The Holy War – John Bunyan

When the Prince had sent home the three prisoners of Mansoul with joy,
and pipe, and tabor; he commanded his captains, with all the fieldofficers
and soldiers throughout his army, to be ready in that morning that the
Recorder should read the pardon in Mansoul, to do his further pleasure. So
the morning, as I have showed, being come, just as the Recorder had made
an end of reading the pardon, Emmanuel commanded that all the trumpets in
the camp should sound, that the colours should be displayed, half of them
upon Mount Gracious, and half of them upon Mount Justice.[5] He
commanded also that all the captains should show themselves in all their
harness, and that the soldiers should shout for joy. Nor was Captain
Credence, though in the castle, silent in such a day, but he, from the top of
the hold, showed himself with sound of trumpet to Mansoul, and to the
Prince's camp.
Thus have I showed you the manner and way that Emmanuel took to
recover the town of Mansoul from under the hand and power of the tyrant
Diabolus.
Now when the Prince had completed these, the outward ceremonies of
his joy, he again commanded that his captains and soldiers should show unto
Mansoul some feats of war. So they presently addressed themselves to this
work. But oh, with what agility, nimbleness, dexterity, and bravery did these
military men discover their skill in feats of war to the now gazing town of
Mansoul!
They marched, they counter-marched, they opened to the right and left,
they divided and subdivided, they closed, they wheeled, made good their
front and rear with their right and left wings, and twenty things more, with
that aptness, and then were all as they were again, that they took, yea,
ravished the hearts that were in Mansoul to behold it. But add to this, the
handling of their arms, the managing of their weapons of war, were
marvellous taking to Mansoul and me.[6]
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