The Holy War, Made by King Shaddai Upon Diabolus, for the Regaining of the Metropolis of the World; Or, The Losing and Taking Again of the Town of MansoulBunyan, John
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The Holy War, Made by King Shaddai Upon Diabolus, for the Regaining of the Metropolis of the World; Or, The Losing and Taking Again of the Town of Mansoul
Bunyan, John
Christian fiction; Soul; Spiritual warfare -- Fiction
_Search_. My lord, I know and have known this man from a child, and can
attest that his name is False-Peace. I know his father; his name was Mr.
Flatter: and his mother, before she was married, was called by the name
of Mrs. Sooth-Up: and these two, when they came together, lived not long
without this son; and when he was born, they called his name False-Peace.
I was his play-fellow, only I was somewhat older than he; and when his
mother did use to call him home from his play, she used to say,
‘False-Peace, False-Peace, come home quick, or I’ll fetch you.’ Yea, I
knew him when he sucked; and though I was then but little, yet I can
remember that when his mother did use to sit at the door with him, or did
play with him in her arms, she would call him, twenty times together, ‘My
little False-Peace! my pretty False-Peace!’ and, ‘Oh! my sweet rogue,
False-Peace!’ and again, ‘Oh! 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 he 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. Flatter, and of
Mrs. Sooth-Up, his mother: and I have in former times seen him angry with
those that have called him anything else but False-Peace, for he would
say that all such did mock and nickname him; but this was in the time
when Mr. False-Peace was a great man, and when the Diabolonians were the
brave men in Mansoul.
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