and after that they ran to 
 and fro and cried as they ran, O the brave cap- 
 tains of Shaddai ! Would we were under the 
 government of the captains, and of Shaddai their 
 King ! When the lord-mayor had intelligence, that 
 Mansoul was in an uproar, down he comes io ap- 
 pease the ]:^x)ple, and thought to have quashed 
 their heat with the bigness and the shew of his 
 countenance. But when they »aw him, they came 
 running upon him, aiKl had doubtless done him 
 mischief, had he not betaken himself to his house. 
 However they strongly assaulted the house where 
 
HOLY WAR, 85 
 
 -■Tr-» ■ ^r i r ' "^ ' t-^"" ■ '■*' ^ 
 
 The understanding approves God'i lai^s. 
 
 he was, to have pulled it about his ears; but the 
 place was too strong, so they failed of that. Then 
 he, taking some courage, addressed himself out of 
 a window to the people in this manner : 
 
 ' Gentlemen, what is the reason that there is 
 ' such an uproar here to-day?' 
 
 Then answered my lord Understanding, ' It 
 ' is even because thou and thy master have carried 
 ' it not rightly, and as you should, to the captains 
 'of Shaddai; for in three things thou art faulty: 
 ' ipirst, in that you would not let Mr. Conscience 
 ' and myself be at the hearing of your discourse. 
 ' Secondly, in that you propounded such terms of 
 
 * peace to the captains, which could by no means 
 
 * be granted, unless they had intended that their 
 ' Shaddai should have been only a titular prince; 
 ' and that Mansoul should still have had power, 
 ' by law, to have lived in all vanity and lewdness 
 ' before him, and so by consequence Diabolus 
 ' should still here be king in power, and the otlier 
 ' only king in name. Thirdly, for that thou didst 
 ' thyself, after the captains had shewed us upon 
 ' what conditions they would have received to mer* 
 *cy, even undo all again with thy unsavory, un 
 'seasonable, and ungodly speech.* 
 
 When old Incredulity had heard this speech, 
 ac cried out, ' Treason ! Treason ! To your arms * 
 
 * O ye, the trusty friends of Diabolus in Man- 
 'soul!' 
 
 Under. Sir, you may put upon my words what 
 construction j'ou please^ but I am sure that th« 
 
B6 HOLY WAR. 
 
 Conscience supp.iVts the understand ine;.. 
 
 captains of such an high Lord as theirs is deserved a 
 better treatment at your hands. 
 
 Then said old IncredulitYj ' This is but little 
 ' better. Rut, Sir, quoth he, what 1 spake, I spake 
 ' for my priace, for his government, and the quiet- 
 
 * ingof the people, ^vhom, by your unlawful actiocs, 
 ' you have this day set to mutiny against us.' 
 
 Then replied the old recorder, whose name wa» 
 Mr. Coi^seiENCE, and said, * Sir, you ought not 
 ' thus to retort upon what my lord Undekstand- 
 ' ING hath said: it is evident enough that he hath 
 
 * spoken the truth, and that you are an enemy to 
 ' Mansoul ; be convinced then of the cvrl of 
 ' your saucy and malapert language, and of the 
 *' grief that you have put the captains to ; yea, and 
 
 * of the damages that vou have done to Mansoul 
 
 * thereby. Kad you accepted of the conditions, the 
 'sound of the trumpet and the alarm of war had 
 
 * now ceased about the town of Mansoul ; but 
 ' that dreadful sound abides, and your want of 
 
 * wisdom in your speech has beeen the cause of '\i* 
 
 Then said old Lmcreduhty, 'Sir, If Hive, I will 
 
 * do your errand to Diabolus, and there you shall 
 
 * have an answer to your words. Meanwhile we 
 ' will seek the good of the town, aud not ask coun- 
 sel of you.' 
 
 LTnder. Sir, your prince and you are foreigners 
 to Mansoul, and not the natives thereof. And 
 who can tell but that when you have brought us 
 into greater straits (when you also shall see that 
 yourselves can be safe by no other means than by 
 
HOLY AVAIL 87 
 
 CoNSciE.NcL and Passiot* disacice. 
 
 flighf), you may leave us, and shift for yourselves, 
 or set us on fire, and go away in the smoke, or by 
 tlie ligiit of our burnirjg, and so leave us in our 
 ruins. 
 
 Incre. Sir, you forget that you are under a 
 governor, and that you ought to demean yourself 
 like a subject ; and know ye, when my lord the king 
 shall hear of this day's work, he will give you but 
 littie thanks for your labour. 
 
 Now while these gentlemen were thus in (heir 
 chiding words, down come from the walls ind gates 
 of the town the lord Will-dl-will, Mr. Preju- 
 DicEj old Ill-pause, and several of the new made 
 alderman and burgesses ; and they asked the reason 
 of the hubbub and tumult. And with that every man 
 bec:an io tell his own tale, so that nothing could be 
 heard distinctly. Then was sileficc commanded, 
 and the old fox, iNCREDULixr, began to speak ; 
 ' My lord, quoth he, here are a couple of peeviah 
 ' gentlemen, that ha\e, as a fruit of their bad dis- 
 ' positions, and, as I fear, through the advice of one 
 ' Mr. Discontent, tumultuouslv gathered this 
 ' company against this day ; and also attempted to 
 ' run the town into acts of rebellion against our 
 ' prince.' 
 
 Then stood up all the Diacolonians that were 
 present, and affirmed these things to be true. 
 
 Now when they that took the part of my lord 
 Understanding, and with Mr. Conscience* 
 perceived that they were like io come bv the 
 wgrst, for that force and power was on the other 
 
S?J HOLY WAR. 
 
 Violent commotions in the soul. 
 
 side, they came in for their help and relief ; so a 
 great compaDy was on both sides. Then they on 
 Incredulitv's side would have had the two ol4 
 gentlornen presently away to prison ; but they oq 
 the other side said they should not. Then they 
 began to cry up parties again ; the DiABOtONlANS 
 cry up old Incredulity, Forget-good, the new 
 aldermen, and their great one Diabolus ; and the 
 olher party as fast cried up Shaddai, the captains, 
 his laws, their mercifulness, and applauded their 
 conditions and ways. Thus the bickerment went 
 a while, at last they passed from words to blows, 
 and now there were knocks on both sides. The 
 good old gentleman, Mr. Conscience was knocked 
 down twice by one of the Diabolonians, whose 
 name was Mr. Benumbing. And my lord Un- 
 derstanding had like to have been slain with an 
 harquebus, but that he that had shot, failed to take 
 his aim aright. Nor did the other side wholly es- 
 cape : for there was one Mr. Rash-head, a Di- 
 ABOLiAN, that had his brains beaten out by one 
 Mr. Mind, the lord Will-be-will's servant : and it 
 made me laugh io see how old Mr. Prejudice was 
 kicked and tumbled about in the dirt: for though a 
 while since he was made a captainof the Diabolo- 
 NiANs, to the hurt and (lama.^e of the town, yet now 
 they had got him under their feet : and I'll assure, 
 30U he had, by some of the lord Understand- 
 ing's party, his crown cracked to boot. Mr. Any* 
 THING also became a brisk man in the broil ; but 
 both sides were against binij because he was true t« 
 
HOLY WAR. 89 
 
 Understanding and Conscience confined. 
 
 none. Yet he had for his malapertness one of his 
 legs broken ; and he that did it, wished it had been 
 his neck. Much harm more was done on both 
 sides : but this must not be forgotten, it was now a 
 wonder to see my lord Will-be-will so indifferent 
 as he was ; he did not seem to take one side more 
 than another, only it was perceived that he smiled 
 to see how old Prejudice was tumbled up and 
 down in the dirt ; also when captain Any-thing 
 «ame halting up before him, beseemed to take but 
 little notice of him. 
 
 Now when the uproar was over, Diabolus sends 
 for my lord UnOerstanding and Mr. Con- 
 science, and claps them both up in prison, as the 
 ringleaders and managers of this most heavy riotous 
 rout in Mansoul. So now the town began to be 
 quiet again, and the prisoners were used hardly ; 
 yea, he thought to have made them away, but 
 that the present juncture did not serve far that 
 purpose, for that war was in all their gates. But 
 let us return to our story : the captains, when they 
 were gone back from the gate, and were come into 
 the camp again, called a council of war, io consult 
 what was further for them to do. Now s;«aie said. 
 Let us go preseiitly and fall upon the town : but tlift 
 greatest part thought, rather better '(would be to 
 give them another summons io yield ; and the rea- 
 son why they thought this to be the best, was, be- 
 cause that, so far as could be perceived, the town 
 •f Mansoul now was more inclinable than hereto* 
 fore. And it, said they, while sorae of them are in 
 
 M 
 
90.. . HOLY WAR. 
 
 Another invitation to Mansocl 
 
 a way of inclination, we shoulfl by ruggedness give 
 them distaste, we may set them further from closing 
 with our suramons, than we would be willing they 
 should. 
 
 Wherefore to this advice they agreed, and called 
 a trumpeter, put words into his mouth, set him his 
 tinae, and bid him God speed. Well, many hours 
 were not expired, before the trumpeter addressed 
 liimself to his journey. Wherefore, coming up to 
 the wall of the town, he steered his course to Ear- 
 gate ; and there sounded, as he was commanded. 
 They then that were within, came out to see what 
 was the matter, and the trumpeter made them this 
 speech following : 
 
 ' O hard-hearted and deplorable town of M an- 
 ' SOUL ! how long wilt thou love thy simplicity ; and 
 
 * ye fools, delight in your scorning ? As yet des- 
 ' pise you the offers of grace and deliverance ? As 
 
 * yet will ye refuse the golden oifers of Shaddai, 
 
 * and trust to the lies and falsehood of Diabolus ? 
 ' Think you, when Shaddai shall have conquered 
 
 * you, that the remembrance of these ybur carriages 
 ' towards him will yield you peace and comfort ? 
 ' or that by ruffling language you can make him 
 'afraid as a grasshopper? Doth he intreat you 
 
 * for fear of you ? Do you think that you are 
 ' stronger than he ? Look to the heavens, and be- 
 ' hold and consider th-e stars, how high are they ? 
 ' -Can you stop the sun from running his course, 
 ' and hinder the moon from giving her light ? Cau 
 ' you count the number of the stars, or stop 
 
HOLY WAR. 91 
 
 Satan opposes a reconciliatioo. 
 
 'the bottle* of heaven? Can you call for the 
 'waters of the sea, and cause them to cover the 
 ' face of the ground ? Can you hehold every one 
 ' that is proud, and abase him ; and bend their 
 ' faces in secret ? Yet these are some of the worki 
 'of our King, in whose name, this day, we come 
 ' up unto you, that you maybe brought under his 
 ' authority. In his name, therefore, I summon. 
 ' you again to yield up yourselves to his captains.* 
 
 At this summons the M^nsoulians seemed to 
 be at a stand, and knew not what answer to make; 
 wherefore Diabolus forthwith appeared, and took 
 upon him to do it himself; and thus he begins, but 
 turns his speech to them of Mansoul. 
 
 ' Gentlemen,' quoth he, 'and my faithful sub- 
 'jects, if it is true what this summoner hath said, 
 ' concerning the greatness of their King ; by Lis 
 ' terror, you will always be kept in bondage, and 
 ' so be made to sneak. Yea, how can you noWj 
 ' tho* he is at such a distance, endure to think of 
 ' such a mighty One ? And if not to think of him 
 ' while at a distance, how can you endure to 
 ' be in his presence ? I your prince am familiar 
 ' with you, and you may play with me as you 
 ' would with a grasshopper. Consider, therefore, 
 ' what is for your profit, and remember the iramuni- 
 ' ties that I have granted you. 
 
 ' Farther, If all be true that this man hath said, 
 ' how comes it to pass that the subjects of Shad da i 
 ' are so enslaved ia all places where they corae * 
 
9S HOLY WAR. 
 
 The soul inclines to Satan. 
 
 'None ill the universe so unhappy as they, none go 
 
 * trampled upon as they. 
 
 * Consider, my Mansoul ; would thou wert aft 
 ' loth to leave me as I am loth to leave thee. But 
 ' consider, I say, the ball is yet at my foot : liberty 
 
 * you have, if you know how to use it: yea. a king 
 ' you have too, if you can tell how to love and 
 ' obey him.' 
 
 Upon this speech the town of Mansoul again 
 hardened their hearts yet once more against the 
 captains of Shaddai. The thouglits of his holiness 
 sunk them in despair, wherefore, after a short con- 
 sultation, they (of the Diabolonians' party they 
 were) sent back this word by the trumpeter : That, 
 for their parts, they were resolved to stick lo their 
 king, but never to yield to Shaddai ; bo it was but 
 m vain to give them any further summons, for they 
 had rather die upon the place, than to yield. And 
 uow things seemed to be gone quite back, and 
 Mansoul to be out of reach or call : yet the cap- 
 tains, who knew what their Lord could do, would 
 not be beat out of heart: they therefore sent them 
 another summons, more sharp and severe than the 
 last : but the sooner they were sent to reconcile to 
 Shaddai, the farther off they were, " As they 
 " called them, so they went from them," Hos. xi. 2. 
 yea, though they called them to the Most High. 
 
 So they ceased to deal any more with them in that 
 way, aud inclined to think of another way. The 
 CBptains, therefore, gathered themselves together, to 
 
HOLY WAK. S3 
 
 The advice of Con vicTiPN. 
 
 have free conference among themselves, to know 
 what was yet to be done to g;ain Jlie town^ and de- 
 liver it from the tyranny of Di a bolus. And one 
 said after this manner, another after that. Theo 
 stood up the right noble captain Conviction, and 
 said, * My brethren, my opinion is this : 
 
 * First, That we continually play our sline:s into 
 ' the town, and keep them in a continual alarm, 
 ' molesting them day and night; by thus doing, we 
 ' shall stop the growth of their rampant spirits: for 
 ' a lion may be tamed by continual molestation. 
 
 ' Secondly, This done, I advise, that in th«; next 
 
 * place, we, with one consent, draw up a petition 
 
 * to our Lord Shaddai, by which, after we have 
 ^ shewed our King the condition of Mansoul, and 
 'of affairs here, and have begged his pardon for 
 'our no better success, we wiil earnestly implore 
 ' his Majesty's help ; and that he will please to send 
 ' us more force and power, and some gallant and 
 ' well-spoken commander to head them, that so his 
 ' Majesty may not lose the benefit of these his 
 ' good beginnings, but may complete his conquest 
 ' upon the town of Mansoul. 
 
 To this speech of the noble captain Conviction 
 they as one man consented, and agreed that a peti- 
 tion should forthwith be drawn up, and sent by 3 
 fit man away to Shaddai with speed. The con- 
 tents of the petition were thus : ' Most gracious 
 ' and glorious King, ^the Lord of fhe besi world, 
 ' and builder of the town of Mansoul ; we have, 
 ' dread Sovereign, at thy command, put our lives 
 
S4 HOLY WAR. 
 
 Petition to the Lord for help. 
 
 ' ill jeopa«*dj', and at thy bidding made war upon 
 *' the famous town of Mansoul. When we went 
 
 * up against it, we did according to our commission, 
 *■ first offered conditions of peace urtto it, but they, 
 
 * great King, set light by our counsel, and would 
 ' none of our reproof.* They were for shutting- 
 ' their gates, and so keeping us out of the town : 
 
 * they also mounted their guns, they sallied out 
 
 * upon us, and have done us what damage they 
 'could; but we pursued them with alarm upoR 
 ' alarm, requiting them with such retribution as 
 
 * was meet, and have done some execution upon the 
 ' town. 
 
 ' D1.4.EOLUS, Incredulity, and Will-be-wile, 
 ' are the great doers against us : now we are in our 
 ' winter-quarters, but so as that we do yet with an 
 '' high hand molest and distress the town, 
 
 * Ouce, as we think, had we had but one substan- 
 ' tial friend in the town, such as would have second- 
 ' ed the sound of our summons as they ought, the 
 ' people might have yielded themselves : but there 
 
 * v/ere none but enemies there, nor any to speak in 
 ' behalf of our Lord to the town : wherefore, tho*^ 
 ' we have done as we could, yet Mansoul abides 
 ' in a state of rebellion against thee. 
 
 * Now, King of kings, let it please tbee to par- 
 
 • Bat ihey made iiglit of it, aad went their -ways, one to his 
 f-irra, another to his merchandize. Mat. xxv. 5. But they refused 
 to^■.•arke^ and pulled away the shoulder, and stopped their ears 
 that Uicy ihould uot hear. Zech. vii. U, 
 
HOLY WAR. 55 
 
 Christ prcseius our petitions. 
 
 * don the unsiiccessfulness of thy servants, who have 
 ^ been no more advantageous in so desirable a work 
 ' as the conquering of Mansoul is : and send, 
 
 * Lord, as we now desire, more forces to Mansoul, 
 
 * that it may be subdued ; and a man to head 
 ' them, that the town may both love and fear 
 
 ' We do not thus speak because we are willlns^ 
 ' to relinquish the war (for we are for laying our 
 ' bones against the place):, l>ut that the town of 
 ' Mansoul may be won for thy Majesty. We also 
 ' pray thy Majesty, for expedition in this matter, 
 
 * that, after conquest, we may be at liberty to be 
 ' sent about other thy gracious designs. Amen.' 
 
 The petition, thus drawn up, was sent away with 
 haste to the King by the hand of that good man, Mr. 
 Love-to-Mansoul. 
 
 When this petition was come to the palace of the 
 King, who should it be delivered to but the King's 
 Son. So he took it, and read it; and because the 
 contents of it pleased him well, he mended it, and 
 also in some things added to the petition himself. 
 So afler he bad made such amendments and addi- 
 tions as he thought convenient, with his own hands, 
 he carried it unto the King : to whom when he had 
 with obeisance delivered it, he put on authority, 
 and spake to it himself. 
 
 Now the King, at the sight of the petition, was 
 glad ; but how much more, think you, when it was 
 seconded by his Son !^ It pleased him also to hear 
 that his servants, who ercamped against Mansoul, 
 were 80 hearty in the work, and so stedfast in their 
 
56 HOLY WATI. 
 
 Christ iin'lt-rijkes to save maib 
 
 resolves, and that tliey bad already got some ground 
 upon the famous town of Mansoul. 
 
 Wherefore the King called to him Emanuel Ijis 
 Son, who said. Here ann I my Father. Then said 
 the King, Thou knowest, as I do myself, the condi- 
 tion of Mansoul, and what thou hast done to re- 
 deem it. Come now therefore, my Son, and prepare 
 th^yself for the war, for thou shalt ^o to my camp at 
 Mansoul: thou shalt also there prosper and pre- 
 Tail, and conquer tiie town of Mansoul. 
 
 Then said the King's Son. * Thy law is within my 
 ' heart : I delight to do thy will.' This is the day 
 that I have longed for, and the work that I have 
 waited for all this while. Grant me therefore what 
 force thou shalt in thy wisdom think meet ; and I 
 will go, and will deliver from Diabolus, and froni 
 his power, thy perishing town of Mansoul. My 
 heart lias been often pained within rac, for the 
 miserable town of Mansoul: but now it is rejoiced, 
 but now it is glad; and with that he leaped over 
 the mountains for joy, saying, 1 have not in my heart 
 thouglit any thing too dear for Mansoul; the day 
 of vengeance is in mine heart for thee, my Man- 
 soul; and glad am I that thou, my Father, hast 
 made me the captain of their salvation.* And I 
 will now begin to plague all that have been a plague 
 to my town of Mansoul, and I will deliver it from 
 their hojids. 
 
 * For it became him, lor whom arc all things, and by whom ara 
 all ihings, in bringing many sons unto glory, to make the Captaia 
 of their salvation perfect through sufierings, II eb. ii. IQ, 
 
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HOLY WAR. 57 
 
 Joy at the prospect of man's redemption. 
 
 When file King's Son had said thus to his Father, 
 it presently flew like lightning round about at 
 court : yea, it there became the only talk, -what 
 Emanuel -vvas to go to do for the famous town of 
 Mansoul. But you cannot think how the courtiers 
 too were taken with this design of the Prince ; yea, 
 »o affected were they with this work, and with the 
 justness of the war, that the highest lord and greatest 
 peer of the kingdom coveted to have commissions 
 under Emanuel, to go and help to recover again 
 to Shaddai that miserable town of Mansoul. 
 
 Then was it concluded that some should go and 
 carry tidings to the camp, that Emanuel was to 
 come to recover Mansoul ; and that he would bring 
 along with him so mighty, so impregnable a force, 
 (hat he could not be resisted. But oh ! how ready 
 were the high ones at court to run like lacquies to 
 carry these tidings to the camp that was at Man- 
 soul. 
 
 Now when the captains perceived that the Kiijg 
 would send Emanuel his Son, and that it also de- 
 lighted the Son to be sent on this errand by the great 
 Shaddai his Father; they also, to shew how they 
 were pleased at the thoughts of his coming, gave a 
 shout that made the earth rend at the. sound there- 
 of; yea, the mountains answered the echo, and 
 DiABOLus himself tottered a^d shook. 
 
 Now you must know, that tho' the town of Man- 
 fl^UL itself w as not much, if at all concerned with the 
 project (for, alas for them! they were woefully 
 besotted, for they chiefly regarded their pleasure and 
 
m HOLY WAR. 
 
 rMANHGi. prepares to take Maksoui.. 
 
 lusts) ; yet Diabolus tLcir governor was, for he 
 h;id his spies continuaUv abroad, who brought him 
 inteliigence of all things ; and they tohl him what 
 M as doing at court against him, and that Emanuel 
 would certainly come shortly with a power io in- 
 vade him. Nor was there any man in court, nor 
 peer of the kingdom, that Diabolus so feared, as 
 he feared this Prince : for, if you remember, I 
 shewed you before, that Diabolus had felt the 
 weight of his hand already ; so that since it was h« 
 that was to come, this made him sore afraid. 
 
 Well, you see how I have told you that th« 
 King's Sou was engaged to come from the court to 
 save Mansoul, and that his Father had made him 
 captain of the forces : the time therefore of his set- 
 iing forth being now expired, he addressed himself 
 for the march ; and taking with him, for his power, 
 five noble captains and their forces. 
 
 I. The first was that famous captain, the noble 
 ciiptain Credence; his were the red colours, and 
 Mr. Promise bare them, and for an escutcheon he 
 had the holy Lamb and golden shield :* and he had 
 ten thousand men at his feet. 
 
 2. The second was that famous captain, the cap- 
 tain Good-hope; his were the blue colours, hi« 
 standard-bearer was Mr. Expectation; and for 
 
 * Behold the Lamb of God, which takcth away the sins of the 
 world. Johni. 10. Above all, taking the shield of faith, whct«4 
 with ye shall be able to queiich all the fiery darts of the wick'ed, 
 Eph. vi. 16. 
 
HOLY WAR. » 
 
 The capiBlns who attenued hioi. 
 
 an escutcheon he had Three Goltlcp Aoichors ;• 
 and he had ten thousand men at his feet. 
 
 3. The third was that valiant captain, the cap- 
 tain Charitt :f his standard-bearer was Mr. Piti- 
 ful ; his were the green colours, and for his escut- 
 cheon he had Three Naked Orphans embraced in 
 his bosom ; and he had ten thousand at liis feet. 
 
 4. The fourth was that gallant commander, the 
 captain Innocent: his standard-bearer was Mr. 
 Harmless ;^ his were the white colours ; and for 
 his escutcheon he had Three Golden Doves. 
 
 5. I'he fifth was the truly loyal and well-belovcd 
 caplain, the captain Patience : his standard-bearer 
 was Mr. Suffer-long : his were the black colours, 
 and for an escutcheon he had Three Arrows thro' a 
 Golden Heart. 
 
 These were Emanuel's captains, these their 
 standard-bearers, their colours, and escutcheons, 
 and these the men under their command. So as was 
 said, the brave Prince took his march, to go to the 
 town of Mansoul. Captain Credence led the 
 van, and captain Patience brought up the rear. 
 
 • Which hope we have as an anchor of the soul, both sure and 
 Itedfast, and which entereth into that within the Teil, Heb. tI. 1», 
 
 t Charity suffereth long, and is kind ; charity vaunteth not itself, 
 is not puffed up, doth not behare itsdf unseemly, seeketh not he* 
 own, is not easily provoked, thinketh no evil ; rojoiceth not in ini- 
 quity, but rejoiceth in the truth ; beareth all thing?, believcthall 
 things, hopcth all things, endurcth all thingi. Charity never fail- 
 ©th. 1 (yor. xiii. 4. .8. 
 
 ^ Behold, I send you forth as sheep in the midst of wolves : be 
 je, thc^t'foro, wise as serpents, and bsymieM as do^«». iUt, i, 19» 
 
m HOLY WAR, 
 
 Tlie approach to Mansool. 
 
 So the other three with their men, made up the 
 K-iaiii body. The prince himself rode in his chariot 
 at the head of them. 
 
 But when they set out for their march, oh how 
 the trumpets sounded, their armour glittered, and 
 how the colours waved in the wind ! The Prince's? 
 armour was all gold, and it shone like the sun in 
 the firmament. The captains' armour was of proof, 
 and was in appearance like the glittering stars. 
 There were also some from the court that rode re- 
 formades, for the love that they had to the King 
 Shaddai, and for the happy deliverance of tlje 
 to^vn of Mansoul. 
 
 Emanuel also, when he had thus set forwards 
 <o go to recover the town of Mansoul, took 
 with him, at the command of his Father, fifty- 
 four battering-rams, and twelve slings to whirl 
 stgnes withal. Every one of these was made of 
 pure gold ; and these they carried with them in the 
 heart and body of their army, all along as they went 
 to Mansoul. 
 
 So they marched till they came within less than a 
 league of the town ; and there they lay till the first 
 four captains came thither, to acquaint them with 
 matters. Then they took their journey to go to the 
 town of Mansoul, and unto Mansoul they came | 
 but when the old soldiers, that were in the camp, 
 saw that they had new forces to join with, they 
 again gave such a shout before the walls of Man 
 SOUL, that it put Dia.solus into another fright 
 So they sat down before the town, and now as the 
 
HOLY ^yAli, loi 
 
 The artillery. 
 
 other four captains did, to wit, against the gates of 
 Mansoul only, but they inviroued it round oa 
 every side, and beset it behind and before ; so that 
 now, let Mansoul look which way it would, it saw- 
 force and power lie in siege against it. Besides, 
 there were mounts cast up against it ; the mount 
 Gracious was on the one side, and mount Jus- 
 tice on the other. Farther, there were several 
 small banks and advance grounds, as Plain-truth 
 hill, and No-sin banks, where many of the slings 
 were placed against the town. . Upon mount Gra- 
 cious were planted four, and upon mount Justice 
 ■were placed as many : and the rest were conveni- 
 ently placed in several parts round about the town. 
 Five of the best battering rams, that is, of the big- 
 gest of them, were placed upon mount Hearken, 
 a mount cast up hard by Ear-gate, v»ith intent 
 to break that open. 
 
 Now when the town of Mansoul saw the multi- 
 tude, and the soldiers that were come up against 
 the place, and the rams and slings, and the mounts 
 on which they were planted ; together with the glit- 
 tering of the armour, and the waving of their 
 colours * they were forced to shift and shift, and 
 again to shift their thoughts; butthey hardly chang- 
 ed for thoughts more stout, but rather for thoughts 
 more faint ; for though before they thought them- 
 selves sufficiently guarded, yet now they began to 
 think that no man knew what would be their hap 
 or lot. 
 
 When the good Prince Emanuel had thus be* 
 
Wt HOLY WAR. 
 
 The whife iU -. 
 
 leagured Mansoul, in tbe first place he hangs out 
 the white flag, which he caused to be set up ammig 
 the golden slings that were planted upon mount 
 Gracious. And this he did for two reasons: 
 1. To give notice to Mansoul, tliat he could and 
 would yet be gracious, if the}' turned to him. 2. 
 And ti»at he might leave them the more without exp- 
 ense, should he destroy them, they continuing in 
 their rebellion. 
 
 So the white flag, with the Three Golden Doves 
 on it, was hung out for two days together, to give 
 them time and space to consider. Bat they, as was 
 hiaied before, as if they were unconcerned, made 
 DO reply to the favourable signal of the Prince. 
 
 Thea he commanded, and thev set the red flaff 
 upon that mount called Justice. It was the red 
 flag of captain Judgment, v^hose escutcheon was 
 the Burning Fiery Furnace; also this stood waving 
 before them in the wind for several days together. 
 But look how they carried it under the white flag, 
 'when that was hung out, so did they also when the 
 red one was : and yet he took no advantage of 
 them. 
 
 Then he again commanded that his servants should 
 hangout the black flag of defiance against them, 
 ■whose escutcheon was the Three Burning Thunder- 
 bolts. But as unconcerned was ]Mansoul at this, 
 as at those that went before. But when the Prince 
 saw that neither mercy nor judgment, nor execution 
 of judgment, would or could come near the heart of 
 MansouLj he was touched f^'ith much cooipunctlon^ 
 
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HOLY WAlt. 109 
 
 The sinner's excuse. 
 
 and said. Surely this strange carriage of the town of 
 Mansoul doth rather arise from ignorance of the 
 manner and feats of war, than from a secret defi- 
 ance of us, and abhorrence cf their own lives ; or, 
 if the}' know the manner of the war of their own, yet 
 not the rites and ceremonies of the war in whi«h wc 
 are concerned, when I make wars upon mine enemy 
 
 DiABOLUS. 
 
 Therefore he sent to tlie town of Mansoul, to 
 let them know what he meant by those signs and 
 ceremonies of the flag; and also to know of them 
 which of the things they will chuse, whether grace 
 and mercy, or judgment, and the execution of 
 judgment. All this while they kept the gates shut 
 as fast as they could. Their guards were also 
 doubled, and their watch made as strong as they 
 could. DiABOLUS also plucked up what heart 
 be cojuld, to encourage the town to make resist- 
 ance. 
 
 The townsmen also made answer to ihe Prince's 
 messenger, in substance, according to that which 
 follows : 
 
 ' Great sir, as to what, by your messenger, you 
 
 * have signified to us, whether we will accept your 
 ' mercy, or fall by your justice; we are bound, bj 
 
 * the law and custom of this place, and can give 
 ' jou no positive answer : for it is against the law, 
 
 * government, and prerogative royal of our kins^, io 
 
 * make either peace or \Nar without him. But this 
 ' we will do, we will petition that our prince will 
 
 * come dovv^a to the wall, and there give you such 
 
104 HOLY WAR. 
 
 The speech of Diabolus. 
 
 ' treatment as he shall think fit and profitable for 
 
 • us/ 
 
 When the good Prince Emanuel heard this 
 answer, and saw the slavery and bondage of the 
 people;, and how contented they were to abide in the 
 chains of the tyrant Diabolus, it grieved him at 
 the heart. And indeed, when at any time he per- 
 ceived that any were contended with the slayery of 
 the giant, he would be affected with it. 
 
 But to return again to our purpose. After the 
 town had carried this news to Diabolus, and had 
 told him moreover, that the Prince, that lay in the 
 leaguer without the wall, waited upon them for an 
 answer ; he refused, and huffed as well as he could 
 "but in heart he was afraid. 
 
 Then said he, ' I will go down to the gates my- 
 
 • self, and give him such an answer as I tliink tit.* 
 So he went down to Mouth-gate, and there ad- 
 dressed himself to speak to Emanuel, (but in such 
 language as the town understood not), the contents 
 thereof were as follows: 
 
 ' O thou great Emanuel, Lord of the world, I 
 ' know thee, that thoa art the Son of the great 
 ' Shaddai ! Wherefore art thou come to torment 
 *^me and to cast me out of my possession? Thig 
 ' town of Mansoul, as thou very well knowestj is 
 
 • mine by right of conquest ; I won it in tne open 
 ' field : arid '' shaft the prey be taken Yrom the 
 " mighty, or the lawful captive delivered?" 2. 
 ' This town of Mansoul is mine also by their sub- 
 'jectioii. They have opened the gates of their 
 
HOLY WAR lOa 
 
 Satan claims the soul ushisom. 
 
 ' town unto me^ they have sworn fidelity to me, and 
 ' have openly chosen me to be their king. They 
 ' have also given their castle into my hands ; yea, 
 ' they have also put the whole strength of Man soul 
 ' under me. 
 
 * Moreover, this town of Mansoul hath dis- 
 ' avowed thee : yea, they have cast thy law, thy 
 ' name, thy image, and all that is thine, behind 
 ' their back ; and have accepted and set up in their 
 ' room, my law, my namo, my image, and all tl:at 
 
 * ever is mine. Ask also thy captains, and they will 
 ' tell thee, that Mansoul hath, in answer to all 
 'their summons, shewn love and loyalty to me; 
 ' but always disdain, despite, contempt, and scorn 
 ' to thee and thine. Now thou who art the Just 
 ' One and the Holy (and shouldest do no iniquity), 
 
 * depart then, I pray thee, from me, and leave me 
 
 * to my just inheritance peaceably.* 
 
 This oration was made in the language of Dijf- 
 BOLUS himself; for altho' he can to every man speak 
 in their own language (else he could not tempt 
 them as he does), yet he has a langiiage peculiar to 
 himself, and it is a language of the infernal cave^ csr 
 black pit. 
 
 Wherefore the (o^fn of Mansoul (poor hearts ! ) 
 understood him not: nor did they see how he 
 crouched and cringed while he stood before Ema- 
 nuel their Prince. Yea, they all this while took 
 him to be one of that power and force that by no 
 means could be resisted: wherefore while he was 
 
 thiLs intreating that he might have jet his resideuc<j 
 
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^^^ HOLY WAR. 
 
 Emani'el's speech to Satan. 
 
 *• » • - • • ■ — — 
 
 there, and that Emanuel would not take it from 
 him by force, the ii;habitants boasted even of his 
 valour, saying, Who is able to make war with 
 him ? 
 
 Well, when this pretended ki'ng had made an 
 end of what he would say, Emanuel the golden 
 Prince stood up and spake ; the contents of whose 
 words follow. 
 
 ' Thou deceiving oiie,' said he, ' I have m my 
 
 * Father's name, in my own name, and on the be- 
 
 * half and for the good of his wretched town of 
 ' Man^jouL;, somewhat to say unto thee. Thou 
 ' prelendest a right, a lawful right, to the deplor- 
 'able town of Mansoul, when it is most apparent 
 
 . ' to all my Father's court, that the entrance which 
 'thou hast obtained in at the gates of Mansoul 
 ' was thro' thy lies and falsehood: thou beliedstmy 
 ' Father, thou belicdst his law, and so dcceivedst 
 ^ the people of PvIansoul. Thou pretendest that the 
 ' people have accepted thee for their king, their cap- 
 ' tain, and right liege lord, but that also was by the 
 ' exercise of deceit and guile. Now if lying, wiliness, 
 / ginful craft, and all manner of horrible hypocrisy, 
 ' will go in ray Father's court, ( in which court thou 
 'inust be tried), for equity and right: then will I 
 ' confess unto thee, that thou hast maile a lawful 
 
 * conquest. But alas ! what thief, what tyrant, 
 ' what devil is there, that may not conquer after 
 ' this sort ? But I can make it appear, O Diabolus, 
 ' (hat thou in all thy pretences to a conquest of 
 ' MansolLj hast nothing of truth to say Think* 
 
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 Convicts Satan of fraud. 
 
 * est thou this to be right, that thou didst put tlie 
 ' lie upon my Father, and madcst him (,to ISIax- 
 ' soul) the gie:itcst deludor in the world ? And 
 ' what sayest thou to thy perverting, knowingly, the 
 ' right purport and intent of the law ? Was it 
 ' good also that thou madcst a prey of the innocen- 
 ' cj and simplicity of the now miserable town of 
 ' Mansoul ? Yea, thou didst overcome Man- 
 
 * SOUL, by promising to them happiness in their 
 ' transgressions against my Father's law, when thou 
 
 * knewest, and couldst not but know, badst then 
 ' consulted nothing but thy own experience, that 
 
 * that was the way to undo them. Thou hast also 
 ' (Othou master of enmity !) of spite defaced my 
 
 * Father's image in Mansoll, and set up thy own 
 
 * in its place ; to the great contempt of my Father 
 ' the heightening of thy sin, and to the intolerable 
 'damage of the perishing town of Mansoul. 
 
 ' Thou hast moreover (as if all these were bnt 
 
 * little things with thee) not only deluded and un- 
 ' done this place ; but by thy lies, and fraudulent 
 ' carriage hast set them against their own deliver- 
 
 * ance. IIow hast thou stirred them up against my 
 ' Father's captains, and made them to fight against 
 ' those that were sent of him to deliver them from 
 ' their bondage i All these things, and very many 
 ' more, thou hast done against thy light, and in con- 
 ' tempt of my Father, and his law : yea, and with 
 ' design to bring under his displeasure for ever the 
 
 * miserable town of Mansoul. I am therefore come 
 
 * to revenge the wrong that thou bast done to my 
 
m HOLY WAR. 
 
 Christ's right to the «oul of mau. 
 
 ' Father^ and to deal with thee for the blasphemies 
 'wherewith thou hast made poor Mansoul bias- 
 ' pherae his name ; yea, upon thy head, thou prince 
 ' of the infernal cave, will I require it. 
 
 ' As for myself, O Diabolus, I am come againjst 
 ' thee by lawful power ,• and to take, by strength of 
 
 * hands, this town of Mansoul out of thy burning 
 •fingers; for this town of Mansoul is mine, O 
 ' Diabolus, and that by undoubted right, as all 
 ' shall see that will diligently search the mostantient 
 ' and most authentic records, and I will plead my 
 
 * title to it to the confusion of thy face. 
 
 ' First, For the town of Mansoul, my Father 
 ' built and fashioned it with his hand. The palace 
 ' also that is in the midst of the town he built fojr 
 ' his own delight. This town of Mansoul, there- 
 'fore, is my Father's^ and that by the best of titles; 
 ' and he that gainsays the truth of this, must lie 
 
 * against his soul. 
 
 * Secondly, O thou master of the he, this town of 
 ' Mansoul is mine : 
 
 * 1 . For that I am my Father's heir, his first-born, 
 ' and the only delight of his heart.* I am there- 
 
 * fore come up against thee in mine own right, even 
 
 * to recover mine own inheritance out of thine 
 ' hands. 
 
 * 2. But further. As I have a right and title to 
 ' Mansoul by being my father's heir, so I have 
 
 * God hath in these, last days spoken unto us by his Son, whorp 
 he lia-tn appointed heir of all things, by whom also he made tiie 
 »^ orlds. Hob, i. 2. , 
 
IIOT.Y WAR. 100 
 
 He purchased it. 
 
 * also bv my Father's donation. His it was, and he 
 ' gave it mc ;* nor hare I at any time ofTended my 
 ' Father, that he should take it from me, and give 
 ' it to thee. Nor have I been forced, by phiyiiig 
 ' the bankrupt, to sell, or set to sale to thee my bfc- 
 
 * loved town of iVlANsouL.f Mansoul is my d^- 
 ' sire, my delight, and the joy of my heart. Bu?, 
 
 ' S. Mansoul is mine by right of purchase. I 
 
 * have bought it, O Diabolus, I have bought it for 
 
 * myself. Now since it was my Father's and mine, 
 ' as I was his heir, and since also I have made it, 
 ' mine by virtue of a great purchase, it folio wcth, 
 'that by all lawful right the town of Mansoul i« 
 ' mine ; and that thou art an usirrper, tyrant, 
 
 * and traitor, in thy holding possession thereof. 
 
 * Now the cause of my purchasing it was this * 
 ' Mansoul had trespassed against my Father. 
 
 * Now m}" Father had said^ that in the day that they 
 ' broke his law, they should die : now it is more 
 ' possible for heaven and earth to pass away, than 
 ' for my Father to break his word. J Wherefore 
 
 * when Mansoul had sinned indeed by hearkening 
 
 * I hare manifested thy name unto the men which thou gavestmo 
 out of the vrorhi : thine they were, and thou gavest them me. J ohu 
 XV ii. 6. 
 
 + Thus saith theLoRn, where is the bill of your mother's divorce- 
 ment, whom I have put away, or whichof my creditors to whom I 
 havesold you ? Behold, foryour iniquities have ye sold yourselves, 
 •ud for your transgi^essions is your mother put away. isa. I. 1. 
 
 J For verily I say unto you, Till heaven and earth jjass, one jot or 
 
 fne tittle shall in ao wisc'pass from the law, till all be fuliillod. 
 latt. V. 18. 
 
no HOLY wah. 
 
 Christ satisfies the Father's justirc. 
 
 * to thy lie^ I put in and becauie a surety to my 
 ' Father, body for body, and.soul for soul, tliat I 
 ' would make amends for Mansoul's transgressions 
 'and my Father accepted thereof. So when the 
 
 * firae appointed was come, I gave body for body, 
 
 * soulfor soul, life for life, blood for blood, and atV 
 
 * redeemed my beloved Mansoul. 
 
 * 4. Nor did 1 this by halves ; my Father's love 
 ' and justice, that were both concerned in the 
 ' threatening upon transgression, are both now 
 ' satisfied, and very well content that Mansoul 
 ' should be delivered. 
 
 ' 5. Nor am I come out this day against thee, 
 ' but by commandment from my Father ; 'twas he 
 ' that said -unto me. Go down and deliver Man- 
 
 ' SOUL. 
 
 ' Wherefore be it known unto thee, O thou foun- 
 ' tain of deceit, and be it also known t© the foolish 
 'town of Mansoul, that I am not come against 
 
 * thee this day witliout my Father. 
 
 ' And now, said the goiacn-neaded Prince^ I have 
 
 * a word to the town of Mansoul (but so soon as 
 
 * mention was made, that he had a word to speak to 
 
 * the besotted town of Mansoul, the ga(es were 
 ' double guarded, and all men commanded not tp 
 •^ give him audience); so he proceeded, and said., 
 ' O unhappy town of Mansoul, I cannot but be 
 ' souched with pity and compassion for thee. Thou 
 
 * Jjast accepted of Diabolus for Ihy king, and art 
 •become a nurse and minister of Diabolonians 
 ' against thy sovereign Lard. Thy gates tiiou hast 
 
HOLY WAR. Ill 
 
 _.i> * U L 
 
 His compassion to sinners. 
 
 * opened to him, but iiast shut them fast against me ; 
 ' thou Ijastgiveiihi n ahearing*, but hast stopped thjr 
 
 * ears to my cry ; he brought to thee thy destruc- 
 ' tion, and thou didst receive both him and it ; I 
 ' am come to the bringing salvalion, but thou re ; 
 
 * gqrdest me not. Besides, thou hast with sacrile- 
 
 * gious hands taken thyself, \\ ith all that was mine 
 
 * in thee, and hast given all to my foe, and to the 
 
 * greatest enemy my Father has. You have bowed 
 ' and subjected yourselves to him^ you have vowed 
 
 * and sworn yourselves to be his. Poor Mansoul '. 
 ' what shall I do unto thee ? Shall I save thee ? 
 'Shall I destroy thee.? What shall I do unto 
 ' thee ? Shall I fall upon thee, and grind thee to 
 
 * powder ; or make thee a monument of the richest 
 'grace? What shall I do unto thee? Hearken 
 
 * therefore, thou town of Mansoul, hearken to 
 ' my word, and thou shalt live. I am merciful, 
 ' Mansoul, and thou shalt find me so : shut me 
 ' not out of thy gates.* 
 
 ' O Mansoul, neither is my commission or in- 
 
 * cliuation at -all to do thee hurt : why fly est thou 
 •* so fast from thy friend, arid stickest so close to 
 ' thine enemy ? Indeed I would have thee, as it be- 
 ' c*mes thee, to be sorry for thy sin : but not to 
 'despair of life: this great force is not to hurt 
 
 • I sleep, but my lioart waketh : it is the roice of my bcIoTcl that 
 kaocketh, saying, Open to me, my sister, my love, my dove, my un. 
 defiled: for rny head isjilled with dew, and my locks, with the 
 4lrops of the night. Sol. Song ^. S. 
 
112 HOLY WAR. 
 
 The sinner refuses to hearken. 
 
 * thee, but to deliver thee from thy bondage, and to 
 
 * reduce thee to thy obedience. 
 
 * My commission indeed is, to make war upon 
 
 * DiABOLUs thy king, and upon all Diabolonians 
 ' with him, for he is the strong man armed that 
 ' keeps the house ; but I will have him out; his 
 
 * spoils I must divide, his armour I must take froHi 
 
 * him, his hold I must cast him out of, and must 
 
 * make it an habitation for mjself. And this, O 
 
 * Mansoul, shall Diabolus know, when he shall 
 ' fee made to follow rac in chains, and when Man- 
 
 * SOUL shall rejoice to see it too. 
 
 ^ I could, would I now put forth my might, cause 
 
 * that forthwith he should leave you, and depart; 
 'but I have it in my heart so to deal with himj, as 
 
 * that the justness of the war, that I shall make upon 
 
 * him, may be seen and acknowledged by all. He 
 
 * hath taken Mansoul by fraud, and keeps it by 
 
 * violence and deceit ; and I will make him bare 
 
 * and naked in the ejes of all observers. All ray 
 
 * words are true : I am mighty to save, and will de- 
 
 * liver my Mansoul out of his hand.' 
 
 This speech was intended chiefly for Mansoul, 
 but Mansoul would not have the hearing of it. 
 They shut up Ear-gate, they barricaded it up, 
 they kept it locked and bolted, they set a guard 
 thereat, and commanded that no Mansoulian 
 should go out to him, nor that any from the camp 
 should be admitted into the town ; all this they did, 
 so horribly had Diabolus inchanted them to do 
 and to do for him, against their rightful Lord and 
 
HOLY \V\n. 113 
 
 Another oUcr of mercy. 
 
 Prince ; wherefore no man^ nor voice, nor sound 
 of man that belonged to the glorious Itost, was to 
 tome into the town. 
 
 So when Emanuel saw thatMANsouL wa« thus 
 involved in sin, he called his army together (since 
 now all his words v.ere despised ), and gave out a 
 commandment throughout ail his hosts, to be ready 
 againstthetimeapj) inted. No^-^ forasmuch as there 
 was no way lawfully to take the town of Mansoul, 
 but to get in by the gales, and at EAU-GAXEas the 
 chief, therefore he commanded his captains and 
 commanders to bring their rams, their slings, and 
 their men, and place them at Eye-gate and Ear 
 GATE, in order tu his taking thetawn. 
 
 AVhen Emanuel had put all. things in readiness 
 to bid Di; BOLUS battle, he sent again to know of 
 Mansoul, if in peaceable manner they would 
 yield themselves, or whether tiiey n\ ere yet resolved 
 to put him to try the utmost exiremity ? The\ then/ 
 together with Diab'^lus the king, called a council 
 of war, and resolved upon certain propc^^itions that 
 should be offered Emanuel, if he w ill accept there- 
 of: so they agreed ; and then the next was wl^o 
 should be serit on this errgnd. Now there was in 
 the town of Mansoul an old man, a Diabolo- 
 NiAN, and his name was Mr. Loth-to-stoop ; a 
 stiff man in his way, and a great doer for Diaboll'S ; 
 him therefore they sent, and put into his mouth 
 what he should say. So he w\(nt, and came to the 
 ♦ amp tu Emanuel; and when he was come, a 
 time was appointed to give him aud'euee. So al 
 
 J? 
 
iU' HOLY ^AR. 
 
 Sinners attempt to compromise with Gooi 
 
 (lie time he came-; and after a Diabolonivn 
 ceremony or two, he thus began, and said^ ' Great 
 ' Sir, that it may be known unto all men^ hovr 
 ' good-natured a prince my master is, he hath sent 
 ' me to tell your lordship, thd,t he is very wil- 
 
 * ling, rather tiian go to war, to deliver up into 
 ^ your hands one half of the town of Mansoul.* 
 
 * I am therefore to know if your Mightiness willac- 
 ' cept ortliis proposition,' 
 
 Then said Emanuel, ' The whole is mine by 
 
 * gift and ourchase, wherefore I will never lose one 
 ' half.' 
 
 Then said Mr. Loth-to-stoop, ' Sir, my mas- 
 ' ter hath said that he will be content that jou shall 
 ' be the nominal and titular Lord of all, if he may 
 
 * possess but a part.' 
 
 Then Emanuel answered, *^ The whole is mine 
 ' really, not in name and word only; wherefore I 
 *. will be the sole lord and possessor of all, or of 
 ' none at all, in Mansoul.' 
 
 Then Mr. Loth-to-stoop said again, ' Sir, he- 
 ' hold the condescension of my master ! He says, 
 'he will be content if he may have assigned to hiui 
 ' some place in Mansoul, as a place to live pri- 
 ' vately in, and you shall be lord of all the rest.* 
 
 Then said the golden Prince, " All that the Fa- 
 " ther giveth me shall come to me ;" and of all that 
 
 * Tlioy profess that they know Godj but in works they dojiy 
 fiira, being abominable and disobedient, and unto every good vv orjs 
 jf^j^robatc, Tit. i. 16. 
 
MOLY WAR. 115 
 
 Sin must be totally banished. 
 
 ' ho hath given me I ^vill lose nothing, no not a 
 ' hoof nor a hair ; I will not therefore grant him, no 
 ' not the least corner in Mansoul to dwell XQ, I 
 ' will have all to myself. 
 
 Then Loth-to-stoop said again, ' But, sir, sup- 
 ' pose that my lord should resign the whole town to 
 ' you only with this proviso^, that he sometimes, 
 ' when ho comes into this country^ nia.y^ for old ac- 
 
 * qnaintance sake, be entertained as a way-faring 
 ' man for two days, or ten days^ or a month, or so ; 
 ' may not tliis small matter be granted .'*' 
 
 Then said Emanuel, ' No. He came as a way- 
 
 * faring man to David, nor did he stay long with 
 ' him, and yet it had like to have cost David his 
 ' »oul.* I will not consent that he ever should have 
 ' any harbour more there.' 
 
 Then said Mr. Loth-to-stoop, ' Sir, you seem 
 ' to be very hard. Suppose my master should yield 
 ' to all thatyour lordship hath said, provided that his 
 ' friends and kindred in Mansoul may have liberty 
 ' to trade in the town, and to enjoy their present 
 ' dwellings, may not that be granted, sir ?' 
 
 Then said Emanuel, ' No; that is contrary to 
 ' my Father's will. f For all, and all manner of 
 
 * Andthtre cams a traTeller unto the rich man : and he spared 
 to take of his own flock, and of his own herd, to dress for the wa\ . 
 faring man that was come unto him ; but took the poor tnan'a 
 lamb, aad dressed it for the man that was come to hir^. S Sam. 
 xii. 4. 
 
 t Neither yield yc your mimbers as instrurarnts of unrighteoufc 
 ressiint(j sin: but yield yO'Urselves unto God as those that are ."^lire 
 from the d::ad, an(i your members as jnstfumeais oJ righteoiijB«sS 
 
J 16 hOLY WAR. 
 
 No fellowship allowed with sin. 
 
 ' DiABOLONiANs that now are, or Ihal at any time 
 ' shall be found in Mansoul, shall not only lose 
 
 * their lands and liberties, but also their lives.' 
 
 Then said Mr. Loth-to-stoop again, ' But, sir, 
 ' may not ray master and great lord, by letters, 
 ' bj passengers, by -accidental opportunities, and 
 
 * the like, maintain, if he shall deliver up all unto 
 ' thee, some kind of old friendship with Man^ 
 
 ' SOUL.' 
 
 Emanuex answered, 'No, by no means; for- 
 
 * asmuch as any fellowship, friendship, intimacy, or 
 ' acquaintance, in what way, sort, or mode soever 
 
 * maintained, will tend to the corrupting of Man- 
 ' SOUL, the alienating of their affections from me, 
 ' and the endangering their peace with my Fa- 
 ' ther.' 
 
 Mr. LoTH-TO-STOop yet added further, saying, 
 ' But, great sir, since my master hath many friends, 
 
 * and those that are dear to him in Mansoul, may 
 ' he not, if he depart from them, even of his bounty 
 ' and good nature, bestow upon them, as he sees fit, 
 ' some token of his love and kindness that he had 
 ' foi* them, to the end that Mansoul, when he is 
 
 * gone, may look upon such tokens of kindness 
 ' once received from their old friend, and remember 
 ' him who was once their king, and the merry time* 
 
 UQto God. Rom. vi. 13. Mortify, therefore, your members which 
 are upon fht- earth; fornication, uneleaaaess, inordinate afl'cction, 
 €wil concUj'isccnce, andcovetousness, which is idolatry. Col. iii, i. 
 And thuy that are Christ's have crucified the flesh, with tbeaffe^e* 
 lions and lusts. Gal. t. 94. 
 
TIOLY WAR. 117 
 
 Nor rcmemSrance of (-oainiuiiion with S at* N. 
 
 ' that tliej sometimes enjoyed one with another, 
 ' while he and tiiev lived in peace together.'* 
 
 Then said Emanuel, * No ; for if Mansoul 
 ' come to be mine, I shall not admit of, nor c«>n- 
 
 * sent that there should he the least scrap, shred, or 
 'dust of DiABOLUS left behind, as tokens or giOs 
 ' bestowed upon any in Mansoul, thereby to call 
 ' to remembrance the horrible commuuion that \%as 
 
 * betwixt them and him.* 
 
 'Well, sir/ said Mr. Loth-to-stoop, ' I have 
 
 * one thing more (o propound, and then lam got 
 ' to the cud of my commission. Suppose that 
 
 * when my master is gone from Mansoul, ar.y 
 'that yet shall live in the town, shall havesutli 
 
 * business of high concerns to do, that if they be 
 'neglected, the party shall be undone : andsup- 
 ' pose, sir, that nobody can help in that case so 
 'well as my master and lord; may not now my 
 ' master be sent for upon so urgent an occasion 
 ' as this ?t Or if he may not be admitted into 
 ' the town, may not he and the person concerned 
 ' meet in some of the villages near Mansoul, and 
 ' there Iny their heads together, and there consult 
 ' together ?' 
 
 This was the last of those ensnaring propositions 
 that Mr. Loth-to-stoop had to propound to Ema- 
 
 • Letnot sin therefore reign in your mortal body, that ye should 
 •bey it in the lusts thi'reof. Rom. vi. 1*2. 
 
 t But the angt'l of i\\o Lord said unto Klijah thcjishbitc, Arise, 
 go up to meet the messengers of the V\\\^ of Samaria, ami say \\\\. 
 to thtm, Is it not btcausc there is not a God in Israel, that ye ga 
 toeu(p>re of Baalzebuli the god of Ekron ? 1 Kings i. 3. 
 
ns HOLY WAR. 
 
 AIJ wisdom given us of Goo. 
 
 NUEL on behalf of his master Diabolus : but 
 Emanlel would not grant it ; for he said there can 
 be no case, or thing, or matter, fall out ia Man- 
 soul, when thy master shall be gone, that may not 
 be solved by my Father.* Besides, It will be a great 
 disparagement to my Fathier's wisdom and skill', to 
 admit any from Mansoul to go out to I)i_abolus 
 for advice, when they arc bid before, in every thing, 
 by prayer and supplication, to let their request be 
 made known to my Father. Further, this, should it 
 be granted, would be to grant that a door should 
 be open for Diabolonians in Mansoul, to hatch 
 and plot and bring to pass treasonable designs, to 
 the grief of my Father and Me, and to the utter de- 
 struction of Mansoul. 
 
 When Mr. Loth-to-stoop had heard this an- 
 swer, he took his leave of Emanuel, and d parted, 
 saying, that he would carry word to his master con- 
 cerning this whole affair. So he 'departed, and 
 came to Diabolus in Mansoul, and told hiui 
 the whole of the matter ; and how Emanuel 
 would not admit, no not by any means, that he, 
 when he was once gone out, should ever have any 
 
 * AndSamuel said to Saul, Why hast thou disquieted me to bring 
 me up? And Saul answered, I am sore distressed ; for the Philis- 
 fines make war agaius^ me, and God is .departed from mc, and aus- 
 werelh racno more, neiihur by prophets, nor by dreams: there, 
 fore I have callud thee, that thou raayest make known unto me 
 what I shall do. 1 Sam. xxviii. 15. 
 
 + And Ahaziah fell dovrn through a lattice in his upper chamber 
 thit was ia Samaria, and was sick : and he s<>nt messengers, and 
 .said unto them. Go, inquire of Baalzebub the god of Ekron, whe» 
 thjr I shall recover ^i this disease. 2 Kings i. -<;. 
 
HOLY WAR, no 
 
 The &innei defies Christ. 
 
 thing more to do either in, or with any that are of 
 the town of Mansoul. When Mansoul and Di- 
 ABOLus had heard this relation of things, they with 
 one consent concluded to use their beat endeavours 
 to keep Emanuel out of Mansoul ; and sent old 
 Ill-pause, of whom you have heard before, to 
 tell the Pri!K.e and liis captains so. So the old 
 genlleman cd^ne up to the top of Ear-gate, ai^.d 
 called lo the camp for a hearing; who when thejr 
 gave audience, he said, ' I have in commandment 
 ' from my high lord to bid you tell it to your 
 ' Prince Emanuel, that Mansoul and their king 
 *■ are resofved to stand and fall together, and that it 
 ' is in vain for youi Prince to think of ever having 
 ' Mansoul in his hand, unless he can take it 
 ' by force.' So some went and told Emanuel 
 what old Ill-pause, a Diabolonian in Mansoul, 
 had" said. Then said the Prince, I must try 
 the power of my sword,* for I will not ( for all the 
 rebellions and repulses that Mansoul has made 
 against me) raise my siege and depart, but will as- 
 suredly take my Mansoul, and deliver it from her 
 enemy. And with that he gave out a command- 
 ment, that captain Boanerges, captain Convic- 
 tioN, captain Judgment, and captain Execution, 
 should niarch forthwith up to Ear-gate, with trum- 
 pets soundiog, colours flying, and with shouting for 
 ihe battle. Also he would that captgin Credence 
 
 • Aud take tlie helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit, 
 wlucli is the word of God. Eph. yi. 17. 
 
m nOLY WAR. 
 
 A violent attaclc. 
 
 ehould join himself iii with them ; Emanuel more- 
 over gave orders that captain Good-hope and cap- 
 tain Charity should draw themselves up before 
 Eye-gate. He bid also that the rest of his cap- 
 tains and their men should place themselves to the 
 best of their advantage against the enemy, round 
 about the tovs^n, and all wasdoneashe commanded. 
 Then he bid that the word should be given firth, 
 and the word was at that time EMANUEL. Then 
 was an alarm sounded, and the battering-rams were 
 played, and the slings w hitled stones into the town 
 amain: and thus the battle began. Now Diabo- 
 Lus himself managed the townsmen in the war, and 
 that at every gate ; wherefore their resistance was 
 the more forcible, hellish, and ofl'ensive to Ema- 
 nuel. Thus was the good Prince engaged and en- 
 tertained by Diabolus and Mansoul for several 
 days together ; and a sight worth seeing it was, to 
 behold how the captains of Shaddai behaved them- 
 selves in the war. 
 
 And first for captain Boanerges (not to under- 
 Taluethe rest), he made three most fierce assault^, 
 one after another^ upon Ear-gate, to the shaking of 
 the posts thereof. Captain Conviction also made 
 up as (2it with Boanerges as possibly he could ; 
 and both discerning that the gate began to yield, 
 they commanded that the rams should still be play- 
 ed against it. Now captain Conviction going u^ 
 very near to the gate, was with great force driven 
 backj and wceived three wounds in his mouth; aad 
 
HOLY WAR. Kl 
 
 The effects of the Tiatflc. 
 
 tlrvse that rode reformades, went about to encourage 
 the captains. 
 
 For the valour of the two captains, tnade mention 
 of before, the Prince sent for them to his pa-vilion ; 
 and commanded that awhile they should rest them- 
 selves, and that with somewhat they should be re- 
 freshed. Care was also taken for cuptain Convic- 
 tion, that he should be healed of his wounds : the 
 Prince also gave tliem a chain of gold, and bid thefti 
 yet be of good courage. 
 
 Nor did captain Gooft-MopE nor captain Chari- 
 ty come behind in this most desperate fight, for th^y 
 too so behaved themselves at Eye-gate, that they 
 had almost broken it quite open. These had also » 
 rcw ard from their Prince, as also had the rest of the 
 captains, because they did valiantly round about 
 the town. 
 
 In this engagement, several of the officers of 
 DiABOLUS were slain, and some of the townsmen 
 wounded, for among the officers there was one cap- 
 tain Boasting slain. This Boasting thought that 
 nobody could have shaken the post of Ear-gate, 
 nor have shaken the heart of Diabolus. Next to 
 him there was one captain Secure slain ; this Se* 
 Cure used to say, that the blind and lame in Man* 
 SOUL were able to keep the gates of the town ag-ainit 
 Emanuel's army.* This captain Secure did 
 
 ••■»^^».. *i . 1 - I - . - i - i i- .. ■ T i r ■irnr in- i i l afc 
 
 5 And t'-o king and his men went to Jenisait'm unto the JebusiteSj 
 the inhaiataiUs of rhclaad: which spake urito David, saying, El* 
 cept thou take away the. blind and (he lame thou shalt not come in 
 hither ; thinking, David cannot come in hither. % Sam. T..0,. 
 
J22 HOLY WAR. 
 
 The dcstriiction of some^of the sinner's forces. 
 
 captain Conviction cleave down the head with a 
 two-handed sword, when ho himself received three 
 wounds in the mouth. 
 
 Besides, there was one captain Brag man, a 
 very desperate fellow, and he was captain over 
 a band of those that threw firebrands, arrows, and 
 death : he also received by the hand of captain 
 Good-hope at Eye-gate a mortal wound in the 
 breaot. 
 
 There was also one Mr. Feeling, hut he was no 
 captain, but a great stickler to encourage Mansocl 
 to rebellion ; he received a wound in the eye by the 
 hand of one of Boanerges's soldiers, and had by 
 the captain himself been slain, but that he made a 
 sudden retreat. 
 
 But I never saw Will-be-will so daunted in 
 all mv life; he was not able to do as he was wont: 
 and some say, he also received a wound in the leg, 
 and that some of the men in the Prince's army had 
 certainly seen him limp as he afterwards walked &a 
 the wall. 
 
 I shall not give you a particular account of the 
 names of the soldiers that were maimed, wounded, 
 and slain: for when they saw the posts of Ear- 
 gate shook, and Eye-gate was well nigh broken 
 quite open ; and also their captains were slain ; 
 this took away the hearts of many of the Diaboeo- 
 NIANs, so that they fell also by the force of the shot 
 that were sent by the golden slings into the midst of 
 <he town of Mansoul. 
 Of the townsmen, there was one „Love-no- 
 
HOLY \V.\U. 123 
 
 Satan's pile. 
 
 good; he was a townsman but a Diabolonian ; 
 he also received his mortal wound in Mansoul, 
 bu-t he died not very soon, 
 
 Mr, Ill-pause also, who came along with Dia- 
 BOLUs when at first lie attempted the taiving- of 
 Mansoul, received a grievous wound in the head ; 
 »ome say that his brain-pan was cracked : this I have 
 taken notice of, that he was never after this able to 
 do (hat mischief to Mansoul as he had done in 
 times past. Also old Prejudice and Mr. Ant* 
 THING fled. 
 
 Now when the battle was over, the Prince com- 
 manded that yet once more the white flag; should be 
 set upon mount Gracious, in sight of the town of 
 Mansoul; to shew that yet Emanuel had grace 
 for the wretched town of Mansoul, 
 
 When Diabolus saw the white flag hung out 
 again, and knowing that it was not for him, but 
 Mansoul ; he cast in his mind to play another 
 prank, to wit, to see if Emanupl would raise his 
 siege and be gone, upon promise of reformation} 
 So he went down to the gate one evening, a good 
 while after the sun was gone down, and called to 
 speak with Emanuel ; who presently came down 
 to the gate, and Diabolus saith unto him : 
 
 ' Forasmuch as thou makest it appear by the 
 ' white flag, that thou art wholly given to peace 
 ' and quiet ; I thought meet to acquaii^t thee, that 
 ' we are ready to accept thereof upon terms whieli 
 * thou mayest admit.' 
 
 * I know that thoU art given to devotion, and 
 
IH HOLY WAU. 
 
 Satan can transform himself into anangd of light. 
 
 ' that holiness pleases thee ; yea, that thy great end 
 ' in making a war upon Mansoul, is, that it may 
 ' be an holy habitation. Well, draw off thy forces 
 ' from the town, and I will bend Mansoui- to. thy 
 
 * bow. 
 
 ' First, I will lay down all actsof hostility against 
 ' thee, and will be willing to become thy deputy ; 
 ' ^nd will, as I have formerly been against thee, now 
 ' serve thee in the town of Mansoul. And more 
 ' particularly.' 
 
 ' 1. I will persuade Mansoul to receive thee 
 ' for their lord ; and I know that they will do it 
 ' sooner, when they shall understand that I am thy 
 
 * deputy. 
 
 ' 2. I will shew them wherein they have erred, 
 ' and that transgression stands m the way to life. 
 
 * 3. I will shew them the holy law unto which 
 
 * they must conform, even that which they have 
 ' broken. 
 
 '41 ^"^ill press upon them the neceisity of a re- 
 
 * formation, according to law. 
 
 ' 5. And moreover, that none of these things may 
 
 * fail, I myself, at my own proper cost and charge, 
 ' will set up and maintain a sufficient ministry, b^" 
 
 * sides lectures in Mansoul. 
 
 * 6. Thou slialt receive, as a token of our sub- 
 ' jection to thee, continually year by year, what thou 
 
 * shalt think fit to lay and levy upon us in token of 
 
 * such suojecfioa.' 
 
 Then said Emanuel to him, ' O full of deceit, 
 ' how moveable are thy ways ! How often hast 
 
HOLY WAR. 1» 
 
 Is detected by Emanuel. 
 
 ' thou changed and re-changed, if so be thou 
 ' mightest still keep possession of my Mansoul ! 
 ' though, as haibeeii plainly declared before, I am 
 ' the right heir thereof. Often hast thou made thjr 
 ' proposals already, nor is this last a whit better thaa 
 
 * thev. And failing to deceive when thou shewedit 
 ' thyself in thy black, thou hast now transforaied 
 'thyself into an angel of light,* and wouldst, to 
 
 * deceive, be now as a minister of righteousness. 
 
 ' But know thou, O Diabolus, that nothing 
 ' muet be regarded that thou canst propound, for 
 ' nothing 's done by thee but to deceive; thou nei- 
 ' ther hast conscience to God, nor love to the town 
 ' of Mansoul; whence then should these thy. say- 
 ' ings arise, but from sinful craft and deceit ? He 
 
 * that can list and will propound what he pleases, and 
 ' that therewith he may destroy them that believe 
 ' him, is io be abteindoned with all that he shall say. 
 ' But if righteousnessbe such a beauty -spot in thine 
 
 * eyes now, hov*^ is it that wickedness was so closely 
 ' stuck to by thee before ? But this by the by. 
 
 * Thou talkest now of a reformation in Man- 
 ' SOUL, and that thou thyself, if I please, will be at 
 ' the head of that reformation ; all the while know- 
 ' ing, that the greatest proficiency man can make 
 ' in the law, and the righteousness thereof, will 
 ' amount to no more, for the taking away the curac 
 'from Mansoul, than just nothing at all ; for a 
 
 * And no marvel : for Satan hitnself was transformt;d iatoau 
 angel of light. 2 Cor. xi.i4. 
 
rSB HOLY WAR. 
 
 No union between ChrisiT and Saian. 
 
 * law being broken by Mansoul, that had before, 
 ' upon a supposition of the breach thereof, a curse 
 ' pronounced against him for it of God, can never, 
 
 * by his obejing* the law, deliver himself therefrom. 
 
 * ( To saj nothing of what a reformation is like to be 
 
 * set up in Mansoul, when the devil is become the 
 
 * corrector of vice ) . Thou knowest that all that 
 
 * thou hast now said in this matter is nothing but 
 
 * guile and deceit ; and as it was the first, so is it the 
 
 * last card thou hast to play. Many there be that 
 ' discern thee, when thou she west them thy clo\en 
 'foot; but in thy white, in thy light, and in thy 
 
 * transformation, thou art seen but of a few. But 
 
 * thou shalt not do thus with my Mansoul, O Di- 
 ' ABOLUs, for I do still love my Mansoul. 
 
 'Besides, I am not come to put Mansoul upon 
 
 * works, to live thereby ; should I do so I should be 
 
 * like unto thee ; but I am come, that by me, and by 
 
 * what I have and shall do for Mansoul, they may 
 
 * be reconciled to my Father, though by their sin 
 'they have provoked him to anger, and though by 
 ' the law they caimot obtain mercy. 
 
 'Thou talkcstofsubjectingthistown to good when 
 
 * none desireth it at thy hands. 1 am sent by my 
 ' Father to possess it myself, and to guide it, by the 
 ' skilfulness of my hands, into such a conformity to 
 
 * hiai as shall be pleasing in his sight. 1 will thcre- 
 ' fore possess it myself: I will dispossess and cast 
 
 * thee out: 1 will set up mine own standard in the 
 
 * mi-dst of them ; I will also govern them by new 
 
 * lawsj new oilicers, new motives, and new wavs; 
 
fioLY WAii. is: 
 
 New preparations for war. 
 
 • yea, I will pull down this town, and build it again, 
 ' and it shall be as though it h:id not been, and it 
 
 * shall be the glory of the wliole universe/ 
 
 When DiABOLi s heard tliis, and perceived tjiat 
 he was di3covered in all his deceits, he was con- 
 founded, and utterly put to a non-plus ; but having 
 in himself the fountain of iniquity, rage, and maliro 
 acrainst both Sh.\ddai and his Son, and the beloved 
 town of Mansoul, what doth he but strengthen 
 himself what he could to give fresh battle to the 
 Doble prince Emanuel. So then, now he must 
 have another fight before the town of Mansoll is 
 taken. Come up then to the mountains, yon that 
 love to see military actions, and behold by bath 
 sides how the futal blow is given ; wiiile one seeks 
 to hold, and the other seeks to lualce hinself master 
 of, the famous town of Mansoul. 
 . DiABOLus therefore withdrew himself from the 
 walls to his fort that was in the heart of the town of 
 Mansoul; Emanuel also returned to tlie camp; 
 a«id both of them, afier their divers ways, put them- 
 selves into a posture fit to give battle oae to another. 
 
 I)i ABOLUS, as filled with despair of retaining in his 
 liand the famous town of Mansoul, resolved to do 
 what mischief he could ( if indeed he could do any) 
 to the army of the Prince, and to the famous town 
 of Mansoul, for alas ! it was not the happiness of 
 the silly town of Mansoul that was designed by 
 DiABOLUS,butthe utter ruin and overthrow thereof, 
 as novi' is enough in view. Wherefore he commanda 
 tiis officers that they should then, when thev saw 
 
ISB HOLY WAR. 
 
 Ear-gate broken open. 
 
 that they could hold the town no longer, do it what 
 harm and mischief they could, reiMliug and tearing 
 men, women, and children ; for, said he, We had 
 better quite demolish the place, and leave it a ruin- 
 ous heap, than that it should be an habitation fot 
 Emanuel. 
 
 Emanuel again, knovNlng that the next battle 
 would issue in his being made master of the place, 
 gave out a royal commandment to all his officers, 
 high captains, and men of war, to be sure to she\t 
 themselves men of war against Diabolus, and all 
 DiABOLONiANS ; but favourable, merciful', and 
 meek to the old inhabitants of Mansoul. Bend 
 therefore, said the noble Prince, the hottest front of 
 thebattleagainst DiABOLUs and his men. 
 
 So the day being come, the command was given, 
 and the Prince's men stood bravely to their arms ; 
 nor did, as before, bend their forces against Ear- 
 gate and Eve-gate. 'J'he word was then, Man^ 
 soul is won : so they made their assault upon the 
 town. Diabolus also, as fast as he could, with tlie 
 main of his power, made resistance from within, 
 and his high lords and chief captains for a time 
 fought very cruelly against Uie Pf inte'g army. 
 
 But after three or four notable charges by the 
 Prince and his noble captains, Ear-Gate was broke 
 open, and the bars and bolts, wherewith it used to 
 be fast shut up against the prince, were broken into 
 a thousand pieces. Then did the Prince's trumpets 
 sound, the captains shout, the town shake, and Di^ 
 ABOLUs retreat to his hold. M'ell, when the Prince '* 
 
HOLY WArt. 199 
 
 The town taken. 
 
 forces had broke open the gate, himself came up, 
 and did set np his throne in it; also lie set Iiis 
 standard near it, upon a mount that his men had 
 before cast up to place the mighty slin2:s thereon. 
 The mount was called mount Hear-well ; there 
 therefore the Prince abode, to wit, hard bj the 
 going in at the gate. He commanded also that the 
 golden slings should yet be played upon the town, 
 especially against the castle, because for shelter 
 thither was Diabolus retreated. Now from Ear- 
 gate the street was straight, even to the house of 
 him who was the recorder before Diabolus took the 
 town ; and hard by his house stood the castle, 
 which Diabolus for a long time had made his irk- 
 some den. The captains therefore quic kly cleared 
 the street by the use of their slings, so that way was 
 made up to the heart of the tow n. Then the Prince 
 commanded that captain Boanerges, captain Con- 
 viction, and captain Judgmepjt, should forthwith 
 march up the town to the old gentleman's gate. 
 Then did the captains in most warlike manner enteC 
 into the town of Mansoul, and marching in with 
 flying colours, they came up to the recorder's house 
 (and that was almost as strong as the castle). Bat- 
 tering rams they took also with them, to plant 
 against the castle-gates. When they were come to 
 ihc house of Mr. Conscience, they knocked, and 
 demanded entrance. Now the old gentleman, not 
 knowing as yet fully their design, kept his gates shut 
 all the time of this fight. Wherefore Boanerges 
 d{'/:ia!iiled enlrauce.at his gates ; and no man mak- 
 
 K 
 
ISy HOLY WAR. 
 
 Conscience awakened. 
 
 ing answer, he gave it one stroke vith tl.e head of 
 a ram^ and this made the old gentleman shake, and 
 his house tremble and totter. Then came Mr. Re- 
 corder down to the gate, and as w ell as he could, 
 with quivering lips^, he asked vt^ho was there ? Boa- 
 nerges answered. We are the captains and com- 
 manders of the great Shaddai, and of the blessed 
 Emanue.l his son, and we demand possession of 
 your house for the use of our noble prince. And 
 with that the battering ram gave the gate another 
 shake : this made the old gentleman tremble the 
 more, yet durst he not but open the gate : then the 
 King's forces marched in, namely, the three brave 
 captains mentioned before. Now the recorder's 
 house was a place of much convenience for Ema- 
 nuel, not only because it was near and fronted the 
 castle, the den where now Diabolus was; for he 
 was now afraid to come out of his hold, As for 
 Mr, Recorder, the captains carried it very reserv- 
 edly to him : as yet he knew nothing of the great 
 designs of Emanuel ; so that he did not know what 
 judgment to make, nor what would be the end of 
 such thundering beginnings. It was noised in the 
 town, how the recorder's house was possessed, his 
 rooms taken up, and his palace made the seat of 
 war ; and no sooner was it noised abroad but they 
 took the alarm as warmly and gave it out to others 
 of his friends ; and as you know a snow-hall loses 
 nothing by rolling, so in a little time the whole town 
 was possessedthattheymust expect nothing from the 
 Prince but destruction ; and the ground of the busi- 
 
HOLY WAR. ISI 
 
 M rites biUerfhing;s against tlie siouer. 
 
 iicss was this, the recorder frcnsbled, and the cap- 
 tains carried it strangely to hini : so many came to 
 sec ; but when they with their own eyes beheld the 
 captains in the palace and their battering-rams ever 
 played at the castle-gates to beat them down, they 
 w ere riveted in their fears, and it made them as in 
 amaze. And, as I said, the man of the house would 
 increase all this ; for whoever came tohira, or dis- 
 coursed with him, nothing would he talk of, tell 
 them, or hear, but that death and destruction oow 
 attended Mansoul. 
 
 ' For (quoth the old gentleman) you arc all of 
 ' you sensible that we have all been traitors to that 
 ' once despised, but now famously victorious aud 
 ' glorious Prince Emanuel ; for he now, as you 
 ' see, doth not only lie in close siege about us, but 
 ' hath forced his entrance in at our gates ; moreover 
 
 * DiABOLus flies before him ; and he hath, as you 
 
 * behold, made of my house a garrison against the 
 
 * castle, where he is. I for my part have trans- 
 
 * gressed greatly ; and he that is clean, it is well 
 ' for him. But I say, I have transgressed greatly, 
 ' in keeping silence, when I should have spoken ; 
 ' and in perverting justice, when I should have cx- 
 ' ecuted the same. True, I have suffered some- 
 ' thing at the hands of Diabolus, for takingparl 
 ' with the laws of king Shaddai ; but that, alas ! 
 
 * what will that do ! Will that make compensation 
 ' for the rebellions and treasons that 1 have done, 
 ' and have suffered, without gainsaying, to be com- 
 
]S2 HOLY WAR. 
 
 Execution begins his work. 
 
 ' mitted in the town of Mansoul ? O I tremble 
 ' to think what will be the end of this so dreadful 
 ' and so ireful a beginning !' 
 
 Now Vv'hile these brave captains were tbiis buGj 
 in the house of the old recorder, captain Execu- 
 tion v/as as busj' in other parts of the town, in se- 
 curing the back-streets and the walls. He also 
 hunted the lord Will-be-will sorelv, and suiTcred 
 him not to rest in any corner. He pursued so hard 
 that he drove his men from him, and made him glad 
 to thrust his head into a hole. Also this mighty 
 warrior cut three of lord Will-be-will's oflicers 
 down to the ground ; one was old Mr. Prejudice 
 he that had his crown cracked in the mutiny ; this 
 man was made, by my lord Will-be-will, keeper 
 of Ear-gate, and fell by the hand of captain Ex- 
 ecution. There was also one Mr. Backward-tot 
 ALL-BUT-NAUGHT, aud he slso was one of the lord 
 Y/ill-be-will's officers, and was the captain of 
 the two guns that once were mounted on the top 
 of Ear-gate ; he also was cut down to the ground 
 by the hands of captain Execution. Besides these 
 two, there was another, a third, and his name was 
 captain Treacherous, a vile man this was, but one 
 that WiL« ?.E-wiLL put a great deal of confidence 
 in ; but him also did this captain Execution cut 
 down to the ground with the rest. He also made a 
 very great slaughter among my lord Will-be- 
 will's soldiers, killing many that were stout and 
 sturdy, and wounding many tliat for Diabolus 
 
HOLV WAR. 133 
 
 Many &in$ destroyed 
 
 vvere nimble and active. But all these were Diabo- 
 r^oNiANs ; there was not a man, a native of Man- 
 soul, hurt. 
 
 Other feats of war were likewise performed by 
 otlier of the captains^ as at Eye-gate, where cap- 
 tain Good-hope and captain Charity had a 
 charge, was great execution done ; for captain 
 Good-hope, with his own hands, slew one captaia 
 Blind-fold, the keeper of this gate .' this Blind- 
 fold was captain of a thousand men, and they were 
 they that fought with mauls ; he also pursued his 
 men, slew many, and wounded many more, and 
 made the rest hide their heads m corners. 
 
 There was also at that gate Mr. Ill-pause, of 
 whom you have heard before ; he was an old man, 
 and had a beard that reached down to his girdle: 
 the same was he that was orator to Diabolus : he 
 did much mischief in the town of Mansoul, and 
 fell by the hands of captain Good-hope. 
 
 What shall I say ? The Diabolians in these 
 days lay dead in every corner, though too many yet 
 were alive in Mansoul. 
 
 Now the old recorder, and my lord Under- 
 standing with some otlicrs of the chief of the 
 town, to wit, such as knew they must stand or fall 
 with the famous town of Mansoul, came together 
 upon a day, and, after consultation had, jointly 
 agreed to draw up a petition and send it to Ema- 
 nuel, now while he sat in the gate of Mansoul. 
 So they drew up their petition to Emanuel, the 
 contents whereof -were these : ' That, they the old 
 
iSk HOLY WAR. 
 
 Satan's strong hold beaten down. 
 
 * inhabitants of the deplorable town of Mansoul, 
 
 * confessed their sin, and were sorry that they had 
 ' offended his princely majesty, and prayed that 
 ' be would spare their lives. 
 
 Unto this petition he gave no answer at all, and 
 that troubled tliem yet so much the more. Now 
 aill this while tlie captains that were in the recorder's 
 bouse were playing with the battering-rams at the 
 gates of the castle, to beat them down. So after 
 some timC:, labour, and travail, the gate of the castle 
 which was called Impregnable was beaten open, 
 and broken into several splinters, and so away was 
 made to go into the hold in which Diabolus had 
 hid himself. Then were tidings sent down to Ear* 
 GATE, for Emanuel still abode there, to let him 
 kjjow that a way was made in at the gates of the 
 eastle of Mansoul. But O how the trumpets 
 il the tidings sounded throughout the Prince's 
 can^p, for that now the war was so near an endj and 
 Mansoul itself of being set free ! 
 
 Then the Prince arose from the place where he 
 was, and took with him such of his men of war as 
 were fittest for the expedition, and marched up the 
 streets of Mansoul to the old recorder's house. 
 
 Now the Prince himself was clad all in armour 
 «yf gold, and so he marched up the town with his 
 standard borne before him ; but he kept his coun- 
 if^nance much reserved all the way as he went, so 
 that (he people could not tell how to gather to them- 
 selves love or hatred by his looks. Now as he march- 
 ed upthestreeta the townsfulkcame out at every door 
 
HOLY WMl. 1S5 
 
 The fears of the soul. 
 
 to sec, and could not but betaken with his person, 
 and the glory thereof, but wondered at the reserved- 
 ness of his countenance ; for as yet he spake more 
 to them by his actions and works thjui he did by 
 words and smiles. But also poor Mansoul (as in 
 such cases all are apt to do) interpreted the carriage 
 of Emanuel to them, as did Joseph's brethren his 
 to them, even all the quite contrary way : for, thought 
 they, if Emanuel loved us, he would shew it to us 
 by word or carriage ; but none of these he does, 
 therefore Emanuel hates us. Now if Ema^^uel 
 hates us, Mansoul shall be slain, then Mansoul 
 >hall become a dunghill. They knew that they had 
 transgressed his law, and that against him they had 
 been in league with Diabolus his enemy. They 
 also knew that Prince Emanuel knew aii this ; for 
 they were convinced that he was an angel of God, 
 to know all things that arc done in the earth. And 
 this made them think tliat their condition was mise- 
 rable, and that the good Prince would make them 
 desolate. 
 
 And, thought they, what time so fit to do it in as 
 now, when he hath the bridle of Mansoul in his 
 band ? And this I took special notice of, that the 
 inhabitants, notvv^ithstanding all this, could not, no, 
 tlicy could not, when they saw him march through 
 the town, but cringe, bow, bend, and were ready 
 to lick the dust offhis feet : they also wished a thou- 
 sand times over, that he would become their prince 
 and captain, and would become their protector. 
 They would also talk one to another of the comeli- 
 
136 HOLY WAR. 
 
 Satan clings fast to the sou!. 
 
 ness of his person, and how much for glory and va- 
 lour he outstript the great ones of the world. But 
 poor hearts ! as to themselves, their thoughts would 
 change and go upon all manner of extremes. Yea, 
 through the working of them hackward and forward, 
 Mansoul became as a balltossed, and as a rolling 
 thing before a whirlwind 
 
 Now when he was come to the castle-gates, he 
 commanded Diabolus to appear, and to surrender 
 himself into his hands. But O how loth was the 
 beast to appear ! How he stuck to it ! how he 
 shrunk! how he cringed ! Yet now he came to the 
 Prince. Then Emanuel commanded, and they 
 took Diabolus, and bound him fast in chains, 
 the better to reserve him to the judgment that he 
 had appointed for him. But Diabolus stood up 
 to entreat for himself, that Emanuel would not 
 send hiai into the deep, but suffer him to depart out 
 of Mansoul in peace. 
 
 When Emanuel had taken him and bound him 
 in chains, he led him into the market-place, and 
 there before Mansoul stript him of his armour, 
 which he boasted so much of before. This now 
 was one of the acts of triumph of Emanuel over 
 his enemy : and all the while the giant was strip- 
 ping, the trumpets of the golden Prince sounded 
 amain ; the captains also shouted, and the soldiers 
 san<^forjoy. Then was Mansoul called upon to 
 behold Emanuel's triumph over him in whom they 
 had so much trusted, and of whom they had so 
 much boasted in the days when he flattered them. 
 
HOLY WAR. 13'j 
 
 Joy at the sinner's return. 
 
 Thus having made Diabolus naked in the evea 
 of Mansoul.. and before the commanders of the 
 Prince, in the next place he commands that DiA.- 
 BOLUS should be bound with chains to his chariot- 
 wheels. Then leaving some of his forces, to wit, 
 captain Boanerges and captain Conviction, a 
 guard for the castle-gates, that resistance might he 
 made on his behalf (if any that heretofore foHovved 
 Diabolus should make an attempt to possess it) he 
 rode in triumph over him quite through the town of 
 Mansoul, and so out at and before the gate called 
 Eve-gate, to the plain where his camp lay. 
 
 Rut you cannot think, unless you had been there 
 (as I was) what a shout there was in Emanuel's 
 camp, when they saw the tyrar.t bound bvthe hand 
 of their noble Prince, and tied to his chariot-wheels, 
 and they say, he hath led captivity captive, and halh 
 spoiled principalities and powers : Diabolus is 
 subjected to the power of the sword, and made the 
 object of all derision. 
 
 Those also that rc'e reformades, and that came 
 down to see the battle, shouted with that greatness 
 of voice, and sung with such melodious notes, that 
 they caused them that dwelt in the highest orbs to 
 open their windows, put out their heads, and look 
 down to sec the cause of that glory.* 
 
 * I say unto you, that likewise joy shall be in heaven over one 
 tnnerthat repentLth, more than over ninety and nine just per- 
 sons, which need no rojientance. Likewise, I s-ay unto yon, 
 thereis joy in the presence of the angels of God over on« ^Innnt 
 that reptnteth. Luke xv. 7» 10. 
 
138 HOLY WAR. 
 
 Satan cast out. 
 
 The townsmen also, so many of them as beheld 
 this sightj were as it were astonished, while they 
 looked betwixt the earth and the heavens. True, 
 they could not tell what would be the issue of things 
 18 to them, all things being done in such excellent 
 methods ; and I cannot tell how, but the things in 
 the management of them seemed to cast a smile to- 
 wards the town ; so that their eyes, their heads, 
 their hearts, and their minds, and all that they had, 
 "were taken and held while they observed Emanuel's 
 order. 
 
 So when the brave Prince had finished this part 
 of his triumph over DiABOLUs his foe, he turned 
 him up in the midst of his contempt and shame, 
 having given him a charge never more to be a pos- 
 sessor of Mansoul. Then went he from Emanu- 
 el, and out of the midst of his camp, to inherit the 
 parched places in a salt laad, seeking re«t, but 
 finding none.* 
 
 Now captain Boanerges and captain Convic- 
 tion were both of them men of very great majesty ; 
 their faces were like the faces of lions, and their 
 words like the roaring of the seas ; and they still 
 quartered in Mr. Conscience's house, of whom 
 mention was made before. When therefore the 
 high and mighty Prince had thus far finished his 
 triumph over Diabolus, the townsmen had more 
 leisure to view and behold the actions of the noble 
 
 * W^hen the unclean spirit is gone out of a man, he walketh 
 through dry places, seeking res': and fmdeth none. Mat, }(ii. <li3. 
 
HOLY WAR. 159 
 
 The fears of the soul under conFiction of tin. 
 
 captains. But the captains carried it with tliat ter- 
 ror and dread in all they did (and you may he sure 
 they had private instructions so to do), that they 
 kept the town under continual heart-aching, and 
 caused in their apprehension^ the well-being of 
 Mansoul for the future to stand in doubt before 
 them, so that for some considerable time they nei- 
 ther knew what rest or ease or peace or hope meant. 
 Nor did the Prince himself as yet abide in the 
 town of Mansoul, but in his royal pavilion in the 
 camp, and in the midst of his Father's forces. So 
 at a time convenient he sent special orders to cap - 
 tain Boanerges, to summons Mansoul^ the whole 
 of the townsmen, into the castle-yard, and then and 
 there before their faces, to take my lord Under- 
 standing, Mr. Conscience, and that notable one 
 the lord Will-be-will, and put them all three in 
 ward, and that they should set a strong guard upon 
 them there, until his pleasure concerning them wag 
 further known. Which orders, when the captains 
 had put them in execution, made no small addition 
 to the fears of the town of Mansoul ; for now, to 
 their thinking, were their former fears of the 
 ruin of Mansoul confirmed. Now what death 
 they should die, and how long they should be in 
 dying, was that which most perplexed their heads' 
 find hearts: yea, they were afraid that Emanuei 
 wGuld command them all into the deep, the place 
 that the prince Dsabolus was afraid of ; for they 
 had deserved it^ Also to die by the sword in the 
 i'lice of the town, and ia the open w ay of disgrace. 
 
140 HOLY -WAR. 
 
 The sinner begins to pray. 
 
 from the hand of so good and holy a princC;, that, 
 too, troubled them sore ; the town was also greatly 
 troubled for the men con.mitted to v/ard, for that 
 thej were their stay and their guide ; and for that 
 they believed, that if those men were cutoff, their 
 execution would be but the beginning of the ruin 
 of the town of Mansoul. Wherefore what do they, 
 but, together wiih the men in prison, dravT up a 
 petition to the Prince, and sent it to Emanuel by 
 the hand of Mr. Would-live. So he went and 
 came to the Prince's quarters, and presented the 
 petition ; the sum of which was this : 
 
 ' Great and wonderful potentate, victor over 
 ' DiAROLus, and conqueror of the town of Man- 
 ' SOUL : we, the miserable inhabitants of that most 
 ' woeful corporation, humbly beg that we may find 
 ' favour in thy sight, and remember not against us 
 ' our former transgressions, nor yet the sins of the 
 ' chief of our town, but spare us according to the 
 
 * greatness of thy mercy, and ]Qi us not die but live 
 ' in thy sight ; so shall we be willing to be thy 
 
 * servants, and if thou shalt think fit, to gather our 
 
 * meat under thy table. Amen.' 
 
 So the petitioner went, as was said, with his peti- 
 tion to the prince, and the Prince took it at his 
 hand, but sent him away with silence. This stili 
 afflicted tlie town of Mansoul ; but yet consider* 
 mg that now tlioy must either petition or die ( for now 
 they conld not do aiiy thing else), therefore tliey 
 consulted again, and scut another petition, which 
 v/as much after the form and method of the former. 
 
HOLY WAR. 141 
 
 Is in earnest for mercy. 
 
 When the petition was drawn up, by whom sboulci 
 they send it, was the next question : for they v\ould 
 not send it by him by whom they sent tlie first ( for 
 they thought that the Prince had taken some offence 
 at the manner of his deportment before them), so 
 they attempted to make captain Conviction their 
 messenger wiih it; but he said, that he neither 
 durst nor would petition Emanuel for traitors, nor 
 be to the Prince an advocate for rebels : yet withal, 
 said he, our Prince is good, and you may adventure 
 to send it by the hand of one of your town ; pro- 
 vided he went with a rope about his head, and 
 pleaded nothing but mercy. 
 
 Well, they made, through fear, their d'ilays as 
 long as they could, and longer than delays were 
 good ; but fearing at last the danger of them, they 
 thought, but with many a fainting in their minds, to 
 send their petition by Mr. Desires- awake ; so they 
 sent for Mr. Desires-awake. Now he dwelt in 
 a very mean cottage in Mansoul ; and he came at 
 his neighbours' request. So they told him what they 
 had done, and what they would do concerning peti- 
 tioning, and that they desired of him that he would 
 go therewith to the Prince. ThensaidMr. Desires- 
 awake, Why should I not do the best I can to 
 save so famous a lown as Mansoll from destruc- 
 tion ? They therefore delivered the pefition to him, 
 and told hira how he must address himself to the 
 Prince, and wished hira ten thousand good speeds. 
 So he came to the Prince's pavilion, as the first, and 
 asked to speak with his Majesty : so word was car*- 
 
£42 HOLY WAR. 
 
 Ciuiist's Majesty overwhelms the awakened sinner. 
 
 ried to Emanuel, and the Prince came out to the 
 man, ^\n)en Mr. Desires-aware saw the Prince, 
 he fell fiat with his face to the ground, and cried out, 
 O that Mansoul might live hefore thee ! and with 
 that he presented the petition. The which when 
 the prince had read, he turned away for a while and 
 wept ; but refraining himself^ he turned again to the 
 man ( who all this while lay crying at his feet as at 
 first), and said to him. Go thy way to thy place, 
 and I will consider of thy requests. 
 
 Now you may think that they of Mansoul that 
 had sent him, what with guilt, and what with fear, 
 lest the'.r petition should be rejected, could not but 
 look with many a longing look, and that too with 
 strange workings of heart, to see what would become 
 of their petition. At last they saw their messenger 
 coming back; so when he was come they asked 
 him how he fared ? What Emanuel said ? And 
 what was become of the petition ? But he told 
 them, that he would be silent till he came to the 
 prison to my lord mayor, my lord Will-be-will, 
 and IVfr. Recorder. So he went forwards towards 
 the prison-house, where the men of Mansoul lay 
 bound. But O ! what a multitude flocked after lo 
 hear what the messenger said. So when he was 
 come, and had shewed himself at the gate of the 
 prison, my lord mayor himself looked as white as a 
 clout, the recorder also quaked; but they asked 
 ap.d said. Come, good sir, what did the great Prince 
 say to you ? Then said Mr. Desires-awake, 
 When I came to my Lord's pavilion, I called, i*."^ 
 
HOLY WAR. 143 
 
 Fears and doubts. 
 
 ho came forth ; so I fell prostrate at his feci, and 
 delivered to him mjpelition (for the ;^reatness of 
 his person and the glory of his countenance, would 
 not suffer me to stand upon my legs). Now as he 
 received the petition, I cried, O that Mansoui, 
 might live before thee ! So when for a while he 
 had looked thereon^ he turned about^ and said to his 
 servant. Go thy way to tliy place again, and I will 
 consider of thy requests. The messenger added 
 moreover, and said, The Prince to whom you sent 
 me, is such a one for beauty and glory, that whoso 
 sees him, must love and fear him : I for my part can 
 do no less ; but I know not what will be the end of 
 these things. At this answer they were all at a 
 stand, both they in prison, and they that followed 
 th.e messenger to hear the news ; nor knew they 
 what, or what manner of interpretation to put on 
 what the Prince had said. Now when the prison 
 was cleared of the throng, the prisoners began to 
 comment among themselves upon. Emanuel's words. 
 My lord mayor said, that the aogwer did not look 
 with a rugged face ; but Will-be-will said it be- 
 tokened evil ; and the recorder, that it was a mes- 
 senger of death. Now they that were left, and that 
 stood behind, and so could not so well hear what 
 the prisoners said, some of them cutched hold of 
 one piece of a sentence, and some on a bit of ano- 
 ther ; some took hold of what the messenger said, 
 and some of the prisoner's judgment thereon, so 
 none had a right understanding of things ; but you 
 
lU HOLY WAR. 
 
 The distressing state of an awakened soul. 
 
 cannot imagine what work these people made, and 
 what confusion there was in Mansoul now. 
 
 For presently they that had heard what was said, 
 fiew about the town, one crying one thing and ano- 
 ther quite the contrary, and both were sure enough 
 they told true, for they heard, they said, with their 
 ears what was said, and therefore could not be de- 
 ceived. One would say, ^ We must all be killed ;' 
 another would say, ' We must all be saved ;' and a 
 third would say, ' That the Prince would not be 
 * concerned with Mansoul ;' and a fourth, * That 
 ' the prisoners must be suddenly put to death :' and 
 as I said, every one stood to it, that he told his tale 
 the Tightest, and that all others but he were out. 
 Wherefore now Mansoul had molestation upon 
 molestation, nor could any man know on what to 
 rest the sole of his foot ; for one would go by now, 
 and, as he went, if he heard his neighbour tell his 
 tale, to besure he would tell the quite contrary, and 
 both would stand in it that he told the truth. Nay 
 some of them had got this story by the end, ' That 
 ' the Prince intended to put Mansoul to the 
 'sword.* And now it began to be dark ; wherefore 
 poor Mansoul was in sad perplexity all that night, 
 until the next mornins:. 
 
 But, so far as I could gather by the best infor- 
 mation I could get, all this hubbub came through the 
 v/ovds that the recorder had said, when he told them, 
 that i 1 his judgment the Prince's answer was a nies- 
 senejer of death. 'Twas this that fired the town. 
 
TIOLV WAIl. J45 
 
 Renewed petitiona. 
 
 and that began the fright in Mansoul ; for Man- 
 BOUL in former times used to count that ]Mr. Re- 
 corder was a seer, that his sentence was equal (othc 
 best of oracles ; and thus was Mansoul a terror to 
 itself. 
 
 And now they began to feel the effects of stubborn 
 rebellion and unlawful resistance against their 
 Prince. I say, they now began to feel the ef- 
 fects thereof by guilt and fear, that now had swal- 
 lowed them up ; and who more involved in the 
 one, but they that were most in the other, to wit, 
 the chief of the town of Mansoul ? 
 
 To be brief, when the fame of the fright was out 
 of the town, and the prisoners had a little recovered 
 themselves, they take to themse-lves some heart, and 
 think to petition the Prince again for life. So they 
 drew up a third petition, the contents whereof were 
 these : 
 
 ' Prince Emanuel, the great Lord of all worlds, 
 ' and master of mercy, we thy poor, wretched, 
 * miserable, dying town of Mansoul, do confess 
 ' unto thy great and glorious Majesty, that we have 
 ' sinned against thy Father and Thee ; and are no 
 ' more worthy to be called thy Mansoul, but 
 ' rather to be cast into the pit. If thou wilt slay us 
 ' we have deserved it. If thou wilt condemn us to 
 ' the deep, we cannot but say thou art righteous. 
 ' We cannot complain, whatever thou dost, or 
 ' however thou carriest it towards us. But oh! 
 ' let mercy reign, and let if. be extended to us ! 
 ' O let mercy take hold upon us, and free us from 
 
146 HOLY WAR. 
 
 Good deeds not to be depended upon. 
 
 ' our transgressions^ and we will sing of thy nierey 
 ' and of thy judgments ! Amen.' 
 
 This petition, when drawn up, was designed to ba 
 sent to the Prince as ihe first ; but who should 
 carry it, that was the quesiion. Same said, let him 
 do it that went with the first ; but others thought 
 good not to do that, aud that because he sped no 
 better. Now there was an old man in the town^ 
 and his name was Mr. Good-deed ; a man that 
 bare only tlie name, but had nothing of the nature 
 of the thing. Some were for sending him ; but the 
 recorder was by no means for that : for, said he, we 
 now stand in need of, and are pleading for mercy, 
 wherefore (o send our petition by a man of his 
 name, will seem to cross the petition itself, should 
 we make Mr. Good-deed our messenger, when 
 our petition cries for mercy. 
 
 Besides, quoth the old gentleman, should the 
 Prince now, as he receives the petition, ask him, and 
 say. What is thy name ? (and nobody knows but 
 be will) and he should say Old Good-deed ; what 
 think you would Emanuel say but this. Ay, is old 
 Good-deed yet alive in Mansoul ? then let old 
 Good-deed save you from your distresses. And ii 
 he says so, I am sure we are lost, nor can a thousand 
 of old Good-deeds save Mansoul. 
 
 After the recorder had given in his reasons, why 
 old Good-deed should not go with his petition to 
 Rmanuel, the rest of the prisoners and chiefs of 
 Mansoul opposed it also ; and so old Good-de&d 
 »ivas laid aside, and they agreed to send Mr. Dr-- 
 
HOLY WAT?. 147 
 
 Our prayers should be offered with tears and desires. 
 
 BiREs-AWAKE again. Accordingly they sent for him, 
 and desired that he would a second time go with 
 their petition to the Prince ; and he readily told 
 them he would : but they bid hira, that in any wise 
 he should take heed that in no word or carriage he 
 gave offence to the Prince ; for by doing so, for 
 aught we can tell;, said they, you may bring Man- 
 bo ul into utter destruction. 
 
 Now Mr. Desires-awake, when he saw that he 
 must go on this errand, besought that they would 
 grant thatMr. Wet-eyes might go with him. Now 
 this Wet-eyes was a near neighbour of Mr. De- 
 sires, a poor man of broken spirit, yet one that 
 could speak well to a petition. So they granted 
 that he should go with him. Wherefore they ad- 
 dressed themselves to their business : Mr. Desires 
 put a rope upon his head, and Mr. Wet-eyes 
 went with his hands wringing together. Thus they 
 went to the Prince's pavilion. 
 
 Now when they went to petition this third time; 
 they were not without thoughts that by often com- 
 ing they might be a burden to the Prince. Where- 
 fore when they were come to the door of his pavihon, 
 they first made their apology for themselves, and 
 for their coming to trouble Emanuel so often ; 
 and they said, that they came not hither to-day for 
 that they delighted to hear themselves talk, but for 
 that necessity caused them to come to hig Majesty ; 
 they could, they said, have no rest day nor night, 
 because of their transgressions against Shad da i 
 
146 HOLY WAR. 
 
 UnwortliiGCss acknowledged. 
 
 and Emanuel his Son. They also thought that 
 fomemisbehaviour of Mr. Desires-aware, the last 
 time, might give some disgust to his higlmess, and 
 so cause that he returned from so merciful a Prince 
 empty, and without countenance. So when they 
 had made this apology, Mr. Desires-awake, cast 
 himself prostrate upon the ground, as at the first, 
 at the feet of the mighty Prince, saying. Oh that 
 Mansoul might live before thee ! so he delivered 
 his petition. The Prince, when he had read Ihe 
 petition, turned aside awhile as before ; and coming 
 again to the place where the petitioner lay on the 
 ground, he demanded what his name was, and of 
 what esteem in the account of Mansoul, for that 
 he, above all the multitude in Mansoul, should be 
 sent to him on such an errand.'' Then said the 
 man to the Prince, O let not my Lord be angry : 
 and why inquirest thou after such a dead dog as I 
 am ? Pass by, I pray thee, and take no notice of 
 whom I am, because there is, as thou very well 
 knowest, so great a disproportion between me and 
 ihee. Why the townsmen chose to send me on this 
 errand to my Lord, is best known to themselves ; 
 but it could not be for that they had thought I had 
 favour with my Lord. For my part, I am out of 
 charity with myself : who then should be in love 
 with mc ? Yet live I would, and so would I that 
 ray townsmen should ; and because both they and 
 myself are guilty of great transgressions, therefore 
 they have sent roe, and I am come in their names to 
 
HOLY WAR. 140 
 
 All merit rejected. 
 
 beg of my Lord for mercy. Let it please thee 
 therefore to incline to mercy : but ask not what 
 thy servants are. 
 
 Then said the Prince, And what is he that is be- 
 come thy companion in this so weighty a matter } 
 So Mr. Desires told Emanuel, that he was a 
 poor neighbour of his, and one of his most intimate 
 associates ; and his name, said he, may it please 
 your most excellent Majesty, is Wet-eyes, of tlie 
 tov/n of Mansoul. I know that there are many 
 of that name that are naught ; but I hope it will be 
 no offence to my Lord, that I have brought my 
 poor neighbour with me. 
 
 Then Mr. Wet-eyes fell on his face to the 
 ground, and made his apology for coming with 
 bis neighbour to his Lord : 
 
 ' O my Lord (quoth he) what I am I know not 
 ' myself, nor whether my name be feigned or true, 
 ' especially when I begin to think what some have 
 ' said, namely, that this name was given me, be- 
 ^ cause Mr. Repentance was my father. Good 
 ' men have bad children, and the sincere do often- 
 ' times beget hypocrites. JVIy mother also called 
 ' me by this name from my cradle ; whether because 
 
 * of the moistness of my brain, or the softness of 
 ' my heart, I cannot tell. I see dirt in mine own 
 ' tears, and filthiness in the bottom of my prayers. 
 ' But I pray thee (and all this while the gentleman 
 ' wept ), that thou wouldst not remember against us 
 
 * our transgressions, nor take offence, at the un- 
 
 * qualifiednesg of thy servants, but mercifully pasi 
 
150 HOLY WAR. 
 
 The aggravated nature of sin. 
 
 ' by the sin of MAsfSouL, and refrain from the 
 
 ' glorifying of thj grace no longer.' 
 
 So at his bidding they arose, and both stood 
 
 trembling before him, and he spake to them to this 
 
 purpose : 
 
 ' The town of Mansoul hath grievously rebelled 
 against my Father, in that they have rejected him 
 from being their king, and chose for themselves, 
 for their captain, a liar, a murderer and a run- 
 nagate slave. For this Diabolus, your pretend- 
 ed prince, though once so highly accounted of by 
 you, made rebellion against my Father and Me, 
 even in our palace and highest court there, think- 
 ing to become a prince and a king. But being 
 timely discovered and apprehended, and for his 
 wickedness bound in chains, and separated to 
 the pit with those that w^cre his companions, he of- 
 fered himself to you, and you have received 
 him.* 
 
 ' Now this i», and for a long time hath been, an 
 high affront to my Father ; wherefore my Father 
 sent to you a powerful army, io reduce you to 
 your obedience. I5ut you know how these men, 
 their captains, and their counsels, were esteemed 
 of you, and what they received at your hand. 
 You rebelled against them, you shut your gates 
 upon them, you bid them battle ; you fought them, 
 and fought for Diabolus against them. So they 
 went to my Father for more power ; I, wilh my 
 men, am come to subdue you. But as you treated 
 the servants^ so you treated their Lord : you stood 
 
HOLY WAU. 151 
 
 Sins only subdued by the power of CJod. 
 
 * Up in hostile manner against mc, jou shut up your 
 gates against me, }ou turned a deaf ear to rac, 
 and resisted as long as vou could ; but now t 
 have made a conquest of you. Did you cry to 
 me for mercy so long as you had hopes that you 
 might prevail against me ? Rut now i have takea 
 the town, you cry, but why did you iiot cry be- 
 fore, when the white flag of my mercy, the red 
 flag of justice, and the black flag tliat tlireaJened 
 execution, were set up to cite you to it ? Now I 
 have conquered your Diabolus, you come to me 
 for favour ; but why did you not help me against 
 the mighty? Yet I will consider your petition, 
 and will answer it so as will be for my glory.' 
 ' Go, bid captain Boanerges and captain Con- 
 viction brirg the prisoners out to me into the 
 camp to-morrow ; and say you to captain Judg- 
 ment and captain Execution, Stay in the castle, 
 and take good heed to yourselves that you keep 
 all quiet in Mansoul, until you shall hear further 
 from me.' And with that he turned himself from 
 them and went into his royal pavilion. 
 
 So the petitioners, having received this answer 
 from the Prince, returned as at the first, to go to 
 their companions again. But they had not gone far 
 but thoughts began to work in their minds, that no 
 mercy as yet was intended by the Prince to Man«" 
 SOUL : so they went to the place where the prison- 
 ers lay bound; but these workings of mind, about 
 what would become of Mansoul, had such a strong 
 power over them, that by that they were come unto 
 
152 HOLY WAR. 
 
 Sin delays returns to prayer. 
 
 them that sent them^ they were scarce able to de- 
 liver their message. 
 
 But they came at length to the gates of the town 
 (now the townsmen were waiting with eagerness 
 for their return), where many met them, to know 
 what answer was given to the petition. Then they 
 cried out to those that were sent. What news from 
 the Prince ? And what hath Emanuel said ? 
 But they said, that they must ( as afore ) go up to the 
 prison, and there deliver their message. So away 
 they went to the prison, with a multitude at their 
 heels. Now when they were come to the gates of 
 the prison, they told the first part of Emanuel's 
 speech to the prisoners, to wit, how he reflected 
 upon their disloyalty to his Father and himself : and 
 how they had chosen and closed with Diabolus, 
 and fought for him, hearkened to him, and been ruled 
 by him ; but had despised him and his men. This 
 made the prisoners look pale ; but the messengers 
 proceeded, and said, He the Prince said moreover, 
 that yet he would consider your petition, and give 
 such answer thereto as will stand with his glory. 
 And as these words were spoken, Mr. Wet-eyes 
 gave a sigh. At this they were all of them struck 
 into their dumps, and could not tell what to say : 
 fear also possessed them in marvellous manner, and 
 death seemed to sit upon some of their eye-brows. 
 Now there was in the company a notable sharp- 
 witted fellow, a mean man of estate, and his name 
 was old Inquisitive ; this man asked the peti 
 tioners if they had told out every whit of what Em Ar 
 
HOLY WAR. 153 
 
 The terror of Goo's judgments. 
 
 NUELsaid. And they answered. Verily no. Then 
 said Inquisitive, I thought so indeed. Pray 
 what was it more that he said unto you ? Then 
 they paused awhile, but at last they brought out 
 all, saying. The Prince ordered us to bid captain 
 Boanerges and captain Conviction bring the pri- 
 soners down to him to-morrow ; and that captain 
 Judgment and captain Execution should take 
 jcharge of the castle and town till they should hear 
 further from him. They said also, that wheu the 
 Prince had commanded them so to do, he im- 
 mediately turned his back upon them, and went into 
 his royal pavilion. 
 
 But oh ! how this return, and especially this last 
 clause of it, that the prisoners must <t;o out to the 
 Prince into the camp, brake all their loins in pieces ! 
 Wherefore with one voice they set up a cry that 
 reached up to the heavens. This done, each of 
 the three prepared himself to die (and the recorder 
 said unto them. This was the thing that I feared), 
 for they concluded, that to-raorrow, by that the sua 
 went down, they shouldbe tumbled out of the world. 
 The whole town also counted of no other, but that 
 in their time and order they must all drink of the 
 same cup. Wherefore the town of Mansoul spent 
 that night in mourning, anil sackcloth, and ashes. 
 The prisoners also when the time was come to go 
 down before the Prince, dressed themselves in 
 mourning attire, with ropes upon their heads. The 
 \»' hole town of Mansoul also shewed themselves 
 upon the wall, and ciad in mouruing weeds, if per 
 
 u 
 
154 HOLY WAR. 
 
 The prisoners conducted to the Prince's camp. 
 
 haps the Prince, with the sight thereof, might be 
 moved with compassion. But oh how the busy- 
 bodies, that were in the town of Mansoul, now 
 concerned themselves ! They ran here and there 
 through the streets of the town by companies, crying 
 out as they ran in tumultuous wise, one after one 
 manner, and another the quite contrary, to the al- 
 most utter distraction of Mansoul. 
 
 Well, the time is come that the prisoners must go 
 down to the camp, and appear before the Prince. 
 .And thus was the manner of their going down: 
 cuptain Boanerges went with a guard before them, 
 and captain Conviction came behind, and the 
 prisoners went bound in chains in the midst ; so I 
 say, the prisoners went in the midst, and the guard 
 went with flying colours behind and before, but the 
 prisoners went with drooping spirits. Or more par- 
 ticularly, thus : The prisoners went down all in 
 mourning, they put ropes upon themselves, they 
 went on smiting themselves on their breasts, but 
 durst not lift up their eyes to heaven. Thus they 
 went out at the gate of Mansoul, till they came 
 into the midst of the Prince's army, the sight and 
 glory of which greatly heightened their aflfliction. 
 Nor could they now longer forbear but cry out 
 aloud, O unhappy men ! O wretched Mansoul t 
 Their chains still mixing their dolorous notes with 
 the cries of the prisoners, made the noise more 
 lamentable. 
 
 So when they were come to the door of the 
 Prince's pavilion, they cast themselves prostrate 
 
HOLY WAR. Jhb 
 
 Confession of guilt. 
 
 upon the place : then one went in and told ihs 
 Lord that the prisoners were came down. The 
 Prince then ascended a throne of state^ and sent for 
 the prisoners in ; who, when they came, trembled 
 before him : also they covered their faces with 
 shame. Now as they drew near the place where he 
 sat, they threw themselves down before him. Then 
 said the Prince to the captain Boanerges, Bid the 
 p-risoners stand upon their feet. Then they stood 
 trembling before him ; and he said. Are you the 
 men that heretofore were the servants of Shaddai ? 
 And they said. Yes, Lord, yes. Then said the 
 Prince again. Are you the men that suffered your- 
 selves to be corrupted and defiled by that abomi- 
 nable one DiABOLus ? And thev said. We did 
 more than suffer it. Lord ; for we chose it of our 
 mind. The Prince asked further, saying. Could 
 you have been content that your slavery should 
 have continued under his tyranny as long as you 
 had lived ? Then said the prisoners. Yes, Lord, 
 yes ; for his ways were pleasing to our flesh, and wc 
 were grown aliens to a better state. And did you, 
 said he, when I came against this town of Mansoul, 
 heartily wish that I might not have the victory over 
 you ? Yes, Lord, yes, said they. Then said the 
 Prince, And what puni-shment is it, think you, that 
 you deserve at my hands, for th-ese and other your 
 high and mighty sins ? And they said. Both death 
 and the deep. Lord, for we have deserved no less. 
 He asked again. If they had aught to say for them- 
 
156 HOLY WAR. 
 
 The vicforr of Christ over the sinner. 
 
 selves^ why the sentence, which they confessed they 
 had deserved, should not be passed upon them ? 
 And thej said. We can say nothing, Lord, thou art 
 just, for we have sinned. Then said the Prince, 
 And foe what are these ropes on your heads ? The 
 prisoners answered. The ropes are to lead us withal 
 to the place of execution, if mercy be not pleasing 
 in thy sight.* So he further asked, if all the men 
 in the town of Man.soul were in this confession as 
 llicy ? And they answered. All the natives. Lord: 
 but for the Djabolonians, they came into our 
 town when the tyrant got possession of us, we can 
 say nothing for them. 
 
 Then the Prince commanded that an herald 
 should be called ; and that he should in the 
 midst and throughout the camp of Emanuel 
 proclaim, and that with sound of trumpet, that 
 the Prince, the Son of Shaddai, had, in his 
 Father's name, and for his Father's glory, goU 
 ten a perfect conquest and victory over Man- 
 soul ; and that the prisoners should follow him, 
 and say Amen. So this was done as he had com- 
 manded. 
 
 And presently the music that was in the upper 
 region sounded melodiously. The captains that 
 were in the camp shouted, and the soldiers sung 
 songs of triumph to the Prince, the colours waved 
 
 * Tlis own iniquities shall take the wicked himself, and he shall 
 be holden with the cords of his sins. Pro. v. 22. 
 
HOLY WAR. 157 
 
 The psrdon proclaimed. 
 
 ill (he wind, and great joy was every whorCj only it 
 was vvan(i"g as yet in the hearts of the men of 
 Mansoul. 
 
 Then the Prince called to the prisoners to come 
 and stand again before him ; and they came and 
 Ptood trembling. And he said unto them. The 
 sins, trespasses, and iniquities, that you, with the 
 ■whole town of Mansoul, have from time to 
 time committed against my Father and Me, I have 
 power and commandment from my Father to for- 
 give to the town of Mansoul, and do forgive you 
 accordingly. And having so said, he gave thera 
 written in parchment, and sealed with seven seals, 
 a Urge and general pardon, commanding my lord*- 
 mayor, lord Will-be-will, and Mr. Recorder, 
 to proclaim, and cause it to be proclaimed to-mor- 
 row, by that the sun is up, throughout the whole 
 town of Mansoul. 
 
 Moreover the Prince stripped the prisoners of 
 their mourning weeds, and gave them beauty fbr 
 ashes, the oil of joy for mourning, and the garment 
 of praise for the spirit of heaviness.* 
 
 Then he gave to each of the three, jewels of gold 
 and precious stones ; and took away their ropes, 
 and put chains of gold about their necks, and ear- 
 rings in their ears. Now the prisoners, when they 
 
 * To appoint unto them that mourn in Zion, to give unto them 
 beauty for ashes, the oil of joy for mourning, tb« garment of praise 
 f*r the spirit of heaviness ; that they might be called trees of 
 righteousness, the planting of tlie Lord, that he might be glo. 
 nficd. lea. ki. 3. 
 
J58 HOLY WAR. 
 
 Tbe joy of pardon unspeakable. 
 
 had heard the gracious words of Prince Emanuel, 
 and had beheld all that was done unto them, fainted 
 almost quite awav ; for the grace, the benefit, the 
 pardon, was sudden, glorious, and so big, that they 
 were not able without staggering to stand up un- 
 der it. Yea, my lord Will-be-will swooned 
 outright ; but the Prince stept up to him, put his 
 everlasting arms under him, embraced him, kissed 
 him, and bid him be ot good cheer, for all should be 
 performed according to his word. He also kissed, 
 embraced, and smiled upon the other two that were 
 Will-be-will's companions, sajing. Take these as 
 further tokens of my love, favour, and compassion 
 to you ; and I charge you, that you Mr. Recorder 
 tell the town of Mansoul what you have heard and 
 seen. 
 
 Then were their fetters broken to pieces before 
 their faces, and cast into the air, and their steps 
 were enlarged under them. Then they fell at the 
 feet of the Prince, kissed them, and wetted them 
 with tears ; they also cried out with a mighty strong 
 voice, saying, ' Blessed be the glory of the Lord 
 ' from this place !' So they were bid rise up, and 
 go to the town and tell Mansoul what the Prince 
 had done. He commanded also, that one with 
 pipe and tabor should go and play before them 
 all the way into the town of Mansoul. Then was 
 fulfilled what they never looked for, and they were 
 made to possess what they never dreamt of. The 
 Prince also called for the noble captain Credence, 
 and commanded that he and some of his ofiicers 
 
HOLY WAR Kt) 
 
 After pardon Judgment and Execdtion withdraw. 
 
 should march before the noblemen of Mansoul, 
 with flying; colours into the town. He gave also 
 unto captain Credence a charge, that about the 
 time that the recorder read the general pardon in 
 the town of Mansoul, that at that very time he 
 should with flying colours march in at Eye-gate, 
 with his ten thousand at his feet ; and that he 
 should so go until he came by the high street of the 
 town, up to the castle-gates ; and that himself should 
 take possession thereof, against his Lord came 
 thither. He commanded, moreover, that he should 
 bid captain Judgment and captain Execution 
 leave the strong hold to him, and withdraw from 
 Mansoul, and return into the camp with speed un- 
 to the Prince. 
 
 And now was the town of Mansoul also de- 
 livered from the terror of the first four captains and 
 their men. 
 
 Well, I told you before how the prisoners wer© 
 entertained by the noble Prince EImanuel, and 
 how they behaved themselves before him, and how 
 he sent them away to their home with pipe and ta- 
 bor going before them. And now you must think 
 thatthose of the town, that had all this while waited 
 to hear of their death, could not but be exercised 
 with sadness of mind, and with thoughts that pricked 
 like thorns. Nor could their thoughts be kept (o 
 any one point ; the wind blew them all this while at 
 great uncertainties, yea, their hearts were like a ba- 
 lance that had been disquieted by a shaking hand. 
 But at last, as thev. with many aionejiu^look, looked 
 
160 HOLY WAR. 
 
 Tlie (lifTerencc of the soul under conviction and under jjardon. 
 
 over tile wall of Mansoul, they thought they saw 
 some return to the town ; and thought again, who 
 should they be too, who should they be ? At last 
 they discerned that they w€re the prisoners ; but 
 can you imagine how their hearts were surprised 
 with wonder, especially when they perceived also 
 in what equipage, arid with what honour they were 
 sent home ! They went down to the camp in black, 
 but they came back to the town in white ; they 
 vrent down to the camp in ropes, they came back 
 in chains of gold ; they went down to the camp 
 with feet in fetters, but came back with their steps 
 enlarged under them ; they went to the camp look- 
 ing for death, but came back from thence with as- 
 surance of life ; they went down to the camp with 
 heavy hearts, but came back again with pipe and 
 tabor pla} iiig before them. As soon as they came to 
 Eye-gate, the poor and tottering town of Man- 
 soul adventured to give a shout; and thev gave 
 such a shout as made the captains in the Prince's 
 array leap at the sound thereof. Alas for thera, 
 poor hearts ! who could blame thera ? since their 
 dead friends were come to life again ; for it was to 
 them as life from the dead, to see the antientsof 
 the town of Mansoul shine in such splendor. 
 They looked for nothing but the axe and the block ; 
 but behold joy and gladness, comfort and consola- 
 tion, and such melodious notes attending thera, that 
 were sufficient to make a sick man well.* So when 
 
 • And tlieinhabitaut shall not say I am sick : the people that 
 dwell thcrciu sh ill! be forgiven their iniquity . Isa. xxxiii. 2-4. 
 
HOLY WAR. 161 
 
 Joy at deliverance and pardon. 
 
 — — — * ■=• ■ ..— 
 
 tbe^ caiiu" up, they saluted .;ach other : W< Icomc, 
 weici me, and hlessed be hethat sparf^d you ! They 
 added also, We see it is well with you ; but how must 
 it go withthe townof VIansoul ? Aud will it ^6 
 well with the town of Mansoul ? said thfv. Then 
 answered them thn recorder and the lord mavor : 
 Oh ' Tidings ! glad tidings ! gjod tidings of irood, 
 and of great joy to poor Mansoul! Then they 
 gave another shout that made the earth ring again. 
 After this, they inqui' ed yet more partirularly how 
 •Jiings went in the camp, and what message they 
 had from Emanuel to the towr^. So they told them 
 all passages that had happened to them in the tfimp, 
 and every thing that the Prince did to them. This 
 made Mansoul wonder at the wisdom and i»race 
 of the Prince Emanuel : thes they told them what 
 fthey had received at his hands for the whole town 
 of Mansoul, and the recorder delivered it in these 
 words ; ' Pardon, pardon for Mansoul; and this 
 ' shall Mansoul know to-morrow.' Theii he com- 
 manded and they went and summoned Mansoui 
 to meet together in the market-place to-morrow 
 there to hear their general pardon read. 
 
 But who can think what a turn, what a change, 
 what an alteration this hint of things made in ^he 
 countenance of the town of Mansoul! No man 
 of Mansoul could sleep that ;iig:ht for joy ; in 
 every house there was joy and music, singn.g and 
 making merry : telling and hearing of Emanuel's 
 happiness, was a'J that Mansoul had to do : and 
 thii was the burden of all ilicir song, ' Oh more of 
 
1G2 HOLY WAR. 
 
 Praises to the Prince of Life. 
 
 ' this at the rising of the sun ! more of this to-mor- 
 ' row ! Who thought yesterday, one would say, 
 ' that this day would have been such a day to us • 
 ' And who thought, that saw our prisoners go 
 ' down in irons, that they should have returned in 
 ' chains of gold ! Yea they that judged them- 
 ' selves as they went to be judged of their Judge, 
 
 * were by his mouth acquitted ; not for that thejr 
 ' were innocent, but of the Prince's mercy, and 
 ' sent home with pipe and tabor. But is this the 
 ' common custom of princes ? Do they use to 
 
 * shew such kind of favour to traitors } No ! this 
 
 * is only peculiar to Shaddai, and unto Emanuel 
 ' his Son/ 
 
 Now morning drew on apace ; wherefore the 
 lord mayor, the lord Will-be-will, and Mr. Re- 
 corder, came down to the market-place at the time 
 that the Prince had appointed, where the townsfolk 
 were waiting for them : and vAhen they came, th^y 
 came in that attire and in that glory which the 
 Prince had put them into the day before, and the 
 street was lightened with their glory : so the mayor, 
 recorder, and my lord \Yill-be-will, drew down 
 to Mouth- GATE, which was at the lower end of 
 the market-! lace, because that of old time was the 
 place where they used to read public matters ; 
 thither tiuTcfore th.^y came in their robes and their 
 tabor went before ^them. Now the eagerness of the 
 people U, know the full matter was great. 
 
 Then the recorder stood up upon his feet, and 
 first beckoning with his hand for silence be read out 
 
HOLY WAR. IGf 
 
 Joy at the salvation of man. 
 
 with aloud voice the pardon. Bat when he came 
 to these words, " The Lord, the Lord God is uier- 
 '* ciful and gracious, pardoning iniquity, trans- 
 " gressions, and sins :" and to them, " all manner 
 " of sin and blasphemy shall be forgiven/' &c. 
 (Exod. xxxiv. 6. Mark iii. 28.) they could not 
 forbear leaping for joy : for this you must knovs', 
 that there was conjoined therewith every man's 
 name in M-vnsoul/ also the seals of the pardon 
 made a brave shew. 
 
 When the recorder had made an end of reading 
 the pardon, the townsmen ran upon the walls of the 
 town, leaped thereon forjoy, and bowing Ihovnselves 
 seven times with their faces towards Emanuel's 
 pavilion, shouted aloud forjoy, and said, ' Lot 
 ' Emanuel live forever.' 
 
 Then order was ariven to the vouns: men in Man- 
 SOUL, that they should ring the bells for joy ; so 
 the bells rung, the people sung, and the music 
 played in every house in Mansoul. 
 
 When the Prince had sent home the three pri- 
 soners of Mansoul with joy and pipe and tabor, 
 he commanded his captains, with all the field officers 
 and soldifrs throughout his army, tol)e ready in the 
 morning that the recorder should read the pardon 
 in IMansoul, to do his further pleasure. So the 
 morning, as I have s^ef.pd, being come, just as the 
 recorder had made an end of reading the pardon, 
 Emanuel commanded Jliat all thfc trumpets in the 
 camp should sound, that the colours should be dis- 
 played, half of them upon mount Gracious, and 
 half of them upon mount Justice. He com- 
 
lei HOLY WAR. 
 
 The ability of Christs soldiers. 
 
 maided aiso^ that all the captains should show 
 themselves in (heir compleie harness^ and that the 
 soldiers should sh<5ut for jo). Nor was captain 
 Credence, though in the castle, silent on such a 
 day, but he from the top of the hold shewed him- 
 self with (he sound of trumpet to Mansoul, and to 
 the Prince's camp. 
 
 Thus have I shewn you the manner and way 
 that Emanuf' took to recover the town of Man- 
 soul from under the hand and power of the tyrant 
 
 DiABOLUS. 
 
 Now when the Prince had completed these out- 
 ward ceremonies of his joy, he again commanded 
 that his captains and soldiers should shew unto 
 Mansoul some feats of war So they presently ad- 
 dressed themselves to this work. But oh ! \siih 
 "what agility, nimbleness, dexterity, and bravery, 
 did these milifary men discover their skill in feats of 
 warto the now gazing town of Mansoul. 
 
 They marched, they countermarched^ they open- 
 ed to the right and left, they divided and subdivided, 
 they closed, they wheeled, made good tiieir front 
 and rear with their right and left wiiigs and twen- 
 ty things more, with that aptness, and then were aU 
 as they ^vere again, that they took, yea ravished 
 the hearts that were in Mansoul to behold it. But 
 add to this, the handlino- of their arms, the raanas:- 
 ingof their weapons of war, were marvellous taking 
 to Mansoul and me. 
 
 When this action was over, the who^etown of 
 Mansoul came out as one man to the'*Pnnce ir» the 
 camp, to praise him^ and thank him foi his abua- 
 
MOLV W\R. 165 
 
 Holy so, .Is would be a habifaiionfor Ciin i '■ 
 
 daiir favour, and to beg tliat it would please his 
 gtace to come unto Mansoul with his men, and 
 theiv to take np his quarters f<>r ever. And this 
 ihty did in the nios' humble manner, bowing them- 
 selves seveu times to the grouiid before him. Then 
 said he, " All peace b(Mo you :" So the lown came 
 nigh, and touched witlj the hand the top of his gol- 
 den sceprre ; and they said. Oh ' that the Prince 
 Emanuel, with his captains and men of war would 
 dwell in Mansoul for ever ; and that his battering 
 rams and slings might be lodged in her, for the use 
 ard service of the Prince, and the help and strength 
 of ^iA^souL ! for, said they, we have room for 
 thee, we have room for thy men, we have also room 
 for thy weapons of war, and a place to make a ma- 
 gazine for thy carriages. Do it Emanuel, and 
 thou shalt be king and captain in Mansoul for 
 e\er : yea, govern thou also according to all the 
 desire of thy soul, and make thou governors and 
 princes under thee of thy captains and men of war, 
 and we will become thy servants, and thy laws 
 shall be our direction. 
 
 They added moreover, and prayed his majesty to 
 consider thereof: for, said they, if now, after all 
 this grace bestowed upon us, thy miserable town of 
 Mansoul, thou shouldest withdraw, thou and thy 
 captains from us the town of Mansoul will die. 
 Yea. said they, our blessed Emanuel, if thou 
 shouldest depart froin us now, after thou hast done 
 so much good for us, and shewed so much mercy 
 uoto us, what will follow, but that ourjoy will be as 
 
i66 HOLY WAR, 
 
 Christians fear fheir own lusts. 
 
 if it had not been, and our enemies will a second 
 time come upon us with more rage than at the first ? 
 Wherefore, we beseech thee, O thou the desire of 
 our ejes, and the strength and life of our poor 
 town, accept of this motion that now we have made 
 unto our Lord, and come, come and dwell in the 
 midst of us, and let us be thy people. Beeides, 
 Lord-, we do not know, but that to this day many 
 DiABOLONiANS may yet he lurking in the town of 
 Mansoul; and they will betray us when thou 
 shalt leave us, into the hands of Diabolus again ; 
 and who knows what designs, plots, and contri- 
 vances, have passed betwixt thtm about these things 
 already ? Loth we are to fall again into his hor- 
 rible hands. Wherefore let it please thee to accept 
 of our palace for thy place of residence, and ot^ the 
 house of the best men of our town for the recep- 
 tion of thy soldiers and their furniture. 
 
 Then said the Prince, If I come to your town, 
 will you suffer me further to prosecute that which 
 is in mine heart a2:ainst mine enemies and yours ? 
 Yea, will you help me in such undertakings ? 
 
 They answered. We know not what we shall do; 
 we did not tl)ink once that we should have been such 
 traitors to Shaddai as we have proved to be. 
 What then shall we say to our Lord ? Let him put 
 no trust in his saints : let the Prince dwell in our 
 castle, and make of our town a garrison ; let him 
 set his noble captains and his warlike soldiers over 
 us ; yea, let him conquer us with his love, and over- 
 come us, as'd help us, as he was and did that mora; 
 
HOLY ^VAR, 167 
 
 They dtsire Christ to dwell in them. 
 
 ingour pardon ^vas read unto us, we shall comply 
 -with this oi?r Lord and with his ways, and fall in 
 with his word against the mighty. 
 
 One word more, and thy servants have done, and 
 in Uiis will trouble our Lord no more. We know 
 not the depth of the wisdom of thee our Prince. 
 Who could have thought that had been ruled by 
 his reason, that so much sweet as we now enjoy 
 should have come out of those bitter trials where- 
 with we were tried at the first ! But, Lord, let 
 light go before, and let love come after : yea, take 
 us by the hand, and lead us by thy counsels ; and 
 let this always abide upon us, that all things shall 
 be for the best for thy servants, and come to our 
 Mansout, do as it pleaseth thee. Or, Lord, come 
 to onr Mansoul and do what thou wilt, so thou 
 keepest us from sinning, and makest us serviceablp 
 to thy Majesty, 
 
 Then said the Prince to the town of Mansoul 
 again. Go, return to your houses in peace, I will 
 willingly in this comply with your desires : I will 
 remove my royal pavilion ; I will draw up my 
 forces before Eye-gate to-morrow, and so will 
 march forwards into the town of Mansoul ; I will 
 possess myself of your castle of Mansoul, and 
 will set my soldiers over you ; yea, I will yet do 
 things in Mansoul that cannot be paralleled in 
 any nation, country, or kingdom under heaven. 
 
 Then did the men of Mansoul give a shout, and 
 return into their houses in peace ; they also told to 
 their kiadred and friends the good that Emanuel 
 
168 HOLY WAR. 
 
 Christ Mclcoint! to the rcu-- c^! soul. 
 
 had promised to Mansoul. And to-morrow, said 
 they, he will march iito our town, ahd »ake up his 
 dwellidi:,, he and his men in Mansoul. 
 
 1 hen went out the inhabitants of the town of 
 Mansoul vviih haste to the green trees, and to the 
 meadt)ws, to i>ather boughs and flowers, therewith 
 to strew the streets against their Princr the Son of 
 Shaddai should eome ; thev also made ga-lands 
 and other fiiie works, to betoken how joyful they 
 "were and should be to receive their Emanuel 
 in Mansoul ; jea, they strewed the street quite 
 from Eye-gate to the castle -gate, the place where 
 the prince should be. They also prepared for his 
 coming what music the town of Mansoul could 
 aflford, that they might play before him to the place 
 of his habitation. 
 
 So at the time appointed he makes his approach 
 to Mansoul, and the gates were set open for him ; 
 there also I he antients and elders of the town of 
 Mansoul met him, to salute him with a thousand 
 welcomes. Then he arose and entered Mansoul, 
 he and all his servants. The elders of Mansoul 
 also went dancinu before him, till he came to the 
 castle-gates. And this was the manner of his going 
 up thither: he was clad in his golden armi>ur, he 
 rode in his royal chariot, the trumpets sounded 
 about him, the colours were displayed, his ten 
 thousands went up at his feet, and the elders of 
 Mansoul danced before him. And now were the 
 walls ot the famous town of Mansoul fiUed with 
 the tramplingsof lbs inhabitants thereof, who weni 
 
£nui//u^ls Iruifnhha^erdrif inl{? I'^iri^du/. 
 
 /iM)/„././..-//„ . l,-/./,'n.-/.-.- A /'/;,/.//,//, \- /.A/ill,,,/': ■ 
 
IOlY war. i^3 
 
 CaaifTpetfcsiea the hearf. 
 
 r.) thither to view the approach of the blessed 
 i\i;-,ce and his ioyal army. Also the casenricnts, 
 wiiidows, balcoi-ies, and topsof the Iioiises, were all 
 '.U)w filled with persons of all sorts, to behold how 
 tliviir town was io be filled with good. 
 
 Now when he was come so far into the town as 
 lo the recorder's house, he commanded that one 
 should go to captain Credence, to know whether 
 llic castle of Mansoul was prepared to entertain Im's 
 royal presence (for the preparation of that was Vdi 
 io that captain) and word was broug^ht that it was.* 
 Then was captain Credence commanded also (o 
 come forth with hispowerto meet the Prince; which 
 was done as he had commanded, and he conduct- 
 ed him into the castle. f This done, the Prince 
 that night lodged in the castle with his mighty 
 captains and men of war, to the joy of the town of 
 Mansoul. 
 
 Now the next care of the townsfolk was, how the 
 captains and soldiers of the Prince's aitmy should be 
 quartered among them ; and the care was, not how 
 they should shift their hands of them, but how Ihey 
 should fill their houses with them : forewcv man in 
 Mansoul now had that esti-em of Emanuel and 
 his men, that nothing ,<jrieved them more, than be- 
 cause they were not enlarged enough, every t)ne of 
 them, to receive the whole army of the i^ i nee ; yea, 
 
 * And put no difference between us and them, purifying their 
 hearts by faith. Acts xv. 9. 
 
 t Wherefore be yc Qot unwise, but understanding -.v.hat the m ill 
 i.r tho Lord is. Epii. iii. 17. 
 
 Y 
 
J 70 HOLV WAR. 
 
 The distribution of the forces of the Prince. 
 
 they counted i{ their glorj to.be waiting upon them, 
 and would in those daj s run at their bidding like 
 lacqueys. At last they came to this result : 
 
 1. That captain Innocenuy should quarter at 
 Mr. Reason's. 
 
 2. That captain Patience should quarter at 
 Mr. Mind's. This Mr Mind was formerly the 
 lord WiLL-BE-vviLLs clcrk in the time of the re- 
 bellion. 
 
 3. It was ordered that captain Charity should 
 quarter in Mr- Affection's house. 
 
 4. That captain Good-hope should quarter at 
 mj' lord mayor's. Now for the house of the recor- 
 der, himself desired, because his house was next to 
 the castle^, and because from him it was ordered by 
 the Prince, that if need be, the alarm should be 
 given to Mansoul : it was, I say, desired by him, 
 ihat captain Boanerges and captain Conviction 
 should take up their quarters with him, even they 
 and all their men. 
 
 5. As for captain Judgment and captain Exe- 
 cution, mv lord Will-be-will took them and 
 their men to him, because he was to rule under the 
 Prince for the good of the town of Mansoul now^ 
 as he had done before under the tyrant Diabolus 
 for the hurt and damage thereof.* 
 
 6. And throughout the rest of the town were 
 
 * I speak after the manner of men, because of the infirmity of 
 your ilcsh : for us ye have yield d your members servants to un- 
 clc.vnnt'ss, and to iniquity unto iniquity; even so now yield your 
 incinbers servants to righteousness unto holiness. Horn. vi. 19- 
 
HOLY "WAR. 171 
 
 The love of Christ shed abroad in (he hcarf. 
 
 quartered thf rest of Emanuel's forces ; but cap- 
 tain Credence, with his niei), abode still in the 
 castle. So the Prince, his captains and his soldiers, 
 were lodged in the town of Mansoul. 
 
 Now theantients and elders of the town of Man- 
 soul thought that they never should have enough of 
 the Prince Emanuel ; his person, his actions, his 
 v/ords and behaviour, were so pleasing, so laking, 
 so desirable to them. Wherefore they prayed him, 
 that though the castle of Mansoul was iiis place of 
 residence (and they desired that he might dwell 
 there for ever, ) yet that he would often visit the 
 streets, houses, and people of Mansoul ; for, said 
 they, dread sovereign, thy presence, thy looks, thy 
 smiles, thy words, are the life, strength, and sinews 
 ofthetownof Mansoul. 
 
 Besides this, they craved that they might have, 
 without difficulty or interruption, continual access 
 unto him ; so for that very purpose he comnianded 
 that the gates should stand open, that they might 
 there sec the manner of his doings, the fortifications 
 of the place, and the royal mansion-house of the 
 Prince. 
 
 When he spake, they all stopped their mouths, 
 and gave audience ; and when he walked it was 
 their delight to imitate him in his goings. 
 
 Now upon a time Emanuel made a feast for 
 the town of INIansoul ; and upon lie *'«'.is<ing-day, 
 the townsfolk were come to <he castle to oirtake of 
 the bauQuct. An(i ho fipasted them with all manner 
 
!?2 HOLY WAR. 
 
 The enjoyment of Christ's presence 
 
 of outlandish food ; food that grew not in the fields 
 of Ma IN SOUL, nor in all the whole kingdom of 
 Universe.- It was food that came from his Fa- 
 ther's court, and so there was dish after dish set be- 
 fore them, and they were commanded freely to eat. 
 But still, when a fresh dish was set before them, 
 they would whisperin/^ly say to each other ' What 
 is it?' for they wist not what to call it.* They 
 drank also of the water that was made wine ; and 
 were very merry with him. There was music nlso 
 all the while at the table, and men did cat angel's 
 food, and had honey given them out of tlie rock ; 
 .so Mansoul did eat the food that was pccuiirir ia 
 the court, yea, they had now thereof to the l"u!!.f 
 
 I naist not forget to tell you, that as a< this table 
 there were musicians, so they were not those of (he 
 couiifrv, nor yet of the town of Mansoul ; but they 
 wi^re <bc masters of the songs that were susig at 
 the court of Shaddai. 
 
 Now after ihe feast was over, Emaxuel was for 
 entertaiiiing the town with some curious riddles of 
 secret? drawn up by his Father's secretary, by ihe 
 wisdom and skill of Shaddai ; the like to these 
 thc/c are not in any kingdom. 
 
 * And when the chiidren of Israel saw it, they said one to ano. 
 Iher, It h m:inna ; for they wist not what it was. And Moses sai;! 
 unto them, This is the bread which the Lord hath given you to 
 eat. Kxod.* xvi. 1 5. 
 
 t And he rained down manna upon them to eat, and had given 
 them of tlie corn of h.avci). Man did cat angel's food, he s<?nl 
 them corn to thu full. Psal. Ixxviii. 24, 25. 
 
HOLY WAR. 17.'} 
 
 Prophecies explHine''. 
 
 Tho riddles were made up-n k'w^ Shaddai him- 
 self,, and upon Emanuel his Sod, and upon his 
 wars and doing;s witli Mansoul. 
 
 Kaianuel also expounded uuiO them some of 
 these riddles himself ; but oh how they were light- 
 ened ! They saw what thej never saw before ; thev 
 oonld not have thought that such rarities could 
 have been couched in so few and such ordinary 
 words, I told you before, whom these riddles did 
 concern ; and as they were opened the people evJ~ 
 dently saw it was so. Yea, they gathered that the 
 Ihliigs (hemsclves were a kind of portraiture, and 
 that of Emanuel himself; for when they read in 
 the scheme where the rid'dles were writ, and looked 
 in the face of tho Prince, things looked so like one 
 to ihc other, that Mansoul could not forboar, but 
 say. This is (he Lamb, this is the Sacrifice, this is 
 tiie Rock, this is iLe Red Cow, this is <he Door, 
 and <his is the Way ; and with a great many other 
 things more. 
 
 And thus he dismissed the town of IVIj^nsoui.. 
 But can you imagine how Ihe people of this cor- 
 poration were taken with his enfertainmciil ? Oh 
 they were transported wilh joy, they were drownc'l 
 with wonder, while they saw and understood and 
 considered what their Emanuel entertained them 
 withal, and what mysteries he opened to them ; and 
 when they were at home in their houses, ar'd in 
 their mo.'^t retired places, they could not but singof 
 him and of his actions. Yea, so taken wvc th« 
 
174 HOLY WAR. 
 
 The soul new modelled. 
 
 townsmen now with the Prince, that they would 
 sing of him in their sleep. 
 
 Now it was in the heart of the prince Emanu- 
 el to new-model the town of Mansoul, and to put 
 it into such a condition as might be most pleasing 
 to him, and that might best stand with the profit 
 and security of the now flourishing town of Man- 
 soul. He provided also against insurrections at 
 home, and invasions abroad : such love had he for 
 the famous town of Mansoul. 
 
 Wherefore he first of ail commanded that the 
 great slings that were brought from his Father's 
 court when he came to the town of Mansoul, 
 should be mounted, some upon the battlements ot 
 the castle, some upon the towers ; for there were 
 towers in the town of Mansoul, towers new built 
 b_y Emanuel since he came thither. There was 
 also an instrument invented by Emanuel, that was 
 to throw stones from the castle of Mansoul, out at 
 Mouth-gate ; an instrument (hat could uot be 
 resisted, nor that could miss of execution ; where- 
 fore for the wonderful exploits that it did when 
 used, it went without a name ; and it was committed 
 to the care of, and managed by, that brave capfaia, 
 the captain Credence, iu case uf war. This donCj 
 Emanuel called tiie lord Will-be-will to him, 
 and gave him in commandment to take care of ihc 
 gates, (he wall, and tovsers in Mansoul: also the 
 Prince gave him (he militia into his hand, and a 
 special charge to withstand all ir.surrections an:! 
 
HOLY WAR. J7.5 
 
 Satan's ima^e cast out. 
 
 tumults thai night be made in Mansoul against 
 the peace or o\ir Lord the King, and the peace and 
 tranquillity of the town of Mansoul. IL; also 
 gave him in commission, that if he found a:iv of 
 the DiABOLOMANs lurking in any corner of the 
 famous to%^n of Mansoul^ he should forthwith 
 apprehend them and slay them, or commit them to 
 safe custody, that they may be proceeded against 
 according to law. 
 
 Then he called unto him the lord Understand- 
 ing, who was the old lord-mayor, he that was put 
 out of place when Diabolls took the town, and 
 put him in his former office again, and it became 
 his place for his life-time. He bid him also build 
 it in fashion like a tower for a defence. He bid 
 him also read in the revelations of mysteries all 
 the days of his life, that he might know how to 
 perform his office aright. 
 
 He also made Mr. Knowledge the recorder, 
 not of contempt to old Mr. Conscience, who had 
 been recorder before ; but for that it was in his 
 princely mind to confer upon Mr. Conscience 
 another employ ; of which he told the old gentle- 
 man he should know more hereafter. 
 
 Then he commanded that the image of Diabolus 
 should be taken down from the place w here it was 
 set up ; and that they should utterly destroy it, 
 heatipg it into powder, and casting it into the w ind, 
 without the town-wall ; and that the image of SiiAD- 
 PAi his fatlier shoi^Id be set up again, with his own, 
 upon the castic-gitcs ; and that it should be more 
 
iTi) ilOLV WAll. 
 
 No rest -for lus's in a renewed mind. 
 
 fail] J drawn than over, forasniucli as both his 
 Father and himself were come to M nsoul in more 
 grace and mercy thu.n heretofore. He would also 
 tliat liib iiiime should be dose on the best o[ gold, 
 for the hononr of Mansotjl.* 
 
 After this was doiie, Emanuel c^ave out a com- 
 niaiidment, wl.ich Avas, that those three greatest 
 DiABOLONiANS sliOLild be apprehended, namely, 
 the two late lorJ-in:ivors, to wit, Mr. Increduli- 
 ty and Mr. LustinCx?, and Mr. Forget-good the 
 recorder. Resides tiiese, there were some of them 
 that DiAB')Lus made burgesses and aldermen in 
 Mansoul, that were eoramitted to ward by the 
 hand of tiie uuw valiant and right noble, the brave 
 
 lord WiLL-BE-WILL. 
 
 And these were theirnamcs : Alderman Atheism, 
 alderman liARD-iiEART, and alderman False- 
 peace. The burgesses were, Mr. No- truth, Mr 
 Pitiless, Mr. Haughty, with the like. These 
 were committed to close custody : and the gaoler's 
 name was Mr./f rur'MAn : tliis Trueman was one 
 of those that Emanuel bionght wi<b him from his 
 Fatlier's court, when at first he made a war upon 
 DiAiiOLus in the town of Mansoul. 
 
 After ibis, tiie Prince gave a charge that the 
 tliree Strang holds, which at the command of Dia- 
 BOLus tiie Diabolonians built in Mansoul, 
 should be demolished and utterly pulled down ; of 
 
 * And they shall sec bis face ; anrJ his name shall be in (heir 
 foreheads, llcv. xxii. 4. 
 
HOLY WAH. 17T 
 
 Preparations for trial. 
 
 which holdsj and their names, with their captains 
 and governors, you read a little before. But this 
 was long in doing, because of the largeness of the 
 places, and because the stones, the timber, the iron, 
 and all the rubbish, were to be carried without 
 the town. 
 
 When this was done, the Prince gcve order that 
 the lord-mayor and aldermen of Mansoul should 
 call a court of judicature, for the trial and execu- 
 tion of the DiABOLONiANs in the corporation, now 
 under the care of Mr. Trueman the gaoler. 
 
 Now when the time was come, and the court set, 
 commandment was sent to Mr. Trueman the 
 gaoler, to bring the prisoners down to the bar. Then 
 were the prisoners brought down, pinioned and 
 chained together, as the custom of the town of 
 Mansoul was. So when they were presented be**- 
 fore the lord-mayor, the recorder, and the rest of 
 the honourable bench, first the jury was impannel- 
 ed, and then the witnesses sworn. The names of the 
 jury were these : Mr Belief, Mr. True-heart, 
 Mr. Upright, Mr. Hate-bad, Mr. Love-good, 
 Mr. Seek-truth, Mr. Heavenly-mind, Mr. Mo- 
 derate, Mr. Thankful, Mr. Good-work, Mr. 
 Zeal-for-God, and Mr. Humble. The names of 
 the witnesses were Mr. Know-all, Mr. Tell- 
 true, Mr. Hate-lies, with my lord Will^be- 
 wiLL and his man, if need were. 
 
 So the prisoners were set to the bar. Then said 
 Mr. Do-right (for he was the town clerk). Set 
 Atheism totheba/, gaoler. So he was set to the 
 
ITS HOLY WAR. 
 
 Atheism tried. 
 
 bar. Then said the clerk. Atheism hold up thy 
 hand. Thou art here indicted by the name of 
 Atheism (an intruder upon the townof Mansoul), 
 for that thou hast perniciously and doubtishly 
 taught and maintained, that there is no God, and so 
 no heed to be taken to religion. This thou hast 
 done against the being, honour, and glory of the 
 iCing, and against the peace and safety of the town 
 Qf Mansoul. What sayest thou ? art thou guilty 
 ^ this indictment or not ? 
 
 Atheism. Not guilty. 
 
 Cryer. Call Mr. Know-all, Mr. Tell-trub, 
 9^d Mr. H.4TE-LIES into the court. 
 
 1^0 they were called, and they appeared. 
 
 Then said the clerk. You the witnesses for the 
 King, look upon the prisoner at the bar ; do you 
 kpow him ? 
 
 Then said .Mr. Know-all, Yes, my lord, we 
 foiow him; his name is Athezsm, he has been a 
 \e?y pestilent fellow for many years in the misera- 
 ble towu of Mansoul. 
 
 Clerk. You are sure you know him ? 
 
 Know-all. Know him ! Yes, my lord, I have 
 heretofore too often been in his company, to be at 
 this time ignorant of him. He is a Diabolonian, 
 the son of a Diabolonian ; I knew his grand- 
 fsitther and his father. 
 
 Clk. Well said : he standeth here indicted by 
 the name of Atheism, &c. and is charged that he 
 bath maintained and taught that there is no God, 
 aiOdsono heed to be taken to any religion. What 
 
HOLY WAR. 179 
 
 The wittiesBes ttamined. 
 
 saj you the King's witnesses to this ? Is he guilty, 
 or not ? 
 
 Kn. My lord, I and he were once in Villain's- 
 LANE together, and he at that time talked briskly 
 of divers opinions ; and then and there I heard 
 him say, that for his part he believed there was no 
 God : but, said he, I can profess one, and be religi- 
 ous too, if the company I am in, and the circum- 
 stances of other things shall put me upon it. 
 
 Clk. You are sure you have heard him say 
 thus? 
 
 Kn. Upon mine oath, I heard him say thus. 
 Then said the clerk, Mr. Tell-true, what say 
 you to the King's judges, touching the prisoner at 
 the bar. 
 
 Tell-true. My lord, I formerly was a great 
 companion of his (for the which I now repent me), 
 and I have often heard him say, and that with very 
 great stomach-fulness, that he believed there was 
 neither God, angel, or spirit. 
 
 Clk. Where did you hear him say so ? 
 Tfiii. In Black-mouth- lane, and in Blas- 
 phemer's-row, and in many other places besides. 
 Clk. Have you much knowledge of him ? 
 Tel. I know him to be a Diaboloian, the son 
 of a DiABOLONiAN, and an horrible man to deny a 
 Deity ; his father's name was Never-be-good, and 
 he had more children than this Atheism. I have 
 no more to say. 
 
 Clk. Mr. HATe-LiEs, look upon the prisoner 
 at the bar : do you know him ? 
 
180 HOLY WAR. 
 
 LusTiNGs indicted. 
 
 Hate-lies. My lord^ this Atheism is one of the 
 vilest wretches that ever 1 came near^ or had to do 
 with in my life ; I have heard him say there is no 
 God ; I have heard him say there is no world to 
 come, no sin, nor punishment hereafter : and more- 
 over, I have heard him say that it was as good io 
 go to a whore-house, as to hear a sermon. 
 
 Clk. Where did you hear him say these things ? 
 Hate. In Drunkard's-row, just at Rascal*s- 
 LANE end, at the house in which Mr. Impxety 
 lived. 
 
 Clk. Set him by, gaoler, and set Mr. Lustings 
 to the bar. 
 
 Mr. Lustings, thou art here indicted by . the 
 name of Lustings (an intruder upon tlie town of 
 Mansoul), for that thou hast devilishly and trai- 
 torously taughtj, by practice and filthy words, that 
 it is lawful and profitable to man to give way to his 
 carnal desires ; and that thou, for thy part, hast not, 
 nor ever wilt, deny thyself of any sinful delight as 
 long as thy name is Lustings. " How sayest thou ? 
 are thou guilty of this indictment, or not ? 
 
 Then said Mr. Lustings, My lord, I am a man 
 of high birth, and have been used to pleasures and 
 pastimes and greatness. I have not been used to 
 be snub'd for my doings, but have been left to fol- 
 low my will as if it were law. And it seem 
 strange to me that I should this day be called into 
 question for what not only I, but almost all men, 
 do either secretly or openly countenance, love, and 
 approve of. 
 
HOLV WAR. IK1 
 
 The evidence. 
 
 Clk. Sir, we concern not ourselves with your 
 greatness (though the higher the better you should 
 have been), but we are concerned, and so are you, 
 about an indictment preferred against you. How 
 say you ? are you guilty of it, or not ? 
 
 LusTiNGS. Not guilty. 
 
 Clk.. Cryer, call upon the witoesseg to stand 
 forth and give their evidence. 
 
 Cr. Gentlemen, you the witnesses for the King, 
 come and give in your evidence for our Lord the 
 King, against the prisoner at the bar. 
 
 Clk. Come Mr. Know-all, look upon the 
 prisoner at the bar. Do you know him ? 
 
 Kn. Yes, my lord, I know him. 
 
 Clk. What is his name ? 
 
 Kn. His name is Lustings : he is the son of one 
 Beastly ; his mother bare him in Flesh-street : 
 she was one Evil-concupisences' daughter. I 
 knew all the generation of them. 
 
 Clk. Well said. You have heard his indict- 
 ment : What say you to it ? is he guilty of the 
 things charged against him, or not ? 
 
 Kn. My lord, he has, as he saith, been a great 
 man indeed; and a greater in wickedness than bj 
 pedigree, more than a thousand-fold. 
 
 Clk. But what do you know of his particular 
 actions and especially with reference to his in- 
 dictment. 
 
 Kn. I know him to be a swearer, a liar, a sab- 
 bath breaker ; I know him to be a fornicator and an 
 unclean person ; I know him to be guilty of abun- 
 
182 HOLY WAR. 
 
 Incredulity indicted. 
 
 dance of evils. He has been to mj knowledge h 
 very filthy man. 
 
 Clk. But where did he use to commit his wick- 
 ednesses ? in some private corners, or more openly 
 and shamelessly ? 
 
 Kn. All the town over, ray lord. 
 Clk. Come, Mr. Tell-true, what have you 
 to say for our Lord the King, against the prisoner 
 at the bar ? 
 
 Tel. My lord, all that the first witness has 
 said, I know to be true, and a great deal more be- 
 sides. 
 
 Clk. Mr. Lustings, do you heac what these 
 gf^ntlemen say ? 
 
 Lus. 1 was ever of opinion, that the happiest life 
 that a man could live upon earth, was to keep him- 
 self from nothing that he desired in the world ; nor 
 have I been false at any iime to this opinion of mine, 
 but have lived in the love of my notions all my 
 days : nor was I ever so churlish, having found 
 such sweetness in them myself, as to keep the com- 
 mendation of them from others. 
 
 Then said the court. There hath proceeded 
 enough from his own mouth to lay him open to con- 
 demnation ; wherefore set him by, gaoler, and set 
 Mr. Incredulity to the bar. 
 
 Clk Mr. Incredulity, thou art here indicted 
 by the name of Incredulity (an intruder upon 
 the town of Mansoul) for that thou hast feloniously 
 and wioiiediy. and that when thou wert an ofiicer in 
 the town cf Mansoul, made head against the cap- 
 
HOLY WAR. 183 
 
 His conviction. 
 
 tains 01 Shaddai, when thev came and demanded 
 possession of Mansoul ; yea thou didst bid de- 
 fiance to the name, forces, and cause of the King-, 
 and didst also, as did Diabolus thy captain, stir up 
 and encourage the town of Mansoul to make 
 head against and resist the said force of tlie King, 
 What sayest thou to this indictment ? art thon 
 guFltr, or not ? 
 
 Then said Incredulity, I know not Shaddai : 
 I loved my old prince ; I thought it my duty to be 
 true to my trust, and to do what I could to possess 
 the minds of the men of Mansoul to do their ut- 
 most to resist strangers and foreigners, and with 
 might to fight against them. Nor have I, nor shall 
 I, change my opinion for fear of trouble, though 
 you at present are possessed of place and power. 
 
 Then said the court. The man, as you see, is in- 
 corrigible ; he is for maintaining his a illanies by 
 stoutness of words, and his rebellion with impudent 
 confidence. And therefore set him by, gaoler ; and 
 set Mr. F0RGET-600D to the bar. 
 
 Clk. Mr. Forget-good, thou art here indicted 
 by the name of FoRGET-Goao ( an intruder upon the 
 town of Mansoul), for that thou, when the whole 
 affairs of the town of Mansoul were in thy hand, 
 didst utterly forget to serve them in what was good, 
 and didst fall in with the tyrant Diabolus against 
 Shaddai the king, against his captains and against 
 aUhis host, to the dishonour of Shaddai, the breach 
 «f hi* law, and the endangering of the destruction 
 of the famous town of Mansoul. What sayes* 
 
184 110LY WAR. 
 
 Forget-good indicted. 
 
 thou to this indictment ? art thou guilty or not 
 guilty ? 
 
 Then said Forget-good^ Gentlemen, and at this 
 time my judges, as to the indictment by which I 
 stand accused of several crimes before you, pray at- 
 tribute my forgetfulncss to my age, and not to my 
 wilfulness ; to the craziness of my brain, and not 
 the carelessness of my mind ; and then I hope I 
 may by your charity be excused from great punish- 
 ment, though I be guilty. 
 
 Then said the court, Forget-good, Forget- 
 cooD, thy forgetfulness of good was not simply of 
 frailty, but of purpose, and for that thou didst 
 loathe to keep virtuous things in thy mind. What 
 "Was bad, thou couldst retain ; but what was good 
 thou couldst not abide to think of : thy age, there- 
 fore, and thy pretended craziness, thou makest use of 
 to blind the court withal, and as a cloak to cover thy 
 knavery. But let us hear what the witnesses have 
 to say for the King, against the prisoner at the bar. 
 Is he guilty of this indictment, or not ? 
 
 Hate. My lord, I have heard this Forget- 
 GOOD say, that he could never abide to think of 
 goodness, no not for a quarter of an hour. 
 
 Clk. Where didst thou hear him say so ? 
 
 Hate. In All-base-lane, at a house next 
 door to the sign of theCoNsciENCE-sEARED-wiTH- 
 a-hot-iron. 
 
 Clk. Mr. Know-all, what can you say for 
 our Lord the King, against the prisoner at the 
 bar ? 
 
HOLY WAR. 1S3 
 
 Mr. Hard-heart indicted. 
 
 Kn, My lord, I know the man well ; he is a 
 DiABOLONiAN, the SOU of a DiABOLONiAN, his 
 father's name was Love-naught ; and for him, I 
 have often heard him say, that he counted the 
 very thoughts of goodness the most burthensomc 
 thing in the world. 
 
 Clk. Where have you heard him say these 
 words. 
 
 Kn. In Flesh-lane^ right opposite to the 
 church. 
 
 Then said the clerk. Come, Mr. Tell-true, 
 give in your evidence concerning the prisoner at 
 the bar, about that for which he stands here, as 
 YOU see, indicted before this honourable court, 
 
 Tel. My lord, I have heard him often say, he 
 had rather think of the vilest thing, than of what 
 is contained in the holy scriptures. 
 
 Clk. Where did you hear him say such grievous 
 words .? 
 
 Tel. Where? In a great many places ; particU" 
 larly in Nauseous-street, in the house of one 
 Shameless ; and in Filth-lane, at the sign of 
 the Reprobate, next door to the Descent-into- 
 the-pit. 
 
 Court. Gentlemen, you have heard the indict- 
 ment, his plea, and the testimony of the witnesses. 
 
 Gaoler, set Mr. Hard-heart to the bar. 
 
 He is set to the bar. 
 
 Clk. Mr. Hard-heart, thou art here indicted 
 by the name of Hard-heart ( an intruder upon the 
 town of Mansoul) for that thou didst most despe** 
 
 2. A 
 
18r> HOLY WAR. 
 
 False-peace tried. 
 
 ratelyand wickedly possess the town of Mansoul 
 with impenitency and obdurateness ; and didst keep 
 them from remorse and sorrow for their evils all 
 the time of their apostacy from, and rebellion 
 against Ihe blessed king Shaddai. What sayest thou 
 to this indictment ? art thou guilty or not guilty ? 
 
 Hard. My lord, I never knew what remorse or 
 sorrow meant, in all my life : I am impenetrable, I 
 care for no man ; nor can I be pierced with man's 
 grief, their groans will not enter into my heart ; 
 "whoms<»ever I mischief, whomsoever I wrong, to 
 me it is music, when to others mourning. 
 
 Court. You see the man is a right Diabolo- 
 MIAN, and has convicted himself. Set him by, 
 gaoler, and set Mr, False- peace to the bar. 
 
 Mr. pALSErPEACE, thou art here indicted by the 
 name of False-peace (an intruder upon the town 
 of Mansoul, ), for that thou didst most wickedly 
 and satanically bring, hold, and keep the town of 
 Mansoul, both in her apostacy, and in her hellish 
 rebellion, in a false, groundless, and dangerous 
 peace, and damnable security, to the dishonour of 
 the King, the transgression of his law, and the great 
 damage of the town of Mansoul. What sayest 
 thou ? art thou guilty of this indictment, or not .'' 
 
 Then said Mr. False-peace, Gentlemen, and 
 you appointed to be my j udges, I acknowledge that 
 my name is Mr. Peace ; but that my name is 
 False-peace, I utterly deny. If your honours 
 should please to send for any that intimately know 
 me, or for the midwife that laid my mother of 
 
HOLY WAR 187 
 
 Ilis confession. 
 
 me, or for the gossips that were at ray christening, 
 they will any or all of them prove, thatmy name is 
 not False-peace hut Peace. Wherefore I can- 
 not plead to this indictment, forasmuch as my name 
 is not inserted therein ; and as is my true name, so 
 also are ray conditions. I was always a man that 
 loved to live at quiet ; and what I loved myself, 
 that I thought others might love also. Wherefore 
 when I saw that any of my neighbours laboured 
 under a disquiet mind, I endeavoured to help them 
 what I could ; and I could give many instances of 
 this good temper of mine : As, 
 
 1. When at the beginning our town of Mansoul 
 declined the ways of Shaddai, some of them after- 
 wards began to have disquieting reflections on 
 themselves for what they had done : but I, as one 
 troubled to see them disquieted, presently sought 
 out means to get them quiet again. 
 
 2. When the ways of the old world, and of So- 
 dom, were in fashion ; if any thing happened to 
 molest those that were for the customs of th« 
 present times, I laboured to make them quiet 
 again, and to cause them to act without molesta* 
 tion. 
 
 3. To come nearer home : When the wars broke 
 out between Shaddai and Diabolus, if at any 
 time I saw any of the town of Mansoul afraid of 
 destruction, I often used, by some way, device, 
 invention or other, to labour to bring them to 
 peace again. Wherefore, since I have been al- 
 ways the man of so virtuous a temper, as some say 
 
188 HOLY WAR. 
 
 The evidence comes forward . 
 
 a peace-maker is, and if a peace-maker be so de 
 serving a man as some have been bold to attest he 
 is : then let me, gentlemen, be accounted by you, 
 who have made a great name for justice and equity 
 in Mansoul, for a man that deserveth not this in- 
 human way of treatment, but liberty, and alsoa 
 licence to seek damage of those that have been my 
 accusers. v 
 
 Then said the clerk, Cryer, make proclamation. 
 
 Crier. ' O yes ! Forasmuch as the prisoner at 
 ' at the bar hath denied his name to be that which 
 ' is mentioned in the indictment; the court requireth, 
 ' that if there be any in this place, who can give in- 
 ' formation to the court, of the original and right 
 ' name of the prisoner, they would come forth and 
 ' give in their evidence : for the prisoner stands 
 * upon his own innocence. 
 
 Then came two into the court, and desired that 
 they might have leave to speak what they knew 
 concerning the prisoner at the bar ! the name of the 
 one was Search-truth, and the name of the other 
 Voucn-TRUTH : so the court demanded of these 
 men, if they knew the prisoner, and what they 
 could say concerning him ? for he stands, said they^ 
 upon his own vindication. 
 
 Then said Mr. Search-truth, My lord — 
 
 Clk. Hold ; give him his oath. Then they 
 swore him : so he proceeded. 
 
 Search-truth, My lord, I know, and have 
 known this man from a child, and can attest that his 
 name is False-peace. I knew his father ; bis 
 
HOLY WAR. 18D 
 
 The witness of Search-truth. 
 
 name was Mr. Flatterer ; and his mother, be- 
 fore she was married, was called hy the name of 
 Mrs. SooTH-up : and these two, when thej came 
 together, lived not long without this son : and when 
 he was born, they called his name False-peace. 
 I was his playfellow, only I was somewhat older 
 than he ; and when his mother used to call him 
 home from his play, she would say to him. False- 
 peace, False-peace, come home quick, or I will 
 fetch you. Yea, I knew him when he sucked; 
 and though I was then but little, yet I can remem- 
 ber, that when his mother used to sit at the door 
 with him, or played with him in her arms she, 
 would call him twenty times together ' mv little 
 ' False-peace, my pretty False-peace,' and, 'O 
 ' my sweet rogue False-peace,' and again, ' O my 
 'little bird. False-peace,' and ' How do I love my 
 ' child !' The gossips also know it is thus, 
 though he has had the face to deny it in open 
 court. 
 
 Then Mr. Vouch-truth was called upon to 
 speak what be knew of him. So they sware him. 
 
 Then said Mr. Vouch-truth, My lord, all that 
 the former witness hath said, is true : his name 
 is False-peace, the son of Mr. Flatterer and 
 Mrs. SooTH-up his mother. And I have in former 
 times seen him angry with those that called him 
 any thing else but False-peace, for he would say 
 that all such mocked and nicknamed him ; but this 
 was at the time when Mr False-peace was a 
 
190 HOLY WAR. 
 
 The Court's address. 
 
 great man, and when the Diabolonians were the 
 brave men in Maisj^oul. 
 
 Court. Gentlemen, you have heard what tijcse 
 two men have sworn against the prisoner at the bar. 
 And now, Mr. False-peace, to you : you have 
 denied your name to be False-peace ; yet you see 
 that these honest men have sworn that this is your 
 name. As to your plea, in that you are quite be- 
 sides the matter of your indictment, you are not bj 
 it charged for evil doing, because you are a man of 
 peace, or a peace-maker among your neighbours; 
 but that you did wickedly and satanically bring, 
 keep, and hold the town ofMANsouL, both under 
 its apostacy from, and in its rebellion against its 
 King, in a false, lying, and damnable peace, con- 
 trary to the law of Shaddai, and to the hazard of 
 the destruction of the then miserable town of Man- 
 soul. All that you have pleaded for yourself, is, 
 that you have denied your name, &c. but here you 
 see, we have witness to prove that you are the 
 man. 
 
 For the peace that you boast so much of making 
 among your neighbours, know. That the peace that 
 is not a companion of truth and holiness, but is 
 ■without this foundation, is grounded upon a lie, and 
 is both deceitful and damnable, as also the great 
 Shaddai hath said: thy plea therefore hath not 
 delivered thee from what by thy indictment thou 
 art charged with, but rather it doth fasten all upoo 
 thee. 
 
irOLY WAR. 191 
 
 The evidence. 
 
 Cut thou shalt have very fair play: let us call 
 the witnesses that are to testify as to matters of 
 fact, and see what they have to say for our Lord the 
 King, against the prisoner at the bar ? 
 
 Clk. Mr. Know-all, what say you for our 
 Lord the king against the prisoner at the bar. 
 
 Kn. My lord, this man hath for a longtime 
 fnade it, to my knowledge, his business to keep the 
 town of Man SOUL in a sinful quietness, in the midst 
 of all her lewdness, filthiness, and turmoils ; and 
 hath said, and that in my hearing. Come, come, let 
 us fly from all trouble, on what ground soever it 
 comes, and let us be for a quiet and peaceable life, 
 though it wanteth a good fonndation. 
 
 Clk.. Come Mr. Hate-lies, what have you to 
 say ? 
 
 Hate. My lord, I have heard him say, that 
 peace, though in a way of unrighteousness, is better 
 than trouble with truth. 
 
 Clk. Where did you hear him say this ? 
 
 Hate. I heard him say it in Folly-yard, at 
 the house of one Mr. Simple, next door to the sign 
 of the Self-deceiver. Yea, he hath said this to 
 my knowledge, twenty times in that place. 
 
 Court. We may spare further witness ; this 
 evidence is plain and full. Set him by, gaoler, and 
 set Mr. No-truth to the bar. Mr. No- 
 truth, thou art here indicted by the name of 
 No-truth (an intruder upon the town of Man- 
 soul), for that thou hast always to the dishonour 
 of Shaddai, and to the endangering of the utter 
 
19& HOLY WAR. 
 
 No-truth indicted. 
 
 ruin of the famous town of Mansoul, set thyself 
 to deface, and utterly to spoil all the remainders of 
 the law and image of Shaddai, that have been 
 found in Mansoul, after her deep apostacy from 
 her King, to Diabolus, that envious tyrant. What 
 sayest thou ? Art thou guilty of this indictment, 
 or not ? 
 
 No-TKUTH. Not guilty, my lord. 
 
 Then the witnesses were called ; and Mr. Know- 
 all first gave in his evidence against him. 
 
 Kn. My lord, this man was at the pulling down 
 of the image of Shaddai ; yea^ this is he that did 
 it with his own hands. I myself stood by and saw 
 him do it, and he did it at the commandment of 
 Diabolus. Yea, this Mr. No-trute did more 
 than this, he did also set up the horned images of 
 the beast Diabolus, in the same place. This is 
 also he that, at the bidding of Diabolus, rent and 
 tore, and caused to be consumed, all that he could 
 of the remainders of the law of the King, even 
 whatever he could lay his hands on in Mansoul. 
 
 Clk. Who saw him do this besides yourself? 
 
 Hate. I did, my lord, and so did many others 
 beside : for this was not done by stealth, or in a 
 corner, but in the open view of all ; yea, he chose 
 himself to do it publicly, for he delighted in doing 
 it. 
 
 Clk. Mr. No-truth, how could you have the 
 face to plead not guilty, when you were so mani- 
 festly the doer of all this wickedness ? 
 
 No. Sir, I thought I must say something ; and as 
 
HOLY WAR* J03 
 
 Pitiless indicted. 
 
 my iiiimc is, so I speak,: I have been advantaged 
 t!)creb}' before now, and did not know but, by apeak- 
 iiig no -truth, I might have reaped the same benefit 
 now. 
 
 CiR. Set hini by, gaoler, and set Mr. PiTiLEsa 
 to the bar. Mr. Pitiless, thou art here indict- 
 ed by the name of Pitiless (an intruder upon tlie 
 town of Mansoul) forthat thou didst most treach- 
 erously and wickedly shut up all bowels of corapas- 
 si(;n, and wouldst not suffer poor Mansoul to 
 condole her own misery, when she had apostatized^ 
 ffom her rightful king ; but didst evade, and at all 
 times turn her mind away from those thoughts tliat 
 bad in them a tendency to lead her to repentance.^ 
 >Vhat sayest ihou to this indictment ? Guilty, or not 
 g'l'i^ty ? i 
 
 Pitiless. Not guilty of pitilessncss; all I did 
 was to cheer up, according to my name ; for my 
 name is not Pitiless, but Cheau-up ; and I 
 could not abide to see Mansoul inclined to me- 
 lancholy. . , . 
 
 . Clr. How ! do you deny y()ur name, and say it 
 is not Pitiless, but Cuear-up ? Call f«)r witness: 
 what say you the witness to this plea ? 
 
 Kn. My lord, his name is Pitiless ; so he hath 
 wrote himself in all papers of concern wherein he 
 lias had to do. But these Diabolonians love to 
 counterfeit their names : Mr. Covetousness co- 
 vers himself with the name of Good-uusbandrt,' 
 orthelike: Mr. Pkide, can, >vben need isj caH 
 
194 HOLY WAR. 
 
 Hacghty set to the bar. 
 
 himself Mr. Neat, Mr. Handsome, or the like, and 
 so all the rest of thora. 
 
 Clk. Mr. Tell-true, what say you ? 
 
 Tel. His name is Pitiless, my lord : I haT6 
 known him from a child ; and he hath done all that 
 wickedness wherewith he stands charged in the in- 
 dictment ; but there is a company of them that are 
 not acquainted with the danger of damning, there- 
 fore they call all those melancholy, who have se«» 
 rious thoughts how that state should be shunned 
 by them, 
 
 Clk. Set Mr. Haughty to the bar, gaoler. * 
 
 Mr. Haughtv, thou art here indicted by the name 
 of Haughty (an intruder upon the town of Man- 
 soul,) for that thou didst most traitorously and 
 devilishly teach the town of Mansoul to carry it 
 loftily and stoutly against the summons that were 
 given fhem by the captains of the King Shaddai. 
 Thou didstalso teach the town of Mansoul to speak 
 contemptuously and vilifying of their great King 
 Shaddai ; and didst moreover encourage, both by 
 words and example, Mansoul to take up arms both 
 against the King, and his son Emanuel. How say^ 
 est thou ? art thou guilty of this indictment or not ? 
 
 Haughty. Gentlemen, I have always been a 
 man of courage and valour, and have not used, when 
 under the greatest clouds, to sneak and hang down 
 the head like a bulrush ; nor did it at all at any time 
 please me to see men veil their bonnets to those that 
 have opposed them. Yea^ though their adversa- 
 
HOLY WAR. 195 
 
 Addrcsg to the jury. 
 
 ries seemed to have ten times the adrantage of them. 
 I did not use to consider who was my foe, nor 
 what the cause was in which I was engaged ; it was 
 enough for me^ if I carried it bravely, fought like 
 a man, and came off a victor. 
 
 Court. Mr. Haughty, vou are not here in- 
 dicted for that jou have been a valiant man, nor 
 for your stoutness and courage in times o-f distress • 
 but for that you have made use of this your pre- 
 tended valour to draw the town of Mansoul into 
 acts of rebellion both against the great King and 
 Emanuel his Son. This is the crime, and the 
 thing wherewith thou art charged in and by the in- 
 dictment. But he made no answer to that. 
 
 Now when the court had thus far proceeded 
 agamst the prisoners at the bar, then they put 
 them over to the verdict of their jury, to whom 
 they addressed themselves after this manner : 
 
 Court. Gentlemen of the jury, you who have 
 been here, and have seen these men : you who have 
 heard their indictments, their pleas, and what the 
 witnesses haye testified against them : now what re- 
 mains is, that you forthwith withdraw yourselves 
 to some place, where without confusion you may 
 consider of what verdict in a way of truth and 
 righteousness, you ought to bring in for the King 
 against them, and bring it in accordingly. 
 
 Then the jury, to wit, Mr. Belief, Mr. True- 
 heart, Mr. Upright, Mr. Hate-ead, Mr. Love- 
 good, Mr. See-truth, Mr. Heavenly -mind, 
 Mr. Moderate, Mr. Thamifui Mr. Humble, 
 
If 5 HOLY \y.\R, 
 
 IVIr. GooD-woKK, and Mr. Zeal-for-god witli- 
 withdrew themselves, in order to their work. Now 
 w'henthcj were shut up bj themselves, Ihej fell to 
 discourse among- themselves, in order to the drawing 
 up of their verdict. 
 
 • ^nd thus Mr. Belief (for he was the foreman) 
 be-an : ' Gentlemen, (quoth he) for the men, the 
 ' prisoners at the bar ; for raj part I believe that 
 'Uiey all deserve death.' ' Very righ(/ said Mr. 
 True-heart, '1 am wholly of jonr opicioD/ 
 ' And so ami/ said Mr. Upkight. 'O what a 
 ' mercy it is,' said Mr. Hate bad, that such vil^ 
 ' lains as these are apprehended !' ' Aj. ay/ said 
 Mr. Love-good, ' this is one of the joyfullest days 
 ' that ever I saw m my life.' Then said Mr. See- 
 truth, ' I know tiiat if we judge them to death, 
 I'ourverdict shall stand before Shaddai himself. ' 
 ' Nor do I at all question it,' said Mr. Heavenly- 
 i«rND ; he said, moreover, ' when all such beasts 
 f as these are cast out of Mansoul, what a goodly 
 Mown will it be then !' Then said Mr. Mode^- 
 RATE, 'It is not in my manner to pass my jud"-- 
 Mnent with rashness: but for these, their crimes 
 ' are so notorious, and the witness so palpable, that 
 'that man must be wilfully blind who savs the 
 ' prisoners ought not to die.' ' Blessed be God/ 
 said Mr. Thankful, ' the (raitors are safe in cus- 
 *tody.' 'And I join with you in this upon my 
 ' bare knees,' said Mr. Hums le. ' I am also 
 'glad/ said Mr. GooD-woKK. Thert said the 
 ^variu man, and true-hearted Mr. Zeal-for-G^d 
 
'HOLY WAR. I^ 
 
 Sentcnco of leath. 
 
 ; Cut them off ; they have been the plague, and 
 ' sought the destruction of Maxsou l.' 
 
 Thus therefore being all agreed in their verdict, 
 they came instantly into the court. 
 
 Clk. Gentlemen of the jury, answer all to your 
 names. Mr. Belief, one : Mr. True-heart, 
 two : Mr. Upright, three : Mr. Hate-ead, f'^ur : 
 Mr. LovE-GOOD, fire : Mr. See-truth, six : IVfr. 
 Heavenly-mind, seven : Mr. Moderate, eiglit : 
 Mr. Thankful, nine : Mr. Humble ten : Mr. 
 GooD-woRR, eleven : and Mr. Zeal-for-God, 
 twelve : Good men and true, stand together ia 
 your verdict ; are you all agreed ? 
 
 Jury. Yes, my lord. 
 
 Clk. Who 5ha!l speak for you ? 
 
 Ju. Our foreman. 
 
 Plk. You, the gentlemen of the jury^ befngrim- 
 pannelled for our Lord the King, to serve here in a 
 rnatter of life and death, have heard the tri is of 
 each of these men, the prisoners at the bar : what 
 say you ? are they guilty of that, and those crimes,, 
 fW which they stand here indicted, or are they not 
 guilty ? 
 
 Foreman. Guilty, my lord. 
 
 Clk. Look to your prisoners, gaoler. 
 
 This was done in the morning, and in the after- 
 noon they received sentence of death according to 
 law. 
 
 The gaoler, therefore, having received such a 
 charge, put them all in the inward prison, to pre- 
 
198 " HOLY WAR. 
 
 Incredulity escapes. 
 
 serve them there till the day of execution, which 
 \vas to be the next morning-. 
 
 But now to sec how it happened, one of the pri- 
 soners, iNCRtDULiTY bj n&me, in the interim be- 
 twixt the sentence and time of execution broke pri- 
 son and made his escape, and got him quite out ot 
 the town of Mansoul, and lay lurking in such 
 places and holes as he might, until he should again 
 have opportunity to do the town of Mansoul a 
 mischief for their thus handling of him as they did. 
 
 Now when Mr. Trueman the gaoler perceived, 
 that he had lost his prisoner, he was in a heavy 
 taking, because he (that prisoner we speak of) was 
 the very worst of all the gang ; wherefore, first he 
 goes and acquaints my lord-mayor, Mr. Recorder, 
 and my lord Wjll-be-will, with the matter, and 
 to get of them an order to make search for hira 
 throughoutthe town of M.ANspyL. So an ofder he 
 got, and search was made, but no such man coulcj 
 DOW be found in all the tows of Mansoul. 
 
 All that could be gathered, was, that he had lur- 
 ked awhile about the outside of the town, and that 
 bere and there one or other had a glimpse of him ag 
 he made his escape out of Mansoul ; one or two 
 also affirmed that they saw hira without the town, 
 going apace quite over the plain. Now when he 
 was quite gone, it was affirmed by one Mr. Did- 
 SEE, that he ranged all over dry places, till he met 
 with Diabolus his friend; and where should they 
 meet one another but upon Hell-gate-hill, 
 
HOLYWAK. 199 
 
 Incredulity describes the state of Mansowl. 
 
 But Oh ! what a Icamen^able story (lid the old 
 g;entlemaii tell to Diabohis conccrtiini^ what sad 
 alteration Emanuel had made in Mansoul. 
 
 Asj first, how Mansoul had, after some delays, 
 received a general pardon at the hands of Emanu- 
 el; n.nd that they had invited him into the town, 
 and had given him the castle for his possession. 
 He said moreover, that they had called his soldiers 
 into the town^ coveted who should quarter the most 
 of them ; they also entertained him with the timbrel, 
 song, and dance. But that, said iNCREDULixy, 
 that is the sorest vexation to me, that he hath pulird 
 down, O father, thy image, and set up his own ; 
 pulled down thy officers, and set up his own. Yea, 
 acd WiLL-BE-wiLL, that rebel, who, one would 
 have thought, should never have turned from u«, is 
 now in as great favour with Emanuel as ever he 
 was with thee. But, besides all this, this Will-ee- 
 wiLL has received a special commission from his 
 Master, to search for, to apprehend, and lo put to 
 death, all and all manner of Diaeolonians that he 
 shall find in Mansoul : yea, and this Will-ee- 
 wiLLhas committed to prison already eight of my 
 lord's most trusty friends in Mansoul ; nay further 
 my lord, (with grief I speak it, ) they have been all 
 arraigned, condemned, and I doubt before this, ex- 
 ecuted in Mansoul. I told my lord of eight ; and 
 myself was the ninth, who should assuredly have 
 drunk of the same cup, but that through craft I 
 have made mine escape from them. 
 
 When Diacolus had heard this lamentable story. 
 
200 HOLY WAR. 
 
 The soul must crucify its own lusts. 
 
 he jelled, and snuffed up the wind like a dragon, 
 and made the sky look dark with bis roaring: he 
 also swore that he would try to be revenged ot 
 Mansoul for this. So they concluded to I'nter in- 
 to great consultation^ how they might get the town 
 of Mansoul again. 
 
 Now before this time the day was come, in the 
 which, the prisoners in Mansoul were to be ex- 
 cuted.* So they were brought to the Cross, and 
 that by Mansoul, in mostsolcmn manner : for the 
 Prince said, that this should be done by the hand of 
 the town of Mansoul : that I may sec, said he, 
 the forwardness of my new redeemed Mansoul to. 
 keep my word, and to do my commandments ; and 
 that I may bless Mansoul in doing this deed.f 
 Proof of sincerity pleases me well, let Mansoul 
 therefore first Tay their hands upon these Diabglo- 
 NiANs to destroy them. 
 
 So the town of Mansoul slew them, according 
 to the word of their Prince : but when the prison- 
 ers were brought to the Cross to die, you can hard- 
 ly believe what troublesome work Mansoul had of 
 
 * For if ye live after the flesh ye shall die. Rom. viii. 13.... 
 Let not sin, therefore, reign in your mortal body, that ye should 
 obey it ia the lusts thereof : neither yield ye your membprs as in. 
 strnmentu of unrighteousness unto sin : but yield yourselves unta 
 God, as those that are alive from the dead, and your members as 
 instruments of righteousness unto God. For sin shall not have 
 dominion over you : for ye are not under the law but under 
 grace. Rom. vi. 12, 13, 14. 
 
 t Aud they tuat are Christ's have crucified the flesh, with tli-' 
 nffectiong and lusts. Gal. v. 24. 
 
HOLY WAR, 2D1 
 
 Tlie evecuttons of the lustj of tbe soul. 
 
 it to put the DiABOLONiANs to death ; foj the men 
 knowing that the V raustdie^ end all of them having 
 implacable enmit}' ia their heart to Mansou l, what 
 did the^ do hut take courage atthe Crosa, and there 
 resist the men of the town of Mansou L ? Where- 
 fore the men of Man soul were forced to ciy out for 
 help to the captains and men of war. Now the great 
 SiiADOAi had a secretary inthe town, and he was a, 
 great lover of the men of Mansoul, and he was at 
 the place of execution also : so he hearing the men 
 of MANsoyi^cryout against the struggling^ i4nd un-: 
 •jliness of the prisoners^ rose up from his place, and 
 came and put his hand upon the hands of the men 
 #f Mansoul. So they, crucified the Diarolo:- 
 ^lANS that had been ^ plague^ a grief, and dn of- 
 fenjie to the town of Mansoiil, . , 
 
 Now when this good work was done, the Prince 
 came down to see, to visit, to speak comfortably to 
 ^he men of Mansoul^ ?ind to strengthen, their 
 hands in such work. And he said to them, that by 
 this work of theirs he had proved them, and found 
 l[hem to be lovers of his person, obser.vcrs of his 
 laws, £^nd such as had also respect to his hpno'iir. 
 He said moreover (to shew them that they by this 
 should not be losers, nor the town of Mansoul 
 weakened by the loss of them, ) that he. would make 
 ihem another captain, and that of one of themselves ; 
 and (hat this captain should be the ruler of a thou- 
 sand, for the good and benefit of the now flourishing 
 iown of MiiNsouL. 
 
 So he called one to bim whose came \rai Wait-^ 
 
 € C 
 
i?02 HOLY WAR. 
 
 Experience exalted. 
 
 ING, and said to him. Go quickly. up to the castle- 
 gate, and inquire there for one Mr. Experience, 
 that waiteth upon that noble captain, the captain 
 Credence, and bid him come hitherto me. So 
 the messenger that waited upon the good Prince 
 Emanuel went, and said as he was commanded. 
 Now the young "gentleman was waiting to see the 
 captain train and muster his men in the castle-yard. 
 Then said Mr. Waiting to him. Sir, the Prince 
 would that you should come down to his highness 
 forthwith. So he brought him down to Emanuel, 
 and he came and made obeisance before him. Now 
 the men of the town knew Mr. Experience well, 
 for he was born and bred in Mansoul ; they also 
 knew him to be a man of conduct, of valour, and s 
 person prudent in matters ; he was also a comely 
 person, well spoken, and very successful in hig un- 
 dertakings. 
 
 Wherefore the hearts of the townsmen were 
 transported with joy, when they saw that the Prince 
 himself was so taken with Mr. Experience, that 
 he would needs make him a captain. 
 
 80 with one consent they bowed the knee before 
 Emanuel, and with a shout said. Let Emanuel 
 live forever ! Then said the Prince to the young 
 gentleman, whose name was Mr. Experience, I 
 have thought good to confer upon thee aplace of ti ust 
 aud honour, in this my town of Mansoul (then the 
 young raao bowed his head and worshipped : ) it it, 
 said Emanuel, thr.t thou shouldest be a captain, a 
 fiaptaifl over a thousand meaiii my beloved town of 
 
HOLY WAR. SOS 
 
 ■ ■'■■' - ' '■ — 
 
 His commission scaled. 
 
 Mansoul. Then said the caplain. Let the King 
 live ! So the Prince gave out orders forthwith to 
 the King's secretary, that he should draw up for 
 Mr. Experience a commission to make him a 
 captain over a thousand men ; and let it be brought 
 to me, said he, that I may set to my seal. So it was 
 done as commanded. The commission was drawn 
 up, brought to Emanuel, and beset his seal there- 
 to. Then by the hand of Mr. Waiting, he sent ijt 
 away to the captain. 
 
 Now so soon as the captain had received his com- 
 mission, he sounded his trumpet for volunteers, and 
 young men came to him apace ; yea, the greatest 
 and chief men in the town sent their sons to be listed 
 under his command. Thus captain Experience 
 came under command to E manuel, for thegood 
 of the towi) of Mansoul. He had for his lieu- 
 tenant one Mr. Skilful, and for his cornet one Mr. 
 MEMORY. His under officers I need not name. 
 His colours were the white colours for the town of 
 Mansoul ; ard his scutcheon was the dead lion 
 and the dead bear. So the Prince returned to .hii 
 royal palace again. 
 
 Now when he was returned thither, the elders of 
 the town of Mansoul, to wit, my lord-mayor, the 
 recorder, and the lord Will-bb-wili, went to con- 
 gratulate hira, and in special way to thank him for 
 his love, rare, and the tender compassion which he 
 •hewed, to his ever-obliged town of Mansoul. So 
 after a while, and some sweet communion betwe^2| 
 
^ HOLY WAR. 
 
 The charter renewed. 
 
 them, the townsmen having solemnly ended their 
 ceremony, returned to their place again. 
 
 Emanuel also appointed them a day wherein he 
 would renew their charter, yea, wherein he would 
 renew and enlarge it, mending several faults therein, 
 that Mansoul's yoke might be yet more e^sJ. 
 And this he did without any desire of theirs^ even 
 of his own frankness and noble mind, iSo when he 
 had sent for and seen their old one, he laid it by, 
 and said, " Now that which decayeth and waxeth 
 f^old, is ready to vanish away."* He said, moreover, 
 IXhetown of Mansoul shall have another, another 
 iand abetter. An epitome of which take as fol- 
 Jews : 
 
 ' 1 Emanuel, Prince of peace and a great 
 ' lover of the town of Mansoul, do, in the natie 
 ' of my Father, and of my own clemency, give, 
 
 * grant, and bequeath to my beloved town of Man- 
 f 80UL : ' 
 
 * First, Free and full forgiveness of all wrongs, 
 
 * injuries, and offences, done by them against my 
 
 * Father, me, their neighbours, or themselves. f 
 
 • In that hesaith, A new covenant, he hath made the first old., 
 Kow that which decayeth and waxeth old is ready to vanish away* 
 ileb. Viji. iq. 
 
 + For I will be merciful to their unrighteousness, and their sins 
 and their iniquities win r remember no more. Heb. viii. 12. ..o 
 For I have given unto them the words which thou gavest mc : and 
 they have received them, and have known surely that I came out 
 from thee, and they hav-e believed that thou didst send irie, Johs^ 
 
T,7iiiituu/ /^nints r/ /hir (7t///i</ /r M/ ////('///. 
 
 lU)l^edas t/i/;.4ct/f^ircf.^ CSri^h^^nSnjia/ley.Biin^ay.MojA 
 
HOLY WAR. 205 
 
 Thp coDdi'ion* of it. 
 
 ' Secondly, I do give them the holy law, and ray 
 'testament, with all therein contained, for their 
 f. everlasting comfort and consolation * 
 
 ' Thirdly, 1 do also give them a portion of the 
 
 * self-same grace and goodness that dwells iu my 
 
 * Father's heart and mine. 
 
 ' Fourthly, I do give, grant, and bestow upon 
 ' them freely, the world and what is therein, for 
 'their good.f And they shall have that power 
 ' over it, as shall stand with the honour of my Fa- 
 ' ther, my glory, and their comfort, yea, I errant 
 
 * them the benefits of life and death, and of things 
 'present and things to come. This privilege, no 
 
 * other city, town, or corporation shall have, but my 
 ' Mansoul only, 
 
 'Fifthly, I do give and grant them leave, and 
 ' free access to me in my palace at all seasons, there 
 
 * to make known their wants to me ; and I give 
 ' them moreover a promise, that I will hear and 
 ' redress all their grievances ,;|; 
 
 - • Whereby are given unto us exceeding great and precious pro- 
 mises : that by these yc might be partakes of the divine nature, 
 having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust. 
 9. Pet. i. 4.. .We then, as workers together with him, beseech you 
 also that ye receiye not the grace of God in rain. i. Cor. yi. 1. 
 
 f Therefore let no man glory in men, For all things are yours; 
 whether Paul, or Apollog, or Cephas, or the world, or life, or 
 death, ortbingi present, or things to come ; all are yours. 1. Cor. 
 ni. 21, 22. 
 
 I Having, therefore, brclkren, boldness to enter into the holiest 
 by the blood of Jesus, By a new and living way, which ht hath 
 Consecrated fqr us through the veil, that is to say, the Uesb. list), s. 
 
^5 ' HOLY WAR. 
 
 Grants and immunities. 
 
 ' Sixthly, I i\o give, grant to^ andinvestlhe town 
 ' of Mansoul with full power and authority to 
 ' seek out, take, enslave, and destroy, all and all 
 ' manner of Diabolonians, that at any time, from 
 ' whence soever, shall be found straggling in or 
 ' about the town of Mansoul. 
 
 ' Seventhly, I do further grant to my beloved 
 ' town of Mansoul, that they shall have authority 
 ' not to suffer any foreigner or stranger, or their 
 
 * seed, to be free in and of the blessed town of 
 ' Mansoul, nor to share in the excellent privileges 
 'thereof; but that all the grants, privileges, and 
 ' immunities, that I bestow upon the famous towo 
 
 * of Mansoul, shall be for those the old natives^ 
 
 * and true inhabitants thereof : to them, I sav and 
 ' to their right seed after them.* But all Os abo- 
 ' LONiANs, of what sort, birth, couutr),, cr king- 
 ' dom soever, sliall be debarred a share therein.* 
 
 So when the town of Mansoul had received their 
 gracious charter (which iiiitseif is infinitely mor^ 
 
 18, 20.... Ask, and it shall be given you : seek, and je shall jfind; 
 knock, and it shall be opened unto ; oa. Mat. vii. J. 
 
 * That ye put off, conceniing the former conversation, the old 
 man, which is corruptaccordingtothe deceitfullusts. Eph. iv. 22, 
 Mortify, tht-rcforc, your members which are upon the earth ; for- 
 nication, unclcanness, inordinate affection, evil concupiscence, 
 and covotousness, which is idolatry. For which things' sake the 
 wrath of God Cometh on the children of disobedience. In the which 
 ye also walked sometime, whenye lived in them, Butnow ye also 
 put off all these ; anger, wrath, malice, bl-asphemy, liltby commu, 
 nication out of your mouth. Lie not one to another, scciugthat 
 ye have tut off the old man with his deeds. Col, ill. 5. .9, 
 
HOLY WAR. 207 
 
 Joy in Mansoul. 
 
 large,) tbey carriid it to audience, that is, to the 
 market-place, and there Mr. Recorder rend it in the 
 presence of all the people.* This being done, it 
 was had back to the castle-gates, and there fairly 
 engraven upon the doors theieof, an/i laid in letters 
 of gold, to the end that the town of Mansuul, with 
 all the people thereof, might have it always in their 
 view, or might go where th'^y might see what a 
 blessed freedom their prince had bestowed upon 
 tliem, that their joy might be increased in them- 
 selves, and their love renewed to their great and 
 good Emanuel. 
 
 But what jov, what comfort, what consolation, 
 think you, did now possess the hearts of the menof 
 Mansoul ! The bells rung, the minstrels played, 
 the people danced, the captains shouted^ the colours 
 waved in the wind, the silver trumpets sounded, 
 and all the Diabolonians were now glad to hide 
 their hands. 
 
 "When this was over, the Prince sent for the 
 elders of Mansoul, and communed with them 
 about a ministry he intended to establisli among 
 them ; such a ministry that might open unto them, 
 and instruct them in the thmgs that concerned their 
 present and future state ; for, said he, you, of your- 
 selves, unless you have teachers and guides, will not 
 
 ♦ But this shall be the coTenantthat I will make with the house 
 of Israel ; after those days^ saith the Lord, I will put my law in 
 their inward parts, and write it in theirhearts, and will be tb«jr 
 Cod, and they shall be Ay people. J«r. xizi. 39. 
 
f08 HOLY WAR. 
 
 — „ — ■ " 
 
 A ministry proposed. 
 
 be able to know, and, if not to know, to be sure not 
 to do the will of my Father.* , 
 
 At this news, when the eiders of Mansoue. 
 brought it to the people, the whole town caipe run- 
 ning tofijetlicr ( for it pleased them Well, as whatcveF 
 the Prince did n6w plea.sed the people, ) and all with 
 one consent implored his Majesty/ that he would 
 forthwith establish such a ministry afnong them, as 
 might teach them both law a»d judgment, statute 
 and commandment ; that they nii^htbe document- 
 ed in all good and wholesome things. So he told 
 them he would grant their requests ; and would es- 
 tablish two among them, one that was of tiis Father's 
 court, and one that wa6 a native of Mansoul. 
 
 He that is from the court, said he, is a person of 
 no less quality and dignity than my Father and I.f 
 And he is the Lord Chief Secretary of my Father'i. 
 house; for he is, and always has been, the chieif 
 dictator of all my Father's laws ; a persoil welt 
 skilled in all mysteries, and knowledge of mysteries, 
 as is my Father, or as myself is. Indeed he is on4 
 
 • O Lord, I know fh'af the way of man is not in himself: it is 
 not in man that walketh to direct his steps. Jer. x. 23...Butth« 
 natural man receivcth not the things of the Spirit of God ; for they 
 »re foolishness unto him : neither can he know them because the/ 
 il^e spiritually discerned, 1 Cotoil. 14. 
 
 •f- For the prophecy came not in old time by the will of man ; but 
 holy men of God spalte as they were m'oyed by the FloTy Ghosf.' 
 ^. Pet. i. 21...ButGod hath revealed them unto usbyhis Spirit; 
 tor the Spirit searcheth all things, yea, the deep things of God, 
 1 Cor. ii. io,...lnthebeginning was the Word, and the WerdMf»# 
 tirith God, and the Word was God. John. i. 1. 
 
HOLY WAR. 909 
 
 The teaching of God's Spirit. 
 
 with 118 in nature^and also as to loving of, and being 
 faithful to, and in the eternal concerns of, the town 
 of Mansoul. 
 
 And this is he, said the Prince, that must be your 
 chief teacher ; for 'tis he, and he only, that can 
 teach you clearly in all high and supernatural 
 things : he, and he only it is, that knows the ways 
 aud methods of my Father's court ; nor can any, 
 like him, shew how the heart of my Father is at all 
 limes, in all things, upon all occasions, towards 
 Mansoul; for, " as no man knows the things of 
 *' a man, but the spirit of a man which is in him ;'* 
 so the things of ray Father knows no man but thia 
 his high and mighty secretary ;* nor can any, as 
 iie, tell Mansoul how and what they shall do io 
 keep themselves in the love of my Father. He also 
 it is that can bring lost things to your remembrance, 
 and that can tell yon things to come. This teacher 
 therefore must have the pre-eminence, both in your 
 affections and judgment, before }"our other teacher ; 
 his personal dignity, the excellency of his teaching. 
 
 » But the Comforter, which is the Holy Ghost, whom the Father 
 will send in my name, he sliall teach you all things, and bring all 
 fhinga to your remembrance, whatsoever I have said unto yoa, 
 John. xiy. g6'...Howbeit when he, the Spirit of truth, is come, h« 
 will guide you into ail tr^lli : for he shall not speak of h%i5e!f j 
 but whatsoever he shall hear, that shall he speak ; andhewill shevT 
 5011 things io come. xvi. 13...But theanointingwhich yeliave v^j, 
 ceived of him abidcth in you, and ye need not that any man teach 
 you : but as the same anointing tcacheth you of all things^ and 
 is truth, and is no lie, "and even .is it hath taught you, ye*Lail 
 abide in him. 1 John ii. 27. 
 
 Dd 
 
810 ffOLY WA^. 
 
 The Spirit teaches to pray. 
 
 also the great dexterity that he halh to assist vou 
 (o make and draw up petitions to my Father for 
 jour help and to his pleasing, must lav ohligations 
 upon you to love him, fear him, and to take heed 
 that you grieve him not. 
 
 This Person can put life and vigour into all he 
 says : yea, and can also put it iuio your heart. 
 This Person can make seers of you, and can m^ake 
 you tell what shall be hereafter. f By this Person, 
 you must frame all your petitions to my Father and 
 Me ; and without his advice and counsel first ob- 
 tained, let nothing enter into the town or castle of 
 Mansoul, for that may disgust and grieve this 
 noble Person. 
 
 • For our gospel came not unto you in word only, but also in 
 power, and in the Holy Ghost, and in much assurance ; as ye know 
 what manner of men we were among you for your sake. And ye 
 became followers of us, and of the Lord, having reci ived the word 
 in muchaflliction with joy of the Holy Ghost. 1 Thts. i. 5, G, 
 
 t And when he was come unto us, he took Paul's girdle, an3 
 bound his own hands and feet, and said, Thnssaith the Holy 
 Ghost, So shall the Jews at Jerusalem bind the man that owneth 
 this girdle, and shall deliver him into the hands of the Gentiles. 
 Actsxxi. 11.. But ye, beloved, building up yourselves in your most 
 holy faith, praying in the Holy Ghost. Jude, 20. ..Praying always 
 with all prayer and supplication ir the Spirit, and watching there- 
 unto with all perseverance and supplication for all saints. Eph. 
 y\, 18. ..The Spirit itself beareth witness with our spirit, that we 
 fcrethe children of God. Rom. viii. l6l..He thathath an ear, let 
 him hear what the Spirit sailh unto the churches ; To him that 
 overcometh will I give to eat of the hidden manna, and will give 
 him a white stone, and in the stone a newname written, which no 
 manknoweth save he that receiveth it. Rev. ii. l7-..And grieve 
 not the Holy Spirit of God, whereby yc are sealed unto the daj|r 
 »f redemptioB. Eph. iv. 30. 
 
HOLY WAR. 211 
 
 «v 
 
 The duty of CoN»riENCB» 
 
 Take heed, I say, that you do not grieve this 
 minister; for if you do he may fight against jou ; 
 and should he once be moved by you to t<i himself 
 against you in battle array, that will distress you 
 more th.an if twelve legions should be sent from my 
 Father's court to make war upon you. 
 
 But, a-s I said, if you shall heaiken unto hmi, and 
 shall love him ; if you shall devote yourselves td 
 his teaching, and seek to have converse, and to 
 maintain communion with him ; you shall find 
 him ten times better than is the whole world to 
 any. Yea, he shall shed abroad the love of mjr 
 Father in your hearts, and Mansoul will bethe 
 wisest and iiiost blessed of people. 
 
 Then did the Prince call unto him the old gentle- 
 man, who afore had been the recorder of Mansoul, 
 Mr. Conscience by name, and told him, that for- 
 asmuch as he was well skilled in the law^ and go- 
 vernment of the town of Mansoul, and was also 
 well spoken, and could pertinently deliver to them 
 his Master's will in terrene and domestic matters, 
 therefore he would also make him a minister for, in, 
 and to the goodly town of Mansoul, in all the 
 laws, statutes, and j udgments of the famous town of 
 'Mansoul. And thou must, said the Prince, con- 
 iine thyself to the teaching of moral virtues, to the 
 civil and natural duties ; but thou must not attempt 
 or presume to be a revealer of those high and super- 
 natural mysteries that are kept close in the bosom 
 of SuADDAi my Father, for those things knoweth no 
 Bian, nor can any reveal them but my Father's Ser 
 
212 HOLY VVAH. 
 
 Conscience subject to the Spirit. 
 
 :5»=» 
 
 cre(arjonly. Thou art a native of the tjiwn of 
 IMansoul, but the Lord Secretary is a native wifh 
 my Fatlier ; wherefore, as thou hast knowledge of 
 tiie laws and customs of the corporation, so he of 
 the things and will of my Father. 
 
 Wherefore, Oh Mr. Conscience, althou^li X 
 have made thee minister and a preacher to the 
 town of Mansoul, yet as to the things which the 
 Lord Secretary knovveth, and shall teach to this 
 people, t'herethou must be his scholar, and a learn- 
 er, even as the rest of Maxsoul are. Thou must 
 th€rGf*)re, in all high and supernatural things, go iq 
 bim for information ; for though there be a spirit 
 in man, this Person's inspiration must give, him un- 
 derstanding.* Wherefore, O ihouMr. Recorder^ 
 lie humble, and remember, that the Diabolonians, 
 that kept not their first charge, but left their own 
 standing, are now made prisoners in the pit. Be 
 therefore content with thy station. 
 
 I have made thee my Father's vicegerent on earth, 
 in such things of which I have made mention before, 
 Aod take thou power to teach them to Mansoul, 
 yea, and to impose them with whips and chastisements 
 if they shall not willingly hearken to thy command-. 
 tticnts. And, Mr. Recorder, because thou art old 
 and feeble, therefore I give thee leave and licence 
 to go when thou wilt to ray fountain, my conduit, 
 and thereto drink froelv of the blood of my grape. 
 
 * And unto men bo sa'ii5, Brhold the fear of the Lokd, that \3 
 wisdom • and to depart from evil is understanding. Job. xxviii. 28.' 
 
HOLY WAT?. 213 
 
 Christ's blooJ purges the conscience. 
 
 for nij conduit doth always run wine* Thus 
 doing, thou shalt drive from thy heart and stomach 
 all foul, gross, and hurtful humours. It will also 
 lighten thine eyes, and strengthen thy memory for 
 the reception aixi keeping of all that the King's 
 most noble Secretary teacheth. 
 
 When the Prince had thus put Mr. Recordcr( that 
 once so was) into Ihe place and office of a minister 
 of Mansoul, and tl)c man had thankfully accepted 
 thereof, then did Emanuel address himself to the 
 townsmen tliemsclvcs. 
 
 ' Behold (said the Prince to Mansoul) ray love 
 
 * and care towards you ; I have added to all that is 
 
 * past^ this mercy, to appoint you preachers, the 
 ' most noble Secretary, to teach you in all sublime 
 
 * mysteries ; and this gentleman (pointing to Mr. 
 ' Conscience) is to teach you in all things human 
 ' and domestic, for therein lieth his work. He is 
 'not, by what I have said, debarred of telling to 
 ' Mansoul anv thing that he hath heard from the 
 
 * lord high Secretary : only he shall not attempt, or 
 ' presume to pretend, to be a revealer of those 
 
 * high mysteries himself ; for the breaking of them 
 ' up, and the discovery of them to Mansoul, lieth 
 ' only in the power, authority, and skill of the lord 
 ' high Secretary himself. Talk of them be may, 
 
 * and so may the rest of the town of Mansoul, as 
 
 ♦ How much nioro shnll fho blood of Christ, -who through ih» 
 eternal "Spirit, offorcft himself without spot to God purge your 
 canscijiiccs from dead works, to serve the living G»d ? HlI>. ix. 14. 
 
fiU nOLY WAR. 
 
 Salvation onlj ;n Christ. 
 
 ' they have opportunity, press them upon each 
 
 * other for the benefit oft-he whole. These things 
 ' I would have you observe and do ; for it is for 
 
 * your life, and the lengthening of your days. 
 
 ' And one thing more to n)y beloved town of 
 ' Maxsoul : you must not dwell in, nor stay upon 
 
 * any thing of that which he hath in commission 
 ' to teach you as to your trust and expectation of 
 ' the next w'orid ; of the next world, I say : for I 
 ' propose to give another to Minsoul, when this 
 'with them is worn out, but for that you must 
 ' wholly have recourse to, and make stay upon his 
 ,' doctrine, that is your teacher after the first order. 
 'Yea, IVfr. Recorder himself jnyst not look for life 
 *■ from that w hiph he himself rcvealcth ; his de^ 
 ' pendence for that must be founded in the doctrine 
 ' of the oth<;r preacher. Let Mr. Recorder also 
 'take heed that he receive not any doctrine, or 
 
 * point of doctrine, that is no,t communicated to 
 'him by his superior Teacher, nor yet within the 
 ' precincts of his own formal knowledge.* 
 
 Now aftfBF the Prince had thus settled things in 
 Oie famous town of Mansoui., he proceeded to give 
 the elders of tjie corporation a necessary caution, 
 tio wit, how they should carry it to the noble cap- 
 tains that he had sent or brought with him from 
 Iii? Father's court, to the famous town of Mansoul. 
 ' These captains Csaid he) love the town of Man- 
 ' SOUL, and they ai'c men picked out of abundance, 
 
 * as men that best suit, and that will most faithfullj 
 ' serve in the \>ars of Shaddai against the Diabo- 
 
HOLY WAR. 215 
 
 Ministerii must be kiudlj treated. 
 
 '"lonians for the preservation of the town of 
 ' Mansoul, I charge you^ therefore, said he, O 
 ' ye inhabitants of the now flourishing town of 
 
 * Mansoul, that you carry it not untowardly to my 
 ' captaiiiS or their men ; since they are picked and 
 ' choice men, men chosen out of many for the good 
 ' of the town of Mansoul. I say, I charge you, 
 ' that you carry it not untowardly to them ; foe 
 'though they have the hearts and faces of lions, 
 ' when at any time they shall be called forth to en- 
 ' gage and fight with the King's foes, and the ene- 
 ' raies of the town of Mansoul, yet a little dis- 
 ** countenance cast upon them from the town of 
 ' Mansoul will deject and cast down their facet, 
 ' will weaken and take away their courage. Da 
 
 * not, therefore, carry it unkindly to my valiant 
 'captains and courageous men of war, but love 
 ' them, nourish them, succour them, and lay them 
 
 * to your bosomj?, and they will not only fight foe 
 
 * you, but cause to fly from you all those Diabo- 
 ' LONiANs that seek, and will, if possible, prove 
 ' your utter destruction. 
 
 ' If, therefore, any of them should at any time be 
 ' sick, or weak, and so not able to perform that of- 
 ' fice of love which with all their hearts they are 
 ' willing to do .(^nd will do also when well and in 
 'health)* Slight them not, nor despise them, but 
 
 ♦Wherefore lift up the hands that hang down, and tlie feeble 
 knees, lleb. xii. 12. ..Strengthen ye the weak hands, and ton- 
 firm the feeble knees. Isa. xs&t. S. 
 
216 HOLY WAR. 
 
 The feeble must be suppcrted. 
 
 ' rather strengthen and encourage them^ though weak 
 'and ready to die ; for they are your fence and 
 ' your guard, your walls, gates, locks, and bars. 
 
 * And although when they are weak they can do but 
 ' little, but rather need to be helped by you,* than 
 'that you should expect great things from them ; 
 
 * 3'et when well, you know what exploits and war- 
 ' like atchievenients they can do, and will perform 
 'for you. 
 
 ' Besides, if they be weak, the town of Mansoul 
 ' cannot be strong ; if they be strong, then Man- 
 ' SOUL cannot be weak ; your safety therefore doth 
 
 * lie in their health, and in your cou.ntenancing 
 
 * them. Remember also, that if they be sick, they 
 'catch their disease of the townof Mansoul it- 
 
 * self. 
 
 'These things I have said unto you, because I 
 •love your welfare and your honour: observe, 
 ' therefore. Oh my Mansoul, io be punctual in all 
 ' things that I have given in charge unto you, and 
 ' that not only as a town corporate, and so to your 
 ' officers and guard and guides in chief, but to you 
 
 * as you are a people whose well-being, as single 
 ' persons, depends on the observation of the orders 
 
 * and commandments of their Lord. Next, Oh 
 ' my Mansoul, I warn you of that, of which, not- 
 ' withstanding .the reformation thaf is at present 
 
 *Now wc exhort you brethren, warn them that are unruly, 
 comfort the feebleminded, support the weali, be patient t»waj:4 
 *ll men. 1 'Ihes. v. 14. 
 
HOLY WAR. 21? 
 
 Remaining corruptions in the soul. 
 
 ' wrought among you, you have need to be warned 
 
 * about : wherefore hearken diligently unto me. I 
 ' am now sure, and you will know bereafttTj that 
 'there are yet some Diabolonians remaining in 
 
 * the town of Manroul ; Diabolonians that are 
 ' sturdy and implacable, and that do already while 
 
 * I am yet with you, and that will yet more when I 
 ' am from you, study, plot, contrive, invent, and 
 'jointly attcmptto bring you to desolation, and so 
 
 * to a state far worse than that of Egyptian bondage; 
 
 * ihex are the avowed friends of Diaboltis, there- 
 
 * fore look about you* They used therefore to 
 
 * lodge with their Prince in the castle, when Incre- 
 ' DULITY v/as lord-mayor of this town ; but since 
 
 * my coming hither, the}' lie more in the outsides 
 ' and walls, and have made themselves dens, and 
 ' caves, and holes, and strong holds therein. f 
 ' Wherefore, Oh Mansoul, thy work as io this, 
 
 * will be so much the more difBcult and hard ; that 
 
 * is, to tiike, mortify, and put them to death, ac- 
 ' cording to the will of my Father. Nor can you 
 ' utterly rid yourselves of them, unless you should 
 ' pull down the walls of your town, the which I am 
 
 * Not every one that saith unto me, Lord, Loid, shall enter in. 
 to the kingdom of heaven ; but he tliat doeth the will of my 
 p'ather which is in heaven. Many ^^ill s.iy uuto me in that day, 
 Lord, Lord, have we not proiihesiid in thy name? and in thy 
 name have cast out devils ? and ia thy name done many wonder* 
 ful worics. Mat. vli. 21, 22. 
 
 t For I know that in me ^that is ii) my flesh) d\?eUeth no good 
 thing: for to will is present with me, but how to perform that 
 1l?hicliis good I find not. Rom. vli. 18. 
 
 £ e 
 
918 HOLY WAR. 
 
 We must fight our sins. 
 
 * by no means willing you should. Do you ask me, 
 ' What shall we then do ? Why, be you diligent, 
 ' and quit yourselves like men ; observe their holds, 
 ' find out their haunts, assault them, and make no 
 
 * peace with them ; wherever they haunt^ lurk, or 
 ' abide, and what terms of peace soever they offer 
 ' you, abhor ; and all shall be well betwixt you and 
 ' me. And that you may the better know them 
 ' from the natives of Mansoul, I will give you 
 
 * this brief schedule of the names of the chief of 
 ' them ; and they are these that follow : The lord 
 ' FoRNicATioK, the lord Adultery, the lord 
 ' Murder, the lord Anger, the lord Lasciviods- 
 ' NESS, the lord Deceit, the lord Evil-eye, Mr. 
 ' DiiuNKENNEss, Mr. Revelling, Mr. Idola- 
 ' TRY, Mr. Witchcraft, Mr. Variance, Mr. 
 ' Emulation, Mr. Wrath, Mr. Strife, Mr. Se- 
 ' DiTioN, and Mr. Heresy. These are some of 
 
 * the chief, O Mansoul, of those that will seek to 
 ' overthrow thee for ever ; these, I say, are the 
 
 * skulkers in Mansoul ; but look well into the law 
 ' of thy King, and thou shalt find their physiogno- 
 ' my, and such other characteristical notes of them, 
 ' whereby they may be known. 
 
 * These, O my Mansoul, and I would gladly 
 ' that you should certainly know it, if they be suf- 
 ' fcred to run and range about the town as they 
 'wish, would quickly, like vipers, eat out yoiir 
 
 * bowels, yea poison your captains, cut the sinews 
 ' of your soldiers, break the bars and bolts of your 
 
 * gates, and turn your now most flourishing Man- 
 
HOLY WAR. 219 
 
 And crucify our lusts. 
 
 ' SOUL into a barren desolate wilderness and ruin- 
 ' ous heap. Wherefore, that you may take courage 
 
 * to yourselves to apprehend these villains wherever 
 'you find them, I g\\e to you my lord-mayor, my 
 ' lord Will- BE-w ILL, and Mr. Recorder, with all 
 'the inhabitants of the town of Mansoul, full 
 ' power and commission to seek out, to take, and 
 ' cause to be put to death by the cross, all manner of 
 
 * DiABOLONiANS, whcrever you shall find them 
 ' lurk within or without the walls of the town of 
 ' Mansoul. I told you before, that I had placed 
 ' a standing ministry among you ; not that you have 
 ' but these with you, for my four first captains who 
 
 * came against the master and lord of the Diabo- 
 ' LONiANs that was in Mansoul, they can, and 
 ' if need be, if they be required, will not only pri- 
 ' vately inform, but publicly preach to thecorpo- 
 
 * ration, good and wholesome doctrine : yea, they 
 
 * will set up a weekly, and, if need be, a daily lec- 
 ' turc in thee. Oh Mansoul ! and will instruct 
 'thee in such profitable lessons, that, if attended 
 ' io, will do thee good at the end. And take good 
 ' heed that you spare not the men whom you have 
 ' a commission to take and crucify. 
 
 ' Now as I have set before your eyes the vagranti 
 ' and runagates by name, so I will tell you, that 
 •' among yourselves some of them shall creep in to 
 ' beguile you, even such as would seem, and that 
 ' in appearance arc very rife and hot for religion: 
 ' and they, if you watch not, will do you a mischief, 
 ' such au one as you do not think of. These will 
 
C20 HOLY WAR. 
 
 The garment of holiness. 
 
 ' shew themselves to you in anclher hue than those 
 ' under the description btiorc ; wherefore watch 
 ' and be sobers and suft'er not thyself to be be- 
 ' trayed.' 
 
 When the Prince had thus far new modelled the 
 town of Mansoul, and had instructed thera in such 
 matters as were profitable for them to know ; theu 
 he appointed another day, on which he intended, 
 when the townsfolk came together, to bestow a fur- 
 ther badge of honour upon the town of Mansoul : 
 a badge that should distinguish them from all peo- 
 ple, kindreds, and tongues, that dwell in the king- 
 dcni of Universe. Now it v\as not long before the 
 day appointed came, and the Prince and the people 
 met in (he King's palace, where first Emanuei, 
 made a short speech unto them and then did for them 
 as he had said, and unto them as he had promised. 
 
 * My MAN^ouL, (said he) that which I now am 
 ' about to do, is to make you known to the world 
 ,* to be mine, and to distinguish you also in your 
 ' own eyes, from all fake traitors that may creep iij 
 ' among you.' 
 
 Then he commanded that those that waited upon 
 him should go and bring forth out of his treasury 
 those white glittering robes that I, said he, have 
 provided and laid up in store for my Mansoul. 
 So the white garments were fetched, and laid forth 
 to the eyes of the people.* Moreover, it was 
 
 ♦And to her was granted that she should be arrayed in Ihio linen, 
 cle.in and whit • : for the fine linen is the righteousness of saints. 
 Rer. XIX. 8, " . 
 
HOLY war; 2J] 
 
 Cum si's livery 
 
 granted (o them, that (hey should take them and put 
 them on. So the people were put into "wbitej into 
 fine linen, vviiiteand clean. 
 
 Then said the Prince unto them, * This, O Man- 
 ' SOUL, is my livery, and the badge by vkhich mine 
 ' are known from the servants of others. Yea, it is 
 ' that which I grant to all that are mine, and with- 
 ' out which no man is permitted to see my face. 
 ' Wear them, therefore, for my sake that gave 
 
 * them unto you ; and also if you would be known 
 
 * by the world to be mine.' 
 
 But now, can you think how Mansoul shone ? 
 It was fair m the sun, clear as the moon, and ter- 
 rible as an army with banners. 
 
 The Prince added further, and said, ' No prince, 
 'potentate, or mighty one of Universe, giveth 
 'this livery but myself: behold, therefore, as I 
 
 * said before; you shall be known by it to be mine. 
 
 ' And now (said he) I have given you my livery, 
 ' let me give you also in commandment concerning 
 ' them : and be sure that you take good heed to 
 ' my words. 
 
 ' First, Wear them daily, day by day, lest you 
 'should at some times appear to others as if you 
 ' were none of mine. 
 
 ' Secondly, Keep them always white; for if 
 ' they be soiled it is di.shonour to me.* 
 
 ♦ Let tliy garments be- always -white ; and let thy head lack 
 po ointment. Eccl. ix. 8. 
 
 Be watchful, and streugtben the things which remain, that are 
 
222 HOLY WAR. 
 
 Vfii must keep ourselves pure. 
 
 ' Thirdly, Whorefi»re gird the ti up , from the 
 'ground^ and let them not be soiled with dust or 
 
 * dirt. 
 
 ' Fourthly, Take heed that you lose ihem not, 
 
 * lest you walk naked, and they see your shacne. 
 
 ' Fifthly, But if you should sully them, if you 
 
 * should defile them (the which I am unwilling you 
 
 * should, and the Prince Diabolus would be glad if 
 ' you would, )* then speed to do that which is writ- 
 
 * ten in my |a\y, tjhat yet you may stand and not 
 
 * fall before me, and before ray throne. f Also this 
 'is the way to cause that I may not leave you 
 
 * nor forsake you while here, but dwell in this town 
 
 * of Mansoul for ever.' 
 
 And now was Mansosjl, and the inhabitants of 
 it, as the signet upon Emanuel's right-hand : 
 where was there now a town, a city, a corporation, 
 that could compare with Mansoul J A town re- 
 deemed from the hand and from the power of Di* 
 
 ready to die : for I have not found thy works perfect before God, 
 Kev. iii, C. 
 
 * 'i'hese arc they which came'out of great tribulatio-n, and have 
 wasFied their robes, and madt' them white in the blood of the Lamb. 
 Therefore are they before the throne of God, and serve him day 
 and night in his temple : and hethatsitteth on the throne shall 
 dwell among them. '1 hey shall hunger no more, neither thirst any 
 mbre, neither shall the sun light on them, nor any heat. For the 
 Iamb, which is in the midst of the throne, shall feed them and shall 
 lead them unto living fountains of waters : and God shall wipe 
 away all tears from their eyes. Rev, vii. 14. .1/. 
 
 + \Vatch ye therefore, and pray always, that ye may bo accou-nt- 
 etl worthy to escape all these things that shall come to pass, 
 £iul to stand bcibre the Sou of man. Luke ixi. 36. 
 
HOLY WAR. 223 
 
 Christians have free access to Christ. 
 
 ABOLUS ! A town that the king Shaddai loved, 
 and he sent Emanuel to regain from the prince of 
 the infernal cave ; yea, a town that Emanuel 
 loved to dwell in, and that he chose for his royal 
 habitation ; a town that he fortified for himself, and 
 made strong by the force of his arm. What shall I 
 gay ! Mansoul has now a most excellent prince, 
 golden captains and men of war, weapons proved, 
 and garments as white as snow. Nor are these 
 benefits to be counted little, but great : can Man- 
 soul esteem them so, and improve them to that end 
 and purpose for which they are bestowed upoa 
 them ? 
 
 When the Prince had thus completed the mo- 
 delling of the town, to shew that he had great de- 
 light in the works of his hands, and took pleasure 
 in the good that he had wrought for the famous and 
 flourishing Mansoul, he commanded and they set 
 his standard upon tbc battlements of the castle. 
 And then : 
 
 First he gave them frequent visits ; not a day novr 
 out the elders of Mansoul mustcome to him, or he 
 to them, into his palace. Now they must walk to- 
 gether, and talk of all the great things that he had 
 done, and yet further promised to do for the fa- 
 mous town of Mansoul. Thus would he often do 
 "With the lord-mayor, my lord Will-be-will, and 
 the honest subordinate-preacher, Mr. Conscience, 
 and Mr. Recorder. But oh how graciously, how 
 lovingly, how courteously and tenderly, did the bles- 
 sed Prince carry it towards the town of Mansoul ! 
 
224 HOLY WAR. 
 
 Christ feasts the soul 
 
 In all the streets, gardens, orchards, and other places 
 where he came, to be sure the poor should have his 
 blessing and benediction : yea, he would kiss them^ 
 »Qd, if they were ill, he would lay hands on them, 
 and make them well. The captains also he would 
 daily, yea, sometimes hourly, encourage with his 
 presence and goodly words : for you must know, 
 that a smile from him upon them would put more 
 Yigotir, life, and stoutness into them, than any thing 
 else under heaven. 
 
 The Prince would now also feast them, and be 
 with them continually ; hardly a week would pass 
 but a banquet must be had betwixt him and them.* 
 You may remember, that some pages before we 
 made mention of one feast that they had together, 
 but now to feast them was a thing more common ; 
 every day with Mansoul was a feast-day now. 
 Nor did he, when they returned to their places, send 
 them empty away ; either they must have a ring, a 
 gold chain, a bracelet, a white stone, or something ; 
 «o dear was Mansoul to him now, so lovely was 
 Mansoul in his eyes. 
 
 Secondly, When the elders and townsmen did 
 not come to him, he would send in much plenty of 
 provision upon them : meat thai came from court, 
 wine and bread that were prepared for his Fathcr'g 
 tahle : yea, such delicates would he send unto them. 
 
 • Therefore let us keep the feast, not with old leaven, neither 
 With the li'ivcn of malic*; :;nd wickedness ; batwith the unlcareaii 
 ed broad of siurerit^ and truth, i Co;-, v. 8. 
 
IrOLY WAR. 2^^ 
 
 The condescension of Christ. 
 
 and therewith would so cover their table, that who- 
 ever saw it, confessed that the like could not be 
 seen in any kingdom. 
 
 Thirdly, If Mansoul did not frequently visit 
 him as he desired they should, he would walk out 
 to them, knock at their doors, and desire entrance, 
 that amity might be maintained betwixt them and 
 him ; if they heard and opened to him, as commonly 
 they would if they were at home, then would he re- 
 new his former love, and confirm it too, with some 
 new tokens, and signs of continued favour.* 
 
 And it was now amazing to behold, that in that 
 very place where sometimes Diabolus had his 
 abode, and entertained the Diabolonians, to the 
 almost utter destruction of Mansoul, the Prince 
 of princes should sit eating'and drinking with them, 
 while all his mighty captains, men of war, trumpet- 
 ers, with the singing- men and singing-women of his 
 Father stood round about to wait upon them ! Now 
 did Mansoul's cup run over, now did her conduits 
 run sweet wine, now did she eat the finest of the 
 •wheat, and drink milk and honey outof the Rock ! 
 Now she said. How great is his goodness ! for since 
 I found favour in his eyes, how honourable have I 
 been ! 
 
 * Behold I stand at the door and knock : if any man hear my 
 ▼oice and open the door, I wiH come in to him, and will sup wit/i 
 him, and he with mc. Rev. iii. 20.. . I sleep, but mj heart wakcth ; 
 it is the voice of my beloved that knocketh, saying, Open to ma 
 my sister, my love, my dove, my nndefiled : for my head is filled 
 with dew, and vay locks with the drops of the night. Cant. v. 2. 
 
 Ff 
 
g.r, HOLY WAR. 
 
 Harmony in the soul. 
 
 The blessed Prince also ordained a new oflScer in 
 lown^* and a goodly person he was, his name 
 was Mr. God's-peace ; this man was set ovei" 
 my lord Will-be-will, my lord-mayor, Mr. 
 Recorder/the subordinate preacher, Mr. Mind, and 
 over aM the natives of the town of Mansoul. Him- 
 self was not a native of it, but came with the Prince 
 Emanuel from the court. He was a great ac- 
 quaintance of captain Credence and captain 
 Good-hope ; some say they were akin, and I am 
 of that opinion too. f This man, as I said, was 
 made governor of the town in general, specially over 
 the castle, and captain Credence was to help him 
 there. And I made great observations of it, that so 
 long as all things went in Mansoul as this sweet- 
 natured gentleman would, the town was in most 
 happy condition. Now there were no jars, no 
 chidings, no interferings, no unfaithful doings in 
 the town of Mansoul ; every man in Mansoul 
 kept close to his own employment. The gentry, 
 officers, the soldiers, and all in place, observed their 
 order. And as for the women and children of the 
 town, they followed their business joyfully, they 
 would work and sing from morning till night ; so 
 that, quite through the town of Mansoul now, no- 
 thing was to be found but harmony, quietness., joy, 
 
 » Ami let the peace of God rule in your hearts, to the which 
 also ye are called m one body; and be ye thankful. Col. iii. 15. 
 
 t Now the God of hope (ill you with all joy and piace in belicr- 
 ing, that ye may abound ia hope, through the oowcr of the iloly 
 Ghost. Rom. xv. 13. 
 
HOLY WAR. 227 
 
 The origin of Carnal-security, 
 
 and health ; and this lasted all that summer. But 
 there was a man in the town of Mansoul, and his 
 name was Mr. Carnal-security; this man, af- 
 ter all the mercy bestowed upon this corporation, 
 brought the town of Mansoul into great and griev- 
 ous slavery and bondage. A brief account of him 
 and of his doings take as followeth : 
 
 NVhen DiABOLUS at first took possession of the 
 town of Mansoul, he brought thither with himself 
 a great number of Diabolonians, men of his own 
 conditions. Now among these there was one whose 
 name was Mr. Self-conceit ; and a notable brisk 
 mau he wasj as any that in those days posssessed the 
 town of Mansou l, Diabolus, then, perceiving 
 this man to. be active and bold, sent hira upon many 
 desperate designs : the which he managed better, 
 and more to the pleasing of his lord3 than most that 
 came with him from the dens could do. Where- 
 fore finding him so fit for his purpose, he preferred 
 him, and^iade him next to the great lord Will-be- 
 wiLL, of whom we have spoken so much before 
 Now the lord Will-be-will, being in those dayg 
 very well pleased with hira and with his atchiev- 
 ments, gave him his daughter, the lady Fear-no- 
 thing, to wife. Now of my lady Fear-nothing 
 did this Mr. Self-conceit beget this gentleman 
 Mr. Caunal-secukfty. Wherefore there being 
 then in Mansoul those strange kind of mixtures, it 
 was hard for them, in some cases, to find out who 
 were natives, whouot ; for Mr. Carnal-secukity 
 tprang from my lord Will-be-will by his mother's 
 
228 HOLY WAR. 
 
 Character of Carnal-security. 
 
 side, though he had for his father a Diabolonian 
 hy nature. 
 
 Well, this Carnal-security took much after 
 his father and mother : he was self-conceited, he 
 feared nothing, he was also a very busy man ; no- 
 thing of news, nothing of doctrine, nothing of alter- 
 ation or talk of alteration, could at any time be oh 
 foot in Mansoul, but Mr. Carnal-securftt 
 would be at the head or tail of it. But to be sure 
 he would decline those that he deemed the weakest, 
 and stood always with them, in his way of standing, 
 that he supposed was the strongest side. 
 
 Now when Suaddai the mighty, and Emanuel 
 his Son, made war upon Mansoul to take it, this 
 Mr, Caunal-security was then in the town, and 
 was a great doer among the people, encouraging 
 them in their rebellion, and putting them upon 
 hardening themselves in their resisting the King's 
 forces : but when he saw that the tcv/n of Mansoul 
 was taken and converted to the use of the glorious 
 Prince Emanuel ; and when he also saw what was 
 become of Diabolus, and how he was unroofed 
 and made to quit the castle in the greatest contempt 
 and scorn : and that the town of Mansoul was 
 well lined with captains, engines of war, and men, 
 and also provisions ; what doth he but wheel about 
 also, and, as he had served Diabolus against the 
 good Prince, so he feigned that he would serve the 
 Prince against his foes; and having got some little 
 smatteringof Emanuel's things by the end, being 
 bold, he ventures himself into the company of the 
 
IIOLV V/AR. ^iTO 
 
 He beguiles the soul. 
 
 towsismen, and attempts also to cbat amonj^ them. 
 Now he knew that the power and strength of the 
 town of Mansoul was great, and that it could not 
 but be pleasing to the people, if he cried up their 
 might and their glory ; wherefore he beginneth his 
 tale with the power and strength of Mansoul, and 
 aflSrmeth, that it was impregnable ; now magnifying 
 the captains, and their sHngs, and tlieir rams; then 
 crying up their fortifications and strong holds ; and 
 lastly, the assurance that they had from their Prince 
 that Mansoul should be happy for ever. But 
 when he saw that some of the men of the town were 
 tickled and taken with this discourse, he makes it 
 his business, and, walking fromstrectto street, house 
 to house, and man to man, he brought also Man- 
 soul to dance after his pipe, and to grow almost as 
 carnally-secure as himself ; so from talking, they 
 went to feasting, and from feasting to sporting, and 
 so to some other matters (now Emanuel was yet 
 in the town of M4NS0UL, and he wisely observed 
 their doings : ) my lord-mayor, my lord Will-be- 
 wiLL, and Mr. Recorder, were also taken with the 
 words of this tattling Diabolonian gentleman ; 
 forgetting that their Prince had given them warning 
 before, to take heed that they were not beguiled with 
 any Diabolonian sleight ; he had further told 
 them, that the security of the now flourishing town 
 of Mansoul did not so much lie in her present for- 
 tifications and force, as in her so using of what she 
 had« as miarht oblig-e her Emanuel to abide within 
 her castle. For the right doctrineof E:.iANUEL was 
 
g-o HOLY WAR. 
 
 Christ leaves the carnally-secure. 
 
 that the town of Mansoul should take heed that 
 tliey foroet not his Father's love and his ; also that 
 thej should so demean themselves as to continue to 
 keep themselves therein. Now this was not the way 
 to do it, namely, to fall in love with one of the Dr- 
 ABOLONiANs, and with such an one too as Mr. 
 Carnal-security was, and to be led up and down 
 by the nose by him : they should have heard their 
 Prince, feared their Prince, loved their Prince, and 
 have stoned this naughty pack to death, and taken 
 care to have walked in the ways of their Prince's 
 prescribing ; for then should their peace have been 
 as a river, when their righteousness had been like, 
 the waves of the sea. 
 
 Now when Emanuel perceived that through the 
 policy of Mr. Carnal-security the hearts of the 
 men of Mansoul were chilled and abated in their 
 practical love to him : 
 
 First he bemoans them, and bewails their state 
 with the Secretary, saying, ' O that my people had 
 ' hearkened unto me, and that Mansoul had walk- 
 ' ed in my ways ! I would have fed them with the 
 * finest of the wheat : and with honey out of the 
 ' rock would I have sustained them.' This done, 
 he said in his heart, I will return to the court, and 
 go to my place, till Mansoul shall consider and 
 acknowledge their oflTcnce. And he did so, and the 
 cause and manner of his going away from them was 
 thus, for that Mansoul declined him, as is manifest 
 in these particulars ; 
 
 1. They left olf their former way of visit- 
 
HOLY WAR. S3- 
 
 Who (rust ill tliemselves. 
 
 ing hira, they came not to his royal palace as 
 afore. 
 
 2. They did not regard nor yet take notice^ that 
 he came or came not to visit them. 
 
 3. The love-feasts that liad wont to be between 
 their Prince and them, though he made them still, 
 and called them to them, yet they neglected to come 
 tothem, or to be delighted with them, 
 
 4. They waited not for his counsel, but began to 
 be headstrong and confident in themselves, conclud- 
 ing that now they were strong and invincible, and 
 Mansoul was secure, and beyond all reach of the 
 foe, and that her state must be unalterable for 
 ever. 
 
 Now, as was said, Emanuel, perceiving that 
 by the craft of Mr. Carnal-security, the town 
 of Mansoul was taken off from her dcpendance 
 upon him. and upon his Father by him, and set up- 
 on what by them was bestowed upon it ; he at first, 
 as I said, bemoaned their state ; then he used means 
 to make them understand that the way they went on 
 in was dangerous : for he sent my lord high Secre- 
 tary to them, to forbid them such ways ; but twice 
 wlieu he came to them he found them at dinner ia 
 Mr. CiRNAL-SKCURrTY's parlour; and perceiving 
 also that they were not willing to reason about 
 matters concerning their good, he took grief and 
 went his way. The which, when he told to the 
 Prince Emanuel, he was grieved also, and return- 
 ed to his Father's court. 
 
€32 HOLY WAR. 
 
 Carnajl-security withholds Christ's love. 
 
 Now the methods of his withdrawing, as I was 
 Saving before, were thus : 
 
 J . Even while he w as yet with them in Mansoul 
 he kept himself close and more retired thau for- 
 loerly. 
 
 2. His speech was not now, if he came into 
 tkhcir company, so pleasant and familiar as for- 
 merly. 
 
 3. Nor did he, as in times past, send to Man- 
 soul from his table those dainty bits which he was 
 wont to do. 
 
 4. Nor, when they came to visit him, as now-and- 
 thenthey would, would he be so easily spoken witli 
 as they found him in times past. They might now 
 knock once, yea, twice, but he would seem not at 
 all to regard them ; whereas formerly he would run 
 and meet them half way, and take them too and 
 lay them in his bosom. 
 
 Thus Emanuel carried it now ; and by this 
 his carriage he thought to make them betake them- 
 selves, and return to him. But alas ! they did not 
 consider, they did not know his ways, they regarded 
 not, they were not touched with these, nor with the 
 true remembrance of former favours.* Wherefore 
 
 * But as for them, whose heart waiketh after the heart of their 
 detestable things, and their abominations, I will recompens^e their 
 
 way upon their own heads saith the I^rd God. Ezek. xi. 21 
 
 I will go and return to my place, till they acknowledge their 
 olTence and seek my face : in their affliction they shall seek m« 
 <arly. Hos. v. 15. 
 
HOLY WAR. 2S3 
 
 Caknal-security hardens the soul. 
 
 what does he but In private manner withdraw him- 
 self, first from his palace, then to (lie gale of the 
 town, and so away from Mansoul he goes,, till thej 
 should acknowledge their offence, and more earnest- 
 ly seek his face. Mr. God's-peace also laid down 
 his commfssiotij and would for the present act no 
 longer. Thus they walked contrary to him, and he 
 again, by way of retaliation, walked contrary to 
 them. Rut alas ! by this time they were so har- 
 dened in their v^ay, and had so drunk in the doc- 
 trine of Mr. Caknal-security, that the departing 
 of their Prince touched them not, nor was he re- 
 membered by them when gone ; and so of conse- 
 quence his absence was not bewailed by them.* 
 
 Now there was a day wherein this old gentleman, 
 Mr. Carnal-security, again made a feast for 
 the town of Mansoul, and there was at that time 
 in the town one Mr. Godly-fear ; one now but 
 little set by, though formerly one of great request. 
 This man, old Carnal-security had a mind, it 
 possible, to gull and abuse as he did the rest, and 
 therefore he now bids him to the feast with his 
 neighbours. So the day being come, they prepare, 
 and he goes and appears with the rest of the guests ; 
 and being all set at the table, they ate and drank, 
 and were merry, even all but this one man ( for Mr. 
 OoDLY-FEAR Set like a stranger, and neither ate nor 
 was merry ; ) which when Mr. Carnal-security 
 
 * Can a maid forget her ornaments, or a bride her attire ? Yet 
 mjr people have forgotten me days witliout number. Jer. ii. 32. 
 
 G g 
 
234 HOLY WAR. 
 
 GODLY-FE A B accuses CAaNAI--SECURITY. 
 
 perceived, he addressed himself in a speech thu«to 
 him : 
 
 ' Mr. GodlytFEAr, are you not well ? you seem 
 ' to be ill of body or mind, or both. I have a cor- 
 
 * dial of Mr. Forget-good's making, which. Sir, if 
 
 * you will take, I hope it may make you bonny and 
 
 * blithe, and so make you more fit for us feasting 
 ' companions.' 
 
 Unto whom the good old gentleman discreetly 
 replied : ' Sir, I thank you for all things courteous 
 ' and civil ; but for your cordial I have no li&t 
 ' thereto. But a word to the natives of Man- 
 'soul: you the elders and chief of Mansoul, 
 
 * to me it is strange to see you so jocund and merry, 
 ' when the town of Mansou l is in such woeful 
 ' case.' 
 
 Tiicn said Mr. Carnal-security, ' You want 
 ' sleep, good Sir, I doubt. If you please, lie down 
 ' and take a nap, and we the mean while will be 
 
 * merry.' 
 
 Then said Mr. Godly-fear as follows : ' Sir, 
 ' if you were not destitute of an honest heart, you 
 ' could not do as you have done, and do. 
 
 Then said Mr. Carnal-security, ' Why ?' 
 Godly-fear. Nay, pray interrupt me not. It 
 is true, the town of Mansoul was strong, and, with 
 a proviso, impregnable ; but you have w^eakened it, 
 and it now lies obnoxious to its foes; nor is it a 
 time to be silent; it is vou Mr. CARNAL-SECURrTY, 
 that have stripped Mansoul, and driven her glorj 
 from her; you have pulled down her towers, }0U 
 
HOLY WAR. 935 
 
 And deals plainly with him. 
 
 have broken down her gates, you have spoiled her 
 locks and bars. 
 
 And now to explain myself: from that time tliat 
 my lords of Mansoul, and you. Sir, grew so great, 
 from that time the strength of Mansoul has been 
 offended, and now he is risen and is gone. If any 
 shall question the truth of my words, I will answer 
 him by this and such-like questions : Where is the 
 Prince Emanuel ? When did a man or woman 
 in Ma NsouLsce him ? When did you hear from 
 him, or taste any of his dainty bits ? You are now 
 afeustiiig with this Diabolonian monster, but he 
 is not your prince ; I say, therefore, though ene- 
 mies from without, had you taken heed, could not 
 have made a prey of you, yet since you have sinned 
 against your Prince, your enemies within have beeo 
 too hard for you. 
 
 Then said Mr. Carnal-security, ' Fie ! Fie I 
 
 * Mr. Godly-fear, Fie ! will you never shake olF 
 ' your timorousness ? Are you afraid of being 
 ' sparrow-blasted ? Who hath hurt you ? Behold, 
 
 * lam on your side; only you are for doubting, 
 ' I am for being confident. Besides, is this a time 
 
 * to be sad in ? A feast is made for mirth ; why 
 ' then do you now, to your shame and our trouble, 
 ' break out into such passionate, melancholy lan- 
 
 * guage, when jou should eat and drink and be 
 ' merry ? ' 
 
 Then said Mr. Godly-fear again, ' I may 
 
 * well be sad, for Emanuel is gone from Man- 
 
236 HOLY WAR. 
 
 Warning to M ansoul. 
 
 *^soul: I say again, he is gone^ and you Sir, are 
 ' the man that has driven him away : yea, he 
 ' is g'one without so much as acquainting thenoblcs 
 ' of Mansoul with his going ; and if that is not 
 ' a sign of anger, 1 am not acquainted with the me- 
 ' thods of godliness. 
 
 ' And now, my lords and gentlemen, my speech is 
 ' still. to you. Your gradually declining from him, 
 ' provoked him to depart from you ; the which he 
 ' did gradually, if perhaps you would have been 
 ' made sensible thereby, and have been renewed by 
 ' humbling yourselves ; but when he saw that none 
 ' would regard, or lay these fearful beginnings of 
 
 * his anger and judgment to heart, he went away 
 
 * from this place ; and this I saw with mine own 
 
 * eyes. Wherefore now, while you boast, your 
 
 * strength is gone ; you are like the man that had 
 ' lost his locks which before waved about his shoul- 
 ' ders. You may with this lord of your feast, shake 
 
 * yourselves, and think to do as at other times ; \i\ii 
 'since without him you can do nothing, and he 
 
 * is departed from you, turn your feast into a sigh, 
 
 * and your mirth into lamentations.' 
 
 Then the subordinate-preacher, old Mr. Con"- 
 sciENCE by name, he that of old was recorder of 
 Mansoul, being startled at what was said, began 
 to second it thus : 
 
 Conscience. Indeed, my brethren, quoth he, I 
 fearr that Mr. Godlv-fear tells us true : Ji, for 
 my part, have not seen my Prince a long season. I 
 
HOLY WAR. S3T 
 
 The joul greatly alarmed. 
 
 cannot remember the day, for my part : nor can I 
 answer Mr. Godly-fear's question. I am afraid 
 that all is naught with Mansoul. 
 
 GoD-Fii. Nay, I know that you will not find him 
 in Mansoul^ for he is departed and gone ; yea, and 
 gone for the faults of the elders, and for that they 
 rewarded his grace with insufferable unkindness. 
 
 Then did the subordinate preacher look as if ne 
 would fall down dead at the table; also all there 
 present, except the man of the house, began to look 
 pale and wan. But having a little recovered them- 
 selves, and jointly agreed to believe Mr. Godly- 
 fear and his sayings, they began to consult what 
 was best to be done [^now Mr. Cahnai.-secijrity 
 was gone into his withdrawing room, for he liked 
 not jjuch dumpish doings^ both to the man of the 
 house, for drawing them into evil and also to reco- 
 ver Emanuel's love. 
 
 Then the saying of their Prince came very hot 
 into their minds, concerning the false prophets that 
 should arise to delude the town of Mansoul. So 
 they took Mr. Carnal-security, concluding that 
 he was the person, and burnt his house upon him 
 with fire, for he also was a Diabolonian by na- 
 ture. 
 
 When this was past and over, they bespeed them- 
 selves to look for Emanuel their Prince, and 
 -''they sought him, but they found him not." (Sol. 
 Song v. 6.) Then they were more confirmed in the 
 Iruthof Mr. Godi.y-fear's sayings, and began also 
 Bcvcroly to reflect upon themselves for their vile and 
 
t:'38 HOLY WAR. 
 
 A tioie of darkness to the scul. 
 
 ungodly doings ; for they concluded now, that 
 their Prince had left fheni. 
 
 Then they agreed and went to my lord Secretary, 
 whom before they refused to hear, and had grieved 
 with their doings, to know of him, (for he was a 
 seer, ar.d could tell where Emanuel was, ) how they 
 might, direct a petition to him. But the lord Se- 
 cretary would not admit them to a conference about 
 (his matter, nor would admit them to his royal pa- 
 face nor come out to them,* 
 
 Now was it a day gloomy and dark, a day ef 
 clouds and of thick darkness wish Mansoul. Now 
 theysaw that they had been foolish, and began to 
 perceive what the company and praltle of Mr. 
 Carnml-security had done, and what desperate 
 damage his swaggering words had brought poor 
 Man«()ul into: but what further it was likely to 
 cost them, that they were ignorant of. Now Mr. 
 Godly-fear began to be in great repute with the 
 men of the town ; yea, they were ready to look up- 
 on him as a prophet. 
 
 Well, when the sabbath-day was come, they went 
 lo hear their subordinate preacher : butOh how did 
 it thunder and lighten this day ! His text was that 
 in the prophet Jonah, " They that observe 1} iiig va- 
 ** nities, forsake their own mercies," ch. ii, 8, i5ut 
 
 * But they rebelled and vexeihis hcly Spirit : thertfbro Ik- vv:;3 
 turut-d to !)fc tlieiv enemy, an.l he fought against ihera. Isa. ixvi.i 
 10. .And grieve not the i;oly Spirit of God M'hcreby ye are iiuled 
 vnto thcday of rcdcrapuoa. Eph» iv. 30.. .Quench not the Spirit* 
 1 Thjs. iv. l>j. 
 
IIOI.V WAR. 239 
 
 Followed hy alanniag fears. 
 
 there was then such power and authority in that ser- 
 mon, and such a drjection seen in the counlcnanccs 
 of the people that day, that the like hath seldom been 
 heard or seen. The people, when sermon was done 
 were scarce able to go to their homes, or to betake 
 themselves to tlieir employs the week after ; they 
 were so sermon smitten, and also so scrmon-?ick, 
 that they knew not what to do. He not only shew- 
 ed Mansoul their sin, but trembled before them 
 under the sense of his own, still crying out of hini- 
 sclf, as he preached to them. ' Unhappy man that 
 ' I am ! that I should do a wicked thing ! that I, a, 
 ' preacher ! whom the Prince did set up lo teach 
 ' Mansoul his law, should myself live senselesa 
 
 * and sottishly here, and be one of the first found 
 
 * in transgression ! This transgression also fell 
 ' within my precincts ; I should have cried out 
 ' against the wickedness ; but I let Mansoul lie 
 'wallowing in it, until it had driven Emanuel 
 ' from its borders.' With these things he also 
 charged all the lords and gentry of Mansoul, to 
 the almost distracting of them. 
 
 About this time also there was a great sickness in 
 Mansoul, and most of the inhabitants were greatly 
 afflicted: yea, the captains also and men of v/ar 
 were brought to a languishing condi(ion, and that 
 for a long time together; so that in case of an in- 
 vasion, nothing could to purpose now have been 
 done, either by the townsmen or field ofhcers.* Oh 
 
 * Be watchful J ancLstreiif^thon the things niiicU rfmaiii, that 
 
?40 HOLY WAR 
 
 The garments of holiness defaced. 
 
 how mai)j pale faces, weak hands, feeble knees, and 
 staggering men, were now seen to walk the streets 
 of Mansoul ! Here were groans, there pants, 
 and yonder lay those that were ready to faint. 
 
 The garments too, which Emanuel had given 
 them, were but in a sorry case : some were rent, 
 some were torn, and all in a nasty condition ; some 
 also hung so loosely upon them, that the next bush 
 they came at was read}' to pluck them off. 
 
 After some time spent in this sad and desolate con- 
 dition, the subordinate preacher called for a day ot 
 fasting, and to humble themselves for being so 
 wicked against the great Shaddai and his S<m : and 
 he desired that captain Boanerges would preach ; 
 wJiich he consented to do ; and the day being come, 
 his text was this, " Cut it down ; why cumbereth it 
 *' the ground ?" and a very smart sermon he made 
 upon the text. First he shewed what was the oc- 
 casion of the words, to wit, '' because the fig-tree 
 " was barren." Then he shewed what was con- 
 tainod in the sentence, to wit, repentance or ut(er 
 desolation. He next shewed by whose authority 
 this sentence was pronounced, and that was by 
 Suaddai himself. And lastly, he shewed the rea- 
 sons of the point: and then concluded his sermon. 
 But he was very pertinent in the application, inso- 
 much that he made poor Mansoul tremble : for 
 this sermon, as well as the former, wrought much 
 
 are ready to die : for I ha?e not found thy works perfect bcfora 
 God. Rev. i;i. 2. 
 
KOLY WAn. 241 
 
 — : = — ■ . ' .. » — r'. 
 
 Prayer the sinner's hope. 
 
 upon the hearts of the men of Mansoul ; yea, it 
 greatly helped to keep awake those that were roused 
 by the preaching that went before ; so that now 
 throughout the whole town there was little or no- 
 thing to be heard or seen but sorrow and mourning 
 and woe. 
 
 Now after sermon they got together, and consult- 
 ed what was best to be done. But, said the subordi- 
 nate preacher, I will do nothing of ray own head, 
 without advising with my neighbour Mr. Godly- 
 fear. So they called and sent for Mr. Godly- 
 FEAU, and he forthwith appeared. Then they de- 
 sired that he would further shew his opinion about 
 what they had best to do : whereupon the old 
 gentleman said as followeth ; ' It is of my opinion 
 ' that this town of Mansoul should, in this day of 
 ' her distress, draw up and send an humble petition 
 ' to their offended Prince Emanuel, that he, in 
 ' his favour and grace, will turn again unto them, and 
 ' not keep his anger for ever.' 
 
 When the townsmen had heard this speech, they 
 unanimously agreed to his advice : so theypresently 
 drew up their request : and the next question was. 
 But who shall carry it ? At last they all agreed to 
 send i^ by my lord-mayor, who accepted the service, 
 and addressed himself to his journey ; after which, 
 he came to the court of Shaddai, whither E-ma- 
 KUEL the prince of Mansoul was gone ; but the 
 gate was shut, and a strict watch kept thereat ; so 
 that the petitioner was forced to staod without for 
 
 H h 
 
2^2 HOLY WAR. 
 
 An answer of reproof. 
 
 a great while together.* Then he desired that some 
 would go in to the Prince, and tell him who stood 
 at tlje gate, and also what his business was. Ac- 
 cordingly one went and told Shaddai and Emanu- 
 LL his Son, that the lord-mayor of the town of Man- 
 soul stood without at the gate of the King's court, 
 desiring to be admittted into the presence of the 
 Prince, the King's Son,. He also told the lord-may- 
 or's errand, both to the King and his Son Emanu- 
 el. But the Prince would not comedown, nor ad- 
 mit that the gate should be opened, but sent an an- 
 swer to this effect, ' They have turned their back 
 ' unto me, and not their face ; but now in the time 
 
 * of their trouble, they say unto me. Arise and save 
 ' us. But can they not now go to Mr. Carnal-se- 
 ' CURITY, to whom they went when they turned 
 ' from me, and make him their leader, their lord 
 ' and their protector .'' And now in their trouble 
 
 * they visit rae, from whom in their prosperity they 
 ' went astray. 'f 
 
 This answer made my lord-mayor look black in 
 the face ; it troubled, it perplexed, it rent him sore. 
 
 * Also when I cry and shout, he shutteth out ray prayer, Thou 
 hast covered thyself with a cloud, that our prayer should not 
 pass through. Lam. iii. 8, 44. 
 
 + Saying to a stock. Thou art my father ; and to a stone Thou 
 bast brought me forth : for they have turned their back unto me, 
 and not their face : but in the time of their trouble they will say. 
 Arise aud save us. But where arc thy gods that thou hast made 
 thee? let them arise, 1 if they can save thee in the time of Ih/ 
 trouble. Jcr. ii. 28, 28. 
 
HOLY WAR. 343 
 
 We must not ■withhold prayer. 
 
 And now he began to see what it was to be familiar 
 with DiABOLONiANs, such as Carnal-security 
 was. When he saw that at court> as ^'ct there was 
 little help to be expected, either for himself or 
 friends in Mansoul ; he smote upon his breast, 
 and returned weepings and all the way bewailing 
 the lamentable state of Mansoul. 
 
 When he was come within sight of the town, the 
 elders and chief of the people of Mansoul went 
 out at the giite to meet him, and to salute him, 
 and to know how he sped at court. But he told 
 them his tale in so doleful a manner, that they all 
 cried out, and mourned, and wept. Wherefore they 
 threw ash6s and dust upon their heads, and put 
 sackcloth upon their loins, and went crying out 
 through the town of Mansoul; which when the 
 rest of the townsfolk saw, they all mourned and 
 wept. This therefore was a day of rebuke, trouble, 
 and anguish to the town of Mansoul, and also of 
 great distress. 
 
 After some time, when they had somewhat re- 
 covered themselves, they came together to consult 
 again what was yet to be done ; and they asked ad- 
 Tice, as they did before, of the Rev. Mr. Godly- 
 TEAit ; who told them, that there was no way bet- 
 ter to do, than to do as they had done, nor would 
 he that they should be discouraged at all with what 
 they had met with at court ; yea, though several of 
 their petitions should be answered with nought but 
 silence or rebuke ; for, said he, it is the way of the 
 wise Shaddai, to make men wait, and to exercise 
 
244 HOLY WAR, 
 
 Pray without eeasiiig. 
 
 patience ; and.it should be the way of them in want^ 
 to be willing to stay his leisure. 
 
 Then they took courage^, and sent again and 
 again, and again and again ; for there was not a 
 day nor an hour, that went over Mansoul's head» 
 wherein a naau might not have met upon the road, 
 one or other riding post from Mansoul to the 
 court of king Shaddai, and ail with letters peti- 
 tionary in behalf of, and fof the Prince's retura 
 to, Mansoul. The road, I say, was now full 
 of messengers, going and returning, and meeting 
 one another ; some from tlie court, and some from 
 Mansoul ; and this was the work of the miserable 
 town of Mansoul all that long, that sharp^ that 
 cold, and tedious winter. 
 
 Now you may remember, that I told you before, 
 that after Emanuel had taken Mansoul, yea, 
 and after he had new-modelled the town, there re- 
 mained, in several lurking-places of the corpora- 
 tion, many of the old Diabolonians, that either 
 came with the tyrant, when he invaded and took the 
 town, or that had there (by reason of unlawful mix- 
 tures in their birth, breeding, and bringing up, ) their 
 holes, dens, and lurking places in, under, and about 
 the walls of the town; some of their names are, the 
 lord Fornication, the lord Adultery, the lord 
 Murder, the lord Anger, the lord Lascivious- 
 NEss, the lord Deceit, the lord Evil-eve, the lord 
 Blasphemy, and that horrible villain the old and 
 dangerous lord CovetousiVess ; tliese, with many 
 more, had yet their abode in the town of Mansoul^ 
 
HOLY \VA^. 945 
 
 Unsabdued sius trouble the soul. 
 
 even after Emanuel had driven Diabolus out of 
 the castle. 
 
 Against these the good Prince granted a commis- 
 sion to the lord Will,-be-will and others, vca, to 
 the whole town of Mansoul, to seek., take, secure, 
 and destroy, any or all they could lay hauds on ; for 
 that they were Diabolonians by nature, enemies 
 to the Prince, and those who sought to ruin the 
 blessed town of Mansoul. But Mansoul did not 
 pursue this warrant, but neglected to apprehend, 
 secure, and destroy those Diabolonians ; where- 
 fore what do these villains, but by degrees take 
 courage to shew themselves to the inhabitants of the 
 town ; yea, and as I was told, some of the men of 
 Mansoul grew too familiar with several of them, 
 to the sorrow of the corporation, as you will hear 
 more in time and place. 
 
 Well, when the Diabolonian lords perceived 
 that Mansoul had, through sinning, offended 
 Emanuel their Prince, and that he had withdrawn 
 himself and was gone, what do they but plot the 
 ruin of the town of Mansoul ? Accordingly they 
 met together at the hold of one Mr. Mischief, who 
 was a Diabolonian, and here consulted how they 
 mi.2:ht deliver up Mansoul into the hands of Dia- 
 BOLUS again. Now some advised one way, and some 
 anotlier, €*vejy man according to his own liking. 
 At last my lord Lasciviousness proposed that 
 some of the Diabolonians in Mansoul should 
 ofiVr themselves lor servants to some of the natives 
 ©f the town; foresaid he, if they do so, and Man- 
 
Sia HOI.Y WAR. 
 
 A conspiracy to rain Mansoul. 
 
 SOUL shall accept of them, they may for us, and for 
 DiABOLUS our lord, make the taking of the town 
 of Mansoul more easy than otherwise it would 
 be. But then stood up the lord Murder, and 
 said. This may not be done at any time, for Man- 
 soul is now in a kind of rage, because by our friend 
 Mr. CAUNAL-SECURiTy, she hath been once en- 
 snared already, and made to offend against her 
 Prince ; and how shall she reconcile herself unto 
 her Lord again, but by the heads of these men ? 
 Besides, we know that they have in commission to 
 take and slay us wherever they shall find us : let us 
 therefore be wise as foxes : when we arc dead, 
 wc can do them no hurt ; but while we live wc 
 may. 
 
 Thus when they had tossed the matter to and fro, 
 they jointly agreed that a letter should forthwith be 
 sent away to Diabolus in their name, by which the 
 state of the town of Mansoul should be shewed 
 him, and how much it is under the frowns of their 
 Prince ; we may also, said some, let him know our 
 intentions, and ask his advice in the case. So a 
 letter was presently framed, the contents of which 
 were these : 
 
 ' To our great lord, the prince Diabolus, dwel- 
 ling below in the Infernal Cave. 
 
 ' O great father, and mighty prince Diabolus, 
 ' wc, the true Diabolonians, yet remaining in the 
 * rebellious town of Mansoul, having received ou^ 
 
HOLY WAR. 947 
 
 ThestaC5of Ma vsoul in desertion. 
 
 ' beings from thee, and our nourishment at thy 
 'hands, cannot with content and quiet endure to 
 ' behold, as we do this day, how thou art dispraised, 
 ' disgraced and reproached among the inhabitants 
 ' of this town ; nor is thy long absence at all de- 
 ' lightful to us, because greatly to our detriment. 
 
 ' The reason of this our writing to our lord, is, 
 ' that we are not altogether without hope that this 
 
 * town may become thy habitation again : for it is 
 ' greatly declined from its Prince Emanuel, and 
 
 * he is departed from them ; yea, and though 
 ' they send and send and send after him to return 
 ' to them, yet they cannot prevail, nor ^tt good 
 ' words from him. 
 
 ' There has been also of late, and is yet remain- 
 ' ing a very great sickness and faintings among 
 ' them ; and that not only upon the poorer sort of 
 ' the town, but upon the lords, captains, and chief 
 
 * gentry of the place [we only who are Diaboloni- 
 
 * ANs bj' nature, remain well, lively, and strong. 3 
 ' so that through their great transgression on one 
 ' baud, and their dangerous sickness on the other, we 
 ' judge they lay open to thy hand and power. If 
 
 * therefore it shall stand with thy horrible cunning, 
 ' and with the cunning of the rest of the princes 
 
 * with thee, to come and make an attempt to take 
 '^Mansoul again, send us word, and we shall, to 
 
 * the utmost of our power, be ready to deliver it intd 
 ' thy hand. Or if what we have said, shall not be 
 
 * thought best and most meet to be done, send us 
 
SIS HOLY WAR. 
 
 Tlie connection between our lusts and Satan. 
 
 ' thy mind in a few words, and we are all ready to 
 
 * follow thy counsel to the hazard of our lives, and 
 
 * what else we have, 
 
 * Given under our hands this da^f and date 
 
 above written, after a close consultation at 
 
 * the house o/Mr. Mischief, who tsyet alive, 
 
 ' and hath his place in our desiraUe town of 
 
 ' Mansoul/ 
 
 When Mr. Profane, for he was the carrier, 
 was come with this letter to Hell-gate hill, he 
 knocked at the gate for entrance. Then did Cer- 
 berus the porter (for he was the keeper of that 
 gate) open to Mr. Profane; to whom he de- 
 livered his letter which he had brought from the 
 Diabolonians in Mansoul. So he carried it in, 
 and presented it to Diabolus his lord, and said, 
 Tidings, my lord, from Mansoul ; and from our 
 trusty friends in Mansoul. 
 
 Then came together Beelzebub, IiUCIFer, 
 Apollyon, with the rest of the rabble there, to hear 
 "what news from Mansou l. So the letter was read, 
 and Cerberus stood by. When the letter was 
 openly read, and the contents thereof spread into 
 all the corners of the den, command was given, that 
 without let or stop, Deadman's bell should be run^ 
 for joy. So the bell was rung, and the princes re- 
 joiced that Mansoul was likely to come to ruin. 
 Now the clapper of the bell went, * Tiie town of 
 • Mansoul is coming to dwelt with us; make room 
 
IIOI.Y WAR. 249 
 
 Satan's joy at *lic relapse of the soul. 
 
 ' for Mansoul.' This bell, tlierefore, tlicy rang 
 because ihcy hoped that ihey should have Mansoul 
 again. 
 
 Now when they had performed this their horrible 
 ceremony, they got together again, to consult what 
 answer to send to their friends in Mansoul; and 
 some advised one thing and some another: but as 
 length, because the business required haste, they hft 
 the whole business to Diabolus, judging him the 
 most proper lord of the place. So he drew up a 
 letter in answer <o what Mr. Profane had brought, 
 and sent it to the DiABOLONiANs in Mansoul, by 
 the same hand that brought theirs to him; and these 
 were the contents thereof: 
 
 ' To our offsprinf;, the high and mighij/ Dia- 
 ' BOLONiANs, that yet dwell in the town of 
 
 * Mansoul ; Diabolus, the great 'prince of 
 
 * Mansoul, wisheth a prosperous issue and 
 ' conclusion of those many brave cnterprizes, 
 ' conspiracies, and designs., that you, of your 
 ' love and respect to our honour, have in 
 ' your hearts to attempt to do against Man- 
 
 ' SOUL. 
 
 ' Beloved children and disciples, my lord FoR- 
 ' NicATioN, Adultery, and the rest; We have 
 ' here in our desolate den, received, to our highest 
 *joy and content, your welcome letter, by the 
 ' hand of our trusty Mr. Profane : and to shew 
 'how acceptable your tidings were, we rung out 
 
 I I 
 
250 HOLY WAR. 
 
 Satan hopes to ruin and re-posse&s the soul. 
 
 ' our bell for gladness ; for we rejoiced as much as 
 
 * we could, when we 'perceived that yet we had 
 'friends in Mansoul, and such as sought our 
 ' honour and revenge in the ruin of the town of 
 
 * Mansoul. We also rejoice to hear that they 
 ' arc in a degenerate condition, have offended their 
 ' Prince, and that he is gone. Their sickness also 
 ' pleaseth us, as does also your health, might, and 
 
 * strength. Glad also would we be, right horribly 
 
 * beloved, could we get this town into our clutches 
 ' again. Nor will we be sparing of our wit, cun- 
 
 * ning, craft, and hellish inventions, to bring to a 
 
 * wished conclusion this your brave beginning. 
 
 ' And take this for your comfort, our birth and 
 ' offspring, that if we again surprise and take it, we 
 ^ will attemptto put all your foes to the sword, and 
 
 * will make you the great lords and captains of the 
 ' place. Nor need you fear, if ever we get it again, 
 ' that we after that shall be cast out any more ; for 
 ' we will come with more strength, and so take 
 ' faster hold than we did at first. Besides, it is the 
 ' law of that Prince which now they own, that if 
 ' we get them a second time, they shall be ours foi 
 ' ever.* 
 
 * When the uticlean spirit is gone oul of a man, he walketh 
 through dry places, seeking rest, and findcth none. Then he saith, 
 I will return into my house from whence I eame out ; and when 
 he is come he lindeth it empty, swept, and garnished. Then go- 
 etli he, and takcih with himself seven other spirits more wicked 
 than iiimself, and they enter in and dwell there : and ihe last !>tato 
 of tliat man is worse than the first. Even so shall it be abo uuU) 
 this wicked generation. Mat. xii. 43. ..45. 
 
HOLY WAR. 851 
 
 His means of desH-uction. 
 
 ' Do you therefore, our trusty Diabolonians, 
 ' yet more pry into, and endeavour to spy out, the 
 
 * weakness of the town of Mansoul. We would 
 
 * also that you yourselves do attempt to weaken 
 ' them more and more. Send us word also by what 
 
 * means we had best to attempt the regaining there- 
 ' of, to wit, whether by persuasion to a vain and 
 ' loose life ; by tempting them to doubt and des- 
 ' pair ; or by blowing up the town by the gunpow- 
 
 * der of pride and self-conceit. Do ye also, O ye 
 
 * brave Diabolonians, and true sons of the pit, 
 ' be always in readiness to make a most horrid as- 
 ' sault within, when we shall be ready to storra it 
 ' without. Now speed you in your project, and we 
 ' in our desires, the utmost poWer of our gafes, 
 ' which is the wish of your great Di a bolus, 
 ' Mansoul's enemy, and him that trembles when 
 ' he thinks of judgment to come. All the blessings 
 ' of the pit be upon you ! and so we close up our 
 ' letter. 
 
 ' Given at the Pit's JV[outh,hy the joint con- 
 ' sent of all the princes of darkness, to he sent 
 
 * to the force and 'power that we have yet re- 
 ' maining in Mansoul, hy the hand of Mr. 
 
 * Profane. 
 
 ' By me, DIABOLUS.' 
 
 This letter was sent to the Diabolonians that 
 yet remained in Mansoul, and that yet inhabited 
 the wall, from the dark dungeon of Diabolus, by 
 the hand of Mr. Profane, by whomthey also in 
 
5352 nOLY WAR. 
 
 Satan encourages our sins to rebel. 
 
 Mansoul sent theirs to the pit. Now when this 
 Mr, Profane returned to Mansoul, he came as 
 he was wont, to the house of Mr. Mischief, for 
 that was the place where the contrivers were met. 
 Now when they saw that their messenger was re- 
 turned safe and sound, they rejoiced at it. Then 
 he presented them his letter ; which, when they had 
 read and considered^ much augmented their gladness. 
 They asked him after the welfare of their friends ; 
 as how their lord Diabolus, Lucifer, and Beel- 
 zebub did, with the rest of those in the den. To 
 which this Profane made answer. Well, well, my 
 lordsj they are well, even as well as can be in their 
 place. They also, said he, rang for joy at the read- 
 ing your letter, as you will perceive by this when 
 you read it. 
 
 Now, as was said, when they had read their let- 
 ter, and perceived that it encouraged them in their 
 work, they fell to their way of contriving again, how 
 they might complete their design upon Mansoul; 
 and the first thing they agreed upon, was, to keep all 
 things from Mansoul as close as they could. Let 
 it not be known, let not Mansoul be acquainted 
 with what we design against it. The oextthing was, 
 how or by what means they should try to bring io 
 pass the ruin and overthrow of Mansoul ; and one 
 said after this manner, and another said after that. 
 Then stood up Mr. Deceit, and said. My right 
 Biabolonian friends, our lords, and the high ones 
 of the dungeon propound unto us these three 
 ways : 
 
HOLY WAR. S53 
 
 Unbelief causes to withhold prayer. 
 
 1. Whether we had best lo seek itsruin, by mak- 
 ing Man SOUL loose and \ain : 
 
 2. Or, by driving them to doubt and despair : 
 
 3. Or, by endeavouring to bh)w them up with 
 the gunpowder of pride and self conceit. 
 
 Now I think if we shall tetnpt them to pride, that 
 may do something ; and if we tempt them to wan- 
 tonness, that may help. But in my mind, if we 
 could drive them into desperation, that would knock 
 the nail on the head ; for then we should have them, 
 in the first place, question the truth of the love of 
 the heart of their Prince towards them, and that 
 will disgust him much. This, if it works well, will 
 quickly make them leave off their way of sending 
 petitions to him ; then farewel earnest solicitations 
 for help and supply ; for then this conclusion lies 
 naturally before them, ' As good do nothing, as to 
 ' do to no purpose.' So they unanimously ap- 
 proved of Mr. DECErx's advice. 
 
 Then the next question was, but how shall we do 
 to bring our project to pass ? And it was answered 
 by the same gentleman, that this might be the best 
 way to do it : Even let, quoth he, so many of our 
 friends as are willing to venture themselves for the 
 promoting of their prince's cause, disguise them- 
 selves with apparel, change their names, and go in- 
 to the market like far country men, and proffer 
 themselves for servants to the famous town of Man- 
 soul, and let themprelend (o do for their masters 
 as beneficially as may be : for by so doing they may, 
 if Mansoul shall hire them, in a little time, so cor- 
 
£St HOLY WAR. 
 
 Vices assume the names of virtues. 
 
 rapt and defile the corporation, that her now Prince 
 shall be not onlj further offended with them, but 
 ill conclusion spue them out of his mouth. And 
 when this is done, our prince Diabolus shall prey 
 upon them with ease : jea, of themselvesj they 
 shall fall into the mouth of the eater. 
 
 This project was no sooner propounded, but was 
 as readily accepted, and forward were all Diabo- 
 LONiANs now to engage in the enterprise : but it 
 was not thought fit that all should do thus ; where- 
 fore they pitched on two or three, namely, the lord 
 GoTETousNEss^ the lord Lasciviousness, and the 
 lord Angeu: the lord Coyetousness called him- 
 self by the name of Prudent-thrifty, the lord 
 Lasciviousness called himself by the name of 
 Harmless-mirth ; and the lord Anger called 
 himself by the name of Good-zeal. 
 
 So upon a market-day they came into the market- 
 place ; three lusty fellows they were to look on, and 
 they were clothed in sheep's russet, which was now 
 in a manner as white as the robes of the men of 
 Mansoul. Now the men could speak the lan- 
 guage of Mansoul well : so when they came into 
 the market-place, and offered themselves to the 
 townsmen, they were presently entertained ; for 
 they asked but little wages^ and promised to do 
 their masters great service. 
 
 Mr. Mind hired Prudent-thrifty, and Mr. 
 Godly-fear hired Good-zeal. True, this fellow 
 llAKMLfciss-MiRTii hunga little in hand, and could 
 not so soon get a master us the others did, because 
 
HOLY WAR, 235 
 
 The clanger of worldly business. 
 
 thetowuof Mansoul was now in Lent; but after 
 a while, ]^ccau«e Lenl was almost out, lord Will- 
 BE-wiLL hired Harmless-mirth to be both hii 
 waiting man and lacquey ; and thus they got theia 
 masters. 
 
 These villains being now got into the houses of 
 the men of Mansoul, quickly began to do great 
 mischief therein : for being filthy, arch, and sly, 
 (hey quickly corrupted thefamilies where they were ; 
 yea, they tainted their masters much, especially this 
 Priident-thrifty, and him they called Harm- 
 less-mi htii. True, be that went under the visor 
 of Good-zeal was not so well liked by his master, 
 who quickly found that he was but a counterfeit 
 rascal; which when the fellow perceived, he with 
 speed made his escape from the house, or 1 doubt 
 not but his master had hanged him. 
 
 When these vagabonds had thus far carried on 
 their design, and corrupted the town as much as 
 they could, in the next place they considered 
 with themselvesat what time their prince Diabolus 
 without, and themselves within the town, should 
 raake an attempt to seize upon Mansoul ; find 
 they all agreed upon this, that a market day would 
 be the best for that work ; because then the towns- 
 folk will be busy in their ways : and always take 
 this for a rule, ' wlien people are most busy in 
 'the world, they least fear a surprize.' We also 
 then, said they, shall be able with less suspicion ta 
 gather ourselves together for the work of our friends 
 aud lords: yoa, on such a day should we attempt 
 
£5C HOLY WAR. 
 
 Our lusts invite Satan to attack us. 
 
 our work, and miss it, we may, when they give us 
 tlie rout, the better hide ourselves in the croud, and 
 escape. 
 
 Having thus far agreed upon these things they 
 wrote another letter to Diabolus, and sent it by 
 the hand of Mr. Profane ; the contents of which 
 were these : 
 
 * The lords of Looseness send to the great and 
 
 ' /izg/j Diabolus, from our dens, caves, holds^ 
 'and strong holds, in and about the wall of 
 ' the town of Mansoul, Greeting. 
 
 * Our great lord, and the nourisher of our lives, 
 
 • Diabolus ; how glad we were, when we heard of 
 
 * your fatherhood's readiness to comply with us, a5id 
 
 • to forward our design, in attempting to ruin 
 'Mansoul; none can fell but those, who as wd 
 
 * do, set themselves against all appearance of good, 
 
 * when and wheresoever we find it.* 
 
 * Touching the encouragement that your great- 
 ' ness is pleased to give us, to continue to devise, 
 ' contrive, and study, the utter desolation of Man- 
 
 • SOUL, that we are not solicitous about ; for ve 
 
 • know right well, that it cannot but be pleasino^ 
 •and profitable to us, to see our enemies, and 
 
 * them that seek our lives die at our i'eet, or 
 
 ♦ For the flesh liisteth against the Spirit, and the Spirit against 
 tticfiesh : and these are contrary the one to the other ; so that ye 
 canp.ot dothe things thaiye wouUi, Gal. v, 17c 
 
HOLY WAR. 257 
 
 Despair ruius the soul. 
 
 ' or fly before us. We therefore are still contriv- 
 ' ing, to the best of our cunning, to nmke this work 
 ' most facile and easy to your lordship and to 
 ' us. 
 
 * First we considered of that most hellish cun- 
 ' Diug, compacted, threefold project, that by you 
 ' was propounded to us in our last ; and have con- 
 
 * eluded, that though to blow them up by thegun- 
 ' powder of pride would do well, and to do it by 
 
 * tempting them to be loose and vain, will help- on, 
 
 * yet to contrive to bring them into the gulf of des- 
 
 * peration we think will do best of all. Now we, who 
 
 * are at your beck, have thought of two ways to do 
 ' this ; first, we, for our parts, will make them as vile 
 
 * as we can, and then you with us, at a time appointed, 
 ' shall be ready to fall upon them with the utmost 
 ' force; And of all the nations that are at your 
 ' whistle, we think that an army of Doubters may 
 
 * be the most likely to attack and overcome the 
 'town of Mansoul. Thus shall we overcome 
 ' these enemies, else the pit shall open her mouth 
 ' upon them, and desperation shall thrust them 
 ' down into it. We have also to effect this our 
 ' io much wished design, sent already three of 
 ' our most trusty DrABOLONiANs among them ; 
 ' they are disguised in garbs, have changed their 
 ' names, and are now accepted of them, to wit, Co- 
 ' VETOusNEss, Lasciviousness, and Anger. The 
 
 * narae of Covetousness is changed into Prudent- 
 ' THRIFTY, and him Mr. Mind has hired, and is 
 
 2 K 
 
258 HOLY WAR. 
 
 The ptQgress of sia. 
 
 almost become as bad as our friend. Lasciti- 
 ousNEss has changed his name to Harmless- 
 mirth, and he has got to be the lord WrLL-BE- 
 will's lacquey ; but he has made his master very 
 wanton. Anceu changed his name into Good- 
 zeal, and was entertained by Mr. Godly-fear, 
 but the peevish old gentleman took pepper in the 
 nose, and turned our companion out of the house : 
 cay, he has informed us since, that he ran away 
 from him, or else his old master had hanged him 
 for his labour. Now these have much helped 
 forward our work and design upon Mansoul ; for 
 notwithstanding the spite and quarrelsome temper 
 of the old gentleman last mentioned, the other two 
 ply their business well, and are likely to ripen the 
 work apace. 
 
 ' Our next project is, that it be concluded that 
 you come upon the town upon a market-day, and 
 that when they are in the heat of their business ; 
 for then to be sure they will be most secure, and 
 least think that an assault will be made upon 
 them. They will also at such a time be le-ss able 
 to defend themselves, and to offend you in the 
 prosecution of our design. And we your trusty 
 ("and we are sure your beloved) ones shall, when 
 you make your furious assault without, be ready 
 to second the business within. So shall we in all 
 likelihood be able to put Mansoul to utter con- 
 fusion, and swallow them up before iliey can come 
 to themselves. If your serpentine beads, most 
 
HOLY WAR. 259 
 
 The disease of the soul. 
 
 ■«■- ■ — — 
 
 ' subtle dragons, and our highly esteemed lords^ 
 ' can find out a belter way than this, let us quickly 
 ' know your minds. 
 
 ' To the monsters of the Infernal Cave, from 
 
 ' the house of Mr. Mischief in M ensoul, 
 
 * hy the hand of Mr. Profane. 
 
 Now all the while that the raging runagades, and 
 hellish DiABOLONiANs were thus contriving the 
 ruin of the town of Mansoul, they, to wit, the 
 poor town itself, was in a sad and woeful case 
 partly because they had so greatly offended Shad- 
 DAi and his Son, and partly because that the ene- 
 mies thereby got strength within them afresh, and 
 also because, though they had by many petitions 
 made suit to the Prince Emanuel, and to his Fa- 
 ther Shad DAI by him, for their pardon and favour, 
 yet hitherto obtained they not one smile ; but con- 
 trariwise, through the craft and subtlety of the do- 
 mestic DiABOLONiANs, their cloud was made to grow 
 blacker and blacker, and their Emanuel to stand 
 at further distance. The sickness also still greatly 
 raged in Mansoul. both among the captains, and 
 the inhabitants of the town ; their enemies, and their 
 enemies only, were now lively and strong ; and like 
 to become the head, whilst Mansoul was made the 
 tail. 
 
 By this time the letter last mentioned, that was 
 written by the Diabolonians that yet lurked i\\ 
 the town of Mansoul, was conveyed to DiaboluSj 
 
260 HOLY WAR. 
 
 The state of backsliders described. 
 
 in the black den, by the hand of Mr. Profane, 
 He carried the letter by HELL-GATE-hill as afore, 
 and conveyed it b_y Cerberus to his lord. 
 
 But when Cerberus and Mr. Profane met, they 
 were presently great as beggars, and thus they fell 
 into discourse about Mansoul, and about the pro^ 
 ject against her. 
 
 Ah ! old friend, quoth Cerberus, art thou come 
 to HELL-GATE-hill again .-* By St. Mary, I am 
 glad to see thee. 
 
 Pro. Yes, ray lord, I am come again about the 
 concerns of the town of Mansoul. 
 
 Cer. Prithee tell me, what condition is that town 
 <jf Mansoul in at present. 
 
 Pro. In a brave condition, my lord, for us, and 
 for my lords, the lords of this place, I trow ; for 
 they are greatly decayed as to godliness, and that's 
 as well as our heart can wish : their Lord is greatly 
 out with them, and that doth also please us well. 
 We have already also a foot in their dish, for our 
 Diabolonian friends are laid in their bosoms, 
 and what do we lack, but to.be masters of the place ? 
 Besides, our trusty friends in Mansoul are daily 
 plotting to betray it to the lords of this town ; also 
 the sickness rages bitterly amonpj them, and that 
 which makes up all, we hope at last to prevail. 
 
 Tlien said Cerberus, No time like this to asr 
 eault them. I wish that the enterprise be followed 
 tlose, and that the success desired may be soon ef- 
 ^ted, yes, I wish it for the poor Diabolonians' 
 
HOLY WAR. 261 
 
 His immiDcnt danger. 
 
 sakes, that live in the continual fear of their lives 
 in that traitorous town of Mansoul. 
 
 Pro. The contrivance is almost finished, the 
 lords in Mansoul that are Diabolonians are at 
 it day and night ; and the other are like silly doves, 
 they want heart to be concerned with their state, 
 and to consider that ruin is at hand. Besides^ you 
 may, yea must think, when you put all things to- 
 gether, that there arc many reasons that prevail with 
 DiABOLUs to make what haste he can. 
 
 Ckr. Thou hast said as it is, I am glad things are 
 at this pass. Go in, my brave Profane, to my 
 lords, they will give thee for thy welcome as good 
 a Coranto as this kingdom will afford. I have sent 
 ihy letter in already. 
 
 Then Mr. Profane went into the den, and his 
 lord DiABOLUS met him, and saluted him with. 
 Welcome, my trusty servant, I have been made glad 
 with thy letter. The rest of the lords of the pit gave 
 him also their salutations. Then Profane, after 
 obeisance made to them all, said. Let Mansoul be 
 given to my lord Diabolus, and let him be her king 
 for ever. And with that the yawning gorge of hell 
 gave so loud and hideous a groan (for that is the 
 fiiusic of that place) that it made the mountains 
 about it totter, as if they would fall in pieces. 
 
 Now after they had read and considered the let- 
 ter, they consulted what answer to return, and the 
 first that spake to it was Lucifer. 
 
 Luc. The first project of the Diabolonians in 
 Mansoul is like to be lucky, and to take ; to wit. 
 
5(52 HOLY WAR. 
 
 Sin only ruins the sonl. 
 
 that they will, by all the means they can, make 
 Mansoul yet more vile ; no way to destroy a soul 
 like this ; our old friend Balaam went this way, 
 and prospered many years ago.* Let this therefore 
 stand with us for a maxim, and be to Diabolo- 
 NiANs for a general rule in all ages : for nothing 
 can in^ke this to fail but grace, in which I would 
 hope that this town has no share. But whether to 
 fall upon them on a market-day, because of their 
 cumber in business, that I would should be under 
 debate. And there is more reason why this head 
 should be debated, than why some other should ; 
 because upon this will turn the whole of what we 
 shall attempt. If we time not our business well, 
 our whole project may fail. Our friends the Di^ 
 ABOLONiANs Say, that a market-day is best, for 
 then will Mansoul be most busy, and have fewest 
 thoughts of a surprise. But what if they shall 
 double their guards on those days (and methinks 
 nature and reason should teach them to do it ? ) and 
 what if they should keep such a watch on those days 
 as the necessity of their present care requires ? Yea, 
 what if their men should be always in arms on those 
 days ? Then you may, my lords, be disappointed 
 in your attempts, and may bring our friends in the 
 town to utter danger of unavoidable ruin. 
 
 Beelzebub. There is something in what my 
 
 * Behold, these caused the children of Israel, through the 
 counsel of Balaam, to commit trespass against the Lord iii the 
 Biaitcr of Peor, and there was a plague among the Gongregatioft 
 tftheLoKD. Numb. xxxi. l(3i. 
 
HOLY WAR. 263 
 
 Satan foars prayer. 
 
 lord hath said, but his copjectiire may, or may not 
 fall out. Nor hath my lord laid it down as that 
 which must not be receded from : for I know that 
 he said it only to provoke a warm debate thereabout. 
 Therefore we must understand, if we can, whether 
 the town of Mansoul has such a sense of her de- 
 cayed state, and of the designs we have on foot 
 against her, as to set watch and ward at her gates, 
 and to double them on market-days. But if, after 
 inquiry made, it shall be found that they are asleep, 
 then any day will do, but a market-day is best ; and 
 this is my judgment. 
 
 Then quoth Diabolus, How should we know 
 this ? And it was answered. Inquire about it at the 
 mouth of Mr, Puofane. So Profane was called 
 ID^ and asked the question, and he made his answer 
 as follows : 
 
 Pro. My lords, so far as I can gather, this is at 
 present the condition of the town of Mansoul; 
 they are decayed in their faith and love ; Emanuel, 
 their Prince, has given them the back ; they send 
 often by petition to fetch him again, but he makes 
 no haste to answer their request ; nor is there much 
 reformation among them. 
 
 Diabolus. I am glad that they are backward to 
 a reformation, but yet I am afraid of their petition- 
 ing. However, their looseness of life is a sign that 
 there is not much heart in what they do, and without 
 the heart, things are little worth. But go on, 
 my masters, I will divert you, my lords, no hnx- 
 
2CA HOLY WAR. 
 
 A few sins will ruin the soul. 
 
 Beel. If the case be so with Mansoul, as Mr. 
 Profane has described it to be, it will be no great 
 matter what day we assault it ; not their prayers, 
 nor their power, will do them much service. 
 
 When Beelzebub had ended his oration, then 
 Apollyon began. My opinion, said he, concern- 
 ing this matter, is, that we go on fair and softly, not 
 doing things in a hurry. Let our friends in Man- 
 soul go on still to pollute and defile it, by seeking 
 to draw it yet more into sin (for there is nothing like 
 sin to devour Mansoul. ) If this be done, and takei 
 effect, Mansoul itself will leave off to watch, peti- 
 tion, or any thing else, that should tend to her secu- 
 rity and safety ; for she will forget her Emanuel, 
 shewill not desire his con? pany ; andean shebegotteR 
 thus to live, her Prince will not come to her fci 
 haste. Our trusty friend, Mr. Carnal-security, 
 with one of his tricks, drove him out of the town, 
 and why may not my lord Covetousness, and my 
 lord Lasciviousness, by what they may do, keep 
 him out of the town ? And this I will tell you, not 
 because you know it not, but that two or three 
 Diabolonians, if entertained and countenanced by 
 the town of Mansoul, will do more to the keeping 
 of Emanuel from them, and -towards making the 
 town our own, than an army or legion that should 
 be sent out from us to withstand him. 
 
 Let therefore the first project that our friends in 
 Mansoul have set on foot, be strongly and diligently 
 carried on with all cunning and craft imaginable ; 
 And let them send continually under one guise or 
 
HOLY WAR. 2G5 
 
 The more iluful the more opea to Satan's attack. 
 
 j'l ■' ■ ■ - * 
 
 other, more and other of their men to play with the 
 people of Mansoul: and then perhaps we shall 
 not need to be at the charge of making a war upon 
 them ; or if that must of necessity be done, yet the 
 more sinful they are, the less able they will be to 
 resist us, and then the more easily we shall over- 
 come them. And besides, suppose, and that is the 
 worst that can be supposed, that Emanuel should 
 come to them again, why may not the same means, 
 or the like, drive him from them once more ? Yea, 
 why may he not, by their lapse into that sin again, 
 be driven from them for ever, for the sake of which 
 he was at the first driven from them for a season ? 
 And if this should happen, then away will go with 
 bim his rams, his slings, his captains, his soldiers, 
 and he leaveth Mansoul naked and bare. Yea, 
 will not this town, when she sees herself utterly for- 
 saken of her Prince, of her own accord open her 
 gates again unto you ? But this must be done 
 by time, a few days will not effect so great a work 
 as this. 
 
 "When Apollyon had made an end of speaking, 
 DiABOLUS began to blow out his own malice> and 
 plead his own cause ; and he said. My lords and 
 powers of the cave, my true and trusty friends, I have 
 with much impatience, as becomes me, given ear to 
 your long and tedious orations. But my furioiis 
 gorge and empty paunch so lusteth after a reposses- 
 sion of my famous town of Mansou l, that whatever 
 comes on't, I can wait no longer to see the events of 
 lingering projects^ I must, and that without fur- 
 
 2 L 
 
966 HOLY WAR. 
 
 Doubts Satan's iustramentsofdtfack. 
 
 ther delay, seek by all means I can to fill my in- 
 satiable gulf with the soul and body of the town of 
 Mansoul. Therefore lend me your heads, your 
 hearts, and your helps ; now I am going to recover 
 my town of Mansoul. 
 
 When the lords and princes of the pit saw the 
 flaming desire that was in Diabolus to devour the 
 miserable town of Mansoul, they left off to raise 
 any more objections, but consented to lend him what 
 strength they could: though had Apollyon's ad- 
 vice been taken, they had far more fearfully distress- 
 ed the town of Mansoul. But I say, they were wil- 
 ling to lend him what help they could, not know- 
 ing what need they might have of him, when they 
 should engage for themselves, as he. Wherefore 
 they fell to devising about the next thing propound- 
 ed, to wit, what soldiers they were, and also how 
 many, with whom Diabolus should go against the 
 town of Mansoul, to take it : and, after some de- 
 bate, it was concluded, according as the letter of 
 the Diabolonians had suggested, that none wag 
 more fit for that expedition, than an army of terrible 
 Doubters. They therefore concluded to send 
 against Mansoul an army of sturdy Doubters. 
 The number thought fit to be employed in that ser- 
 vice, was between twenty and thirty thousand. So 
 then the result of that great counsel of those high 
 and mighty lords was, that Diabolus should even 
 now out of hand beat up his drum for men in the 
 land of Doubting, which land lieth upon the con- 
 fines of the place called HELL-GATE-hill, for men 
 
flOLY V/AR. 267 
 
 Correspondence between Sata if and our lu»ti. 
 
 that might be employed by him against the miserable 
 town of Mansoul. It was also concluded, that 
 these lords themselves should help him in the war, 
 and that they would to that end, head and manage 
 his men. So they drew up a letter, and sent it back 
 to the DiABOLONiANs that lurked in Minsoul, 
 and that waited for the coming back of Mr. Pro- 
 fane, to signify to them into what method they 
 had put their design. The contents whereof fol- 
 low. 
 
 * From the dark and horrible dungeon of hell, 
 
 * DiABOLUS, with all the society of the 
 
 * princes of darkness, send to our trusty ones 
 
 * in and about the walls of the town of Man- 
 ' souL^ now impatiently waiting for our most 
 
 * devilish answer to their venomous and most 
 
 * poisonous design against the town o/Man- 
 
 ' SOUL. 
 
 • Cur native onesj in whom from day to day we 
 
 * boast, and in whose actions all the year long we 
 ' greatly delight ourselves. We received your wel- 
 
 * corae, because highly esteemed letter, at the hand 
 
 * of our trusty and greatly beloved, the old gentlc- 
 ' man, Mr. Profane ; and do give you to under- 
 ' stand, that when we had broken it up, and had 
 
 * read the contents (to your amazing memory be it 
 
 * spoken,) our yawning hollow-bellied place where 
 
 * we are, made so hideous and yelling a noise for 
 joy, that the mountains that stan4 -around about 
 
S68 HOLY WAR. 
 
 Our sins are Satan's faithful servants. 
 
 ^== ■ ■ ' " r 
 
 * IlELL-GATE-hill had like to have been ibaken to 
 ' pieces at the sound thereof. 
 
 ' We could also do no less than admire your 
 
 * faithfulness to us, -with the greatness of that sub 
 " fility that now hath shewed itself to be in your 
 ' heads to serve us against the town of Mansoul. 
 ' For you have invented for us so excellent a me- 
 
 * thod for our proceeding against that rebellious 
 ' people, that a more effectual cannot be thought of 
 ' by all the wits of hell. The proposals therefore 
 
 * which now at last you have sent us, since we saw 
 ' them, we have done little else, but highly approv- 
 f ed and admired them. 
 
 * Nay, we shall, to encourage you in the profun- 
 
 * dity of your craft, let you know, that at a full as- 
 ' sembly and conclave of our princes and princi- 
 ' palities of this place, your project was discoursed 
 ' and tossed from one side of the cave to the other 
 
 * by their mightinesses ; but a better, and, as was 
 ' by themselves judged, a more fit and proper way, 
 ' by all their wits could not be invented, to surprise, 
 ' take, and make our own, the rebellious town of 
 ' Mansoul. 
 
 ' Wherefore, in fine, all that was said that va- 
 ' ried from what you had in your letter propounded, 
 ' fell of itself to the ground, and yours only was 
 ' stuck to by Diabolus the prince ; yea, his gaping 
 
 * gorge, and yawning paunch was on fire to put your 
 ' invention into execution. 
 
 * We therefore give you to understand, that 
 ' our stout, furious, and unmerciful Diabolus is 
 
HOLY WAR. 2Cyif 
 
 Sin brinjrs forth death. 
 
 ' raising for your relief and the ruin of the rebellious 
 ' town of Mansoul, more than twenty thousand 
 
 * Doubters to come against that people. They 
 ' are all stout and sturdy men, that of old have been 
 ' accustomed to war ; I say, he is doing this work 
 ' of his with all possible speed he can, for with his 
 f heart and spirit he is engaged in it. We desire, 
 
 * therefore, that as you have hitherto stuck to us, 
 ' and given us both advice and encouragement, you 
 ' still will prosecute our design, nor shall you lose, 
 ' but be gainers thereby ; yea^ we intend to make 
 ' you the lords of Mansoul. 
 
 ' One thing may not by any means be omitted, 
 ' that is, those with us desire, that every one of you 
 ' that are at Mansoul would still use all your 
 ' power, cunning, and skill, with delusive persua- 
 ' sions, yet to draw the town of Mansoul into more 
 ' sin and wickedness, even that sin may be finished, 
 .' and bring forth death. 
 
 ' For thus it is concluded with us, that the more 
 ' vile, sinful, and debauched the town of Mansoul 
 ' is, the more backward will their Emanuel be to 
 ' come to their help, either by presence, or other 
 
 * relief; yea, the more sinful, the more weak, and 
 ' so the more unable will they be to make resistance 
 ' when we shall make our assault upon them to 
 ' swallow them up. Yea, they may cause that their 
 ' mighty Shaddai himself may cast him out of his 
 'protection; yea, and send for his captains and 
 ' soldiers home, vyith his slings and rams, and leave 
 
 * them n&ked and bare, and then the town of Man* 
 
270 HOLY WAR. 
 
 Constant aanger of Satan's attack. 
 
 « SOUL will of itself open to us^ and fall as a fig into 
 ' the mouth of the eater. Yea, to be sure that we 
 
 * then with a great deal of ease shall come upon her 
 ' and overcome her. 
 
 ' As to the time of our coming upon Mansoul, 
 ' we as yet have not fully resolved upon that, 
 ' though at present some of us think, as you, that a 
 ' market-day, or a market-day at night, will cer- 
 ' taiiily be the best. However, do you be ready, 
 
 * and when you shall hear our roaring drum with- 
 
 * out, do you be as busy to make the most horrible 
 ' confusion within ;* so shall Mansoul certainly 
 ' be distressed before and behind, and shall not 
 
 * know which way to betake herself for help. Mjr 
 
 * lord Lucifer, my lord Beelzebub, my lord 
 
 * Apollyon, my lord Legion, with the rest, salute 
 'you, as does also my lord Diabolus; and we 
 ' wish both you, with all that you do or shall pos- 
 ' scss, the very self-same fruit and success for 
 
 * your doing, as we ourselves at present enjoy for 
 ' ours. 
 
 * From OUT dreadful confines in the most fear- 
 
 * ful pit, we salute you, and so do those many 
 
 * legions here with us, wishing you may be 
 *as hellishly prosperous as we desire to be 
 
 * ourselves. By the letter-carrier, Mr Pro- 
 
 * FANE.* 
 
 ♦ Be sober, be vigilant ; because your advergary the devil, at 
 a roarinf^ lion, waikelh about seeking whom he may dcTOur. 1 
 P*;ter V %, 
 
HOLY WAR. 271 
 
 The (iostruction of n>an the joy of devils. 
 
 Then Mr. Profane addresBcd himself for his 
 returo to Mansoul, with his errand from the hor- 
 rible pit to the DiABOLONiANs that dwelt in that 
 town. So he came up the stairs from the deep to 
 the mouth of the cave where Cerberus was. Now 
 when Ceueerus saw hinij he asked how matters 
 went below, about, and against the town of Man- 
 
 •OUL. 
 
 Pro. Things go as well as we can expect. The 
 letter that I carried thither was highly approved, 
 and well liked by all my lords, and I am returning 
 to tell our DiABOLONiANS so. I have an answer 
 to it here in my bosom, that I am sure will make 
 our masters that sent me glad ; for the contents 
 thereof are to encourage them to pursue their de- 
 sign to the utmost, and to be ready also to fall on 
 within, when they shall see my lord Diabolus be- 
 leaguering of the town of Mansoul. 
 
 Cer. But does he intend to go against them 
 himself? 
 
 Pro. Does he ! Ay, and he will take along 
 with him more than twenty thousand, all sturdy 
 Doi;BTEks, and men of war, picked men from 
 the land of Doubting, to serve him in the expe- 
 dition. 
 
 Then was Cerberus glad, and said. And are 
 there such brave preparations a making to go against 
 the miserable town of -Mansoul ? And would I 
 might be put at the head of a thousand of them, 
 that I might also shew my valour against the fa- 
 mous town of Mansoul. 
 
272 HOLY WAR. 
 
 Devils delight ia mischief. 
 
 Peo. Your wish may come to pass, you look like 
 one that has mettle enough, and my lord will have 
 with him those that are valiant and stout. But ray 
 business requires haste. 
 
 Cer. Ay, so it does. Speed thee to the town of 
 Mansoul, with all the deepest mischiefs that this 
 place can afford thee. And when thou shalt come 
 to the house of Mr, Mischief, the place where 
 the DiABOLONiANs meet to plot, tell them that 
 Cerberus doth wish them his service, and that if 
 he may, he will with the army come up against the 
 famous town of Mansoul. 
 
 Pro. That I will. And I know that my lords 
 that are there will be glad to hear it, and to see you 
 also. 
 
 So after a few more such kind of compliments, 
 Mr. Profane took leave of his friend Cerberus ; 
 and Cerberus again, with a thousand of their pit 
 wishes, bid him haste with all speed to his mas- 
 ters. The which when he had heard, he made 
 obeisance, and began to gather up his heels to 
 run. 
 
 Thus therefore he returned, and came to Man- 
 soul, and going as afore to the house of Mr. Mrs* 
 CHIEF, there he found the Diabolonians as- 
 cembled, and waiting for his return. Now when he 
 was come, and had presented himself, he delivered 
 his letter, and adjoined his compliment to them 
 therewith : My lords, from the confines of the pit, 
 the high and mighty powers of the den salute you 
 here, the true Diabolonians of the town of Man- 
 
HOLY WAU. 273 
 
 Reformation shovld sttcod prayer. 
 
 SOUL ; wishing you always the mopt proper of their 
 benediction, for the great service^ ^»'gh attempts, 
 and brave achievements^ that you have put your- 
 selves upon, for the restoring to our prince Diabo- 
 Lus the famous town of Mansoul. 
 
 This was therefore the present slate of the mise- 
 rable town of Mansoul. She had oflfended her 
 Prince, and he was gone ; she had encouraged the 
 powers of hell by her foolishness, to come against 
 her to seek her utter destruction. 
 
 True the town of Mansoul was somewhat made 
 sensible of her sin, but the Diabolonians were 
 gotten into her bowels ; she cried, hut Emanuel 
 was gone, and her cries did not fetch him as yet 
 again. Besides she knew not whether ever or ne- 
 ver he would return, and come to his Mansoul 
 again ; nor did they know the power and industry 
 of the enemy, nor how forward they were to put in 
 execution that plot of hell that they had devised 
 against her. 
 
 They did indeed still send petition after petition 
 to the Prince, but he answered all with silence. 
 They did neglect reformation and that was as Dia- 
 BOLUS would have it ; for he knew if they regarded 
 iniquity in their heart, their King would not re- 
 gard their prayer ; they therefore grew weaker and 
 weaker, and were as a rolling thing before the 
 whirlwind. They cried to their King for help, 
 and laid Diabolonians in their bosoms ; what 
 tlierefore should a King do with them ? Yea, 
 there seemed uow to be. a mixture m Mansoul, the 
 
 2 K 
 
iTV HOLY WAR, 
 
 Sins begin to be cherished. 
 
 I)iAB{)LONiANs and Mansou LiANs would walk the 
 streets together. Yea, ihoy began to seek their 
 peacc^ for they thought, that since the sickness had 
 been so mortal in Mansoul, it was in vain to go 
 to handy-gripes with them. Besides, the weakness 
 of Mansou L was the strength of their enemies; 
 and the sins of Mansou l the advantage of the 
 DiABOLONiANS. The foes of Mansoul also now 
 began to promise themselves the town for a pos- 
 session ; there was no great di£:rence now betwixt 
 the Mansoulians and Diabolonians ; both 
 seemed to be masters of Mansoul. Yea, the Di- 
 abolonians increased aiid grew, but the town of 
 Mansoul diminished greatly. There were more 
 than eleven thousand men, women, and children, 
 that died by the sickness of Mansoul. 
 
 But now, as Shaddai would have it, there was 
 one whose name was Mr. Puywel, a great lover of 
 the town of Mansoul. . And he, as his manner 
 was, went listening up and down in Mansoul, to 
 see and to hear if at any time he might, whether 
 there was any design against it, or no.. For he wai 
 always a jealous man, and feared some mischief 
 some time would befal it, either from the Diabolo- 
 nians within, or from some power without. Now 
 upon a time it so ^iappened, as Mr. Prywel went 
 listening here and there, that he lighted upon a 
 place called Vi\e-hill in Mansoul, where Diabo- 
 lonians used to meet; so hearing a mutterinp* 
 (you must know that it was in the night) he softlv 
 drew near to bear ; nor had he stood long under the 
 
HOLY WAR. 275 
 
 Conscience raises an alarm. 
 
 house-end, for there stood a house thercj bu.t he 
 beard one confidently affirm, that it was not, or 
 would not be long, before Di a bolus should possess 
 himself of Mansoul, and that then the Diabolo- 
 NiANs did intend to put all Mansoulians to the 
 sword, and would kill and destroy the King's cap- 
 tains, and drive all his soldiers out of the town. 
 
 He said moreover. That he knew there were 
 above twenty thousand fighting men prepared by 
 DiABOLUs for the accomplishing of this design, and 
 it would not be many months before they all should 
 see it. When Mr. Prywel had heard this story, 
 he quickly believed it was true ; wherefore he went 
 forthwith to my lord-mayor's house, and acquainted 
 him therewith, who sending for the suborbinate 
 preacher, brake the business to him, and he as soon 
 gave the alarm to the town ; for he was now the 
 chief preacher in Mansoul, because as yet my" lord 
 Secretary was ill at ease. And this was the way the 
 subordinate preacher took to alarm the town there- 
 with. The same hour he caused the lecture-bell to 
 be rung, and the people came together ; he then 
 gave them a short exhortation to watchfulness, and 
 made Mr. Prywel's news the argument thereof. 
 For, said he, an horrible plot is contrived against 
 Mansoul, even to massacre us all in a day ; nor 
 is this story to be slighted, for Mr. Prywell is the 
 author thereof. Mr. Prywell was always a lover 
 of Mansoul, a sober and judicious man that is no 
 tattler, nor raiser of false reports, but one that loves 
 
276 HOLY WAit. 
 
 When God i» angered destruction i-s to be feared. 
 
 to look into the very bottom of matters^ and talks 
 nothing of news but by very solid argument. 
 
 I will call hira^ and you shall hear him for 
 your own selves ; so he called him, and he came 
 and told his tale so punctually^ and affirmed its 
 truth with such ample grounds, that Mansoul 
 fell presently under a conviction of the truth of 
 what he said. The preacher also backed him, 
 saying. Sirs, it is not irrational for us to believe it, 
 for we have provoked Shaddai to anger, and have 
 sinned Emanuel out of the town ; we have had 
 too much correspondence with Diabolonians, and 
 have forgotten our tender mercies ; no marvel, then 
 if the enemy both within and vrithout should desiga 
 and plot our ruin ; and what time like this to do it ? 
 The sickness is now in the town, and we have been 
 made weak thereby. Many a good-meaning man is 
 dead, and the Diabolonians of late grow stronger 
 and stronger. 
 
 Besides, quoth the subordinate preacher, what I 
 have received from this good truth-teller is one ink- 
 ling further, that he understood by those that he 
 overheard, that several letters have passed between 
 the furies of the pit and the Diabolonians, in or- 
 der to our destruction. When Mansoul heard all 
 this, and not being able to gainsay it, they lift up their 
 voice and wept. Mr. Prywell also, in the presence 
 of the townsmen, confirmed all that their subordinate 
 preacher had said. Wherefore they now set afresh 
 to bewail their folly, and to a doubling of petitions 
 
HOLY War. 277 
 
 Holy resolutions. 
 
 to ShaddaIj and his Son. They also brake the 
 business to the captains, high commanders, and meu 
 of war in the town of Mansoul, intreating of them 
 to use the means to be strong, and to take good 
 courage, and that they would look after their har- 
 ness and make themselves ready to give Diabolus 
 battle by night or by day, should he come, as the 
 are informed he will, to beleaguer the town of 
 Mansoul. 
 
 When the captains neard of this, they being al- 
 ways true lovers of the town of Mansoul, what do 
 they, but like so many Samsons, they shake them- 
 selves, and come together to consult and to contrive 
 how to defeat those bold and hellish contrivances, 
 that were upon the wheel, by the means of Di- 
 abolus, and his ft-iend, against the now sickly, 
 weakly, and much impoverished town of Man- 
 soul ; and they agreed upon these following parti- 
 culars. 
 
 1. That the gates of Mansoul should be kept 
 shut, and made fast with bars and locks, and that all 
 persons that went out or came in should be very 
 strictly examined by the captains of the guards,* 
 to the end, said they, that those that are managers of 
 the plot amongst us may, either coming or going, 
 be taken ; and that wc may also find out who are 
 the great contrivers, amongst us, of our ruin.f 
 
 • Watch ye, stand fast in the faith, quit you like men, be 
 strong. I Cor. xvi, 13. 
 
 f Let us search and try our ways, and turn again unto the 
 Louu. Lam Ui. 40. 
 
278 HOLY WAR. 
 
 A solemn fast. 
 
 2. Tfie next thing was, that a strict search should 
 be made for all kind of Diabolonians, throughout 
 the whole town of Mansoul ; and that every man*s 
 house from top to bottom, should be looked intOj 
 and that too house by house, and that if possible a 
 farther discovery might be made of all such among 
 them as had a hand in these designs,* 
 
 3. It was further concluded upon, that v/hereso- 
 ever or with whomsoever any of these Diabolo- 
 nians were found, that even those of the town of 
 Mansoul, that had given them house and harbour, 
 should, to their shame and the warning of others, 
 do penance in the open place. + 
 
 4. It was moreover resolved by the famous town 
 of Mansoul, that a public fast, and a day of humi- 
 liation, should be kept throughout the whole cor- 
 poration, to the justifying of their Prince, the 
 abasing of themselves before him for their trans- 
 gressions against him, and agajnst Shaddai his 
 Father.;}; It was further resolved, that all such in 
 Mansoul as did not on that day endeavour to keep 
 that fast and to humble themselves for their faults, 
 but should mind their worldly employments, or be 
 
 ♦ Lookiug diligently, lest any man fail of the grace of God i 
 Sest any root of bitterness springing up trouble you, and thereby 
 many be defilod ; lest there be any fornicator, or profane person 
 as Esau, who for one morsel of meat sold his birth-right. Heh. 
 xii. 15, 16. 
 
 t For among my people are found wicked men: they lay wait as 
 he that settoth .snares ; they set a trap, they catch men. Jer. v. 26. 
 
 X Sanctify ye a fast, call a solemn assembly, gather the elders^ 
 and all the inhabitants of the land, into the house of the Lord 
 your God, aud cry unto the Lord. Joel i. 14. 
 
HOLV WAR. 9T9 
 
 Refornialion began. 
 
 found wandering up or down the streets, should be 
 taken for Diabolonians, and suircr as Diabolo- 
 NiANS for sucli wicked doings. 
 
 5. It was further concluded then, that with what 
 speed, and with what warmth of mind they could, 
 they would renew their humiliation for sin, and their 
 petitions to Shaddai for help ; they also re- 
 solved to send tidings to the court, of all that IVTr. 
 Prywel had told them. 
 
 6, It was also determined^ that thanks should be 
 given by the town of Mansoul to Mr. Prywel, for 
 liis diligent seeking of the welfare of their town ; 
 and further, that forasmuch as he was so naturally 
 inclined to seek their good, aitd also to undermine 
 their foes, they gave him a commission of Scout- 
 master-general, for the good of the town of Man- 
 soul. 
 
 When the corporation, with their captains, had 
 thus concluded, they did as they had said, they shut 
 up their gates, they made for Diabolonians strict 
 search, they made those with whom any were found, 
 to do penance in the open place. They kept their 
 fast, and renewed their petitions to their Prince, 
 and Mr. Prywel managed his charge, and the 
 trust that Mansoul had put into his hands, with 
 great conscience, and good fidelity ; for he gave 
 himself wholly up to his employ, and that not only 
 within the town, but he went out to pry, to see, and 
 to hear. 
 
 Not many days after, he provided for his journey. 
 
580 HOLY WAR. 
 
 Danger foreseen. 
 
 and went towards HELL-GATE-hill, into the coun- 
 try where Doubters were, where he heard of all 
 that had been talked of in Mansoul, and he per- 
 ceived also that Diabolus was almost ready for his 
 march, &c. So he came back with speed, and calling 
 the captains and elders of Mansoul together, he 
 told them where he had been, what he had heard, 
 and what he had seen. Particularly he told 
 them, that Diabolus was almost ready for hit 
 march, and that he had made old Mr. Incke- 
 DULiTY, that once brake prison in Mansoul, 
 the general of his arm}^ ; that his array consisted 
 of all Doubters, and that their number was 
 above twenty thousand. He told moreover, that 
 Diabolus intended to bring with him the chief 
 princes of the Infernal Pit, and that he would make 
 them chief captains over his Doubters. He told 
 them moreover, that it was certainly true, that se- 
 veral of the black den would, with Diabolus, ride 
 reformades, to reduce the town of Mansoul to the 
 cbedience of Diabolus their prince. 
 
 He said moreover, that he understood by the 
 Doubters, among whom he had been, that the 
 reason why old Incredulity was made general of 
 the whole army, was, because none truer than he to 
 the tyrant ; and because he had an implacable spile 
 against the town of Mansoul. Besides, said he, 
 he remembers the affront that Mansoul has given 
 him, and he is resolved to be revenged of them. 
 
 But the black princes shall be made high com- 
 
HOLY WAR. 281 
 
 Sill detected and punished. 
 
 manders ; only Imcuedulitv shall be over them 
 all, because he can more easily and dexterously be- 
 leaguer the town of Mansoul, than any of the 
 princes besides. 
 
 Now when the captains of Mansoul, with the 
 elders of the town, had heard the tidinj^s that Mr. 
 Prywel brought, they thought it expedient, witliout 
 further delay, to put into execution the laws against 
 the DiABOLOMANs, which their Prince had made, 
 and given them in commandment to manage against 
 them. Wherefore forthwith a diligent and impar- 
 tial search was made in all houses in Mansoul, for 
 all and all manner of Diabolonians. Now in the 
 house of Mr. Mind, and in the house of the great 
 lord WrLL-BE-wiLL, were two Diaeolonians 
 found. In Mr. Mind's house was one lord Co- 
 VETousNEss found ; but he had changed his nams 
 to Prudent-thrifty. In my lord Will-be- 
 "Will's house, one Lasciviousness was found; 
 but he had changed his name to Hasimless-mirth. 
 These two the captains and elders of the town of 
 Mansoul took and committed to custody, under the 
 hand of Mr. Trueman, the gaoler ; and this man 
 handled them so severely, and loaded them «o well 
 with irons, that they both fell into a deep consump- 
 tion, and died in the prison ; their masters also, ac- 
 cording to the agreement of the captains and elders, 
 were brought to do penance in the onen place, to 
 their shame, and a warning to the rest of the town of 
 Mansoul. 
 
 2 N 
 
'^82 HOLY A\'AU- 
 
 The nature of repentance. 
 
 Now this was the manner of penance in tliose 
 days. The persons ofiendiiig, being made sensible 
 of the evil of their doings, were enjoined open con- 
 fession of their faults, and a strict amendment of 
 their lives. 
 
 After this, the caplams and elders of Mansoul 
 Bought yet to find out more Diabolonians, where- 
 ever they lurked., whether in dens, caves, holes, 
 vaults, or where else they could, in or about the 
 wall or town of Mansoul. But though they could 
 plainly see their footing, and so follow them by their 
 track and smell to their holds, even to the mouths 
 of their caves and dens, yet take and do justice upon 
 them they could not, their ways were so crooked, 
 their holds so strong, and they so quick to take 
 sanctuary there. 
 
 But Mansoul ruled now with so stiff an hand 
 over the Diaeolonians thai were left, that they 
 were giad to shrink into corners ; time was when 
 ihey durst walk openly and in the day, but now they 
 were forced to embrace privacy and the night : time 
 was when a Mansoulian was their companion, 
 but now they called them deadly enemies. This 
 change did Mr. Prywel's intelligence make in the 
 town of Mansoul. 
 
 By this time DiABOLUs had finished his army 
 which he intended to bring with him for the ruin of 
 Mansoul; and bad set over them captains, and 
 other field officers, such as liked bis furious stomach 
 bc&t ; liimself was lord paramount. Incredulity. 
 
HOLY WAR. 283 
 
 The officers sect against Mansodi.. 
 
 was general of his army. Their highest captains 
 shall be named afterwards ; but now for their of- 
 ficer's, colours, and scutcheons, 
 
 1. Their first captain was captain Rage, he was 
 captain over the Election-Doubters, his were 
 the red colours ; his standard-bearer was Mr. De- 
 structive, and the Great Red Dragon he had for 
 his scutcheon.* 
 
 2. The second captain was captain Fury, he 
 was 'captain over the Vocation-Doubters ; his 
 standard-bearer was Mr. Darkness, his colours 
 were those that were pale, and he had for his scut» 
 chcon the Fiery Flying Serpent. f 
 
 3. The third captain was captain Damnation, 
 he was captain over the Grace- Doubters, his 
 were the red colours; Mr. No-life bare then\, 
 and he had for his scutcheon the black den.;|; 
 
 * And there appeared another wonder in heaven, and behold, 
 a great red dragon, having seven heads, and ten horns, and scT'eri 
 crowns upon his heads. And his tail drew the third part of the 
 stars of heaven, and did cast them to the earth : and t])c dragon 
 stood before the woman which was ready to be delivered, for to 
 devour her child as soon as it was born. And when the dragon 
 saw that he was cast unto the earth, he persecuted the woman 
 which brought forth the man-child. And the dragon was wrath 
 with the woman, and went to make Mar with the remnant of her 
 seed, which kept the commandment of Cod, and have the testi- 
 mony of Jesus Christ. Rev. xii. 3, 4, 13, 17. 
 
 -f And the Lord seiit fiery sorpcnts among the people : and they 
 bit the people, ai.a much people of Israel died. Numb. xxi. 6. 
 
 I And the fifth angel sounded, and I saw a star fall from heavct 
 upon the earlh ; and to him was giveii the key of the bottomless 
 pit. Rev, ix. 1. 
 
284 HOLY WAR. 
 
 Doubts are Satan's captains. 
 
 4. The fourth captain was captain Insatiable, 
 he was captain over the Faith-Doubters, his were 
 the red colours ; Mr. Devourer bare them, and 
 he had for his scutcheon the Yawning Jaws.* 
 
 5. The fifth captain was captain Buimstone, 
 he was captain over the Persever ance-Doubter«, 
 his also were the red colours ; Mr. Burning bare 
 them, and his scutcheon was the Blue and Stinking 
 Flame. f 
 
 6. The sixth captain was captain Torment, he 
 was captain over the Resurrection-Doubters, 
 his colours were those that were pale, Mr. Gnaw 
 was his standard-bearer, and he had the Black 
 Worm for his scutcheon.;]; 
 
 7. The seventh captain was captain No-ease, he 
 was captain over the Salvation-Doubteus, his 
 were the red colours, Mr. Restless bare them, 
 and his scutcheon was the Ghastly' Picture of 
 Death. H 
 
 ♦ Hell an;l destruction are never full : so the eyes of man are 
 nevor satisfied. Prov. xxvii. 20. 
 
 -f Upon the wicked he shall rain snares, fire and brimstone, and 
 an horrible tempest : this shall be the portion of their cup. Psal. 
 ix. 6. And the smoke of their torment ascendeth up for ever and 
 ever : and (hey have no rest day nor night, who worslvp the boast 
 and his image, and whosoever receiveth the mark of his name. 
 Rev. xiv. 11 
 
 \ Whcro their worm dieth not, and the hre is not quenched. 
 Miirk ix. 41. 
 
 'fl And I looked, and behold a pale horse ; and his name that 
 sat on him was Death, and hoU followed with him: and power 
 was given unto them over the fourth part of (he eaith, to kill 
 with sword, and with hunger, and with death, and tvith the beasts 
 of the earth. Rev. vi. 8. 
 
IIOLV WAR. 215 
 
 The nature of the ariuy going to attack the soul. 
 
 8. The eighth captain was captain Sepulchre, 
 he "was captain over the Glory-Douuters, his also 
 were the pale colours ; Mr, Cobruption was his 
 standard-bearer, and he had for his* scutcheon a 
 Scull, and Dead Men's Bones.* 
 
 9. The ninth captain was captain Past-hope, h? 
 was captain of those that are called the Felicity- 
 Doubters, his standard-hearer was Mr. Despair ; 
 his also were the red colours, and his scutcheon was 
 the Hot Iron and the Hard Heart. f 
 
 These were his captains, and these were their 
 forces, these were the standards, these were their 
 colours, and these were their scutcheons. Now 
 over these did the great Diabol.us make superior 
 captains, and they were in number, seven; as name- 
 ly, the lord Beelzebub, the lord Lucifer, the lord 
 Legion, and lord Apollyon, the lord Python, the 
 lord Cerberus, and the lord Belial ; these seven 
 he set over the captains, and Incredulity was 
 lord general, and Diabolus was king. 
 
 The reformades also, such as were like them- 
 selves, were made some of them captains of hun- 
 dreds, and some of them captains of more. And 
 thus was the army of Incredulity completed. 
 
 So they set out at HELL-GATE-hill ( for there they 
 
 * Their quiver is as an open sepulchre, they are all mighty men. 
 Jcr. V. 16. 
 
 t But after thy hardness and im penitent heart, treasnrest up 
 unto thyself wrath irgainst the day of wrath, and revelation oi 
 the righteous judgment of God. Rom, ii, 5. 
 
286 HOLY WAR. 
 
 Satan attacks the soul. 
 
 had their rendezvous) from whence Ihey came with 
 a straight course upon their march towards tlie town 
 of Mansoul. Now, it was hinted hefore, thotowii 
 had, as Shaddai would have it, received from the 
 mouth of Mr. Puywel the alarm of their coming 
 before. Wherefore thcj set a strong watch at the 
 gates, and had also douhled their guards ; tliej also 
 mounted their slings in good places, where they 
 miglit conveniently cast out their great stones to the 
 annoyance of tlie enemy. 
 
 Nor could thoue Diabolonians that were in the 
 ^own do that hurt as was designed they should ; for 
 Mansoul was now awake. But alas, poor people, 
 they were sorely affrighted at the first appearance ot 
 their foes, and at their sifting down before the town, 
 especially when they heard the roaring of their 
 drum.* This, to speak truth, was amazingly hideous 
 tO hear, it frightened all men seven miles round. 
 The streaming of their colours was also terrible and 
 dejecting to behold. 
 
 When DiADor.L's was come up against the town, 
 first he made his approach against Ear-gate ; and 
 gave it a furious assault, supposing, as it seems, that 
 liis friends in Mansoul had been ready to do the 
 work within : but care was taken of that before, by 
 the vigilance of the captains. Wherefore missing 
 of the help that he expected from them, and jRnding 
 
 * Ijc sober, be vij^ilant ; because your adversary the tievi!, as 
 a roariiiff lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour. 3 
 Pet. V. 8. 
 
IIOLV WAR. 287 
 
 Is bravely repulsed 
 
 his army warmly attacked with the stones from the 
 trh'ngers (for that I will say for the captains, that, 
 considering the weakness that yet was upon tliem by 
 reason of the long sickness that had annoyed the 
 town of Mansoul, they behaved themselves gal- 
 lantly,) he was forced to make some retreat from 
 Mansoul, and intrench himself and his men in the 
 field, without the reach of the slings of the town. 
 
 Now having intrenched himself, he cast up four 
 mounte against the town ; the first he called mount 
 DiAjjoLts, putting his own name thereon, the more 
 to" affright the town of Mansoul : the other three 
 he called thus, mount Alecto, mount Megara, 
 and mount Tisiphone, for these are the names of 
 the dreadful furies of hell. Thus he began to play 
 his game with Mansoul, and to serve it as the 
 lion his prey, even to make it fall before his terror. 
 But, as I said, the captains and soldiers resisted so 
 stouUy, and did so much execution, that they made 
 him, though against stomach, to retreat : wherefore 
 Mansoul began to take courage. 
 
 Now upon mount Diabolus, which was raised 
 upon the north side of the town, there did the tyrant 
 set up his standard, and a fearful thing it was to 
 behold, for he had wrought in it, by devilish art, 
 after the manner of his scutcheon, a flaming fire, 
 fearful to behold, and the picture of Mansoul 
 burning in it. 
 
 When DiABOLUs had thus done, he commanded 
 that his drummet should every night approach the 
 walls of the town of Ma.nsoul, and btat v parley ; 
 
288 HOLY. WAR. 
 
 We must not parley witb our foes. 
 
 the command was to do it at night, as in the day- 
 time they annoyed him with their slings : for the ty- 
 rant said, that he had a mind to parley with the now 
 tremhling town of Mansoul, and he commanded 
 that the drum should heat every night, that through 
 weariness they might at last if possible (at the first 
 they are unwilling, yet) be forced to do it. 
 
 So the drummer did as commanded ; he arose 
 and did beat his drum. But when his drum did go, 
 if any looked towards the town of Mansoul, be- 
 hold darkness and sorrow, and the light was dark- 
 ened in the heaven thereof.* No noise was ever 
 heard upon earth more terrible, except the voice of 
 Shaddai, when he speaketh. But how did Man- 
 soul tremble ! it now looked for nothing but being 
 swallowed up. 
 
 When this drummer had beaten a parley, he made 
 this speech to Mansoul ; ' My master has bid me 
 ' tell you, that if you will willingly submit, you shall 
 * have the good of the earth ; but if you shall be 
 ' stubborn, he is resolved to take you by force/ 
 But by that the fugitive had done beating his drum, 
 tiie people of Mansoul had betaken themselves to 
 the captains that were in the castle^ so that there 
 was none to regard, nor to give tliis drummer an 
 answer ; so he proceeded no further that night, but 
 returned again to his master to the camp. 
 
 * And in that day they shall roar against them, like the roaring 
 of the sea ; and if one look unto the land, behold darkness and sor- 
 row ; and the light is darkened in the heavens thereof. Isa. v. 30, 
 
nOLT WAR. 289 
 
 A summons to MA>sout. 
 
 When DiABOLUS saw that by drumming, he 
 could not work out Mansoul to his will, the next 
 night he sendeth his drummer withoat his drum, 
 still to let the townsmen know tl^at he had a mind 
 to parley with them. Rut when all came to all, 
 his parley was turned into a summons to tlie town; 
 to deliver up themselves : but Hieygave him neither 
 heed nor hearing, for tlicv remembered what it 
 first cost them to hear him a few words. 
 
 The next night he sends again, and then who 
 should be his messenger to Mansoul, but the ter- 
 rible captain Sepulchre ; so captain Sepulchre 
 came up to the walls of Mansoul, and made this 
 oration to the town : 
 
 ' O ye inhabitants of the rebellious town of Man- 
 
 * SOUL ! I summon you in the name of the prince 
 ' Diabolus, that without any more ado you set 
 ' open the gates of your town, and admit your lord 
 ' to come in. But if you shall still rebel, when we 
 
 * have taken the town by force, we will swallow 
 ' you up as the grave ; wherefore if you will hoark- 
 
 * en to my summons, say so ; and if not, then let 
 ' me know. ' 
 
 ' The reason of this my summons,* quoth he, ' i$ 
 
 * for that my lord is your undoubted prince and 
 ' lord, as you yourselves have formerly owned. Nor 
 
 * sliall that assault that was given to my lord, when 
 ' Emanuel dealt so dishonourably by him, prevail 
 
 * with Mira to lose his right, and to forbear to at- 
 
 * tempt to recover his own. Consider then, O 
 
 * Mansoul, with thyself; wilt thou shew thyself 
 
 o o 
 
^0 HOI/V WAR. 
 
 Application for advice. 
 
 * peaceable, or not ? If thou wilt quistly yield up 
 ' thyself, then our old friendship shall^^je renewed ; 
 ' but if thou wilt yet refuse and rebels then expect 
 
 ' nothing but fire and sword. 
 
 When the languishiiig town of Mansoul had 
 heard this suroraoner^ and his summons, they were 
 yet more put to their dumps, but rnade the cap- 
 tain no ansN^er at all; so away he went as he 
 came. 
 
 After some consultation among themselves, as 
 also wilh some of their captains, they applied them- 
 selves afresh to the Lord Secretary for counsel and 
 advice from him ; for this Lord Secretary was their 
 chief preacher, as mentioned before, only now be 
 was ill at ease; and of him they begged favour iu 
 these two or three things. 
 
 1. That he would look comfortably upon them, 
 and not keep himself so much retired from them as 
 formerly. Also that he would be prevailed with to 
 gfive them a hearing while they should make known 
 their miserable condition to him. But to this he 
 told them as before. That as yet he was but ill at 
 ease, and therefore could not do as he had former- 
 ly done. 
 
 2. The second thing they desired, was, that he 
 would be pleased to gi\e them his advice about 
 their now so importai^t affairs, for that Diabolus 
 was come and set before the town with no less than 
 twenty thousand Doubters. They said moreorer 
 that both he and his captains were cruel men, and 
 that they were afraid of them. But to this he said^ 
 
HOLY WAR. 291 
 
 I'.nconrasrement in distress. 
 
 You must look to the law of the Prince, and there 
 see what is laid upon jou to do. 
 
 3. Theu ihey desired that his Highness would 
 help them to frame a petition to Shaddai, and 
 unto Emanuel his Son, and that he would set his 
 hand thereto, as a token that he was one with them 
 in it : for, said they, my Lord, many a one have we 
 sent, but can get no ansMcr of peace, but now sure- 
 ly one with thy hand to it, may obtain good for 
 Mansoul. 
 
 But all the answer he gave to this, ^^ as, That 
 they had offended Emanuel, and had also grievrd 
 himself, and that therefore they must as yvt partake 
 cf their own devices. 
 
 Thi) answer of the Lord Secretary fell likea mill- 
 stone upon them : yea it crushed them so, that they 
 could not tell what to do, yea, they durst not com- 
 ply with the demands of Diabolus, nor with the 
 demands of his captains. So then here were the 
 •traits that (he town of Mansoul was in when the 
 enemy came upon her : her foes were rrady to 
 swallow her up^ and her friends forbore to help 
 her. 
 
 Then stood op my lord-mavor, whose name was 
 my lord Understanding, and he began to pick 
 and pick, until ho had picked comfort out of that 
 seemingly bitter saying of the Lord Secretary ; for 
 thus he descanted upon it : First, said he. This un- 
 avoidably follows upon the saying of my Lord, That 
 we must yet suffer for our sins, 2. Rut, quoth he, 
 the word ' vet' sounds ae if at last we should be 
 
292 HOLY WAR. 
 
 Satam opposed. 
 
 saved from our enemies, and that, after a few more 
 sorrows, Emanuel will corae and be our help. 
 Now the lord-mavor was the more critical in his 
 dealing with the Secretary's words, because my 
 Lord was more tlian a prophet, and because none 
 of his words were such, but that at all times they 
 were most exactly significant, and the townsmen 
 were allowed to pry into them, and to expound 
 them to their best advantage. 
 
 So they took their leaves of my Lord, and re- 
 turned to the captains, to whon; they told what 
 m}' Lord Secretary had said, who, when they had 
 heard it, were all of the san>e opinion as was ray 
 lord-'.nayor himself; the captains therefore began 
 to take courage, and prepare to make some brave 
 attempt upon the camp of the enemy, and to de- 
 stroy all that were Diabolonians, with the roving 
 Doubters that the tyrant had brought with him to 
 ruin the poor town of Mansoul. 
 
 So rill betook themselves forthwith to their places, 
 tlie captains to theirs, the lord-mayor to his, the sub- 
 ordinate preacher to his, and my lord WiLL-BE-WILL 
 to his. The captains longed to be at some work for 
 their Prince, for they delighted in warlike atchiev- 
 inents. The next day therefore they came together 
 and consulted; and after consultation had they re- 
 solved to give an answer to the captain of Diabolus 
 with slings ; andsotheydidatt.herisingof thesunon 
 the morrow ; for Diabolus had adventured to come 
 nearer again, but the sling stones were to him and his 
 like hornets. l;or as there is nothing to the town ot 
 
HOLY WAR. 293 
 
 Satan deceives by rtattcrj. 
 
 Mansoul so terrible as the roaring of Diabolus* 
 drum, so there is nothingto Diabolus soterrihie as 
 the well placing of Emanuel's slings. W hereforc 
 Diabolus was forced to make another retreat, yet 
 further oft' from the famous town of Mansoul. 
 Then did the lord-mayor of Mansoul cause the 
 bells to be rung, and that thanks should be sent (o 
 the Lord High Secretary by the mouth of the sub- 
 ordinate preacher ; for that by his words the cap- 
 tains and elders of Mansoul had been strengthened 
 against Diabolus. 
 
 When Diabolus saw that his captains and sol- 
 diers, high lords, and renowned, were frightened 
 and beaten down by the stones that came from the 
 golden slings of the Prince of the town of Man- 
 soul, he bethought himself, and said, I will try to 
 catch them by fawning, I will try to flatter them 
 into my net. 
 
 Wherefore after awhile he came down again to 
 the wall, not now with his drum nor with captain 
 Sepulchre, but having all so besugared his lips, 
 he seemed to be a very sweet-mouthed, peaceable, 
 prince, designing nothing for honour-sake, nor to 
 be revenged on Mansoul for injuries by them 
 done to him ; but the welfare, and good., and ad- 
 vantage of the town and people therein, was now, 
 as !ie said, his only design^ Wherefore, after he 
 had called for audience, and desired that the towns- 
 folk would give it to him, he proceeded in his ora- 
 tion : and said, 
 
 'Oh ! the desire of my heart, the famous town 
 
eo-t HOLY WAR. 
 
 False promises cf jeace 
 
 ' of Mansoul, how niai/v lughts l^ave I watched, 
 ' and how many weary steps have I taken, if per- 
 
 * haps I miijjl.t do thee good ! Far be it, far be it 
 
 * from me to desire to make war upon you ; if ye 
 
 * will but willingly and quickly deliver up your- 
 ' selves unto me. You know that ycu were mine 
 
 * of old. Rennember also tiiatso long as you en- 
 
 * joyed me for your lord, and that I enjoyed you 
 
 * for my subjects, you wanted for nothing, of all ihe 
 
 * delights of the earth, that I your lord and prince 
 
 * could get for you ; or that I could invent to make 
 'you bonny and blithe withal. Consider, you 
 
 * never had so many hard, dark, troublesome, and 
 ' heart-afflicting hoursj while you were mine, as you 
 ' have had since you revolted from me, nor shall yau 
 ' ever have peace again until you and I become one 
 ' as before. Be but prevailed with to embrace me 
 
 * again, and I will grant, yea, enlarge your old 
 
 * chaiterwith abundance of privileges, so that your 
 
 * license and liberty shall be to take, hold, enjoy 
 
 * and make your own, all that is pleasant from east 
 'to west.* Nor shall any of those incivilities 
 
 * wherewith you have oiTtnded me, be ever charged 
 ' upon you by me, so long as the sun and moon en- 
 
 * dure. Nor shall any of those dear friends of 
 ' mine, that now, for the fear of you, lie lurking in 
 ' dens, and holes, and ca\es, in Mansoul, be 
 
 * Again the deril taketh him up into an exceeding high tooun. 
 fain, and shewcth hiui all the kingrlams of tiic world and the g/o- 
 ry of them. Mat. ir. 8. 
 
HOLY AVAR. 295 
 
 Mixed with threats. 
 
 hurtful to vou any mere ; yea, tlicy shall be your 
 servants, and shall minister unto you of their sub- 
 stance, and of \vliatever shall come to hand. I 
 need speak no more, you know them, and have 
 some time sinc« been much delighted in their com- 
 pany ; why then should we abide at such odds ? 
 Let us renew our old acquaintance and friendship 
 agfiiii. 
 
 ' Bear with your friend, I take the liberty at this 
 lime to speak thus freely untoyou. The love that 
 I have to you presses me to do it, as also does the 
 zeal of my heart for my friends with you ; put me 
 not therefore to further trouble, nor yourselves to 
 further frights. Have you I will, in a way o! 
 peace or war, nor do you flatters yourselves with 
 the power and force of your captains, or that 
 your Emanuel will shortly come in to your help; 
 for such strength will do you no pleasure. 
 * I am come against you with a stout and valiant 
 army, and all the chief princes of the den are even 
 at the head. Besides, my captains are swifter 
 than eagles, stronger than lions, and more greedy 
 of prev than are the evening wolves. What is 
 Og of B.4SHAN ! what is Goliath of Gath ! and 
 what are an hundred more of them io one of the 
 least of my captains ! how then shall Mansoul 
 think to escapt^ my bond and force.' 
 DiABoLushaving thus ended his flattering, fawn- 
 ing, deceitful, aiid lying speech to the famous town 
 of Mansoul, the lord-mayor replied uoto him as 
 follows : 
 
i96 IIOLV WAR- 
 
 The soul Bttackcil by terrors. 
 
 'O DiABOLUs, prince of darkness, and master ot 
 *tll deceit; thj l^ying flatteries Nve have had, and 
 ' made sufficient probation of, and have tasted too 
 ' deeply of that destructive cup already ; sl.ould 
 
 * we therefore again hearken unto thee, and so 
 
 * break the commandment cf our great Shaddai, 
 ' to join affinity with thcc, would not our Prince 
 ' reject us, and cast us off forever, and being cast 
 
 * oil' by him, can the place that he has prepared tor 
 
 * thee be a place of rest for us ? Besides, O thou 
 ' art empty and void of all truth, we are rather 
 
 * ready to die by thy hand than to fall in with thy 
 
 * flattering and lying deceits. 
 
 When the tyrant saw that there was little to be 
 got in parleying with my lord-mayor, he fell into 
 an hellish rage, and resolved that again with his 
 army of Doubters he viould another time assault 
 the town of Mansoul. 
 
 So be called for his drummer, who beat up for 
 his men (and while he did beat, Mansoul shook) 
 to be in readiness to give battle tc the corporation ; 
 then DiABOLUs drew near with his army, and thus 
 disposed of his men. Captain Cruel, and cap- 
 tain Torment, these he drew up against Feel- 
 gate, and commanded them to sit down there for 
 the war. And he also appointed, that if need were, 
 captain No-easl should come in to their relief. 
 At Nose-gate he placed captam BkiiMstone and 
 captain Sepulchre, and bid them look well to their 
 ward on that side of the town of Mansoul. But 
 at Eye-gate he placed that grim-(aced onC; the cap • 
 
HOLY WAU. 207 
 
 Preparalk)n<! on b»ith sides. 
 
 tain Past-hope, and there also now did he set up 
 
 his terrible standard. 
 
 Now captain Insatiable was to look to the 
 
 carriages of Diabolus, and was also appointed to 
 
 take into custody that, or those persons and tliinj^s 
 
 that should at any time as prey be taken from the 
 
 enemy. The inhabitants of Mansoul kept Mouth* 
 
 GATE for a sally-port^ wherefore that thev kept 
 
 strong, for that was it by and <Jat at which the 
 
 townsfolk sent their petitions to Emanuel their 
 
 Prince ; that also was the gate, from the top of 
 
 which the captains played their slings at the enemies, 
 
 for that gate stood somewhat ascending, so that the 
 
 placing of them here, and the letting of them fly 
 
 from that place, did much execution against the 
 
 tyrant's army ; wherefore for these causes with 
 
 others, Diaeolus sought, if possible, to stop up 
 
 Mouth-gate with dirt. 
 
 Now as DiABOLUs was busy and industrious m 
 
 preparing to make his assault upon ihetownof 
 
 Mansoul without, so the captains and soldiets in 
 
 the corporation were as busy in preparing within; 
 
 they mounted their slings, set up their banners, 
 
 sounded their trumpets, and put themselves in such 
 
 order as was judged most for the annoyance of the 
 
 enemy, and for the advantage of Man-soul, an 1 
 
 gave their soldiers orders to be ready at the sound of 
 
 the trumpet forwar. The lord Will-be-will also, 
 
 he took the charge of watching against the rebels 
 
 within, and to do what he could to take thera while 
 
 pp 
 
201? HOLY WAR. 
 
 Sins crucified 
 
 without^ or to stifle them within their caves, dens. 
 and holes in the town-wall of Mansoul. And to 
 speak the truth of him^ ever since he did pcrsance 
 for his fault, he has showed as much honesty and 
 bravery of spirit as may be in Mansoul, for he 
 took one Jolly, and his brother Griggish, the 
 two sons of his servant Harmless-mirth ; ( for to 
 that day, though the father was committed toward, 
 the sons had a dwelling in the house of my lord) I 
 say he took them, and with his own hands put them 
 to the cross. And this was the reason why he hang- 
 ed them up : after their father was put into tiie 
 hand of Mr. Tiiueman the gaoler, his sons began to 
 play their pranks, and to be tricking and toying with 
 the daughters of their lord ; nay, it wasjealoused 
 that they were too familiar with them, which was 
 brought to his lordship's ear. Now his lordship 
 being unwilling unadvisedly to put any man to 
 death, did not suddenly fall upon them ; but set 
 watch and spies to sec if the thing was true ; of the 
 which he was soon informed, for his two servants, 
 whose names were Find-out, and Tell-all, 
 catched them together in an uncivil manner more 
 than oBce or twice, and went and told their lord. 
 So when my lord VVill-be-will had suiTicient 
 ground to believe the thing was true, he takes the 
 two young Diabolonians, for such they were, for 
 their father was a Diabolonian born, and has 
 them to Eye-gate, where he raised a veryLigh 
 cross Justin the face of Diabolus, and of his array 
 
HOLY ^VA!l. !?S9 
 
 CovETOUSNESs defiT'eil. 
 
 snd there he hanged the voung villains, id defiance 
 to caotaiii Past-hope, and the horrible standard of 
 the tyrant. 
 
 Now thischristian act of thebravelord Will-be- 
 viLLi^reatly abashed captain Past-hope, discoura- 
 ged the army of Diabolus, put fear into the DrA- 
 BOLONiAN runagates in Mansoul, and put strength 
 and Cdurage into the captains that belonged to 
 Emanuel the Prince; for they without gathered, 
 and that by this very act of my lord, that Maxsoul 
 was resolved to fight, and that the Diabolonians 
 within the town could not do such things as Dia- 
 BOLus had hopes they would. Nor was this the 
 only proof of the brave lord Will-be-will's 
 honesty to the town, nor of his loyalty to his Prince^ 
 •s will afterwards appear. 
 
 Now when the children of Prudent-thrifty 
 who dwelt with Mr. IMind, ( for Thrift left chil- 
 dren with Mr. Mind, when he was also committed 
 to prison, and their names were Gripe and Rake- 
 all, these he begat of Mr. Mind's bastard daugh- 
 ter whose name was Mrs. Hold-fast-bad,) I say, 
 when his children perceived how the lord Will-be- 
 wiLLhad served them that dwelt with him, what do 
 they, but, lest they should drink of the same cup, en- 
 deavour to make their escape. ButMr. Mixd 
 being wary of it, took them, and put them in hold 
 in his house till the morning, for this was done over 
 night, and remembering that by the law of Mansoul 
 all DiABOLONiANS were todie (and to be sure they 
 were at least by fallicr's side gwch^ and some say bj 
 
500 HOLY WAR. 
 
 \V;itctifulncss against hidden sins. 
 
 mother's side too;) what does he but takes them, 
 and puts them in chains, aud carries them to the 
 sclf-sanic place wLerc niy lord hanged his two be- 
 fore, there he hanged them. The townsmen also 
 took great encouragement at this act of Mr. Mind, 
 and did what thev could to have taken some more 
 of these Diabolonian troublers of Mansoul ; 
 but at that time the rest laid so close, that ihej 
 could not be apprehended ; so they set against theui 
 a diligent watch, and went every man to his place. 
 
 I told you a li<tlc before, that Diabolus and 
 his army were somewhat abashed and discouraged 
 at the sight of what my lord Will-be-will did, 
 when he haiiged up those two young Diaboloni- 
 ANs ; but this discouragement quickly turned it- 
 self into furious madness and rage against the town 
 of Mansoul, and fight it he would. Also the towns- 
 men and captains within had their hopes and ex- 
 pectation heightened, believingatlastthe day would 
 1)( tlicirs, so they feared them the less. Their sub- 
 ordinate preacher too made a sefmon about it, and 
 took that theme for his text, " Gad, a troop shall 
 *' overcome him, but he shall overcome at the last.'* 
 Gen. xlix. 19. Whence he shewed, that though 
 ]\Iansoul should be sorely put to it at the first, yet 
 the victory should certainly be Mansoul's at the 
 last. 
 
 So Di4B0LTj3 commanded that his drummer 
 should beat a charge against tiie town, and the cap- 
 taiiis also that were in the tovn sounded a charge 
 against them, but they had no drum, they were 
 
TIOI>Y WAR. 501 
 
 Contest between Satan anil the soul. 
 
 trumpets of silver with \vhicli they sounded against 
 tliem. Then tliey which were of the camp of Dj- 
 ABOLUS came down to the town to take it, and the 
 captains in the castle, with the slingers at Mouth- 
 gate, played upon them amain. And now there 
 was nothing heard in the camp of Diabolijs but 
 horrible rage and blasphemy ; but in the town good 
 wordsj prayer, and singing of psalms. The enemy 
 replied with horrible objections, and the tcrriblcness 
 of their drum ; but the town made answer with the 
 slapping of their slings, and the melodious noise of 
 their trumpets. And thus the fight lasted for seve- 
 ral days together, only now and then they had some 
 small intermission, in which the townsmen refreshed 
 themselves, and the captains made ready for another 
 Assault. 
 
 The captains of Emanuel were clad in silver 
 armour, and the soldiers in that which was of proof ; 
 the soldiers of Diabolus were clad in iron, which 
 was made to give place to Emanuel's engine shot : 
 in the town some were hurt, and some were greatly 
 wounded. Now the worst of it was, a surgeon wag 
 scarce in Mansoul, for that Etmanuel at this 
 time was absent. Howbeit, with the leaves of a 
 tree the wounded were kept from dying ; yet their 
 wounds greatly putrified,* and some did grievously 
 
 » In the midst of the street of it, and on cither side of the rirer, 
 was there the tree of life, which bare twelve manner of fruits, and 
 yielded hev fruit every month : and the leaves of th-e tree were for 
 the healing of the nations. Rev. xxii. 2.... My wounds stink ani 
 are corrupt : because of "my foolishness. Psal. xxiviii 5. 
 
50? HOLY WAR. 
 
 "Wounded jet conquering 
 
 stink. Of the townsmen these were wounded, to 
 wit, my lord Reason, he was wounded in the head. 
 Another that was wounded was the brave lord- 
 mayor ; be was wounded in the eye. Another that 
 ■was wounded was Mr. Mind ; he received his 
 wound about the stomach. The honest subordi- 
 nate preacher also received a shot not far ofF the 
 heart, but none of these were mortal. Many also 
 of the inferior sort were not only wounded, but slain 
 outright. Now in the camp of Diabolus were 
 wounded and slain a considirable number : for in- 
 stance, captain Rage was wounded, and so was 
 captain Cruel- Captam Damnation was made to 
 retreat, and intrench himself further off Mansoul ; 
 the standard also of Diab lus was beaten down, 
 aiid his standard-bearer, captain MucH-HLRT, had 
 his brains beat out with a sling-stone, to the no 
 little grief and shame of his prince Diabolus. 
 
 Many also of the Doubters were slain outric:ht, 
 thousrh enov* of them were left alive to make Man- 
 SOUL shake and totter. N(^w the victory that day 
 being turned to Mansoul, put great valour into 
 the townsmen and captains, and covered Diabolus' 
 camp with a cloud, but withal it made them far 
 more furious. So the next day Mansoul rested, 
 and commanded thatthe bells should be rung, the 
 trumpets also joyfully sounded, and the captains 
 also shouted round the town. 
 
 My lord Will-ee-will was not idle, but did 
 notable service within against the domestics, or the 
 Diabolonians that were in the towu, not only by 
 
HOLY AVAR. 303 
 
 Care nail wattiifulne'is neces-sar). 
 
 
 keeping them in awe : for he liglited on one at last, 
 whose name was Mr. Any-thing, a fellow of whom 
 mention was made before, for it was he if you re- 
 raember, that brouc;ht the three fellows to Diaeo- 
 Lus, whom the Diabolonians took out of captaia 
 Boanerges* companies, and that persuaded Uieai 
 to list themselves under the tyrant^ to fight against 
 the army of Siiaddai ; my lord Will-be-wile, 
 also took a notable Diabolonian, whose name 
 was Loose-foot ; this Loose-foot was a scout to 
 the vagabonds in Mansoul, and used to carry 
 tidings out of MANsouLto the camp, and out of the 
 camp to those of the enemies in Mamsoul ; both 
 these my lord sent away safe to Mr, Trueman the 
 gaoler, with a commandment to keep them in irons ; 
 for he intended then to have them out to be cruci- 
 fied, when it would be for the best to the corpora- 
 tion, and most for the discouragement o£ the camp 
 of the enemies. 
 
 My lord-mayor also, though he could not stir 
 about 80 much as formerly, because of the wound 
 that he had lately received, ye* gave he out orders 
 to all that were the natives of Mansoul, to look to 
 their watch, and stand upon their guard, and as oc- 
 casion shall offer, to prove themselves men. Mc 
 Conscience the preacher also did his utmost to 
 keep all his good documents alive upon the hearts 
 of the people of Mansoul. 
 
 Well, a while after the captains and stout ones 
 of the town of Mansoul agreed, and resolved upon 
 a time to make a s^lly out upon the camp of Di 
 
JOf HOLY WAR. 
 
 DiABOLUS attacked. 
 
 ABOLUs, and this must be dene in the night, and 
 there was the follj of Mansoll (for the night is 
 always the best for the enemy, but the worst for 
 jMansoul to fight in) but yet t]>ey would do it, 
 their courage was so high ; their last victory also 
 still stuck in their memories. 
 
 The night appointed being come, the Prince'* 
 brave captains cast lots who should lead the van in 
 this new ai,d desperate expedition against Diabo- 
 Lusaud ag-ainst his Diabolonian army ; and the 
 lot fell to captain Credence and captain Experi- 
 ence; captain Good-hope led the Forlorn-hope ; 
 (this captain Experience the Prince created such 
 when himself resided in the town of Mansoul ; ) so 
 as I said, they made their sally out upon the army 
 that lay in the siege against them ; and their hap 
 was to fall in with the main body of the enemies. 
 Now DiAEOLUs and his men being expertly ac- 
 customed to night-work, took the alarm presently, 
 and were as ready to give the battle, as if they had 
 sent them wor d of their coming, "Wherefore to it 
 they went amain, and blows were hard on every side ; 
 the hell-drum also was beat most furiously, while 
 the trumpets of the Prince most sweetly sounded. 
 And thus the battle was joined, and captain Insati- 
 able looked to the enemies carriages, and waited 
 when he should receive some prey. 
 
 The Prince's captains fought it stoutly, beyond 
 what indeed could be expe-cted they should ; they 
 wounded many, they made the whole army of Di- 
 APOLUs to make a retreat. Bui I cannot tell lio\9, 
 
HOLY' WAR. 305 
 
 Satan wounds the captains. 
 
 but as the brave captain Credence, captain Good- 
 HOPE_, and captain Experience, were upon (lie 
 pursuit, cutting down and following; hard aff r the 
 enemy in the rear, captain Credence stumblcx and 
 fell, by which fall he caught so great a hurt, that he 
 could not rise till captain Experience helped him 
 up, at which their men were put in disorder ; the 
 captain also was so full of pain th;it he coiiki not 
 forbear but aloud to cry out ; at this the otlvr two 
 captains fainted, supposing that captain Credencs 
 had received his mortal wound : their men also were 
 more disordered, and had no mind to fight. Now 
 DiABOLus being very observing, though at this time 
 SLi yet he was put to Ihe worst, perceiTing that an 
 halt was riiade among the pursuers, what does he, 
 but taking it for granted that the captains were 
 either wounded or dead ; he therefore at first ojakcs 
 a stand, then faces about, and so comes up upon the 
 Prince's army with as much of his fury a« hell could 
 help him to, and his hap was to fall in just among 
 the three captains, captain Credence, captam 
 GooD~HorE, and captain ExperiencEj and did 
 cut, "wound, and pierce them so dreadfully, that 
 what through discouragement, what through disor- 
 der, and what through the wounds that now they 
 had FCceiYed, and also the loss of much blood, they 
 were scarce able, though they had for their power 
 the three best hands in Mawsoul, to get safe in^o 
 the town again. 
 
 Now when the body of the Prmce's army saw 
 how theso three Captains were put to the worst;, 
 
 Q q 
 
306 HOLY WAR. 
 
 Satan urges the soul to surrenilerto him. 
 
 they thought it their wisdom io make as safe and 
 good a retreat as they could, and so returned by the 
 sally-port again, and so there was an end of the 
 present actioQ. 
 
 DiABOLUS was so flushed with this night's work, 
 that he promised himself in a few days an easy and 
 complete conquest over the town of Mansoul ; 
 wherefore on the day following he comes up to the 
 sides thereof with great boldness, and demands en- 
 trance, and that forthwith they deliver up them- 
 selves to his government (the Diabolonians too 
 that were within, began to be somewhat brisk, as 
 we shall shew afterwards,} but the valiant lord- 
 mayor replied, that what he got he must get by 
 force; for as long asEMANUELtheirPrir.ee was 
 alive, (though at present he was not so with them 
 as they wished, ) they could never consent to yield 
 Mansoul up to another. 
 
 The lord Will-be-wj li. then stood up, and said, 
 ' Diabolus, thou master of the den, and enemy to 
 
 * all that is good, we poor inhabitants of the town ol 
 
 * Mansoul are too well acquainted with thy rule 
 ' and government, and with the end of those things 
 ' that for certain will follow submitting to thee, to 
 
 * doit. Wherefore, though a while we were without 
 
 * knowledge, we suffered tlreeto take us, as the bird 
 
 * that saw not the snare fell into the hands of the 
 
 * fowler, yet since we have been turned from d;\fk- 
 ' nes^ to light, we have alto been turned trom tim 
 'power of Satan to God And though throui;h 
 
 * thy subtilty, and the subtilty of the Diabolo 
 
HOLY WAR. %7 
 
 R<tsulution tvi resist. 
 
 ' MANS wilhin, we have sustah.'^il niuch loss, and 
 ' also plunged ourselves into much perplexity, jet 
 
 * give up ourselves, Uy down our arms, aud yield 
 
 * to so horrid a tyrant as thou, we will not ; die up- 
 ' on the place we chuse rather to do. Besides, we 
 
 * have hopes that in time deliverance will come 
 
 * from court unto us, and therefore wc yet will 
 ' maintain war against thee. 
 
 This brave speech of the lord Will-be-will, 
 with that also of the lord-mayor, somewhat abated 
 the boldness of Diabolus^ though it kindled the 
 fury of his rage. It also encouraged the townsmen 
 and captains ; yea, it was as a plaister to the brave 
 captain Credence's wounds; for you must know 
 that a brave speech now, when the captains of the 
 town, with their men, came routed home, and when 
 the enemy took courage and boldness at the success, 
 that. he had obtained, to draw up to the walls, and 
 demand entrance as he did, was in season, and ako 
 advantageous. 
 
 The lord Will-be-\vill also played the roaa 
 within, for while the captains and soldiers were in 
 the field, he was in arms in the town, and whereTer 
 by him there was aDiABOLONiAN found, they were 
 forced to feel the weight of his heavy hand, and also 
 the edge of his penetrating sword ; many therefore 
 of the DiABOLONiANS he wounded, as the lord 
 Cavil, the lord Brisk, the lord Pkagmaticr, the 
 lord Murmur ; several also of the meaner sort he 
 sorely maimed ; though there cannot at tbis time 
 ac account be given you of any that ht slew out- 
 
i08 IIOLV WAR. 
 
 Fightingrs in the soul. 
 
 right. The cause, or rather the advantage that mv 
 lord WiLL-BE-wiLL had at this time to do thus, 
 -was, for that the captains were gone out to fight the 
 enemy in the field. For now thouglit the Diabo- 
 LONiANS within, is our tim« to stir and make an up- 
 roar in the town ; what do they therefore but quick- 
 ly get themselves into a body, and fall forthwith to 
 hurricaning in Mansoul, as if nothing but whirl- 
 wind and tempest should be there : wherefore, as I 
 said, he takes this opportunity to fall in among (hem 
 with his men, cutting and slashing with courage that 
 "WAS undaunted ; at which the Diabolonians with 
 all haste dispersed themselves to their holds, and my 
 lord-mayor to his place as before. 
 
 This brave act of ray lord somewhat revenged 
 the wrong done by Diabolus to the captains, and 
 also let them knovk^, that Mansoul w»as not to be 
 parted with, for ihe loss of a victory or two : where- 
 fore the wing of the tyrant was dipt again, as to 
 boasting, I mean, in comparison of what he would 
 have done if the Diabolonians had put the 
 town to the same plight to which he had put the 
 captains. 
 
 Weil, Diabolus yet resolves to have the other 
 bout with Mansoul ; for, thought he, since I beat 
 them ouce, I may beat them twice : wherefore he 
 commanded his men to be ready at such an hour of 
 the night to make a fresh assault upon the town, and 
 he gave it out in special, that they should bend 
 all their force against Feel-gate, and attempt to 
 break into the town through that. The word that 
 
IIOLV WAR. 503 
 
 One entrance forced. 
 
 then he gave to his officers and soldiers was, II(*II- 
 fire. And, said he, if we break in upon ihcm, 
 as I wisli to do, eitlicr with some^ or with all our 
 force, let them that break in look to it, that they 
 forget not the word. And let nofhing be heard in 
 the town of Maxsoul, but hell-fire, hell-fire, hell- 
 fire ! The drummer \» as also to beat without 
 ceasing, and the str.ndard-bearers were to display 
 their colours ; the soldiers too were to put on what 
 courage they could, and to see that they played man- 
 fully their parts against the town. 
 
 So the night being come, and all things by the t}-- 
 rant made ready for the work, he suddenly makes 
 his assault upon Feel-gate, and after he had a 
 while struggled there, he throws the gates wide open, 
 for the truth is, those gates were but weak, and so 
 most easily made to yield. When Diabolus had 
 thus far made his attempt, he placed his captains, 
 to wit, Torment and No-ease there; so he at- 
 tempted to press forward, but the Prince's captains 
 came down upon him, and made his entrance more 
 difficult than he desired. And to speak the truth, 
 f hev made what resistance they could ; but three of 
 their best and most valiant captains being wounded, 
 and by their wounds made much incapable of doing 
 the town that service they would (and all the rest 
 liaving more than their hnnds full of the Doubt- 
 ers, and their captains that followed Diabolus, ) 
 they were overpowered with force, nor could they 
 keep them out of the town. Wlrerefore the Prince's 
 meu and the captains betook themselves to the 
 
310 irOLY WAR, 
 
 Doubts dreadful in the soul. 
 
 castle^, as to the strong hold of the town ; and this 
 the)' did, parilj for their own securify, partly for the 
 security of the town, and partly^ or raiher chiefly, 
 1o preserve to Emanuel the prerogative royal of 
 Mansoul, for so was the castle of Mansoul. 
 
 The captains therefore being fled into the castle, 
 the enemy without much resistance, possessed them- 
 selves of the rest of the town, and spreading them- 
 selves as they^ went, into every corner; they cried out 
 as they inarched, according to the command of the 
 tyrant, hell-fire, hell -fire, hell-fire ! so that nothing 
 for a while throughocttbe towuof M.^NsouLcouid 
 be heard, but the direful noise of liell-fire, together 
 \>ith the roaring of Diabolus' drum. And now 
 did the clouds hang black over Mansoul, nor, to 
 reason, did any thing but ruin seem to attend it. 
 Diabolus also quartered his soldiers in the houses 
 of the inhabitants of the town of Mansoul. Yea, 
 the subordinate preacher's house was as full of these 
 outlandish Doubters as ever it could hold ; and 
 so was my lord-mayors and my lord Will-ee- 
 \\'iLL*s also. Yea where was there a corner, a cot- 
 tage, a barn, or a hog-sty, that now^ was not full of 
 these vermin ? Yea, tbey turned the men of the 
 town out of th.eir houses, and would lie in their beds, 
 and sit at their tables themselves. Ah, poor Man- 
 soul ! now thou feelest the fruits of sin, and what 
 venom was in the flattering wordsof Mr. Carnal- 
 SFCURITY ! They made great havoc of whatever 
 they laid their hands on ; jTa, they fired the town 
 in several places ; many young childreo were hy 
 
nOLY WAR. 3U 
 
 The deplorable consequences of siu. 
 
 them dashed in pieces, yea, tliose (hat. were vet nn- 
 born they destroyed in their mothers' woiiibs ; for 
 you must needs think that it could not now be other- 
 wise ; for what conscience, what pity, what bowels 
 of compassion car: any expect at the hands of out- 
 landish Doubters ? Many in Mansoul that were 
 Avomen, both young- and old, they forced, ravished, 
 and beast like abused, so that they swooned, miscar- 
 ried, and many of thera died, and so lay at the l( p 
 of every street, and in all by places of tlie town. 
 
 And now did Mansoul seem to be nothing but 
 a den of dragons, an emblem of hell, and a place of 
 total darkness. Now did Mansoul lie aluK.it 
 like the barren wilderness ; nothing; but netiles, 
 briars, thorns, weeds, and stinking things seem now 
 to cover the face of Mansoul. I told you before, 
 how that these Diadolonian Doubters turned 
 the men of Mansoul out of their beds, and now I 
 will add, they wounded them, they mauled Ihem, 
 yea, and almost brained many of them. Many, did 
 I say ? yea, most, if not all of them. Mr. Con- 
 science they so wounded, yea, and his wounds so 
 festered, that he could have no ease day nor night, 
 but lay as if continually upon a rack (but that 
 Shaddai rules all, certainly they had slain him out- 
 right.) My lord-mayor they so abused, that they 
 almost put out his eyes ; my lord Will-be-will 
 got into the castle, they intended to have chopt liim 
 all to pieces, for they looked upon him, as his heart 
 DOW stood, to be one of the very v/orst tiiat v.aj la 
 
512 HOLY WAR. 
 
 S'DS not welcome to a renewed ooul. 
 
 Mansoul against Diabolus and his crew And 
 indeed he shewed himself a man, and more of his 
 exploits you will hear of afterwards. 
 
 Now a man might have walked for many days ia 
 Mansoul, and scarce have seen one in the town 
 that looked like a religious man. Oh the fearful 
 stateof Mansoul now ! now every corner swarmed 
 with outlandish Doubters ; red-roats and black- 
 roats walked the town by clusti rs, and filled up all 
 the houses with hideous noises, vain songs, lying 
 stories, and blasphemous language against Siiadda; 
 and his Son. Now also those Diabolonians that 
 lurked in the walls and dens, and holes that were in 
 the town of Mansoul, came forth and shewed 
 themselves ; yea, walked with open fac- in com- 
 pany with the Doubters that were in Mansoul. 
 Yea, they had more boldness now to walk the streets, 
 to haunt the houses, and to shew themselves abroad, 
 than had any of the honest inhabitants at the now 
 woeful town of Mansoul. But Diabolus and 
 his outlandish men were not at peace in Mansoul ; 
 for they were not there entertained as were the cap- 
 tains and forces of Emanuel ; the townsmen brow- 
 beat them what they could; nor did they partake 
 or make destruction of any of the necessaries of 
 Mansoul, but that which they seized on against 
 the townsmen's will ; what they could they hid from 
 them, and what they could not they had with an ill 
 will. They, poor hearts, had rather have had their 
 luom than tlieir l; mpany, but they were at preseai 
 
tlOLV War. 313 
 
 Mans )UL ''ic si-ai of war. 
 
 their captives, and their captives for the present 
 they were forced to be.* But I say they discouule- 
 nanced them as much as they were able, and shew- 
 ed thein ail tlie dislike they could. 
 
 The captains also fron-i the castle hold them in 
 continual play with their slings, to the chafinj^ and 
 fretting of the minds of the enemies. True, Dia- 
 BOLUS made a great many attempts to have broken 
 open the gates of the castle, but Mr. Godly-fear 
 was made the keeper of thai ; and he was a man of 
 courage, conduct, and valour, so that it was in Tain, 
 as long as life lasted within him, to think to do that 
 work, thaugh most desired ; wherefore all the at- 
 tempts that DiAEOLUs made against him, wer6 
 fruitless ( I hare wished sometim'^- that that mart 
 had had the whole rule of the town of Mansoul. 
 
 Well, this was the condition of the town of 
 Mansoul, for about two years and a half; the 
 body of the town was the seat of war ; the people of 
 the toTwD were driven into holes, and the glorv of 
 Mansoul was laid in the dust ; what rest then 
 could be to the inhabitants, what peace could Man- 
 soul hayc, 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 famish them ; 
 but now wfien they shall be within, when the town 
 shall be their tent, their trench, and fort against tl;e 
 
 • Know ye not brethren, (for I speak to them that know t!ie 
 la\7)how that a maah^th domiaioa orer a m^n as long as Lu 
 Kt«^. Rora. yii. 1. 
 
 » r 
 
SI* HOLY WAR, 
 
 Mr. GoDLy-FE^iR's advice. 
 
 castle thai was in the town, when Ihe town shall be 
 agaiiist the town, and shall serve to be a defence to 
 the enemies of her strength and life; I say, when 
 the^ shall make use of the forts and town-holds to 
 secure themselves in, even tifl the_y shall lake^ spoil, 
 and demolish the castle ; this was terrible, and vet 
 this was now the stale 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 had pre- 
 sented their Prince with, all ihe while^- could pre- 
 vail ; the inhabitants of the town, to wit, the elders 
 and thief of Mansoul, gather together, and after 
 some time spent in condoling their miserable state, 
 and this miserable judgment coming upon them, 
 they agreed togctlier to draw up yet another peti- 
 tion, and to send it away to Emanuel for relief. 
 But Mr. Godly-fear stood up, and answered, 
 ' That he knew his Lord the Prince never did, nor 
 ' ever would receive a petition for these matters 
 
 * from the hand of any whoever, unless the Lord 
 ' Secretary's hand was to it (and this, quoth he, is 
 ' the reason you prevailed not all this while.') Then 
 they said they woule draw up one, and get the Lord 
 Secretary's hand to it. But Mr. Godly-ff.ar 
 answered again, ' That he knew also that the Lord 
 ' Secretary would not set his hand to any petition 
 ' that himself had not an ha.^d in composing and 
 ' drawing up ; and besides, said he, the Prince doth 
 ' kiiow my Lord Secretary's hand from all hands in 
 
 * the world ; wherefore he cancot be deceived by 
 
IIOLV WAR. 3?5 
 
 M iNSoc'L prays. 
 
 ' any pretence whatever ; wlierefore my advice is, 
 ' that you c^o <o my Lord, and implore him to lend 
 ' you his aid.' ( Now he abode in the castle, where 
 all the captains and men of war were at arms.) So 
 they heartily thanked Mr. Godly-fear, took hi3 
 counsel, and did as he had bidden them ; so they de- 
 parted and came to my Lord, and made known the 
 cause of their coming to him: to wit, that since 
 Mansoul was in so deplorable a condition, fait 
 Highties.e would be pleased to undertake tn draw 
 up a petition for (hem to Emanuel the son of the 
 raighty Shaddai, and to their King and his Father, 
 by him. 
 
 Then said the Secretary to them, ' What petition 
 ' is it that you would have me draw up for you ?' 
 hut they said, Our Lord knows best the state and 
 condition of the town of Mansoul, and how we ara 
 backslidden and degenerated from the Prince ; thou 
 also kuuvvest \v)io is come up to war against u?, and 
 how Mansoul is now the seaf. of war. My Lord 
 knows moreover what barbarous usage our men, 
 women, and children have suffered at their hands, 
 and how our home-bred Diabolonians walk now 
 with more boldness than dare the tovinsmen, in the 
 streets of Mansoul. Let our Lord therefore, ac- 
 cording to the wisdom of God that is in him, draw 
 up a petition for his poor servants to our Prince 
 Emanuel. ' Well (said the Lord SecretBry, ) I 
 
 * will draw up a petition for you, and will also set 
 'my hand thereto.* Then said they, ' Rut wln;n 
 
 * shall he call for it at the hand of our Lord ?' Ho 
 
die HOLY WAR. 
 
 The siibjec; of prayer. 
 
 answered, ' Yourselves must be present at the 
 
 * doing of it. Yea, you must put your desires to 
 ' jt. True, the hand and pen shall be mine, but the 
 ' itik and paper must be vours, else how can you 
 ' say it is your prtition ? Nor have I need to pc- 
 
 * f.ition for myself^ because I have not offended. ' 
 
 He also added as folio weth : ' No petition goes 
 
 * from me in my name to the Prince, and so to his 
 'Father by him, but when the people, that are 
 ' chiefly concerned therein, join in heart and soul 
 ' in the matter, for that must be inserted therein.* 
 
 So they heartily agreed with the sentence of the 
 Lord, and a petition was forthwith drawn up for 
 them. But now who shall carry if, that was the 
 next. But the Secretary advised that captain Cre- 
 dence should carry it, for he was a well spokfn 
 man. They thereforecalledforhim, and propound- 
 ed to him the btisiness. Well, said the captain, I 
 gladly accept of the motion ; and though I am 
 lame, I will do this business for you, with as much 
 speed- and as well as I can. The contents of the 
 petition were to this purpose : 
 
 ' O oar Lord and Sv)vercign Prince Emanuel, 
 
 * the potent, the long-suffering Prince : Grace is 
 ' poured into thy lips, an4 to thee belong mercy and 
 ' forgiveni'ss, though we have rebelled against thee. 
 ' We who are no more worthy to be called thy Man - 
 
 * soiJL, noryet fit 1o partake of common benefits, 
 ' do beseech thee, and thy Father by thee, to do 
 
 * away our transgressions. We confess that thou 
 
 * mightest c ist us away for them, but do it not for 
 
HOLY WAR. SIT 
 
 Mansoul's petition. 
 
 * thy names sake ; let the Lord rather lake an op- 
 
 * portunity at our miserable condition, to kt out 
 ' his bowels of compassion to us, we are compassed 
 
 * on every side ; Lord, our ou n backslidings rrprovc 
 
 * us, our DiABOLONi,\N3 Within our town tVigbt us, 
 'and the army of the angel of the bottomless pit 
 
 * distress us. Thy grace can be our salvation, and 
 ' whither to go but to thee we know not. 
 
 * Furthermore, O gracious Prince we have weak- 
 
 * encd our captains, and they are discouraged, sick, 
 
 * and of late seme of them grievously worsted, and 
 
 * beaten out of the field by the power and force 
 
 * of the tyrant. Yea, even those of onr captains, in 
 ' who5C valour we formerly used to put most of our 
 
 * confidence, they are as wounded men. Besides, 
 
 * Lord, our enemies are lively, and they are strong, 
 ' they vaunt and boast themselves and threaten to 
 
 * part us among themselves for a booty. They are 
 ' fallen also upon us with many thousand Doubt- 
 ' ERs, such as with whom we cannot tell what to do ; 
 
 * they are all grim-looked, and unmerciful ones, and 
 
 * they bid defiance to us and thee. 
 
 ' Our wisdom is gone, our power is gone, because 
 ' thou art departed from us, nor have we what we 
 ' can call ours, but sin, shame, and confusion of 
 ' face for sin. Take pity upon us, O Lord, take 
 'pity upon us thy miserable town of Mansoul, 
 
 * and save us out of the hands of our enemicB. 
 ' Amen.' 
 
 Tliis petition, as was touched afore, was handed 
 by the Lord Secretary, and carried to the court by 
 
5m IIOLV WAR. 
 
 Satan hates ])ra}er. 
 
 the brave and most s<out captain Credence. 
 Now he carried it out at Mouth-gate, for that, aa 
 I said, was the sally-port of the town ; and he went, 
 and came to Emanuel witli it. Now how it came 
 out 1 do not know, but for certain it did, and that 
 80 far as to reach the ears of Diabolus. Thus I 
 conclude, befanse <hatthe tyrant had it present]-/ 
 by tlie e;;(d, and charged the town of Mansoul witi: 
 it, saying, ' Thou rebellious and siublorn-hearted 
 ' Mansoul, I will makethee to leave off petitior.- 
 
 * ing ; art thou yet for petitioning ? I will make 
 
 * thee to leave off.' Yea, he also knew who the 
 messenger was that carried the petition to the 
 Prince, and it made him both fear and rage. Where- 
 fore he commanded that his drum should be beat 
 again, a thing that Mansoul could not abide to 
 hear ; hui v.hen Diabolus would have his drum 
 beat, Mansoul must abide the noise. Weil, the 
 drum was beat, and the Diabolonians were ga- 
 tliered together. 
 
 Then said Diabolus, ' O ye stout Diabolo- 
 
 * NiANs, be it known unto you, that there ist:each- 
 
 * ery hatched against us in the rebellious town cf 
 ^Mansoul; for albeit the town is in our posses- 
 
 * sion, as you see, yet these miserable Mansoul- 
 
 * lANs have attempted to dare, and have been so 
 
 * hardy as yet to send to the cf)urt of Emanuel 
 ' for help. This I give you to understand, that ye 
 
 * may yet know how to carry it to the town of 
 ' Mansoul. Wherefore, O my trusty Diabclo- 
 ' NiANs, I comraand that yet more and morcy© 
 
IIOLV WAR. 319 
 
 And ciislikes faifh. 
 
 ' distress this town of Mansoul, and vex it with 
 
 * your wiles ; ravish their women, deflower their 
 ' virgins, slay their children, brain their aiilients, 
 ' fire their town, and do what other nii«cliief you 
 ' can ; and let this be therewardot the Mansoul- 
 ' lANs from me, for their desperate rebellion against 
 
 * me.' 
 
 This you see was the charge, but something stept 
 in betwixt that and execution, for as yet there was 
 but little more done than to rage. 
 
 Moreover, when Diabolus had done thus, he 
 went the next day to the castle-gates, and demanded 
 that upon pain of death, the gates should be open- 
 ed to himj and tlv^i entrance should be given hira 
 and big men that followed after. To whom Mr. 
 GoDLY-FEAP. replied C for he it was that h^d the 
 charge of that gate,) ' That the gate should not b« 
 
 * ODened unto him, or to tlie men that fcliowed af- 
 ' ter hira.' Ke said moreover, 'That MANsout, 
 ' when she had suffered a while, should be made 
 
 * perfect, strengthened, and setiled/ 
 
 Then said Diabolus, ' Deliver me then the men 
 
 * that have petitioned against me, especially cap* 
 'tain Credence that carried it to your Prince, 
 
 * deliver that varlet into n:v hands, and I will de- 
 ' part from the town.' 
 
 Then upstarts a Diabolonian, whose name wai 
 Mr, Fooling, and said, ' My lord offereth you 
 
 * fair, it is better for you that one man perish, 
 ' than that your whole Mansoul should be ua- 
 ' done.' 
 
520 HOLY WAR, 
 
 Satan's rage. 
 
 But Mr. Godly-fear made him this replication, 
 ' How long will Mansoul be kept out of the 
 
 * dungeon, when she hath given up her faith to Di- 
 ' A30LUS ! As good lose the town as lose captain 
 ' Credence ; for if one be gone, the other must 
 ' follow.' But to that Mr. Fooling said no- 
 thing. 
 
 Then did my lord-mayor reply, and said, ' O thou 
 
 * devouring tyrant, be it known unto thee, we shall 
 
 * hearken to none of thy wiords ; we are resolved to 
 
 * resist thee as long as a captain, a man, a sling, and 
 ' a stone to throw at thee, shall be found in the town 
 'of Mansoul.' 
 
 But DiABoLus answered, ' Do you hope, do 
 
 * you wait, do you look for help and deliverance? 
 'You have sent to Emanuel, but your wickedness 
 'sticks too close in your skirts, to let innocent 
 ' prayer come out of your lips. Think you that 
 ' you shall be prevailers, and prosper in this de- 
 
 * sign ? You will fail in your wish, and will fail 
 ' in your attempts ; for it is not only I, but your 
 ' Emanuel is against you. Y ea, it is he that hath 
 
 * sent me against you, to subdue you ; for what then 
 ' do you hope, or by what means will you es- 
 
 * cape ?' 
 
 Then said my lord-mayor, ' We have sinned in- 
 'deed, but that shall be no help to thee, for our 
 
 * Emanuel hath said it,' and that in great faithful- 
 
 * ness, "^ And him that cometh to me, I will in do 
 
 * wise cast out.' He hath also told us (O our 
 ' eueray ) that all manner of sin and blasphemy shall 
 
nOLY WAR. 391 
 
 Season of grace. 
 
 ' be forgiven to the sens of men.' TI>ercfore ^^e 
 dare a jt ilespair, but will look for, and wait for 
 mercy. 
 
 And now by this time captain Credence was 
 come from the court from Emanuel to the castl« 
 of Mansoul, and he returned to them with a pac- 
 ket. So m}? lord major, hearing that captain Cre- 
 PENCE was come, withdrew himself from the noise 
 of the roaring of the tyrant, and left him to yell at 
 the wallof thp town, or against the gatesofthe 
 castle. Fie then came up to the captain's lodgings, 
 and saluting him, asked him of his welfare, and 
 what was the best news at court ? But when he 
 asked captain Credence that, the water stood in 
 his eyes. Then said the captain, Chear up, my 
 lord, for all will be well in time. And with that he 
 first produced his packet and laid it by, but that the 
 lord-mayor and rest of the captains took for a sign 
 of good tidings. (Now a season of grace being 
 come, he sent for all the captains and elders of the 
 town that were here and there in their lodgings, in 
 the castle, and upon their guard, to let them know 
 that captain Credence was returned from the 
 court, and that he had something in general, and 
 something in special to communicate to them.) So 
 they all came up to him, and saluted him, and ask- 
 ed hira concerning his journey, and what was the 
 best news at court ? And he answered them as he 
 had done the lord-mayor before, that all would be 
 well at lastv 
 
 Now when the captain had thus saluted them, he 
 
 3 8 
 
32^ HOLY WAR. 
 
 Courage for God approved. 
 
 opened his packet, and thence drew out of it seve- 
 ral notes for those that he had sent for. And the 
 first note Mas for my lord-mayor, wherein wa? sig- 
 oificd : * The Prince Emanuel had taken it well 
 ' that my lord-major had been so true and trusty in 
 ' bis office, and the great concerns that lay upon 
 
 * him for the town and people of Mansoul. Also 
 ' he bid him to know that he took it well that he 
 
 * had been so bold for his Prince Emanuel, and 
 
 * had engaged so faithfully in his cause against 
 ' DiABOLus. He also signified at the close of his 
 ' letter, that he should shortly receive his re- 
 ' ward.* 
 
 The second note that came out, was for the noble 
 lorl WiLL-BE-wiLL, whcrciu there was signified^ 
 'That his Prince Emanuel did well understand 
 ' how valiant and courageous he had been for the 
 ' honour of his Lord, now in his absence, and when 
 
 * his name was under contempt by Diabolus. 
 ' There was signified also that his Prince had taken 
 
 * it well that he had been so faithful to the town of 
 ' Mansoul, in his keeping so strict a hand and eye 
 ' over, and so strict a rein upou the necks of 
 ' the Diabolonians that still were lurking in 
 ' their several holes in the famous town of Man- 
 ' soul.' 
 
 He signified moreover, ' That he understood that 
 ' my lord had with his own hand done great execu- 
 ' tion upon some of the chief of the rebels there, 
 ' to the great discouragement of the adverse party, 
 ' and to the good example of the whole town of 
 
HOLV WAR. 3*» 
 
 Hope of an answer to prayer. 
 
 * Mansoul^ and that shortly his lordship should 
 
 * have his reward.* 
 
 The third note came out for ti.e subordinate- 
 preacher, wherein was signified, ' That his Prince 
 ' took it well from him th'it he had ho honpsllv and 
 ' faithfully performed his office, aiid executed the 
 ' trust c«»mrai«ted to him by his Lord, while he cx- 
 ' horted, rebuked, and forewarned Man soul ac- 
 ' cording to the laws of the town.' He signified 
 moreover, ' that he took it well at his hand, that 
 ' he called to fasting, to sackcloth and ashes, when 
 
 * Mansoul was under her revolt. Also that he 
 ' called fur the aid of captain Boanergds to help in 
 
 * so mighty a work, and that shortly he also should 
 ' receive his reward.' 
 
 The fourth note came out for Mr. Godly-fear, 
 wherein his lord thus signified : ' Thai his Lord- 
 ' ship observed, that he was the first of all the men 
 ' in Mansoul that detected Mr, Carnal-securi- 
 ' TY, as the only one that through his subtlety and 
 ' cunning had obtained for Di a bolus a defection 
 ' and decay of goodness in the blessed town of M 4N- 
 ' SOUL. Moreover his Lord gave him to under* 
 ' ftand, that he still remembered his tears and 
 ' mourning for the state of Mansoul.* It was 
 also observed by the same note, ' thas his Lord took 
 'notice of his detecting of this Mr. Carnal-se* 
 ' CURiTY at his table among his guests, in his own 
 ' house, and that in the midst of hi« j<»lliness, even 
 'while he was seeking to perfect his villaniea 
 'against the to^uof Mansoul. £manu£x< aUo 
 
324 HOLV WAR. 
 
 Comfort for MAr^sorj;.. 
 
 ' took notice, that this reverend person, ]Mr. God- 
 
 * LY-FEAR, stood stoutlj to it at the gales of the 
 
 * casile, against all the threats and attempts of the 
 ' t} rant, and tbfit he had put the tovi nsnien in a way 
 ' to make their petition to their Prii)ce> so as thaX 
 ' he might accept thereof, and as that they might 
 
 * obtain an answer of peace ; and that therefore 
 'shortly he should receive his reward.* 
 
 After all this, there was yet produced a snote which 
 was written to the whole town oTMansoul, where- 
 by they perceivedj ' That their Lord took notice of 
 ' their so often repeating petitions to him, and that 
 ' they should see more of the fruits of such their 
 ' doings in time to come.* Their Prince also, there- 
 in told them, ' that he took it well that their 
 
 * heart and mind now at last abode fixed upon him 
 
 * and his ways, though Diabolus had made such 
 ' inroads upon them, and that neither tiatteries on 
 
 * the one hand, nor hardships on the other, could 
 ' make them yield to serve his cruel designs.' There 
 was also inserted at the bottom of this note, • That 
 'his Lordship had left the town of Man soul in 
 ' the hands of the Lord Secretary, and under the 
 ' conduct of captain Credence, saying. Beware 
 ' that yon yet yield yourselves unto their gover- 
 
 * nance, and in due time you shall receive your re- 
 ' ward/ 
 
 After the brave captainCaEDENCE had delivered 
 his notes to those to whom they belonged, he retired 
 himself to my Lord Secretary's lodgings, and there 
 «peuds his time in conversing with him ; for they 
 
HOLY WAR. 325 
 
 Faith exalted. 
 
 two were very great one with another, and indeed 
 knew more how things would go with i\lANsouL, 
 than all 4he townsmen besides. The Lord Secre- 
 tary also loved captain Credence dearly, yea many a 
 good bit was sent him from my lord's table ; also he 
 might have a shew of countenance when the rest of 
 Mansoul lay under the clouds ; so after some time 
 for converse was spent, the captain betook himself 
 to his chamber to rest. But not long after my lord 
 sent for the captain again ; so the captain came to 
 him, and they greeted one another witli the usual 
 salutations. Then said the captain to the Lord Se- 
 cretary, • What hath my lord to say to his servant ?' 
 So the Lord Secretary took him aside, and after a 
 sign or two more of favour, he said, ^ I have made 
 ' thee the lord-lieutenant over all the forces in 
 ' Mansoul ; so that from this day forward all men 
 in Mansoul shall be at thy word, and thou shalt 
 
 * be lae that shall lead in, and that shall lead out 
 ' Mansoul. Thou shalt therefore manage, ac- 
 
 * cording to thy place, the war fur thy Prince, and 
 ' for the town of Mansoul, against the force and 
 ' power of DiAROLUs, and at thy command shall 
 
 the rest of the captains be.' 
 Now the townsmen began to perceive what in- 
 terest the captain had, both with the court and also 
 with the Lord Secretary in Mansoul; for no man 
 before could speed when sent, nor bring such good 
 news from Emanuel as he. AVherefore what do 
 they, after some lamentation tliat they made no 
 more use of him "in their distresses, but send by 
 
S9Q HOLY WAR. 
 
 Faith the greatest resister of Satan. 
 
 tl-.eir subordinate preacher to the Lord Secretary, 
 to desire of him that all that ever they were and had 
 might be put under the government, care, custody, 
 and conduct of captain Credence. 
 
 So their preacher went and did his errand, and 
 received this answer from the mouth of his Lord, 
 that captain Cbedence should be the great doer in 
 all the King's armj against the King's enemies, and 
 also for the welfare of Mansoul. So he bowed to 
 the ground, and thanked his Lordship, and returned 
 and told his news to the townsfolk. But all this 
 vas done with all imaginable secrecy, because the 
 foes had yet great strength in the town. But to 
 return to our story again : 
 
 When DiABoLus saw himself thus boldly con- 
 fronted by the lord mayor, and perceived ihe stout- 
 ness of Mr. Godly-fear, he fell into a rage, and 
 forthwith called a council of war, that he might be 
 revenged on Mansoul. So all the princes of the 
 pit came together, and old iNCREDunxir at the 
 head of them, with all the captains of his army. So 
 they consulted what to do. Now the effect and 
 conclusion of the council that day was, how they 
 might take the castle, because they could not con- 
 clude themselves masters of the town so long as that 
 was in the possession of their enemies. So one ad- 
 vised this wav, and another advised that ; but when 
 they could not a^ree in their verdict, Apollyon, 
 the president of the council^ st od up, and thus he 
 began : ' My brotherhood (quoth he) I have some 
 ' things to propound unto you, and my first ii this ; 
 
IIOI.V WAT?. 3S1 
 
 Satan's advice. 
 
 ' Let us withdraw ourselves from the town into the 
 
 * phiin again, fur (»ur presence here uill do us no 
 ' good, because the castle is yet in our eneniies' 
 
 * hands ; uor is itpossihle that we should take fhat, 
 
 * so long as so many hruvc captains are in it, and 
 ' this bold fellow Godly-fear is made the keeper 
 ' of (he gates of it. 
 
 ' Now when we have withdrawn ourselves into 
 
 * the plain, they of their own accord will be glad of 
 ' seme little ease, and it ma} be of their own ac- 
 ' cord they again may begin to be remiss, and even 
 
 * their so being will give them a bigger blow Ihan 
 ' wc can possibly give them ourselves. But if that 
 ' should fail, our going forth of the town may draw 
 ' the captains out after us, and you know what it 
 ' cost them when they fought us in the field bt^Core, 
 ' Besides, can wcbut draw them out into the frclds, 
 ' we may lay an ambush beh.ind the tOMo, which 
 
 * shall, when they arc come forth abroad, rush in 
 ' and take possession of the castle.' But Beelze- 
 bub stood up and replied, saying, ' It is impos- 
 
 * sibletodraw them all oflf from the castle ; some 
 
 * you may be sure will lie there to keep that ; where- 
 
 * fore it will be but in vain thus to attempt, uidess 
 ' we arc sure they will all come out.* He there- 
 fore concluded, that what was done must be done 
 by some other means. And the most likely nieutis 
 that the greatest of their heads could invent, Mas 
 that which Apollyon had advised to before, to wit, 
 to get the townsmen again to sin. For, said he, it is 
 Dot our being uiHhe town, nor in the field, nor our 
 
328 HOLY WAR. 
 
 Sin alone can subject the soul. 
 
 fighting, nor our killing of their men, that can make 
 as the masters of Mansoul ; for so long as one in 
 i!he town is able to lift up his finger against us, Em a- 
 KUEL will take their parts ; and if he shall take 
 their parts, we know what time a day will be with 
 us. Wherefore for my part, quoth he, there is in 
 my judgment no way to bring them into bondage 
 to us, like inventing a way to make them sin. Had 
 we, said he, left all our Doubters at home, we had 
 done as well as we have done now, unless we could 
 have made them the masters and governors of the 
 castle ; for Doubters at a distance are but like 
 objections repelled with arguments. Indeed, cau 
 we but get them into the hold, and make them pos- 
 sessors of that, the day will be our own. Let us 
 therefore withdraw ourselves into the plain (notex- 
 pecting that the captains in Mansoul should fol- 
 low us, ) but yet I say, let us do this, and before we 
 80 do, let us advise again with our trusty Diabolo- 
 NiANS that are yet in the holds of Mansoul, and 
 set them to work to betray the town to us ; for 
 they indeed must do it, or it will be left undone for 
 ever. By these sayings of Beelzebub (for I think 
 it was he that gave this counsel, )the whole conclave 
 was forced to be of his opinion, to wit, that the way 
 to get the castle, was, to get the town to sin. Then 
 they fell to inventing by what means they might do 
 this thing. 
 
 Then Lucifer st(^od up and s^aid, ^ The counsel 
 
 * of Beelzebub is pertinent : now the way to bring 
 
 * this to pass, in mine opinion, is this : let us with- 
 
HOLY WAR. 329 
 
 New temut'Rts. 
 
 ' draw tCif force from (lie town of Mansoul ; let 
 ' us do this, and let us terrify tbcni no more, either 
 ' wi(h sunii'ioiisesor threats, or with the noise of our 
 ' drnni, or any other awakeniiii^ mean. Only let 
 
 * (IS lie in the field at a distance, and be as if we 
 
 * regarded them not (for frights I see do but awak- 
 ' en them, and make them stand more to their 
 
 * arms. ) I have also another stratagem in m j head : 
 ' you know Mansoul is a market-town, a town 
 
 * that delights in commerce ! what therefore if some 
 ' of our DiABOLONiANS shall feign themselves far 
 ' country-men, and shall go out and bring to the 
 ' market of Mansoul some of our wares to sell ; 
 ' and what matter at what rates they sell their wares 
 ' though it be but for half their worth ? Now le* 
 ' those that thus trade in their market, be those that 
 ' are witty and true to us, and I will lay down my 
 ' crown to pawn, it w^ill do. There are two that are 
 ' come to my thoughts already, that I think will be 
 
 * arch at this work, they are Mr. Penny-wise- 
 ' POUND-FOOLISH, aud Mr. Get-i'th'-hundred- 
 
 * and-lose-i'th'-suire ; nor is this man with the 
 ' long name at all inferior to the other. What also 
 ' if you join with them Mr. Sweet-worlDj and Mr. 
 ' Present-good, they are men that are civil an() 
 'cunning, but our true friends and helpers. Let 
 
 * these with as many more engage in this business foff 
 ' us, and let Mansoul betaken up in much busi- 
 ' ness, let them grow full and rich and this is the way 
 ' to get the ground of them ; remember ye not, tha* 
 
 * thus we prevailed jipon Laodicea, aud how man^ 
 
 T 4 
 
XO HOLY WAR. 
 
 Deceitfulness of riches. 
 
 ' at present do we hold in this snare ? Now when 
 ' t*hey begin to grow full, they will forgei their mise- 
 ' ry; andjfwe shall not affright them, may happen to 
 ' fall asleep, and so be got to neglect theirtown-watch, 
 
 * their castle-watch^as well as their watch atthe gates. 
 
 ^ Yea, may we not by this means so cumber 
 ' Mansoul with abundance, that they shall be for- 
 ' ced to make of their castle a warehouse instead of 
 ' a garrison fortified against us, and a receptacle of 
 
 * men of war ? Thus if we get our goods and cora- 
 ^ modities thither, I reckon the castle is more than 
 ' half ours Besides, could we so order it, that they 
 ' should be filled with such kind of wares, then if 
 ' we made a sudden assault upon them, it would be 
 ' hard for the captains to take a shelter there. Do 
 
 * you know that of the parable, Luke viii. 14. 
 " The deceitfulness of riches choaks the work.*' 
 
 * And again, '' When the heart is overcharged with 
 " surfeiting and drunkenness, and the cares of this 
 "life, all mischief comes upon them unawares." 
 Chap. xxi. 34. 
 
 ' Furthermore, my lords, ( quoth he) you very well 
 
 * know that it is not easy for a people to be filled 
 ' with our things, and not to have some of our Di- 
 ' ABOLONiANs as retainers to their houses and ser- 
 'vices. Where is a Mansoulian that is full of 
 ' this world, that has not for his servants and wait- 
 ' ing-raen, Mr. Profuse, or Mr. Prodigatity, 
 ' or some other of our Diabolonian gang, as 
 
 * Mr. Voluptuousness, Mr. Pragmatical, Mr. 
 
 * Ostentation, or the like .'' Now these cau 
 
HOLY WAR. 331 
 
 Promise of CnRHT's presence. 
 
 ' take th3 casi.le of Mansoul, or blow it up, or 
 'make it unfit for a garrison for Emanuel, and 
 ' ail} of these will do. Yea, these, for aught I 
 ' know, may do it for us sooner than an army of 
 ' twenty thousand men. Wherefore, to end as I 
 ' began, my advice is, that we quietly withdraw 
 ' ourst^lves, not offering an^ further force or forci- 
 * ble attempt upon the castle, at least at this time, 
 ' and let us set on foot our new project, and let us 
 ' see if that will not make them destroy themselves.* 
 This advice was highly applauded by them all, 
 and was accounted the very master piece of hell, to 
 wit, to choak Mansoul with a fulness of this 
 world, and to surieit her heart with the good things 
 thereof. Buv see now things meet together. Jost 
 as this DiABOLONi&N council was broken up, cap- 
 tain Credence received a letter from Emanuel, 
 the contents whereof were these : ' That upon the 
 ' third day he would meet him in the field, in the 
 ' plains about Mansoul.' Meet me in the field ! 
 quoth the captain. What meanetli my' Lord by 
 this } I know not what he meaneth by meeting me 
 in the field. So he took the note in his hand, and 
 carried it to my Lord Secretary, to ask his thought! 
 thereupon (for my Lord was a seer in all mailers 
 concerning the King, and also for the good and 
 comfort of the town of Mansoul. ) So he shewed 
 my Lord the note, and desired his opinion thereup- 
 on : Fur my part, quoth captain Cdedence, I 
 know not the meaning thereof. So my Lord read 
 itj and after a little pause, he said. The Di\bol9 
 
332 HOLY WAR. 
 
 Joy at the promises. 
 
 MANS have had against Mansoul a great consul- 
 tation to-daj : the_y have, 1 say, this daj been con- 
 triving the utter ruin of the town ; and the result of 
 their counsel is, to set Mansoul into such a way, 
 which, if taken, will surely make her destroy her- 
 self. And to this end they are making ready for 
 their own departure out of the town, intending to 
 betake themselves to field again, and there to lie till 
 they shall see whether this their project will take or 
 no. But be thou ready with the men of thy Lord, 
 for on the third day they w ill be in the plain, there 
 to fall upon the Diabolonians ; for the Prince 
 will by that time be in the field : yea, by that it is 
 break of day, sun-rising, or before, and that with a 
 mighty force against them. So he shall be before 
 them, and thou siialt be behind them, and betwixt 
 you both their army shall be destroyed. 
 
 When captain Credence heard this, away goes 
 he to the rest of the captains, and tells them what a 
 note he had a while sinre received from the hand of 
 Emanuel, And, said he, that which was dark 
 therein has my Lord Secretary expounded unto me. 
 He told them, moreover, what by himself and by 
 them must be done toanswer the mind of their Lord 
 Then were the captains glad, and captain Cre- 
 dence commanded, that all the King's trumpeters 
 should ascend on the battlements of the castle, and 
 there in the audience of Diabolus, and of the 
 wliole town of Mansoul, make the best music that 
 heart could invent. The trumpeters then did as 
 tliey were commanded : they got themselves up to 
 
HOI.Y WAR. S3$ 
 
 The Di.iBOi.oNiAMS withdraw themselres from RiANSOCi-, 
 
 the top of tlie castle, and iluis they bCj'jan to sound. 
 Tlien did Diabolus start, and said, Wliat can be 
 the meaning of this ? they neither sound Boot-and- 
 saddle, nor Horse-and-away, nor a Charge. What 
 do these madmen mean, that yet they should be so 
 merry and glad ? then answered him one of them- 
 fielves, and said. This is for joy that their Prince 
 Emanuel is'coming to relieve the town of IMan- 
 fiouL ; that to this end he isatlhehead of an army, 
 and that this relief is near. 
 
 The men of Mansoul also were greatly concern- 
 ed at this melodious charm of the trumpets ; thej 
 said, yea, they answered one to another, saying. This 
 can be no harm to us ; surely this can be no harm 
 to us. Then said the DiAEOLOxiANs, What had 
 we best to do ? And it was answered it was best to 
 quit the town ; and that, said one, ye may do in pur- 
 suance of your last counsel, and by so doing also be 
 better able to give the enemy battle, should an army 
 from without come upon us. So on the second 
 day they withdrew themselves from Mansoul, and 
 abode in the plains without ; but they encamped 
 themselves before Eye-gate, in what terrene and 
 terrible manner they could. The reason why thcv 
 could not abide in the town ( besides the reasons that 
 were debated in their late conclave, ) was, for that 
 they were not possessed of the strong hold, and be' 
 cause, said they, we shall have more convenience 
 to fight, and also to fly, if noed be, when we are en- 
 camped in the open plain. Tiesides, the town 
 would have been a pit for them, rather than a place 
 
33i HOLY WAR. 
 
 Preparations for h'atlle. 
 
 of defence, had the Prince came up and enclosed 
 them fast thereiii. Therefore thej betook them- 
 selves to the field, that thej might also be out of 
 the reach of the slings, by which they were much 
 aiinojfd all the while tiiey were i\\ the town. 
 
 Well, the time that the captains were to fall upon 
 the DiABOLONiANS being come, they eagerly pre- 
 pared themselves for action ; for captain Cre- 
 dence having told the captains over night, that 
 they should meet their Prince in the field to-mor- 
 row, was like, oil to a flaming fire ; for of a long 
 time they had beeji at a distance ; they therefore 
 were for this the more earnest and desirous of the 
 work. So, as I said, the hour being come, captain 
 Credence, with the rest of the men of war, drew 
 out their forces before it was day by the sally-port of 
 the town. And being all ready, captain Credence 
 went up to tlic head of the army, and gave to the 
 rest of the captains the word, and they to the under 
 officers and st)ldiers, which was, ' The sword of the 
 ' Prince Emanuel and the shield of captain Cre- 
 ' DENCE !' which is in the Mansoulian tongue, 
 ' The word of God and faith. Then the captains 
 fell on, and began roundly to front and flank and 
 rear Diabolus' camp. 
 
 Now they left captain Experience in the town, 
 liecause he was ill of his wounds which the Diabo- 
 LONiANs had given him in the last fight. But when 
 he perceived that the captains were at it, what does 
 he, hut calliri}^ for his crutches in haste, gets up, 
 and away he goes to the battle, saying, ' Shall I lay 
 
nOLV WAR. 535 
 
 A rirca(iful encounter. 
 
 ' here when my brethren are in the fight, and when 
 • Emanuel the Prince will sliew himself in the field 
 ' tohis servants ?' ]]ut when the enemy saw the man 
 come with his crutches, thej were daunted yet the 
 more, for thoug'ht they, what spirit has possessed 
 these Mansoulians, that they fight us upon their 
 crutches ! Well, the captains, as I said, fell on. and 
 bravely handled their weapons, still crying out, and 
 shouting as they laid on blows, "^ The sword of the 
 ' Prince Emanuel, and the shield of captain Cre- 
 
 ' DENCE !' 
 
 Now when Diabolus saw that the captains were 
 come out, and that so valiantly they surrounded 
 his men, he concluded, that for the present nolhino* 
 from them was to be looked for but blows, with the 
 dints of their two-edged swords. Wherefore he 
 also falls upon the Prince's army, with all his dead- 
 ly force. So the battle was joined. Now who was 
 it that iit first Diabolus met with in the fight, but 
 captain Credence on the one hand, and the lord 
 WiLL-BE-wiLLontheother ; now Will-be-will's 
 blows were like the blows of a giant, for that man 
 had a strong arm, and he fell in upon the Elec- 
 tion-Doubters, for they were the life-guard of 
 Diabolus, and he kept them in play a good while, 
 cutting and battering shrewdly. Now when caj)- 
 tain Credence saw my lord engaged, he stoutly 
 on the other hand fell upon the same company aU 
 .80, so they put them to great disorder. Now cap- 
 tain GooD-iiopE had engaged the Voc.vtion- 
 DouBTERs, and they were iturdy men ; but the 
 
336 HOLY WAR. 
 
 The batti'e reuewecL 
 
 captain was a valiant man : captain Experience 
 also sent him some aid : so he made the Vocation- 
 Doubters retreat. The rest of the armies vere 
 hotlj engaged, and that on everj side, aad the Di- 
 AB0I.ONIANS fought stoutlj. Then mj Lord Se- 
 cretary commanded that the slings from the castle 
 should by played, and his men could throw stones 
 at an hair's breadth. But after a while those that 
 fled before (he captains of the Prince, began to rally 
 again, and they came up stoutly upon the rear of 
 the Prince's army, wherefore the Prince's army be- 
 gan to faint ; but remembering they should see the 
 face of their Prince by and hy_, they took courage, 
 and a very fierce baUle was fought. Then shouted 
 the captains, saying, ' The sword of the Prince 
 
 * Emanuel, and the shield of captain Credence !* 
 and with that Diabolus gave back, thinking that 
 more aid had been come. But no Emanuel as yd 
 appeared. Moreover the battle hung in doubt; 
 and they made a little retreat on both sides. Now 
 in the time of respite, captain Credence bravely 
 encouraged his men to stand to it, and Diabolus 
 did the like as well as he could. But capiaiu 
 Credence made a brave speech to his soldiers, the 
 contents whereof here follow : 
 
 ' Gentlemen soldiers, and my brethren in this de- 
 ' sign, it rejoiceth me much to see in the field, for 
 'our Prince (his day, so stout and so valiant an 
 ' army, and faithful lovers of Mansoul. Yoii 
 
 * have hitherto, as hath become you, shewn youj- 
 
 * selves men of truth and courage against the iJiA 
 
HOLY WAR. 33? 
 
 Christ's presence expected to the loul. 
 
 ' BOLONiAN forces, 80 that for all their boast, they 
 
 * have not yet cause much to boast of their gettiugs. 
 
 * Now take to yourselves your wonted courage, and 
 ' shew yourselves men, eveti this once only ; for in a 
 ' few minutes after the next engagement this time, 
 ' you shall see your Prince shew himself in the field ; 
 ' for we must make this second assault upoa this 
 
 * tyrant Diabolus, and then Emanuel comes.' 
 
 No sooner had the captain made this speech to 
 bis soldiers, but Mr. Speedy came post to the cap- 
 tain from ihe Prince, to tell him that Emanue.i. was 
 at hand. This news, when tiie captain had received, 
 he communicated to the other field officers, and they 
 again to their soldiers and men of war. Wherefore, 
 Jike' men raised from the dead, so the captains nnd 
 their men arose ; made up to the enemy, and cried 
 as before, ' The sword of the Prince Emanuel and 
 'the shield of captain Credence !' 
 
 The DiABOLONiANs also bestirred themselves, 
 and made resistance as well as they could, but in 
 this last engagement they lost their courage, and 
 many of the Doubters fell down dead to the ground. 
 Now when they had been in heat of battle about an 
 hour or more, captain Credence lifted up his eye«, 
 and beheld Emanuel coming, and he came with 
 colours flying, trumpets sounding, and the feet of 
 his men scarce touched the ground, they hasted with 
 that celerity towards the captains that were engaged. 
 Then captain Credence wheeled his men to the 
 townward, and gave to Diabolus the field. So 
 Emanuel came upoli him on the one sidc^ and the 
 
 u u 
 
538 HOLY WAR. 
 
 Christ destroys all doubts. 
 
 enemies' place was betwixt them both ; then agaia 
 thej fel! to it afresh, and a little while afterwards 
 Emanuel and captain Credence met, still tramp- 
 ling down the slain as thejcame. 
 
 But when the captains saw that the Prince was 
 come, and that he fell upon the Diabolomians on 
 the other side, and that captain Credence and his 
 Higtmess had got them up betwixt them, they shout- 
 ed (they so shouted that the ground rent again.) 
 saying' The sword of Emanuel, and the shield of 
 ' captain Credence !' Now when Diabolus saw 
 that he and his forces were so hard beset by the 
 Prince and his princely army, what does he and the 
 lords of the pit that were with him, but make their 
 escape, and forsake their army, and leave them to 
 fall by the hand of Emanuel, and of his noble cap- 
 tain Credence : so they fell all down slain beforf 
 them, before his Prince, and before his royal army ; 
 there was not left so much as one Doubter alive ; 
 they lay spread upon the ground like dead men, as 
 one would spread dung upon the land. 
 
 When the battle was over, all things came in or- 
 der in the camp ; then the captains and elders of 
 Man'soul came together to salute Emanuel, while 
 without the corporation; so they saluted him, and 
 welcomed him, and that with a thousand welcomes, 
 for that he was come to the borders of Mansoul 
 again. So he smiled upon them, and said, ' Peace 
 * be unto you.' Then they addressed themselves to 
 go to the town ; they went then to go up to Man- 
 soul, they, the Prince, with all the new forces that 
 
HOLY WAR. SS9 
 
 ^— — ^'— — -^^ — " ■ ■ ■ ■ '-•— 
 
 Christ rc«poisessei Mansoul. 
 
 now he had brought with him to the war. Also all 
 the gates of the town were setopen for his reception, 
 80 glad were they of his blessed return. And this 
 was the manner and order of his going into Man* 
 
 60UL. 
 
 First, as I said, all the gates of the town were set 
 open, yea, the gates of the castle ; the elders too of 
 the town of Mansoul placed themselves at the 
 gates of the town, to salute him at his entrance 
 thilher : and so they did, for as he drew near, and 
 approached towards the gate, they said, " Lift up 
 '* your heads, O ye gates, and he lift up ye ever- 
 '* lasting doors, and (he King of glory shall come 
 " in." And they answered again, " Who is this 
 *' King of glory ?' And they made return to them- 
 selves, " The Lord strong and mighty, the Lord is 
 " mighty in batfle. Lift up your heads, O ye 
 *' gates, even lift them up, ye everlasting doors." 
 &c. 
 
 Secondly, It was ordered also by those of Man- 
 soul, that all the way from the town-gates to those 
 t»f the castle, his blessed majesty should be enter- 
 tained with the tODg, by them that had best skill in 
 music in all the town of Mansoul; then the elders 
 and the rest of the men of Mansoul answered one 
 another as Emanuel entered the town, till became 
 to the castle-gates, with songs and sounds of trum- 
 pets, saying, '' They have seen thv goings, O God, 
 •' even the goings of ray God, ray King, in the sanc- 
 " tuary. So the siiigcrs went before, the players od 
 
340 HOLY WAR. 
 
 Joyful reception of Christ. 
 
 " instruments followed after, and among tliem were 
 *' the damsels playing on timbrels." 
 
 Thirdly, Then the captains, (for I would speak a 
 word for them) in their order waited on the Prince 
 as he entered into the gates of Mansoul : captaiu 
 Credence went before, and captain Good-hope 
 with him ; captain Charity came behind, with 
 other of his companions, and captain Patience 
 followed after all, and the rest of the captains, some 
 on the right hand, and some on the left, accompanied 
 Emanuel into Mansoul. And all the while the 
 colours were displa3ed, the trumpets sounded, and 
 continual shoutings were among the soldiers. The 
 Prince himself rode into the town in his armour, 
 which was all of beaten gold ; and in his chariot, 
 the pillars of it were of silver, the bottom thereof 
 of gold, the covering of it was of purple, the midst 
 thereof being paved with love for the daughters of 
 the town of Mansoul. 
 
 Fourthlv, When the Prince was come to the eii-. 
 trance of Mansoul, he found all the streets strew- 
 ed with lilies and flowers, curiously decked with 
 boughs and branches fromthegreen trees, that stood 
 round about the town. Every door also was filled 
 with persons, who had adorned every one their fore- 
 part against their house with somethingof variety and 
 singular excellency, to entertain him withal as he 
 passed in the streets ; they also themselves, as Ema- 
 nuel passed by, welcomed him with shouts and 
 acclamations of joy, saying, ' Blessed be the Prince 
 
HOLT WAR. 341 
 
 Emanuel is irclconied at the castlc-gatcs. 
 
 • that Cometh in the name of his Father Shad- 
 
 ' DAI.' 
 
 Fifthly, At the castle-gates the eld(^rs of Man- 
 soul, to wit, my lord-ma}or, lord Will DE-wiLLi 
 the subordinate-preacher, Mr. Knowledge, and 
 Mr. Mind, with other of the gentry of the phice, 
 saluted Emamjel again ; they bowed before him, 
 they kissed the dust of his feet, they thanked, they 
 blessed and praised his Highness for not taking ad- 
 Vantage against them for their sins, but rather had 
 pity upon them in their misery, and returned to 
 them with mercies, and to build up their Mansoul 
 for ever. Thus was he had up straitway to the 
 castle ; for that was the royal palarc, and the place 
 where his honour was to dwell ; which was ready 
 prepared for his highness by the presence of the 
 Lord Secretary, and the work of captain Credence. 
 So he entered in. 
 
 Sixthly, Then the people and commonalty of the 
 town of Mansoul came to him in the castle to 
 niourn, weep, and lament for their wickedness, by 
 which they had forced him out t)f the town. So 
 they, when they were come, bowed themselves to 
 the ground seven times, they also wept, they wept 
 aloud, and asked forgiveness of tlie Prince, and 
 prayed that he would again, as of old, confirm hig 
 love to Mansoul. 
 
 To which the great Prince replied, ' Weep not, 
 ' but go your way, eat the fat and drink the sweet, 
 
 * and send portions to them for whom nought is 
 ' prepared, for, " the joy of your Lord is your 
 
St2 HOLY WAR. 
 
 Fountain opened to wash »nd be clean. 
 
 " strength." I am returned to Mansoul with 
 ' mercies, and my name shall be set up^ exaltf^d and 
 ' magnified by it.' He also took these inhabitants, 
 and kissed them, and laid them in his bosom. 
 
 Moreover, he gave to the elders of Mansoul, 
 and to each town officer, a chain of gold, and a sig- 
 net. He also sent to their w ives ear-rings, and 
 jewels, and bracelets, and other things. He aUo 
 bestowed upon the true'born children of Mansoul, 
 many precious things. 
 
 When Emanuel the Prince had done all these 
 thing* for the famous town of Mansoul, then he 
 said unto them, ' First, wash your garments, then 
 * put on your ornaments, and then come to me 
 ' into the castle of Mansoul.'* So they went to 
 the fountain that was set open for Judaii and Je- 
 rusalem to wash in ; and there they washed, and 
 there they made their garments white, and came 
 again to the Prince into the castle, and thus they 
 stood before him.f 
 
 And now there was music and dancing through- 
 out the whole town of Mansoul : and that because 
 their Prince had again granted to them his presence, 
 and light of his countenance ; the bells also 
 rung, and the sun shone comfortably upon them for 
 a great while together. 
 
 • Let thy garments be always white ; and let thj head lack nc» 
 ointment. Eccl. ix. 8. 
 
 i In that day day there shall be a fountain opened to the house 
 of David, and ts>the inhabitantf of Jerusalem, for sin aad for un. 
 doaaabS». Zech. xiii. 1. 
 
HOLY WAK. SIJ 
 
 Sias must be buried. 
 
 The townofMANsouLaho now more thoroughly 
 sought the destruction and ruin of all remaining 
 DiABOLONUNs that abodc in the walls, and the 
 dens, that they hadin the town of Mansoul, for 
 there was of them that had to this day escaped with 
 life and limb from the hand of their suppressors in 
 the famous town of Mansoul. 
 
 But my lord Will-be-wili was a greater ter- 
 ror to them now than ever he had been before, for- 
 asmuch as his heart was yet more fully bent to seek, 
 contrive, and pursue them to the death ; he pur- 
 sued them night and day, and put them now to sore 
 distress, as will afterwards appear. 
 
 After things were thus far put into order in the 
 famous town of Mansoul, caro was taken, and or- 
 der given by the blessed Prince Emanuel, that the 
 townsmen should, without further delay, appoint 
 some to go forth into the plain to bury the dead 
 that were there ; the dead that fell by the sword of 
 Emanuel, and by the shield of captain Credence, 
 lest the fumes and ill savours that would arise from 
 them, might infect the air, and so annoy tiu- famous 
 town of Mansoul. This also was a reason of this 
 order., to wit, that as much as in Mansoul lay, they 
 might cut off the name and being and rememhrancc 
 of those enemies from the thought of the famous 
 town of Mansoul and its inhabitants. 
 
 So order was given out by the lord- mayor, that 
 wise and trusty friend of the town of Mansoul, 
 that persons should be employed about this neces- 
 sary busines? ; and Mr. Godly-feaRj and one 
 
344 HOLY WAR. 
 
 All doubts buried. 
 
 Mr. Upright were to be overseers about this mat- 
 ter : so persons were put under them to work in the 
 fields, and to bury the slain that lay dead in the 
 plains. And these were their placesof employment ; 
 some were to make the graves, some were to bury 
 the dead, and some were to go to and fro in the 
 plains, and also round the borders of Mansoul, to 
 see if a skull or a bone, or a piece of a bone of a 
 Doubter was yet to be found above ground any 
 "where near the corporation ; and if any were found, 
 it was ordered that the searchers that searched 
 should set up a mark thereby, and a sign, that those 
 that were appointed to bury them might find it and 
 bury it out of sight, that the name and remem- 
 brance of a DiABOLONiAN DouBTER might be 
 blotted out from under heaven. And that the 
 children and they that were to be born in Mansoul 
 might not know, if possible, what a skull, what a 
 bone, or a piece of a bone of a Doubter was. So 
 the buriers and those that were appointed for that 
 purpose, did as they were commanded ; they buried 
 the Doubters and all skulls and bones, and pieces 
 of bones of Doubters wherever they found them, 
 and so they cleansed the plains. Now also Mr. 
 God's-peace took up his commission, and acted 
 again as in former days. 
 
 Thus they buried in the plains about Mansoul, 
 the Election Doubters, the Vocation Doubt- 
 ers, the Grace-Doubters, the Perseverance- 
 Doubtrrs, the Resurrection-Doubters, the 
 Salvation-Doubters, and the Glory-Doubt- 
 
HOLY WAR. 343 
 
 Burial or the slain. 
 
 ERs, whose captains were captain Rage, and cap- 
 tain Cruel, captain Damnation, captain Insa- 
 tiable, captain Brimstone;, captain Torment, 
 captain No-ease, captain Sepulchre, and cap- 
 tain Past-hope ; and old Incredulity was un- 
 der DiABOLUs their general ; there was vt as also the 
 seven heads of their army, and they were the lord 
 Beelzebub, the lord Lucifer, the lord Legion, 
 the lord Apollyon, the lord Pithon, the lord 
 Cerberus, and the lord BELtAL. But the princes 
 and captains, with old Incredulity their general, 
 all made their escape : so their men fell down upon 
 the slain hvthe power of the Prince's forces,. and by 
 the hands of -the men of the town of Mansoul. 
 They also were buried, as is before related, to the 
 exceeding great joy of the town of Mansoul : they 
 that buried them, buried also with them their arms, 
 which were cruel instruments of death (their wea- 
 pons were arrows, darts, mauls, firebrands, and the 
 like ; ) they buried also their armour, colours, and 
 banners, with the standard of Diabolus, and what 
 else soever they could find that did but smell of r 
 Diabolonian Doubter. 
 
 Now when the tyrant was arrived at Hell-gate- 
 hill, with his old friend Incredulity, they imme- 
 diately descended the den, and havingtherc with their 
 followers for a while condoled their misfortune, and 
 thegreatloss they sustained before the town of Man- 
 soul, they fell at length into a p-assion, and revenged 
 they would he for t4ie loss that they sustained before 
 the town erf Mansoul; wherefore they presently call 
 
146 HOLY WAR. 
 
 Satan's desire (o possess the soul. 
 
 m council to contrive }et further what was to be done 
 ogainst the famous town of Mansoul ; for ihc'ir 
 yawuing paunches couid not wait to see the result of 
 their lord Lucifer's and (heir lord Apollyos's 
 counsel that they had given before, for their raging 
 gorge thought everv day even as long as a short for- 
 ever, until they were filled with the body and soul, 
 with the flesh and bones, and with all the delicacies 
 of Mansoul. They therefore resolved to make 
 mother attempt upon the town of Mansoul, and 
 that by an army mixed and made up partly of Doubt- 
 ers, and partly of Blood- men. A more particu- 
 lar account now take of both. 
 
 The Doubters are such as have theirnamc from 
 their nature, as well as from the lord and kingdom 
 where they were born ; their nature is to put a 
 question upon every one of the truths of Emanuel, 
 and tbeir country is the land of Doubting, and 
 that land lieth off, and fnrtherest remote to the 
 north, between the land of Darkness, and that cal- 
 led the Valley of the Shadow of Death- For 
 though the land of Darkness, and that called the 
 land of the Shadow of Death, be sometimes cal- 
 led as if they were one and the self-same place ; 
 yet indeed they are two, lying but a little way 
 asunder, and the land of Doubting points in, and 
 lieth between them. This is the land of Doubting, 
 and those that came with Dia bolus to ruin the 
 town of Mansoul, are the natives of that coun- 
 try. 
 
 The Blood-men are a people that have their 
 
HOLY WAR. 347 
 
 Satan raise* uew troops. 
 
 jvame derived from the malignity of tlieir nature, 
 and from the fury that is in them to execute it upon 
 the town of Mansoul; their land lieth under the 
 Dog star, and by that ihey arc governed as to intel- 
 lectuals. The name of the country is the province 
 of LoATH-GOOD the remote parts of it are far dis- 
 tant frnnj the land of Doubting, yet they do both 
 butt and bound upon the hill called II^ll-gate- 
 hill. These people are always in league with the 
 DouBTLUSj for they jointly make question of the 
 faith and fidelity of the men of the town of Man- 
 SOUL, and so are bo^h alike qualified for the service 
 of their prince. 
 
 Now ofthese two countries did Diaeolus by the 
 beating of his drum raise another army against the 
 town of Mansoul, of five-and-twenty thousa-nd 
 strong. There were ten thousand Doubteus and 
 fifteen thousand Blood-men, and they were put 
 under several captains for the war ; and old In- 
 credulity was again made general of the army. 
 
 As for the Doubters, their captains were-five of 
 the seven that were heads of the last Diabolonian 
 array, and these are their names ; captain Beelze- 
 bub, captain Lucifek, captain Apollyon', cap- 
 tain Legion, and captain Cerberus, and the 
 captains that they had before were some of them 
 made lieutenants, and some ensigns of the army. 
 
 Bnf Diabolus did not count that in thisexpedi- 
 tion of his these Doubters would prove his prin- 
 cipal men, for their manhood had been tried be- 
 fore : also the Mansoulians had put them tp the 
 
S48 HOLY WAR. 
 
 Satan's offrcers. 
 
 worst, only he brought them to multiply a number, 
 and to help, if need was, at a pinch ; hut his trust he 
 put in his Blood-mex, fur they were all rugged 
 villains, and he knew that they had done feats here- 
 to fore. 
 
 As for the Blood-meiV', they also were under 
 command, and the names of their captains were, 
 captain Cain, captain Nimuod, captain Tshmaei-, 
 captain Esau, captain Saul, captain Absalom, 
 captain Judas, and captain Pope. 
 
 1. Captain Cain was over two bands, to wit, 
 the Zealous and the Angry Blood-men ; his stand- 
 ard-bearer bore the red colours, and his scutcheoD 
 was the murdering club,* 
 
 2. Captain Ni muod was captain over two bands, 
 to wit, the Tyrannical and Incroaching Blood- 
 men ; his standard-bearer bore the red colours, 
 and his scutcheon was the great blood-hound. 
 
 3. Captain Isiimael was captain over two bands, 
 to wit, over the Mocking and Scorning Blood-men; 
 his standard-bearer bore the red colours, and his 
 scutcheon was one mocking at Abhaham's Isaac. f 
 . 4. Captain Esau was captain over two bands. 
 
 * And Cain talked with Abel his brother : and it came to pass, 
 when they were in the field, that Cain rose up against Abel his 
 brother, and slew him, (reu. iv. 8, 
 
 + And Sarah saw the son of Ilagv the Egyptian, which she had 
 born unto Abraham, mocking. Wherefore she said unto Abra- 
 iiam. Cast out this bond-woman and her son : for the son of this 
 bond-woman shall not be heir with my son, even with Isa^c. 
 Gen. xzi. 9, lo. 
 
HOI-V WAR. 34§ 
 
 And soldiers. 
 
 to >vit, (he Blood-men that grudged that another 
 should have the blessing ; also over the Blood- 
 men that are for executing their private revenge 
 upon others ; his standard-bearer bore the red co- 
 lours, and his scutcheon was one privately lurking 
 to murder Jacob.* 
 
 5. Captain Saul was captain over two bands, to 
 wit, the Groudlessly Jealous and the Devilishly 
 Furious BiooD-MEN ; his standard-bearer bore the 
 red colours, and his scutcheon was three bloody 
 darts cast at harmless David. f 
 
 6. Captain Absalom was captain over two bands, 
 to wit, over the Blood-men that will kill a father 
 or a friend, for the glory of this world ; als^o over 
 those Blood-me.v that hold ^ne fair in hatid with 
 words, till they shall have pierced him with tncir 
 swords ; his standard-bearer bore the red colours, 
 and his scutcheon was the son pursuing the father's 
 blood. 
 
 Captain Judas was over two b^nd^, to wit, 
 the Blood-men that will sell a man's life for money, 
 and those also that will betray their friend with a 
 kiss ; his standard-bearer bore the red colours, acd 
 
 • And these xrords of E«an her elder son were told to Rebekah. 
 And she sent and called Jacob her younger son, and said unto 
 him, Behold, thy brother Ksau. as touching thee, doth comfort 
 himself, purposing to kill thee. Gen, xxvii. 48. 
 
 + And Saul cast the javelin ; for he said, I will smite DaTid 
 even to the wall with li. AndDarid avoided out of his grcaanee 
 twice. 1 Sam. sviii. lif 
 
liOLY WAR. 
 
 Unbelief Sat a'ns •jriueipal o^ctr 
 
 bis scufcbeon was tiiissj jiieces of silver, and the 
 halter.* 
 
 8. Captain Pcp£ was captain over one band, for 
 all these spirits are joined in one under him : hia 
 stand ird-bearer bore the red colours, »a[»d his scut- 
 cheon was the stake, the flarae, 3i;d the good man in 
 it. 
 
 Now the reason why Diabolus so soon rallied 
 guother force after l:e had bi en beaten out of the 
 field, was, for that he put mighty confidence in this 
 armjof Blood-mkn, for he put a great deal of 
 more trust in them than he did before in his army of 
 Doubters, though they had also ofien done great 
 service for him in the strci;gthening of him in his 
 kingdom. But those Blood-men he had often 
 proved, and their sword seldom returned empty. 
 Besides, he knew that these like mastiffs, would fast- 
 en upon any ; upon father, mother, brother, sister, 
 prince, or governor, >ea upon the Prmcecf princes. 
 And that which encouraged him the more was, for 
 that they once forced Emanuel out of the kingdoni 
 of Universe; and why, thought he, may thejf 
 not drive him from tic town of IVIansoul ? 
 
 So this army, tive-and-twcniy th-oussand strong, 
 was by their general, the lord Incredulity, led 
 
 * Then one of the twelve, called Judas Iscariot, went unto the 
 chu'f priests, and said unto them, What will ye give mo, and I 
 will deliT;.T him unto you ? And ihcy covenanted with him for 
 thirty pieces of silver. And from that time he sought opportu- 
 nity to betray him. Mat. xsvii. H, 15, 16. 
 
HOLY M'AR. S'jl 
 
 The town summoned. 
 
 up against the town of Mansoul. Now Mr. 
 Prvwel, the scout-raaster-gcneral, went out to spy, 
 and he brought Mansoul tidings of tlieir coming. 
 Wherefore they shut up their gates, and put them- 
 selves into a posture of defence against these new 
 DiABOLONiANS that came up against the town. 
 
 So DiABOLUs brought up his army^ and belea- 
 guered the town of Mansoul; the Doubt tRS 
 were placed about Feel-gate, and the Blood- 
 men set down before Eye-gate, and Eau-gatb. 
 
 Now when this army had thus encamped them- 
 selves. Incredulity, in the name of Diabolus, 
 in his own name, and in the name of the Blood- 
 men, and the rest that w^re with him, sent a sum- 
 mons as hot as a red hot iron to Mansoul, to yield 
 to their demands, threatening, that if they still stood 
 it out against them, they would presently burn down 
 Mansoul with fire. Foryou must know, that as 
 for the Blood-men, they were not so much that 
 Mansoul should be surrendered, as that Man- 
 soul should be destroyed, and cut off out of the 
 land of the living.* True, they sent them to surren- 
 der ; but should they so do, tliat would not quench 
 the thirst of these men ; they must have blood, (he 
 blood of Mansoul, else they die; and it is from 
 thence that they have their name. Wherefore these 
 Blood-men he reserved while now, that they might. 
 
 • Their feet run to Qvil, and they make haste to sh^d iuaocout 
 blood, their thoughts are thoughts of iniquity ; ^fasting and dtJ* 
 ttruction arc in their paths. Isa. lix. 7. 
 
352 HOLY WAR. 
 
 Apply to Chkist in danger. 
 
 "whenali engine? proved inefFectual ; as his last and 
 sure caii', be plajed against the town of Man- 
 soul. 
 
 Now when the townsmen had received this red- 
 hot summons, it begat in them at present some 
 changing and interchanging thoughts ; but they 
 joint! \ agreed in less than half an hour, to carry the 
 summons to the Prince, which they did when they 
 >vrit at the bottom of it, ' Lord, save MansouIt 
 * from bloody men.' 
 
 So he took it, and looked upon it. and considered 
 it, and took notice aho of that short petition that 
 the men of Mansoul had written at the bottom of 
 it, and called unto him the noble captain Credence, 
 aud bid him go and take captain Patience with 
 him, and go and take care of that side of Mansoul 
 that was beleaguered by the Bjlood-men.* So they 
 went and did as they were commanded ; then cap- 
 tain Credence went and took captain Patience, 
 and they both secured ttiat side of Mansoul that 
 was besieged by the Blood-men. 
 
 Then he commanded that captain Good-hope 
 and captain Charity, and my l<)rd Will-be-will 
 should take charge of the other side of the town ; 
 and I, said the Prince, will set up my standard upoa 
 the battlements of your castle, and do 30U three 
 watch against the Doubters. This done he again 
 
 * That ye be not slothful, but followers of them who through 
 faith and patience inherit the promises. And so after he ba4 
 paticatly endared, he obtairicd the promise. Heb. vi. 12,15. 
 

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 355 
 
 '- — ~ — r- 1 n 
 
 Christ's ordi-rs to secure the soul. 
 
 
 coiDmanded that the brave captain Experience 
 should draw up his men in the market-place, and 
 that there also he should exercise them day by day 
 before the people of the town of Mansoul. Now 
 the seige was long, and many a fierce attempt did 
 the enemj^ especially those called Rlood-men, 
 make upon the town of Mansoul, and many a 
 shrewd brush did some of the townsmen meet w itt 
 from them ; especially captain Self-denial ; who, 
 I should have told you before, was commanded to 
 take the care of Ear-gate and Eye-gate now 
 against the Blood-mf.n. This captain Self-de- 
 nial was a young man, but stout, and a townsman 
 in Mansoul, as captain Experience also was; 
 and Emanuel at his second return to Mansoul, 
 made him a captain over a thousand of the Man- 
 souLiANs, for the good of the corporation. This 
 captain, therefore, being an hardy man, a man of 
 great courage, and willing to venture himself for 
 tlie good of the town of Mansoul, would now aad 
 then sail) out upon the Blood-men, and give theiQ 
 many notable alarms, and had several skirmishes 
 with them, and also did some execution upon theoa ; 
 yet ou must think that this could not easily bft 
 done, but he must meet with brushes himself, for 
 he carried several of their marks in his face ; ye*,, 
 and some in other parts of his body. 1 
 
 So af^er some time spent for the trial of the faith; 
 hope and lote of the town of Mansoul, the Prince 
 Emanuel upon a day calls his captains and m^n of 
 tias together^ and divides them into two CompaoieJ; 
 
 ^ r 
 
S34 HOLY WAR. 
 
 Dircctioni for the battle. 
 
 this done, he commands them at the time appointed, 
 and that in the morning very early, to sally out 
 upon the enemy ; saying, ' Let half of you fall up- 
 
 * on the Doubters, and half of you fall upon the 
 
 * Blood-men. Those of you that go out against 
 
 * the Doubters, kill and slay, and cause to perimh 
 ' so many of them as by any means you can lay 
 
 * hands on ; but for you that go out against the 
 ' Blood-men, slay them not, but take them 
 ' alive.' 
 
 Accordingly at the time appointed, betimes in the 
 morning, the captains went out as they were com- 
 manded against the enemies : captain Good-hope, 
 captain Charity, and those that were joined with 
 them, as captain Innocent, and captain Experi- 
 ence, went out against the Doubters : and cap- 
 tain Credence and captain Patience, with cap- 
 tain Self-denial, and the rest that were to join 
 with them, went out against the Blood- men. 
 
 Now those that went out against the Doubters, 
 drew up in a body before the plain, and marched 
 on to win the battle : but the Doubters, remember- 
 ing their last success, made a retreat, not daring to 
 stand the shock, but fled from the Prince's men : 
 wherefore they pursued them, and in their pursuit 
 slew many, but they could not catch them all. Now 
 those that escaped went some of them home ; and 
 the rest, by fives, nines, and seventeens, like wan- 
 derers, went straggling up and down the country, 
 where they shewed and exercised many of their 
 Diaeol^nian actions upon the barbarous people; 
 
HOLY WAR. S53 
 
 The reiult of the battle. 
 
 nor did these people rise up in arms againit them, 
 but suirered themselves to be enslaved hy them. 
 They would also after this shew themselves in com?- 
 panics before the town of Mansoul, but never to 
 abide it ; for if captain Credence, captain Good* 
 HOPE, or captain Experience did but shew them* 
 selves they fled. 
 
 Those that were against the Blood-men, did at 
 they were commanded ; they forebore to slay any, 
 but sought to compass them about. But the Blood* 
 MEM, when they saw that no Emanuel was in the 
 field, concluded also that no Emanuel was in 
 Mansoul ; wherefore they looked upon what the 
 captains did, to be, as they called it, a fruit of the 
 extravagancy of their wild and foolish fancies, rather 
 despised than feared thenj : but the captains, raind^ 
 ing their business, at last compassed them round ; 
 they also that had routed the Doubters, came iii 
 amain to their aid : so in fine, after some struggling 
 (for the Blood-men also would have run for it, 
 enly now it was too late ; for though they are mis- 
 chievous and cruel when they can overcome, yet 
 all Blood-men are chicken-hearted men, ^hea 
 they ouce come to see themselves matched and 
 equalled,) so, I say, the captains took them, and 
 brought them to the Prince. 
 
 Niw when they were taken, had before the Prince, 
 aikd examined, he found them to be of three seve- 
 ral counties, though they all came out of ooc 
 land. 
 
 1. One sort of them come out of Blindman* 
 
4 
 
 335 HOLY WAR. 
 
 The Blood-men'i conduct and rest(!ence described. 
 
 BHiRE, and thej were such as did ignorai.lly what 
 they did. 
 
 2. Another sort of (hem came out of Blind- 
 XEiLSHiRE, and they did superstitiously what they 
 did. 
 
 - 3. The third sort of them came out of the town 
 of Mai ICE, in the county of Envv, and the}' did 
 •what they did out of spite atid implacabjeness. 
 
 For the first of these, to wit, they that came out 
 of Blindmanshike, when they saw where they 
 were, and against whom they liad fought, trembled, 
 and cried as they stood before him ; and as many 
 of those as asked him mercy, he touched their lips 
 with his goldeu sceptre. 
 
 They that came out of Blindzealshire, did 
 not as their fellows, for they pleaded that they had 
 a right to do what they did, because Mansoul was 
 a toM'n whose laws and customs were diverse from 
 all that dwelt thereabouts ; very fow of these could 
 be brought to see their evil, but those that did and 
 asked mercy, they also obtained favour. 
 
 J^ow they that came out of the town of Malice, 
 that is in the county of Envy, they neither wept 
 nor disputed, but stood gnawing of their tongues 
 before hini for anguish and madness, because they 
 could not have their will upon Mansoul. Now 
 those last, with all those of the other two sorts that 
 unfeignedly asked pardon for their faults; those he 
 made to enter into sufficient bond to answer for 
 what they had done against Mansoul, and against 
 hst King, at the great and general assize? io be 
 
HOLY WAR. S57 
 
 Doubts still entertained. 
 
 bolden for our Lord the King, where lie himself 
 jho uld appoint for the country and kingdom of 
 Universe. So they became bound each man for 
 himself to come in when called upoHj to answer be- 
 fore our Lord the King for svhat they had done be- 
 fore. 
 
 And thus much concerning this second army 
 that was sent by DrABOLUs to overthrow Man- 
 soul. 
 
 But there were three of those that came from the 
 land of Doubting, who, after they had wandered and 
 ranged the country awhile, and perceived that they 
 had escaped, were so hardy as to thrust themselves^ 
 knowing that yet there were in the town some who 
 took part with Diabolus, I say, they were so hardy 
 as to thrust themselves into Mansoul among thcm^ 
 (Three did I say ? I think there were four. ) Now 
 to whose house should these Diabolonian Doubt- 
 ers go but to the house of an old Diabolonian in 
 Mansoul, whose name was Evil-questioning ? 
 a very great enemy he was to Mansoul, and a 
 great doer among the Diabolonians there. Well 
 to this Evil-questioning's house, as was said, 
 did these Diabolonians come (you may he sur6 
 that they had directions how to find their way 
 thither,) so he made them welcome, pitied their 
 misfortune, and succoured them with the best he 
 bad in his house. Now after a littleacquaintar.ee, 
 and it was not long before they had that, this Evil- 
 4UESTI0NING asked the Doubters if they were all 
 «f a towDj he kucw that they were »\loi oi^e king- 
 
S58 HOLY WAR. 
 
 iNcRTmiLiiY Satak's best serrsat. 
 
 donij and they answered. No, nor of one shire nei- 
 ther ; for J, said one, am an Election-Doubter ; 
 I, said another, am a Vocation-Doubter ; thea 
 said the third, 1 am a Salvalion-Doubter ; and 
 the fourth said he was a Grace-Doubter. Well, 
 quoth the old gentleman, be of what shire you well, 
 1 am persuaded that you are towu-boys, you have 
 the very length of my foot, are one with my heart, 
 and shall be welcome to me. So they thanked him, 
 and were glad that they had found themselves an 
 harbour in Mansoul. Then said Etil-question- 
 iNG to them. How many of your company might 
 there be that came with you to the siege of Man- 
 soul ? And they answered. That there were but 
 ten thousand Doubters in all, for the rest of the 
 army consisted of fifteen thousand Blood-men : 
 these Blood- MEN, quoth they, border upon our 
 country : but, poor men, we hear, they were every 
 one taken by Emanuel's forces. Ten thousand! 
 quoth the old gentleman, I'll promise you that's a 
 round company. But how came it to pass, since you 
 were so mighty a number, that you fainted and 
 durst not fight your foes ? Our general, said they, 
 was the first m^n that ran for it. Pray, quoth their 
 landlord, who was that your cowardly general ? He 
 was once the lord-mayor of Mansoul, said they. 
 But pray call him not a cowardly general, for whe- 
 ther any from the east to the west has done more ser- 
 vice for our prince Diabolus, than has my lord In- 
 credulity, will be a hard question for you fo an- 
 swer. But, had they catchcd him, they would foP 
 
HOLY WAR. 359 
 
 CoNVEBiJiTioN overheard by Diligence. 
 
 certain have hanged him, and we promise jou hang- 
 ing is but a bad business. 
 
 Then said the old gentleman, I would that all the 
 ten thousand Dolbters were now all well armed in 
 Mansoul, and mvself at the head of them, I would 
 see what 1 could do. Ah, said they, that would be 
 wellj if we could see that : but wishes, alas ! what 
 are they .-' Ai.d these words were spoken aloud. 
 Well, said old Evil-questioning, take heed that 
 ye talk not too loud, you must be quiet and close, 
 and must take care of yourselves while you are here, 
 or I will assure you, you will be snapt. 
 
 Why ? quoth the Doubters. 
 
 Why ? quoth the old gentleman : why, because 
 both the Prince and lord Secretary, and their cap- 
 tains and soldiers, are all at present in town : yea, 
 the town is as full of them as it can hold And be- 
 sides,, there is one whose name is Will-be-will, 
 a most cruel enemy of ours, and him the Prince 
 hath made keeper of the gates, and has commanded 
 him, that with all the diligence he can, he should 
 look for, search out, and destroy all and all manner 
 of DiABOLONiANs. And if he lighteth upon you, 
 down you go, though your heads be made of 
 gold. 
 
 And now, to see bow it happened, one of the lord 
 WiLL-BE-wiLi/s faithful soldiers, whose name was 
 Mr. Diligence, stood all ihe while listening un- 
 der old Evil-questioning's eaves, and heard all 
 the talk that had been betwixt him and the Doubt- 
 EfiB that he entertained under his roof. Thii soldier 
 
300 HOLY WAR. 
 
 Dii'iGENcs searcheth out sins. 
 
 was a man that my lord bad much confidence in, 
 and that he loved dearly, and that both because he 
 was a man o( courage, and also a man that was un- 
 wearied in seeking after Diabolonians to appre- 
 hend them. 
 
 Now this man, as I told you, heard all the talk 
 that was between old Evil-questioning and these 
 Diabolonians ; wherefore what does he, but goes 
 to his lord, and tells him what he had heard. And 
 sayest thou so, my trusty ? quoth my lord. Ay, 
 quoth Diligence, that I do, and if your lordship 
 will be pleased to go with me, you shall find it as I 
 have said. And are they there ? quoth my lord, 
 I know Evil-questioning well, for he and I were 
 great at the time of our apostacy ; but know not 
 now where he dwells. But I do, said this man, and 
 if your lordship will go, I will lead you the way to 
 his den. Go ! quoth my lord, that I will. Come, 
 my Diligence, let us go find them out. So my 
 lord and his man went together the direct way to 
 his house. Now this man went before to shew hira 
 the way, and they went till they came even under 
 old Mr. Evil-questioning's wall. Then said 
 Diligence, Hark, my lord, do you know the old 
 gentleman's tongue \^ hen you hear it ? Yef said 
 my lord I know it well, but I have not icen him 
 many atfj^'y. This I know, he is cunning t wish hfe 
 may not give us the slip. Let me alone for that, 
 said his servant Diligence. But how shall we 
 find the door ? quoth my lord. Let me alone for 
 that too, said his man. So he had my lord W11.L- 
 
liOL-^^ WAR. 361 
 
 The Dot'BTitRii niatle prisoners. 
 
 BE»wiLL about, and sfiewed him the way to the 
 door. Then ray lord, without more ado, broke 
 open the door, rushed info the house, and caugl^.t 
 them all five together, even as Diligence bi« mau 
 had told him. So my lord apprehen-i^ed them, and 
 led them away, and committed them to the hand of 
 Mr. Truf.man the gaoler, and he commanded and 
 put them in ward. This done, my loid-mayor was 
 acquainted inthc morning with what my lord Will- 
 BE-wiLL had done over night, and his lordship re- 
 joiced much at the news, not only because there 
 were Doubters apprehended, but because that old 
 EviL-yuESTioM\G was taken ; for he had been a 
 very sreat trouble to Mansoul, and nuicli afilictiou 
 to my lord mayor himself. lie had also been sought 
 for often, but no hand could ever be laid on hiiTi 
 till now. 
 
 Well, the nexf thing' was, fo make prep mirations 
 to try these five that by my lord had been appre- 
 hended, and that were in the hands of Mr. True- 
 man the gaoler. So the day was set, and the 
 court called and came together, and the prisoners 
 brought to the bar. My lord Wfll-be-wc ll had 
 power to have slain them when first he took them, 
 and that without any more ado, but he thought it at 
 this time more for the honour of the Prince, the 
 comfort of Mansoul, and the discouragement of 
 the enemy, to bring them forth to public judgment. 
 But I say, Mr. Truemav brought them in chains 
 to the bar, to the iowii-hall, for that was the phite 
 of judgment. So to be shortj the jury was paniK-l 
 
 2z 
 
^52 HOLY WAR. 
 
 Trial of Eyil-questioning. 
 
 led, the witnesses sworn, andthe prisoners tried/or 
 their lives ; the jury was the same that tried Mr. 
 No-TRVTH, PiTiLEsSj Haushty, aud the rest of 
 their companions. 
 
 And first, old Evil-questioning himself was 
 set to the bar ; for he was the receiver, the enter- 
 tainer, and comforter of these Doubters, that by 
 nation were outlandish men ; and he was bid to 
 hearken to his charge, and was told that he had li- 
 berty to object, if he had aught to say for himself. 
 So his indictment was read, the manner and form 
 here follows : 
 
 ' Mr. Questioning, thou art here indicted by 
 ■ the name of Evil-questioning, an intruder up- 
 ' on the town, of Mansoul, for that thou art a Dr- 
 *■ ABOLONiAN by nature, and also a hater of the 
 
 * Prince Emanuel, and one that hast studied the 
 
 * ruin of Mansoul. Thou art also here indicted, 
 ' for entertaining the King's enemies, after whole- 
 ' some laws made to the contrary : for, 
 
 ' 1. Thou hast questioned the truth of her doc- 
 ' trine and state. 
 
 / 2. In wishing that ten thousand Doubteri 
 ' were in her. In receiving, entertaining, and en- 
 ' couraging of her enemies, that came from their 
 ' arm} unto thee. What sayest thou to this indict- 
 ' inent ? Art thou guilty, or not guilty }' 
 
 ' My lord, (quoth he) I know not the meaning of 
 'this indictment, forasmuch as I am not the man 
 
 * concerned in it ; the man that standcth by this 
 ' charge accused before this beneb, is called by the 
 
HOLY WAR. 363 
 
 The evidence. 
 
 ' name of Evil-questiomng, winch riame T deny 
 'to be mine, mine being- H >nest-inquiuing. 
 ' Tlie one indeed sounds like the others but I trow 
 
 * your lordships know tliat between these two there 
 ' is a wide dideience : for 1 hope that a man, even 
 ' in the worst of times, and that too amongst the 
 ' worst of men, may make an honest inquiry after 
 ' things, witliout running the danger of death.' 
 
 Then spake my h)rd Will-be-will, for he was 
 one of the witnesses: ' My lord, and you the ho- 
 
 * nourable beneh and magistrates of the town of 
 ' Mansoul, you all have heard with their ears, 
 ' that tliC prisoner at the bar has denied his name, 
 ' and sotliii ks to shift from the charge of the in- 
 ' dictment. But I know him to be the man con- 
 ' cerned, and thai his proper name is Evfl-ques- 
 
 * TioNiNG. I have known him, my lord, above 
 ' these thirty years, for he and I (a shame it is for 
 ' me to speak it) were great acq^iaintance, when 
 *DiABOLi;s thai tyrant had the government of 
 
 * Ma-nsoul ; and I testify that he is a Diabolo- 
 ' NiAN by nature, an enemy to our Prince, and aa 
 ' hater of the blessed town of Mansoul, He has 
 ' in times of rebellion been at, and laid in my house, 
 ' my lord, not so little as twenty nights together^ 
 ' and we used to talk then ( for the substance of talk ) 
 ' as he and his Doubters have talked of late. 
 
 * True, I have not seen him many a day, I suppose 
 ' that the coming of Emanuel to Mansoul has 
 ' made him change his lodgings, as this iadictment 
 
36i HOLY WAR. 
 
 Evidence of Diligence. 
 
 ' has driven him to change his name ; but this is the 
 ' man, my lord.' 
 
 Then said the court unto him. Hast thou anj more 
 to say ? 
 
 ' Yes, ( quoth the old gentleman ) that I have ; 
 ' for all that has yet been said against me, is bu( 
 ' by the mouth of one witness, and it is not lawfnl 
 ' for the famous town of Mansoul, at the moulh o ' 
 ' one witness, to put any man to death.' 
 
 Then stood forth Mr. Diligence, and sai*v 
 ' My lord, as I was upon my watch such a night at 
 ' the head of Bad-street, in this town, I chanced t(% 
 ' hear a muttering within the gentleman's house; 
 ' then thought I, What's to do here ? So I went 
 ' up close, but very softly, to the side of the house to 
 ' listen, thinking, as indeed it fell out, that there I 
 ' might light of some Diaboloman conventicle. 
 
 * So, as I said, I drew nearer and nearer, and when 
 
 * I was got up close to the wali, it was but a while 
 ' before I perceived that there v\ere outlandish men 
 " in the house, but I understood their speech, for 
 ' I have been a traveller myself: now hearing such 
 Manguagein such a tottering cottage this old gentle- 
 ' man dwelt in, I elapt mine ear to a hole in the 
 
 * window, and there heard them talk as followeth. 
 ' This old Mr. QuESTroNiNG asked these Doubt- 
 
 * ERs what they were, whence they came, and what 
 
 * was their business in these parts ? And they an- 
 ' swered him to all these questions, yet he enler- 
 ' tained them. He also asked what numbers there 
 
HOLY WAR. 335 
 
 A defeace. 
 
 ' were of them; and they told him, ten thousand 
 ' men. He then asked them why they made no 
 ' more manly assault upon Mansoul ? and they 
 
 * told him. So he called their general coward for 
 ' marching ofl' when he should have fought for his 
 ' prince. Further, this old EvrL-QUESTioNiNG 
 ' wished, and I heard him wish. Would all the ten 
 ' thousand Doubters were now in Mansoul, and 
 ' himself at the head of them ! He bid them also 
 ' take heed and lie quiet ; for if they were taken 
 ' they must die, although they had heads of gold.' 
 
 Then said the court, Mr. * Evil-questioning, 
 ' licre is now anotlier witness against you, and this 
 ' testimony is full.' 
 
 ' 1. He swears that you have received these men 
 
 * into your house, and that you nourished tliera 
 
 * there, though you knew that they were Dr abolo- 
 ' NiANS, and the King's enemies.' 
 
 * 2. He swears that you wished ton thousand of 
 ' them in Mansoul.' 
 
 ' 3. He swears that you gave them advice to be 
 ' quiet and close, lest they were taken by the 
 ' King's servants. All which manifesteth that thou 
 ' art a Diabolonian ; but hadst thou been a 
 ' friend to the King, thou w ouldst have apprehended 
 
 * them.' 
 
 Then said Evil-questioning, To the first of 
 these I answer. The men that came into mine house 
 were strangers, and J took them in ; and is it now 
 become a crime in Mansoul for a man to entertain 
 •trangers ? That I also nourished tliem, is true ; 
 
56^ HOLY AVAR. 
 
 Elbction-Doubter tried. 
 
 and why should my charity be blamed ? As for the 
 reason why I wished ten thousand of them in Man- 
 soul, I never told it to the witnesses, nor to them- 
 selves. ] might wish them to be taken, and so ray 
 wish might mean well to Manscijl, for aught that 
 any yet kr>ows. I also bid them take heed that they 
 fell not into the captam's hands, but that might be 
 because I am unwilling that any man .should be slain, 
 :and not because I would have the king's enemies, 
 as such, escape. 
 
 My lord mayor then replied, ' That though it 
 
 * was a virtue to entertain strangers, yet it was trea- 
 
 * soh to entertain the king's enemies. And for 
 ' what else thou hast said, thou dost by words but 
 
 * labour to evade, and defer the execution of judg- 
 ' ment. Rut could there be no more proved against 
 *■ thee but that thou art a Diabolonian, thou 
 *" must for that die the death by the law ; but to be 
 ' a receiver, a nourisher, a countenancer^ and a 
 ' barbourer of others of them^ yea, of outlandish 
 
 * DiABOLONiANS ,* yea, of them that came from 
 
 * far;, on purpose to cut off and destroy our Man- 
 ' SOUL ; this must not be borne.' 
 
 7'hen said Evil-questioning, I see how the 
 game will go. I must die for my name, and for my 
 ciiaritv. Aiid so held his peace. 
 
 Then tli.ey called the outlandish Doubters to 
 the bar, and the first of them that was arraigned, 
 was the Election-Doubter ; so his indictment 
 was re;id, and because he was an outlandish mau, 
 the subst^incc of it was told to him by an interpreter ; 
 
[lOLY WAT?. 5(37 
 
 V ocATioN-iJouBTKn tried. 
 
 to wit, ' That he svas there charged with being an 
 ' enemy^to Emanuel the Prince, a hater of the 
 ^ town of Mansoul, and auopposer of her most 
 ' v\holesome doctrine.* 
 
 Then the judge asked him if he would plead ? 
 but he said only this, ' That he confessed that he 
 ' was an Election-Doubter, and that that was 
 ' the religion that he had ever been brought up 
 *■ in. And said moreover. If I must die for my rc- 
 ' ligion, I trow, I shall die a martyr, and so I care 
 ' the less.' 
 
 Then the judge replied. To question election is 
 to overthrow a great doctrine of the gospel ; to wil, 
 the omniscience, and power, and will of God, to 
 take away the liberty of God with his creature, ti 
 stumble the faith of the town of Mansoul, and to 
 make salvation to depend upon ^Yorks and not upon 
 grace. It also belied the word, and disquieted the 
 minds of the men of Mansoul, therefore by the 
 best of laws he must die. 
 
 Then was the Vocation-Doubter called, and 
 set to the bar ; and his indictment for substance was 
 the same with the other, only he was particularly 
 charged with denying the calling of Mansoul. 
 
 The judge asked him also what he had to say for 
 himself ? 
 
 So he replied, ' That he never believed that 
 
 * there was any such thing as a distinct and power- 
 
 * ful call of God to Mansoul, otherwise than by 
 ' the general voice of the word, nor by that neither, 
 
 * otherwise than as it exhorted them to forbear evil. 
 
SC8 HOLY WAR. 
 
 Grace-Doubter tried. 
 
 ' and do to that which is good, and in so doing a 
 ' promise of happiness is annexed.' 
 
 Then said the judge. Thou art a Diabolonian", 
 and hast denied a great part of one of the raost ex- 
 perimental truths of the Prince of the town of Man- 
 soul ; for he has called, and she has heard a most 
 distinct and powerful call of her Emanuel, hy 
 which she has been quickened, awakened, and pos 
 sessed with heavenly grace to desire to have com- 
 munion with her Prince, to serve him, and to do 
 his will, and to look for happiness merely of his 
 ajood pleasure. And for thine abhorrence of this 
 good doctrine, thou must die the death. 
 
 Then the Grace-Doubter wa? called, and his 
 indictment was read, and he replied thereto. That 
 though he was of the land of Doubting, his father 
 was the offspring of a Pharisee, and lived in good 
 fashion among his neighbours, and that he taught 
 them to believe (and believe I do, and will) that 
 Mansoul shall never be saved freely by grace. 
 
 Then said the judge. Why, the law of the Prince 
 is plain ; Negatively, '" not of works " (Rom. iii.) 
 2. Positively, *' By grace you are saved." ( Eph. ii. ) 
 And thy religion settleth in and upon the works of 
 the flesh. For the works of the law are the works of 
 the flesh. Besides, in saying, ^' Thou hast done/* 
 thou hast robbed God of his glor>, and given it to 
 a sinful man : thou hast robbed Christ of the ne- 
 cessity of his undertaking, and the sufficiency there- 
 of, and hast given both these to the works of the 
 fiesh. Thou Iiast despised the works of the Holv 
 
HOLY WAR- 369 
 
 Sentence against sinful doubt*. 
 
 Ghost, and Jiatb magriified the will of the flesh and 
 of the legal mind. Thou art a Diaboloman, the 
 son of a DiABOLOMAN ; and for th^ Diabolont- 
 AN principles thou must die. 
 
 The court then having proceeded thus far with 
 them sent out the jury, who forthwith brought them 
 in guilty of death. Then stood up the recorder, 
 and addressed himself to the prisoners : ' You the 
 ' prisoners at the bar^ you ha\e been here iadicted 
 ' and provedguilty of high crimes against Emanuel 
 ' our Prince, and against the welfare of the famou* 
 ' town of Mansoul : crimes for v>hichye must be 
 ' put to death ; and die ye accordingly.' 
 
 So they were sentenced to the death of the cross : 
 the place assigned them for execution was that 
 were Diabolus drew up his last army against 
 Mansoul; save only that old Evil-questioxincJ 
 was hanged at the top of BAD-street, just over 
 against his own door. 
 
 When the town of Mansoul had thus far rid 
 themselves of their enemies, and of the troublcrsof 
 their peace, in the next place a strict commandment 
 was given out, that yet my lord Will-be-wtll 
 slM>uld, with Diligence his man, search for, and 
 do his best to apprehend what town Diabolomans 
 were yet alive in Mansoul. The names of several 
 of them were Mr. Fooling, Mr. Let-good-slip; 
 Ml. Slavish-fear, Mr. No- love, Mr.MistRusT, 
 Mr, Flesh, and Mr. Sloth. It was also com- 
 manded that he should apprehend Mr. Evil- 
 questioning's children that he left behind him, 
 
 3 A 
 
570 HOLY WAK. 
 
 Sins to be carefully found out. 
 
 and that they should demolish his house there ; 
 Mr. Doubt was his eldest son ; the next to him 
 was Legal-life, Unbelief, Wrong-thoughts- 
 of-Christ, Clip-promise, Carnal-sense, Live- 
 by-feel. Self-love. All these he had by on* 
 wife, and her name was No-hope, she was the kins* 
 woman of old Incredulity, for he was her uncle, 
 and when her father old Dark was dead, he took 
 her and brought her up, and when she was mar- 
 riageable, he gave her to this old Evil-question- 
 iNG to wife. 
 
 Now the lord WfLL-BE-wiLL put into execution 
 his commission, with great Diligence his man. He 
 took Fooling in the streets, and hanged him up in 
 VVANT-wiT-alley, over against his own house. This 
 fooling was he that would have had the town of 
 Mansoul deliver up captain Credence into the 
 hands of Diabolus, provided that then he would 
 have withdrawn his forces out of the town : he also 
 took Mr. Let-good-slip one day as he was busy 
 iH the market, and executed him according to law. 
 Now there was nn honest poor man in Mansoul, 
 and his na^rae was Mr. Meditation and one of 
 no great account in the days of apostasy ; but now 
 of repute with the best of the town. This man 
 therefore they were willing to prefer. Now Mr. 
 Let-good-slip had a great deal of wealth hereto- 
 fore in Mansoul, and at Emanuel's coming it 
 wag sequestered to the use of the Prince ; this 
 therefore was now given to Mr, Meditation to 
 improve for the common good, and after him to hi" 
 
HOLY WAR. 57 1 
 
 Other criminals detected. 
 
 son Mr. Think-well ; this Think-well he had 
 by Mrs. Piety his wife, and she was the daughter 
 of Mr. Recorder. 
 
 After this my lord apprehended Clip-promise ; 
 now because he was a notorios villain, for by his 
 doings much of the King's coin was abused, there- 
 fore he was made a public example. lie was ar- 
 raigned, and adjudged to be first set in the pillory, 
 and then to be whipped by all the children and ser- 
 vants in Mansoul, and then to be hanged till he 
 was dead. Some may wonder at the severity of this 
 man's punishment, but they that are honest traders 
 in Mansoul, are sensible of the great abuse that 
 oi'iC Clipper of promises in little time may do to the 
 town of Mansoul. And truly my judgment is, 
 that all those of his name and life should be served 
 even as he. 
 
 He also apprehended Carnal-5Ense, and put 
 him in hold ; but how it came about I cannot tell, 
 but I;e broke prison and made his escape. Yea, 
 and the bold villain will not yet quit the town, but 
 lurks in the Diabolonian dens a-days, and haunts 
 like a ghost honest men's houses a-nights. Where- 
 fore there was a proclamation set up in the market- 
 place in Mansoul, signifying, that whosoever 
 could discover Carnal- sense, and apprehend him 
 and slay him, should be admitted daily to the Prince's 
 fable, and should be made keeper of the treasure of 
 Maksoul. Many therefore bent themselves to do 
 this thing ; but take him and sl^y him they could 
 not, though he was often discovered. But my lord 
 
575 HOLY WAR. 
 
 Sei.f-jiove destrojeil. 
 
 toi'k Mr. Wrong-thoughts-of-Christ, and put 
 him in prison^ and he died cf a lingering consump- 
 tion. 
 
 Self-love was also taken and committed to cus- 
 tody, but there were many that were allied to hira 
 in Maxsoul, so his judgment was deferred ; 
 but at last Mr. Self-dental stood up^ and said. 
 If such villains as these may be winked at in Man- 
 soul, I will lay down my commission. He also 
 took him from the crowd, and had him among his 
 soldiers, and there was brained. But some in Man- 
 soul muttered at it, though none durst speak plain- 
 ly because Emanuel was in the town. But this 
 brave act of captain Self-denial came to the 
 Prince's ears, so he sent for him, and made him a 
 lord in Mansoul. My lord Will-be-will also 
 obtained great commendation froni Emanuel for 
 Mhat he had done for the town of Mansoul. 
 
 Then my lord Self-denial took courage, and 
 set to the pursuing of the Diabolonians with my 
 lord Will-be-will; and they took Live-eY' 
 FEELING, and they took Legal- life, and put them 
 in hold till they died. But Mr. Unbelief was » 
 nimble jack, him they could never lay hold of, 
 though they attempted to do it often. He there- 
 fore, and some cf the subtlest of the Diaboloni- 
 AN tribe, yet remained in Mansoul, to the time 
 that Mansoul left off to dwell any longer in the 
 kingdom of Universe but they kept them to 
 their dens and holes ; if one of them appeared, or 
 happened to be seen ia one of the streets of the to\i'is 
 
IIOLV WAR. 573 
 
 Sius destroyed produce peace. 
 
 oPMansoul^ the wliole town would be up in arras 
 after thcni, yea, the very children in Mansoul 
 Would cry out after them as after a thief, and would 
 ■wish that they mi^ht stone them to death with 
 stones. And now IMAM'S, ul arrived fo some £;ood 
 degree of peace and quiet, her Prince also abode 
 within her borders, hercaptainsalso, andhersoldiers 
 did their dutieg, and Mansoul minded the trade 
 that she had with the country afar off; also she 
 was busy in her manufacture.* 
 
 When the town of Maxsoul had thus far rid 
 themselves of so many of their enemies, and the 
 troublers of their peace; the Prince sent to them, 
 and appointed a day wherein he would meet the 
 whole people at the market-place, and there gi\e 
 them in charge concerning the future matter.*, that, 
 if observed, would tend to their farther safety and 
 comfort, and to the condemnation and destruction 
 of their home-bred Diabolonians. So the day 
 appointed was come, and the townsmen met to- 
 gether ; Emanuel also came down i»i his chariot, 
 and all his captains in their state attending of him on 
 the right-hand and on the left. Then was an O- 
 ves made for silence and after some mutual 
 carriages of love, the Prince began, and thus pro- 
 ceeded : 
 
 ' You, my Mansoul, and the beloved of mine 
 
 * Thine eyes shall sec the king in his beauty : they shall behold 
 the land that is very far off. Isa. xxxiii. 17. For our conr^rsa. 
 tiianisin heaven, from whence also we look for the Saviour, the 
 Lord Jesus Christ, YhiU iii, 20, 
 
S74 HOLY WAR. 
 
 Ci!rist"s love to the soul. 
 
 heart, inanj- and great are the privileges that I 
 JKive bestowfd upon vou ; I have singled you out 
 from others, a: id have chosen you to myself, 
 not for your worthine'Sj but for mine own sake. 
 I have also redeemed you, not only from the 
 dread of my Father's law, but from the hand of 
 DiABOLL's. . This I have done because I loved 
 you, and because I have set my heart upon you 
 to do you good. I have also, that all things that 
 might hinder thy way to ibe pleasures of Para- 
 dise might be taken out of the way, laid down 
 for thre, for t!:y soul, a plenary satisfaction, and 
 have bought thee for myself; a price not of cor- 
 ruptible things, as of silver and gold, but a price of 
 blood, mine own blood, v/hich. I have freely spilt 
 upon the ground to make tkee mine. So I have 
 reconciled thee, O my Mansoul, to my Father^ 
 and intrusted thee in the mansion-houses that are 
 with my Father in the royal city, where things are, 
 O my Mansoul, that eye hath not seen, nor hath 
 entered into the heart of man to conceive. 
 
 ' Besides, O my Mansoul, thou seest what I 
 have done, and how I have taken thee out of the 
 hand of thine enemies ; unto whom thou hast deep- 
 ly revolted from my Father, and by whom thou 
 wast content to be possessed, and also to be des- 
 troyed. I came to thee first by my law, then by my 
 gospel, to awaken thee, and shew thee my glory. 
 And thou knowest what thou wast, what thou 
 saidst, wliat thou didst, and how many times thou 
 rebelledst against my Father and mc ; yet I left 
 
flOLY M'AR. 575 
 
 Salvation througrh Chri«t. 
 
 '' tliee notj as thou seest this day, but came to thee, 
 
 * hiive borne ihy manners, have waited upon thee, 
 ' and after all, accepted of thee even of my mere 
 
 * grace and favour ; and would not suficr thee to 
 ' be lost, as thou wouldst most willingly have been, 
 ' I also compassed thee about, afflicted thee on 
 ' every side, that I might make thee weary of thj 
 ' ways^ ai5d bring down thy heart with molestation 
 
 * to a willingness to close with thy good and happi- 
 ' ness. And when I had gotten a complete con- 
 
 * quest over thee, I turned it to thy advantage. 
 
 * Thou seest also what a company of my Father's 
 
 * host I have lodged within thy borders, captains 
 ' and rulers, soldiers, men of war, engines and ex- 
 ' cellent devices, to subdue and bring down thj 
 *■ foes ; thou knowest my meanina;, O Mansoul. 
 ' And they art my servants and thine too, Man- 
 
 * SOUL. Yea, my design of possessing of theewitiv 
 ' them, and the natural tendency of each of them, 
 ' is to defend, purge, strengthen, and sweeten thee 
 ' for myself, O Mansoul, and to make thee meet 
 ' for my Father's presence, blessing, and glory ; for 
 ' thou my Mansoul, art created to be prepared un- 
 ' to these. 
 
 ' Thou seest moreover, my Mansoul, how I 
 
 * have passed by thy backslidings. and have healed 
 ' thee. Indeed I was angry with thee, but I have 
 
 * turned away mine anger, and mine indignation is 
 ' ceased in the destruction of thine enemies, O 
 ' Mansoul. Nor did thy goodness fetch me again 
 ' unto thee, after that I for thy transgressions had 
 
516 HOLY WAR. 
 
 P'^oniise of a resurrection. 
 
 hid my face, and withdrawn my presence from thee 
 The way of backsliding was thine, but the waj and 
 means of recovery was mine. I invented the 
 means of thy return ; it is I that made an liedge 
 and a wall, when thou wast beginning to turn to 
 things in which I delighted not. It was I that 
 made thy sweet bitter, thy day night, thy smooth 
 way thorny,and that also confounded al I that sought 
 thy destruction. It was I that set Mr. Godly- 
 fear to work in Mansoul. It was I that stirred 
 up thy conscience and understanding, thy will 
 and thy affections, after thy great and woful de- 
 cay. It was I that put life into thee, O Mansoul, 
 to seek me, that thou mightest find me, and in thy 
 finding, find thine own health, happiness, and sal- 
 vation. It was I that fetched the second time the 
 DiABOLONiANS out of Mansou L ; it was I that 
 overcame them and destroyed them before thy 
 face. 
 
 ' And now, my Mansoul, I am returned to thee 
 in peace, and thy transgressions against me are as 
 if they had not been. Nor shall it be with thee 
 as in former days, but I will do better for thee than 
 at thy beginning. For vet a little while, O my 
 Mansoul, even after a few more times are gone 
 over thy head, I will, but ht Ddt thou troubled at 
 what I say, take down this famous town of Man- 
 soul, stick and stone to the ground. And I will 
 carry th.e stones thereof, and the timber thereof, 
 and the walls thereof, and the dust thereof, and 
 * inhabitants thereof/ into niiiie own eoUntry, even 
 
HOLY WAH. 
 
 Promise of a resurrection. 
 
 ' iiitc the kingdom of my. Father ; arid I will there 
 ' 66* up in such strength anil glory as it never did 
 ^ see in the kiagdom where now it is placed. I 
 ' will even there sct'it up for my Futlier's habitation, 
 ' because for that purpose it was at first erected in 
 
 * the kingdom of Universe ; and there will I n\ake 
 ' it a spectacle of wonder^ a monument of mercy. 
 ' There shall the natives of Mansjl l see all that of 
 ' which they have seen nothing hcM^e ; there stiali 
 \ ihey he equal to those unto whom the} have been 
 ' inferior here. And there shall thou, O mv jMa.n- 
 '^ spuLj have such communion with me, with iny 
 
 * Father, and' with your Lord Secr.etary^^as fs not 
 ', possible here to be enjoyed, not ever could Ibe, 
 '(Shouldest thou liv!e in Universe .the space of a, 
 '. thousand years. 
 
 ' ' TJicre, O, m\ M^NsauL, thou shalt be afrai*^ 
 ' pC murders no more: of Diabolonians no.more. 
 
 * Xlji^«'4.?han be no rnoce plots.' nor x:o!itrivances, 
 
 * ^9X,(jesi^ns ligiiinst |hse, Ojny Man soul, .Th^rtiv. 
 
 * the Uvshalt no more hear evil tidino;s, oc the ^oisa 
 cT J; ■ J ' J V .'■■. -1 '.'"■•< -' r. ■ _,^ '■; r '_■ • ' '" ti, 
 
 ' of the DiABoi JAx drum. Thecie^ thou shcjt 
 
 ' not. -seef the Diabolonian, standard-bearers, 
 %iior yet behoki Diabolls's standard. jNo Dr- 
 '..ABoi.oMAN mpn*il shall be cast up ag-ainst thee 
 
 * ihere; nor shall tlicre the Di aboloxian standard 
 ' tie set rtp' to make rhi!e afraid. There thousbalt 
 *^ nvec;t with no sorrow nor gtief, nor shall it be po.r> 
 •'sible that ai?y DiAuor.oMAN sI»onld again (for 
 
 * ever) be abb to creep into thy skirts, burrow ui 
 
 3 8 
 
378 HOLY WAR. 
 
 Happines* of heaven. 
 
 ' thy walls^ or io be seen within thy borders all the 
 
 * dajs of ciennty. Life shall there last longer than 
 ' here you are able to desire it should^, and yet it 
 ' shall always be sweet and new, nor shall any im- 
 
 * pediment attend it for ever. 
 
 ' There, O Mansoul, thou shalt meet with many 
 ' of those that have been like thee, and that have 
 ' been partakers of thy sorrows ; even such as I 
 ' have chosen and redeemed^ and set apart, as thou 
 ' for my Father's court and city royal. All they 
 ' will be glad in thee : and thou, when thou seest 
 
 * them, shall be glad in thine heart. 
 
 * There are things, O Mansoul, even things 
 
 * of thy Father's providing and mine, that never 
 ' were seen since the beginning of the world, and 
 ' they are laid up with ray Father, and sealed 
 ' up among his treasures for thee, till thou shalt 
 ' come hither to them. I told you before that I 
 ' would remove my Mansoul, and set it up else- 
 
 * where ; and where I will set it, there are those 
 ' that love thee, and those that rejoice in thee novr, 
 ' but much more when they see thee exalted to 
 
 * honour. My Father will then send them for you 
 
 * to fetch you ; and their bosoms are chariots io 
 ' put you in. And thou, O my Mansoul, shalt 
 ' ride upon the wings of the wind.* They will 
 
 • The chariots of God are twenty thousand, even thousands of 
 augcU : the Lord is among them as in Sinai, in the holy place* 
 PsulmlxTJii. 17. 
 
HOLY WAR. ST9 
 
 The clothing of the saints. 
 
 ' come to convey, conduct, and bring yon to that, 
 ' when your eyes see more, that will be your de- 
 ' sired haven. 
 
 'And thus, O my Mansoul, I have shewed 
 ' unto thee, what shall be done to thee hereafter, if 
 ' thoQ canst understand ; and now I will tell thee 
 ' what at present must be thy duty and practice, 
 ' until I shall come and fetch thee to myself, accord- 
 ' ing as it is related in the scriptures of truth. 
 
 ' First, I charge thee that thou dust hereafter 
 
 * keep more white and clean the liveries which I 
 ' gave thee before my last withdrawing from thee, 
 ' Do it, I say, for this will be thy wisdom. They 
 ' are in themselves fine linen, but thou must keep 
 ' them white and clean. This will be your wisdom, 
 
 * your honour, and will be greatly for my glory, 
 
 * When your garments are white the world will 
 ' count you mine. Also when your garments are 
 ' white, then I am delighted in your ways ; for then 
 
 * your goings to and fro will be like a flash of Jight- 
 ' ning, that those that are present must take notice 
 ' of, also (heir eves will be made to dazzle thereat, 
 ' Deck thy sell therefore according to my bidding, 
 
 * and make tliyself by my law, straight steps for thy 
 ' feet, so shall thy King greatly desire thy beauty, 
 
 * for he is thy Lord and worship thou him, 
 
 ' Now that thou mayest keep them as I bid thee, 
 ' I have, as I before told thee, provided for thee an 
 ' open fountain to wash thy garments in. Look 
 
 * therefore that thou wash often in my fountain, and 
 
 * go not in deliled garments ; for as it is to my dig- 
 
380 HOL^ WAR. 
 
 ■\Ve should keep our garments clean. 
 
 ' honour^ and my disgrace, so it will be to thy dis- 
 
 * C(nn^ort,^^ hen thou shaitwalk in fiith}' garnif^uts.* 
 
 * Let not therefore my garments, your garments, 
 ' tlie garments that I gave thee, be defiled or spot- 
 
 * led by the flesh. f Keep thy garments always 
 /.white^ and let thy head lack no ointment. 
 
 ' My IMansoul, I have oft-times delivered thee 
 •^ from the designs, plots, attempts, and conspiracies 
 ' of DiABOLus, and for all this I ask thee nothing, 
 \\n\i that thou render not me evil for my good, bift 
 ' that thou bear in mind my love, and the continua- 
 
 * lion of my kindness to my beloved Mansoul, so 
 
 * as to provoke tliee to walk, in thy measure, ac- 
 ' cording to the benefit bestowed on thee. Of old 
 ' the sacrifices were bound with cords to the horns 
 ' of the golden altar. Consider what is said to 
 ' thee, O my blessed Mansoul. 
 
 ' O my Mansoul, I have lived, I have died ; I 
 ' live, and will ^'le no more for thee ; I live, that 
 'thou mayest not die. Because I live, thou shalt 
 ' live also. . I reconciled thee to my Father by the 
 ' blood of my cross, and being reconciled thou shalt 
 '^ live through me. I will pray for thee, I will fight 
 
 * for tliee, I will yet-do ^i-.r»c s:obd. 
 
 * Now Joihua was clothed with filthy garments, and stood be» 
 fore thi? angel.. And he answered, and spake unto those that stood 
 before hirti, saying, Take away the filthy garments from him. And 
 itntd him he sard, Behold, I have caused thine iniquity to pass from 
 thee, and I will cloths thee with change of raiment. Zech. iii. 3, 41 
 
 t And others save with fear, pulling them out of the fire ; hating 
 even the ganneat spotted by the flesh Jude 23 
 
HOLY WAR. 381 
 
 AV aichfiilness rcconiiiicnilcd. 
 
 ' Nofhing can hurt thee -but sin, nothing can 
 ' grieve iiie but sin ; noihini^ can make tlice base 
 
 * bctbre ihy foos bii«t sin : take heed of sin^ my 
 f Mansoul. 
 
 ' And dost tliou know why I at first, and do still 
 
 * gufier DiABOLONiANS to dwell within thy walls, 
 ' O Mansoll ? It is to keep thee waiting, to try 
 ' thy love, to make thee watchful, and to cause thee 
 'yet to prize my noble cnptainSj their soldiers^ and 
 ' mv mercv. 
 
 ' It is also that thou mayest be made to rcmem- 
 ' her what a deplorable condition thou once wast in, 
 ' I mean when^ not some, but all did dwell, not in 
 ' (by \vall_, but in thy castle, and in thy strong-hold, 
 'O Mansoul. ' ' . ' ' 
 
 ' O my Mansoul, should I slay all them within, 
 ' masiy there be without that would bring thee into 
 ' bondage ; for were all these within cut oflf, those 
 ' without would find thee sleeping, and then as in a 
 ' moment they would swallow up my Mansoul. I 
 ' tlu refore left them in thee, not to do thee hurt 
 ' (the which they yet will, if thou hearken to them, 
 ' and serve them,) but to do thee ^ood, the which 
 ' they must, if thou watch and fight against them. 
 ' Know thei'efore, that whatever they shall tempt 
 * thee to, my design is, that they should drive thee, 
 ' not further off, but nearer to my Father, to learn 
 ' thee war, to make petitioning desirable to thee, 
 ' and to make th.ee little in thine own eyes. Ilear- 
 ' ken diligently to this^ my M.^nsoul. 
 
 ' Shew me then thy love, my Maxsoul, and Xci 
 
383 HOLY WAR. 
 
 Exhortation;;. 
 
 * not those that are within thy walls, take thy af- 
 
 * fections off from him that hath redeemed th"y soul. 
 
 * Yea, let the sight of a Diabolonian heighten 
 
 * thy love to me I came once and twice, and 
 ' thrice, to save thee from the poison of those ar- 
 
 * rows that would have wrought thy death ; stand 
 
 * for me, my friend, my Mansoul, against the 
 
 * DiABOLONiANSj and I will stand for thee hefore 
 
 * my Father, and all his court. Love me against 
 ' temptation ; and I will love thee, notwithstanding 
 
 * thine infirmitie^. 
 
 ' O my Mansoul, remember what my captains^ 
 
 * my soldiers, and mine engines have done for thee. 
 
 * They have fought for thee, they have borne much 
 ' at thy hand to do thee good, O Mansoul. 
 ' Hadst thou not had them to help thee, Diabolus 
 ' bad certainly made a hand of thee. Nourish 
 ' them therefore my Mansoul. Wheri thou 
 ' dost well they will be well ; whpn thou dost 
 ' ill, they will he ill, and sick and weak. Make 
 ' not my captains sick, O Mansoul ; for if they 
 ' be sick, thou canst not be well ; if they be weak, 
 
 * thou canst not be strong ; if they be faint, thou 
 ' canst not be stout and valiant for thy King O 
 ' Mansoul. Nor must thou think always to live 
 
 * by sense, thou must live upon my word. Thou 
 ' must believe, O my Mansoul, when I am for 
 
 * thee, that yet I love and bear thee upon mine heart 
 
 * for ever. 
 
 ' Remember^ therefore, O my Mansoul, that 
 ' thou art beloved of me ; as I have therefore taught 
 
HOLY WAR. 38S 
 
 Conclusion. 
 
 ' thee to watch, to fight, to pray, and to make war 
 ' against ray foes, so now I command thee to believe 
 ' that ray love is constant to thee, O my Mansoul, 
 ' now have I set my heart and love upon thee, 
 ' watch : " Behold I lay none other burden upon 
 " thee than what thou hast already, hold fast till 
 *' I come. "•Rev. ii. 24. 
 
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