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
In this engagement several of the officers of Diabolus were slain, and
some of the townsmen wounded. For the officers, there was one Captain
Boasting slain. This Boasting thought that nobody could have shaken the
posts of Ear-gate, nor have shaken the heart of Diabolus. Next to him
there was one Captain Secure slain: this Secure used to say that the
blind and lame in Mansoul were able to keep the gates of the town against
Emmanuel’s army. This Captain Secure did Captain Conviction cleave down
the head with a two-handed sword, when he received himself three wounds
in his mouth.
Besides these there was one Captain Bragman, 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 breast.
There was, moreover, one Mr. Feeling; but he was no captain, but a great
stickler to encourage Mansoul to rebellion. He received a wound in the
eye by the hand of one of Boanerges’ soldiers, and had by the captain
himself been slain, but that he made a sudden retreat.
But I never saw Willbewill so daunted in all my life; he was not able to
do as he was wont, and some say that he also received a wound in the leg,
and that some of the men in the Prince’s army have certainly seen him
limp as he afterwards walked on the wall.
I shall not give you a particular account of the names of the soldiers
that were slain in the town, for many were maimed, and wounded, and
slain; for when they saw that the posts of Ear-gate did shake, and
Eye-gate was well-nigh broken quite open, and also that their captains
were slain, this took away the hearts of many of the Diabolonians; they
fell also by the force of the shot that were sent by the golden slings
into the midst of the town of Mansoul.
Of the townsmen, there was one Love-no-Good; he was a townsman, but a
Diabolonian; he also received his mortal wound in Mansoul, but he died
not very soon.
Mr. Ill-Pause also, who was the man that came along with Diabolus when at
first he attempted the taking of Mansoul, he also received a grievous
wound in the head; some say that his brain-pan was cracked. This I have
taken notice of, that he was never after this able to do that mischief to
Mansoul as he had done in times past. Also old Prejudice and Mr.
Anything fled.
Now, when the battle was over, the Prince commanded that yet once more
the white flag should be set upon Mount Gracious in sight of the town of
Mansoul, to show that yet Emmanuel had grace for the wretched town of
Mansoul.
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