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
Then the grace doubter was 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 him to believe, and believe it 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: 1. Negatively,
“not of works:” 2. Positively, “by grace you are saved.” 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 as thou hast
done, thou hast robbed God of His glory, and given it to a sinful man;
thou hast robbed Christ of the necessity of His undertaking, and the
sufficiency thereof, and hast given both these to the works of the flesh.
Thou hast despised the work of the Holy Ghost, and hast magnified the
will of the flesh, and of the legal mind. Thou art a Diabolonian, the
son of a Diabolonian; and for thy Diabolonian 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 have been here indicted, and proved guilty of high crimes
against Emmanuel our Prince, and against the welfare of the famous town
of Mansoul, crimes for which you 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 where Diabolus drew up his
last army against Mansoul; save only that old Evil-Questioning 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 troublers of their peace, in the next place a strict
commandment was given out, that yet my Lord Willbewill should, with
Diligence his man, search for, and do his best to apprehend what town
Diabolonians were yet left alive in Mansoul. The names of several of
them were, Mr. Fooling, Mr. Let-Good-Slip, Mr. Slavish-Fear, Mr. No-Love,
Mr. Mistrust, Mr. Flesh, and Mr. Sloth. It was also commanded, that he
should apprehend Mr. Evil-Questioning’s children, that he left behind
him, and that they should demolish his house. The children that he left
behind him were these: Mr. Doubt, and he was his eldest son; the next to
him was Legal-Life, Unbelief, Wrong-Thoughts-of-Christ, Clip-Promise,
Carnal-Sense, Live-by-Feeling, Self-Love. All these he had by one wife,
and her name was No-Hope; she was the kinswoman 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 marriageable, he gave her to this
old Evil-Questioning to wife.
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