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
So, at the time appointed he makes his approach to Mansoul, and the gates
were set open for him; there also the ancients and elders of Mansoul met
him to salute him with a thousand welcomes. Then he arose and entered
Mansoul, he and all his servants. The elders of Mansoul did also go
dancing before him till he came to the castle gates. And this was the
manner of his going up thither:—He was clad in his golden armour, he rode
in his royal chariot, the trumpets sounded about him, the colours were
displayed, his ten thousands went up at his feet, and the elders of
Mansoul danced before him. And now were the walls of the famous town of
Mansoul filled with the tramplings of the inhabitants thereof, who went
up thither to view the approach of the blessed Prince and his royal army.
Also the casements, windows, balconies, and tops of the houses, were all
now filled with persons of all sorts, to behold how their town was to be
filled with good.
Now, when he was come so far into the town as to the Recorder’s house, he
commanded that one should go to Captain Credence, to know whether the
castle of Mansoul was prepared to entertain his royal presence (for the
preparation of that was left to that captain), and word was brought that
it was. Then was Captain Credence commanded also to come forth with his
power to meet the Prince, the which was, as he had commanded, done; and
he conducted him into the castle. This done, the Prince that night did
lodge in the castle with his mighty captains and men of war, to the joy
of the town of Mansoul.
Now, the next care of the townsfolk was, how the captains and soldiers of
the Prince’s army should be quartered among them; and the care was not
how they should shut their hands of them, but how they should fill their
houses with them; for every man in Mansoul now had that esteem of
Emmanuel and his men that nothing grieved them more than because they
were not enlarged enough, every one of them to receive the whole army of
the Prince; yea, they counted it their glory to be waiting upon them, and
would, in those days, run at their bidding like lackeys.
At last they came to this result:—
1. That Captain Innocency should quarter at Mr. Reason’s.
2. That Captain Patience should quarter at Mr. Mind’s. This Mr. Mind was
formerly the Lord Willbewill’s clerk in time of the late rebellion.
3. It was ordered that Captain Charity should quarter at Mr. Affection’s
house.
4. That Captain Good-Hope should quarter at my Lord Mayor’s. Now, for
the house of the Recorder, himself desired, because his house was next to
the castle, and because from him it was ordered by the Prince that, if
need be, the alarm should be given to Mansoul,—it was, I say, desired by
him that Captain Boanerges and Captain Conviction should take up their
quarters with him, even they and all their men.
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