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
_Know_. My lord, his name is Pitiless; so he hath written himself in all
papers of concern wherein he has had to do. But these Diabolonians love
to counterfeit their names: Mr. Covetousness covers himself with the name
of Good-Husbandry, or the like; Mr. Pride can, when need is, call himself
Mr. Neat, Mr. Handsome, or the like; and so of all the rest of them.
_Clerk_. Mr. Tell-True, what say you?
_Tell_. His name is Pitiless, my lord. I have known him from a child,
and he hath done all that wickedness whereof he stands charged in the
indictment; but there is a company of them that are not acquainted with
the danger of damning, therefore they call all those melancholy that have
serious thoughts how that state should be shunned by them.
_Clerk_. Set Mr. Haughty to the bar, gaoler. Mr. Haughty, thou art here
indicted by the name of Haughty, (an intruder upon the town of Mansoul,)
for that thou didst most traitorously and devilishly teach the town of
Mansoul to carry it loftily and stoutly against the summons that was
given them by the captains of the King Shaddai. Thou didst also teach
the town of Mansoul to speak contemptuously and vilifyingly of their
great King Shaddai; and didst moreover encourage, both by words and
examples, Mansoul, to take up arms both against the King and his son
Emmanuel. How sayest 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 or 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
adversaries seemed to have ten times the advantage 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 to me if I carried it bravely, fought like a man,
and came off a victor.
_Court_. Mr. Haughty, you are not here indicted for that you have been a
valiant man, nor for your courage and stoutness in times of distress, but
for that you have made use of this your pretended valour to draw the town
of Mansoul into acts of rebellion both against the great King, and
Emmanuel his Son. This is the crime and the thing wherewith thou art
charged in and by the indictment.
But he made no answer to that.
Now when the Court had thus far proceeded against the prisoners at the
bar, then they put them over to the verdict of their jury, to whom they
did apply themselves after this manner:
‘Gentlemen of the jury, you have been here, and have seen these men; you
have heard their indictments, their pleas, and what the witnesses have
testified against them: now what remains, is, that you do 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 so bring it in accordingly.’
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