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
Thus they buried in the plains about Mansoul the election doubters, the
vocation doubters, the grace doubters, the perseverance doubters, the
resurrection doubters, the salvation doubters, and the glory doubters;
whose captains were Captain Rage, Captain Cruel, Captain Damnation,
Captain Insatiable, Captain Brimstone, Captain Torment, Captain No-Ease,
Captain Sepulchre, and Captain Past-Hope; and old Incredulity was, under
Diabolus, their general. There were also the seven heads of their army;
and they were the Lord Beelzebub, the Lord Lucifer, the Lord Legion, the
Lord Apollyon, the Lord Python, the Lord Cerberus, and the Lord Belial.
But the princes and the captains, with old Incredulity, their general,
did all of them make their escape: so their men fell down slain by the
power of the Prince’s forces, and by the hands of the men of the town of
Mansoul. They also were buried as is afore related, to the exceeding
great joy of the now famous town of Mansoul. They that buried them
buried also with them their arms, which were cruel instruments of death:
(their weapons were arrows, darts, mauls, firebrands, and the like).
They buried also their armour, their colours, banners, with the standard
of Diabolus, and what else soever they could find that did but smell of a
Diabolonian doubter.
Now when the tyrant had arrived at Hell-Gate Hill, with his old friend
Incredulity, they immediately descended the den, and having there with
their fellows for a while condoled their misfortune and great loss that
they sustained against the town of Mansoul, they fell at length into a
passion, and revenged they would be for the loss that they sustained
before the town of Mansoul. Wherefore they presently call a council to
contrive yet further what was to be done against the famous town of
Mansoul; for their yawning paunches could not wait to see the result of
their Lord Lucifer’s and their Lord Apollyon’s counsel that they had
given before; for their raging gorge thought every 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 delicates of Mansoul. They therefore
resolve to make another attempt upon the town of Mansoul, and that by an
army mixed and made up partly of doubters, and partly of blood-men. A
more particular account now take of both.
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