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J >> John Bunyan >> The Holy War




Now the Lord Willbewill did put into execution his commission, with
great Diligence, his man. He took Fooling in the streets, and
hanged him up in Want-wit-Alley, over against his own house. This
Fooling was he that would have had the town of Mansoul deliver up
Captain Credence into the hands of Diabolus, provided that then he
would have withdrawn his force out of the town. He also took Mr.
Let-Good-Slip one day as he was busy in the market, and executed
him according to law. Now there was an honest poor man in Mansoul,
and his name was Mr. Meditation, one of no great account in the
days of apostasy, but now of repute with the best of the town.
This man, therefore, they were willing to prefer. Now Mr. Let-
Good-Slip had a great deal of wealth heretofore in Mansoul, and, at
Emmanuel's coming, it was sequestered to the use of the Prince:
this, therefore, was now given to Mr. Meditation, to improve for
the common good, and after him to his son, Mr. Think-Well; this
Think-Well he had by Mrs. Piety his wife, and she was the daughter
of Mr. Recorder.

After this, my lord apprehended Clip-Promise: now because he was a
notorious villain, for by his doings much of the King's coin was
abused, therefore he was made a public example. He was arraigned
and judged to be first set in the pillory, then to be whipped by
all the children and servants in Mansoul, and then to be hanged
till he was dead. Some may wonder at the severity of this man's
punishment; but those that are honest traders in Mansoul, are
sensible of the great abuse that one clipper of promises in little
time may do to the town of Mansoul. And truly my judgment is, that
all those of his name and life should be served even as he.

He also apprehended Carnal-Sense, and put him in hold; but how it
came about, I cannot tell, but he brake prison, and made his
escape: yea, and the bold villain will not yet quit the town, but
lurks in the Diabolonian dens a days, and haunts like a ghost
honest men's houses a nights. Wherefore, there was a proclamation
set up in the market-place in Mansoul, signifying that whosoever
could discover Carnal-Sense, and apprehend him and slay him, should
be admitted daily to the Prince's table, and should be made keeper
of the treasure of Mansoul. Many, therefore, did bend themselves
to do this thing, but take him and slay him they could not, though
often he was discovered.

But my lord took Mr. Wrong-Thoughts-of-Christ, and put him in
prison, and he died there; though it was long first, for he died of
a lingering consumption.

Self-Love was also taken and committed to custody; but there were
many that were allied to him in Mansoul, so his judgment was
deferred. But at last Mr. Self-Denial stood up, and said: 'If
such villains as these may be winked at in Mansoul, I will lay down
my commission.' He also took him from the crowd, and had him among
his soldiers, and there he was brained. But some in Mansoul
muttered at it, though none durst speak plainly, because Emmanuel
was in town. But this brave act of Captain Self-Denial came to the
Prince's ears; so he sent for him, and made him a lord in Mansoul.
My Lord Willbewill also obtained great commendations of Emmanuel,
for what he had done for the town of Mansoul.

Then my Lord Self-Denial took courage, and set to the pursuing of
the Diabolonians, with my Lord Willbewill; and they took Live-by-
Feeling, and they took Legal-Life, and put them in hold till they
died. But Mr. Unbelief was a nimble Jack: him they could never
lay hold of, though they attempted to do it often. He therefore,
and some few more of the subtlest of the Diabolonian tribe, did yet
remain in Mansoul, to the time that Mansoul left off to dwell any
longer in the kingdom of Universe. But they kept them to their
dens and holes: if one of them did appear, or happen to be seen in
any of the streets of the town of Mansoul, the whole town would be
up in arms after them; yea, the very children in Mansoul would cry
out after them as after a thief, and would wish that they might
stone them to death with stones. And now did Mansoul arrive to
some good degree of peace and quiet; her Prince also did abide
within her borders; her captains, also, and her soldiers did their
duties; and Mansoul minded her trade that she had with the country
that was afar off; also she was busy in her manufacture.

When the town of Mansoul had thus far rid themselves of so many of
their enemies, and the troublers of their peace, the Prince sent to
them, and appointed a day wherein he would, at the market-place,
meet the whole people, and there give them in charge concerning
some further matters, that, if observed, would tend to their
further safety and comfort, and to the condemnation and destruction
of their home-bred Diabolonians. So the day appointed was come,
and the townsmen met together; Emmanuel also came down in his
chariot, and all his captains in their state attending him, on the
right hand and on the left. Then was an oyes made for silence,
and, after some mutual carriages of love, the Prince began, and
thus proceeded:-

'You, my Mansoul, and the beloved of mine heart, many and great are
the privileges that I have bestowed upon you; I have singled you
out from others, and have chosen you to myself, not for your
worthiness, but for mine own sake. I have also redeemed you, not
only from the dread of my Father's law, but from the hand of
Diabolus. This I have done because I loved you, and because I have
set my heart upon you to do you good. I have also, that all
things, that might hinder thy way to the pleasures of paradise
might be taken out of the way, laid down for thee for thy soul a
plenary satisfaction, and have bought thee to myself; a price not
of corruptible things, as of silver and gold, but a price of blood,
mine own blood, which I have freely spilled upon the ground to make
thee mine. So I have reconciled thee, O my Mansoul, to my Father,
and entrusted thee in the mansion houses that are with my Father in
the royal city, where things are, O my Mansoul, that eye hath not
seen, nor hath entered into the heart of man to conceive.

'Besides, O my Mansoul, thou seest what I have done, and how I have
taken thee out of the hands of thine enemies: unto whom thou hadst
deeply revolted from my Father, and by whom thou wast content to be
possessed, and also to be destroyed. I came to thee first by my
law, then by my gospel, to awaken thee, and show thee my glory.
And thou knowest what thou wast, what thou saidst, what thou didst,
and how many times thou rebelledst against my Father and me; yet I
left thee not as thou seest this day, but came to thee, have borne
thy manners, have waited upon thee, and, after all, accepted of
thee, even of my mere grace and favour; and would not suffer thee
to be lost, as thou most willingly wouldst have been. I also
compassed thee about, and afflicted thee on every side, that I
might make thee weary of thy ways, and bring down thy heart with
molestation to a willingness to close with thy good and happiness.
And when I had gotten a complete conquest over thee, I turned it to
thy advantage.

'Thou seest, also, what a company of my Father's host I have lodged
within thy borders: captains and rulers, soldiers and men of war,
engines and excellent devices to subdue and bring down thy foes;
thou knowest my meaning, O Mansoul. And they are my servants, and
thine, too, Mansoul. Yea, my design of possessing of thee with
them, and the natural tendency of each of them is to defend, purge,
strengthen, and sweeten thee for myself, O Mansoul, and to make
thee meet for my Father's presence, blessing, and glory; for thou,
my Mansoul, art created to be prepared unto these.

'Thou seest, moreover, my Mansoul, how I have passed by thy
backslidings, and have healed thee. Indeed I was angry with thee,
but I have turned mine anger away from thee, because I loved thee
still, and mine anger and mine indignation is ceased in the
destruction of thine enemies, O Mansoul. Nor did thy goodness
fetch me again unto thee, after that I for thy transgressions have
hid my face, and withdrawn my presence from thee. The way of
backsliding was thine, but the way and means of thy recovery was
mine. I invented the means of thy return; it was I that made an
hedge and a wall, when thou wast beginning to turn to things in
which I delighted not. It was I that made thy sweet bitter, thy
day night, thy smooth way thorny, and that also confounded all that
sought thy destruction. It was I that set Mr. Godly-Fear to work
in Mansoul. It was I that stirred up thy conscience and
understanding, thy will and thy affections, after thy great and
woful decay. It was I that put life into thee, O Mansoul, to seek
me, that thou mightest find me, and in thy finding find thine own
health, happiness, and salvation. It was I that fetched the second
time the Diabolonians out of Mansoul; and it was I that overcame
them, and that destroyed them before thy face.

'And now, my Mansoul, I am returned to thee in peace, and thy
transgressions against me are as if they had not been. Nor shall
it be with thee as in former days, but I will do better for thee
than at thy beginning.

For yet a little while, O my Mansoul, even after a few more times
are gone over thy head, I will (but be not thou troubled at what I
say) take down this famous town of Mansoul, stick and stone, to the
ground. And I will carry the stones thereof, and the timber
thereof, and the walls thereof, and the dust thereof, and the
inhabitants thereof, into mine own country, even into a kingdom of
my Father; and will there set it up in such strength and glory, as
it never did see in the kingdom where now it is placed. I will
even there set it up for my Father's habitation; for for that
purpose it was at first erected in the kingdom of Universe; and
there will I make it a spectacle of wonder, a monument of mercy,
and the admirer of its own mercy. There shall the natives of
Mansoul see all that, of which they have seen nothing here: there
shall they be equal to those unto whom they have been inferior
here. And there shalt thou, O my Mansoul, have such communion with
me, with my Father, and with your Lord Secretary, as it is not
possible here to be enjoyed, nor ever could be, shouldest thou live
in Universe the space of a thousand years.

'And there, O my Mansoul, thou shalt be afraid of murderers no
more; of Diabolonians, and their threats, no more. There, there
shall be no more plots, nor contrivances, nor designs against thee,
O my Mansoul. There thou shalt no more hear the evil-tidings, or
the noise of the Diabolonian drum. There thou shalt not see the
Diabolonian standard-bearers, nor yet behold Diabolus's standard.
No Diabolonian mount shall be cast up against thee there; nor shall
there the Diabolonian standard be set up to make thee afraid.
There thou shalt not need captains, engines, soldiers, and men of
war. There thou shalt meet with no sorrow, nor grief, nor shall it
be possible that any Diabolonian should again, for ever, be able to
creep into thy skirts, burrow in thy walls, or be seen again within
thy borders all the days of eternity. Life shall there last longer
than here you are able to desire it should; and yet it shall always
be sweet and new, nor shall any impediment attend it for ever.

'There, O Mansoul, thou shalt meet with many of those that have
been like thee, and that have been partakers of thy sorrows; even
such as I have chosen, and redeemed, and set apart, as thou, for my
Father's court and city-royal. All they will be glad in thee, and
thou, when thou seest them, shalt be glad in thine heart.

'There are things, O Mansoul, even things of my Father's providing,
and mine, that never were seen since the beginning of the world;
and they are laid up with my Father, and sealed up among his
treasures for thee, till thou shalt come thither to enjoy them. I
told you before, that I would remove my Mansoul, and set it up
elsewhere; and where I will set it, there are those that love thee,
and those that rejoice in thee now; but how much more, when they
shall see thee exalted to honour! My Father will then send them
for you to fetch you; and their bosoms are chariots to put you in.
And you, O my Mansoul, shall ride upon the wings of the wind. They
will come to convey, conduct, and bring you to that, when your eyes
see more, that will be your desired haven.

'And thus, O my Mansoul, I have showed unto thee what shall be done
to thee hereafter, if thou canst hear, if thou canst understand;
and now I will tell thee what at present must be thy duty and
practice, until I come and fetch thee to myself, according as is
related in the Scriptures of truth.

'First, I charge thee that thou dost hereafter keep more white and
clean the liveries which I gave thee before my last withdrawing
from thee. Do it, I say, for this will be thy wisdom. They are in
themselves fine linen, but thou must keep them white and clean.
This will be your wisdom, your honour, and will be greatly for my
glory. When your garments are white, the world will count you
mine. Also, when your garments are white, then I am delighted in
your ways; for then your goings to and fro will be like a flash of
lightning, that those that are present must take notice of; also
their eyes will be made to dazzle thereat. Deck thyself,
therefore, according to my bidding, and make thyself by my law
straight steps for thy feet; so shall thy King greatly desire thy
beauty, for he is thy Lord, and worship thou him.

'Now, that thou mayest keep them as I bid thee, I have, as I before
did tell thee, provided for thee an open fountain to wash thy
garments in. Look, therefore, that thou wash often in my fountain,
and go not in defiled garments; for as it is to my dishonour and my
disgrace, so it will be to thy discomfort, when you shall walk in
filthy garments. Let not, therefore, my garments, your garments,
the garments that I gave thee, be defiled or spotted by the flesh.
Keep thy garments always white, and let thy head lack no ointment.

'My Mansoul, I have ofttimes delivered thee from the designs,
plots, attempts, and conspiracies of Diabolus; and for all this I
ask thee nothing, but that thou render not to me evil for my good;
but that thou bear in mind my love, and the continuation of my
kindness to my beloved Mansoul, so as to provoke thee to walk in
thy measure according to the benefit bestowed on thee. Of old, the
sacrifices were bound with coords to the horns of the altar.
Consider what is said to thee, O my blessed Mansoul.

'O my Mansoul, I have lived, I have died, I live, and will die no
more for thee. I live, that thou mayest not die. Because I live,
thou shalt live also. I reconciled thee to my Father by the blood
of my cross; and being reconciled, thou shalt live through me. I
will pray for thee; I will fight for thee; I will yet do thee good.

'Nothing can hurt thee but sin; nothing can grieve me but sin;
nothing can make thee base before thy foes but sin: take heed of
sin, my Mansoul.

'And dost thou know why I at first, and do still, suffer
Diabolonians to dwell in thy walls, O Mansoul? It is to keep thee
wakening, to try thy love, to make thee watchful, and to cause thee
yet to prize my noble captains, their soldiers, and my mercy.

'It is also, that yet thou mayest be made to remember what a
deplorable condition thou once wast in. I mean when, not some, but
all did dwell, not in thy walls, but in thy castle, and in thy
stronghold, O Mansoul.

'O my Mansoul, should I slay all them within, many there be
without, that would bring thee into bondage; for were all these
within cut off, those without would find thee sleeping; and then,
as in a moment, they would swallow up my Mansoul. I therefore left
them in thee, not to do thee hurt (the which they yet will, if thou
hearken to them, and serve them,) but to do thee good, the which
they must, if thou watch and fight against them. Know, therefore,
that whatever they shall tempt thee to, my design is, that they
should drive thee, not further off, but nearer to my father, to
learn thee war, to make petitioning desirable to thee, and to make
thee little in thine own eyes. Hearken diligently to this, my
Mansoul.

'Show me, then, thy love, my Mansoul, and let not those that are
within thy walls, take thy affections off from him that hath
redeemed thy soul. Yea, let the sight of a Diabolonian heighten
thy love to me. I came once, and twice, and thrice, to save thee
from the poison of those arrows that would have wrought thy death:
stand for me, thy Friend, my Mansoul, against the Diabolonians, and
I will stand for thee before my Father, and all his court. Love me
against temptation, and I will love thee notwithstanding thine
infirmities.

'O my Mansoul, remember what my captains, my soldiers, and mine
engines have done for thee. They have fought for thee, they have
suffered by thee, they have borne much at thy hands to do thee
good, O Mansoul. Hadst thou not had them to help thee, Diabolus
had certainly made a hand of thee. Nourish them, therefore, my
Mansoul. When thou dost well, they will be well; when thou dost
ill, they will be ill, and sick, and weak. Make not my captains
sick, O Mansoul; for if they be sick, thou canst not be well; if
they be weak, thou canst not be strong; if they be faint, thou
canst not be stout and valiant for thy King, O Mansoul. Nor must
thou think always to live by sense: thou must live upon my word.
Thou must believe, O my Mansoul, when I am from thee, that yet I
love thee, and bear thee upon mine heart for ever.

'Remember, therefore, O my Mansoul, that thou art beloved of me:
as I have, therefore, taught thee to watch, to fight, to pray, and
to make war against my foes; so now I command thee to believe that
my love is constant to thee. O my Mansoul, how have I set my
heart, my love upon thee! Watch. Behold, I lay none other burden
upon thee, than what thou hast already. Hold fast, till I come.'