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was; and a man that the giant Diabolus and his band more feared than they feared the whole town of Mansoul besides.[15] Now who should be the actor to do the murder, that was the next, and they appointed one Tisiphone, a fury of the lake, to do it. They thus having ended their council of war, rose up, and essayed to do as they had determined. They marched towards Mansoul, but all in a manner invisible, save one, only one; nor did he approach the town in his own likeness, but under the shape and in the body of the dragon.[16] So they drew up, and sat down before Eargate, for that was the place of hearing for all without the town, as Eye-gate was the place of perspection. So, as I said, he came up with his train to the gate, and laid his ambuscado for Captain Resistance within bow-shot of the town. This done, the giant ascended up close to the gate, and called to the town of Mansoul for audience. Nor took he any with him, but one All-pause,[17] who was his orator in all difficult matters. Now, as I said, he being come up to the gate, as the manner of those times was, sounded his trumpet for audience. At which the chief of the town of Mansoul, such as my Lord Innocent, my Lord Willbewill,[18] my Lord Mayor, Mr. Recorder,[19] and Captain Resistance came down to the wall to see who was there, and what was the matter. And my Lord Will-be-will, when he had looked over and saw who stood at the gate, demanded what he was, wherefore he was come, and why he roused the town of Mansoul with so unusual a sound. DIAB. Diabolus then, as if he had been a lamb, began his oration, and said; Gentlemen of the famous town of Mansoul, I am, as you may perceive, no far dweller from you, but near, and one that is bound by the King to do you my homage, and what service I can; wherefore, that I may be faithful to myself, and to you, I have somewhat of concern to impart unto you. Wherefore grant me your audience, and hear me patiently. And, first, I will assure you, it is not myself, but you; not mine, but your advantage that I 15
seek, by what I now do, as will full well be made manifest by that I have opened my mind unto you. For, gentlemen, I am, to tell you the truth, come to show you how you may obtain great and ample deliverance from a bondage that, unawares to yourselves, you are captivated and enslaved under. At this the town of Mansoul began to prick up its ears, and what is it, pray, what is it, thought they; and he said, I have somewhat to say to you concerning your King, concerning his law, and also touching yourselves. Touching your King, I know he is great and potent, but yet all that he hath said to you is neither true, nor yet for your advantage. 1. It is not true, for that wherewith he hath hitherto awed you shall not come to pass, nor be fulfilled, though you do the thing that he hath forbidden. But if there was danger, what a slavery is it to live always in fear of the greatest of punishments, for doing so small and trivial a thing as eating of a little fruit is? 2. Touching his laws, this I say further, they are both unreasonable, intricate, and intolerable. Unreasonable, as was hinted before, for that the punishment is not proportioned to the offence. There is great difference and disproportion betwixt the life and an apple; yet the one must go for the other, by the law of your Shaddai. But it is also intricate, in that he saith, first, you may eat of all; and yet after, forbids the eating of one. And then, in the last place, it must needs be intolerable, forasmuch as that fruit which you are forbidden to eat of, if you are forbidden any, is that, and that alone, which is able, by your eating, to minister to you a good as yet unknown by you. This is manifest by the very name of the tree; it is called the tree of knowledge of good and evil; and have you that knowledge as yet? No, no, nor can you conceive how good, how pleasant, and how much to be desired to make one wise it is, so long as you stand by your King's commandment. Why should you be holden in ignorance and blindness? Why should you not be enlarged in knowledge and understanding? And now, ah! ye inhabitants of the famous town of Mansoul, to speak more particularly to yourselves, you are not a free people! You are kept both in bondage and slavery, and that by a grievous threat; no reason being annexed but, so I will have it, so it shall be. And is it not grievous to think on, that that very thing that you are forbidden to do, 16
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Page 3 and 4: Touching the town of Mansoul and he
Page 5 and 6: In chains of great contempt quite t
Page 7 and 8: And kept thee from the sunshine wit
Page 9 and 10: Chapter 1 A Relation of the Holy Wa
Page 11 and 12: which to go, and these were made li
Page 13 and 14: for himself.[9] So when they had fo
Page 15: his coming to Mansoul, or no. This
Page 19 and 20: you are not the men that I took you
Page 21 and 22: world, 'The morning stars sang toge
Page 23 and 24: the offence of one, judgment came u
Page 25 and 26: was Mr. Conscience, those he puts o
Page 27 and 28: Wherefore, sometimes, when Mansoul
Page 29 and 30: So he sent for him, and talked with
Page 31 and 32: commanded to be defaced, and it was
Page 33 and 34: There was also an election of commo
Page 35 and 36: 9. The will is a Lord, a person of
Page 37 and 38: Chapter 3 Information of the revolu
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Page 41 and 42: traitors, and that Mansoul must be
Page 43 and 44: Shaddai was raising of an army, to
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Page 47 and 48: ever things should rise so high as
Page 49 and 50: e extended to impenitent, unawakene
Page 51 and 52: ten thousand men. His ensign was Mr
Page 53 and 54: Judgment made up the main body, and
Page 55 and 56: well, now it is as I would have it;
Page 57 and 58: you, and to bring you under by forc
Page 59 and 60: and for an escutcheon, he had the b
Page 61 and 62: that would rejoice to see thee live
Page 63 and 64: come we will not know, and what you
Page 65 and 66: threatening of the new covenant. Re
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16. Godly ministers cannot be too c
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slings, and two or three battering-
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eat down the roof of the Lord Mayor
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I told you but now that they of the
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stumbling-block of your iniquity be
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passed, the old Lord Mayor that was
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of war had now ceased about the tow
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Notes: 1. As our Lord began with Ni
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18. See Grace Abounding, No. 46. 'I
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love thy sinful, sinful simplicity,
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'Second. This done, I advise that,
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thyself for the war, for thou shalt
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scutcheon he had three naked orphan
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first place he hangs out the white
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the Son of the great Shaddai! Where
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and undone this place, but, by thy
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commanded not to give him audience,
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5. This is exemplified in Bunyan's
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sheltered.--Ed. 20. This reference
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Then said Emmanuel, 'The whole is m
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thereby to call to remembrance the
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And first for Captain Boanerges, no
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When Diabolus saw the white flag ha
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'Besides, I am not come to put Mans
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there, therefore, the Prince abode,
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Recorder, Captain Execution was as
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6. 'The serpents that bit the peopl
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the soul, old Ill-pause, with his t
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marched up the town with his standa
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led captivity captive; he hath spoi
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of our town, but spare us according
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sees him must both love and fear hi
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do it that went with the first; but
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Then said the Prince, 'And what is
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the Prince to Mansoul; so they went
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up their eyes to heaven. Thus they
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ears. Now the prisoners, when they
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the gospel, to remain in terror and
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will be purified and polished; whil
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Chapter 9 The liberated prisoners r
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common custom of princes? do they u
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When this action was over, the whol
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Ed. serviceable to thy Majesty.'[9]
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Goodhope should quarter at my Lord
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And thus he dismissed the town of M
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comparison with 'an eternal weight
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nuts (I will not call them cheaters
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were the prisoners brought down, pi
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CLERK. Have you much knowledge of h
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CLERK. But what do you know of his
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Then said Forget-good, Gentlemen, a
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whomever I wrong, to me it is music
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SEARCH. My Lord, I know, and have k
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CLERK. Where did you hear him say t
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Neat, Mr. Handsome, or the like, an
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as these are cast out of Mansoul, w
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should they meet one another but ju
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Lord Hategood, with the jury who tr
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Prayer brings the aid of the Holy S
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So with one consent they bowed the
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manner of Diabolonians, that at any
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Nor can any, as he, tell Mansoul ho
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my conduit* doth always run wine. T
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to do--and will do also when well a
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cause to be put to death by the cro
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white, for, if they be soiled, it i
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open to him, as commonly they would
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i.e., furnished with written eviden
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15. How needful a caution is this,
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the head or tail of it; but to be s
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them, yet they neglected to come at
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thereto. But a word to the natives
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the day for my part. Nor can I answ
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About this time also there was a gr
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visit me, since in their prosperity
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Notes: 1. Carnal security, or comfo
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-Mason. 'I could, for whole days to
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Chapter 13 The Diabolonians take co
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'Given under our hands the day and
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thereof; to wit, whether by persuas
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further offended with them, but in
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'Touching the encouragement that yo
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captains and the inhabitants of the
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soul like this; this is probatum es
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should be sent out from us to withs
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ecause highly-esteemed letter, at t
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Lord Apollyon, my Lord Legion, with
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she had offended her Prince, and he
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10. By a market-day is meant any ti
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a case! Eleven thousand acts of pie
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Mr. Prywell's news the argument the
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for their faults, but that should m
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according to the agreement of the c
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(Jer 5:16, 2:25).[11] 9. The ninth
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When Diabolus had thus done, he com
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condition to him. But to this he to
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When Diabolus saw that his captains
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affinity with thee; would not our P
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Now this Christian act of the brave
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Of these were wounded, to wit, My L
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4. To besiege or environ with troop
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21. 'Words,' or texts of Holy Writ.
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Chapter 15 The inhabitants of Manso
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But the valiant Lord Mayor replied
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standardbearers were to display the
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Now a man might have walked for day
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arms were. So they heartily thanked
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'Our wisdom is gone, our power is g
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prevailers and prosper in this desi
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The fourth note came out for Mr. Go
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and told his news to the townsfolk.
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a soul where distressing doubts pre
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Chapter 16 A new plot is laid to ru
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know Mansoul is a market-town; and
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whether this their project will tak
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show himself in the field to his se
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hasted with that celerity towards t
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Fourthly, When the Prince was come
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After things were thus far put into
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contains many divisions called hund
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Chapter 17 A new army of Bloodmen N
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their captains were, Captain Cain,
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efore Eye-gate and Eargate. Now whe
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So, at the time appointed, betimes
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for our Lord the King, where he him
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And if he lighteth upon you, down y
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Diabolonian by nature, and also a h
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men into your house, and that you d
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heavenly grace to desire to have co
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invaluable guards to support us in
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comfortable doctrine, exciting to o
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sequestered to the use of the Princ
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appointed was come, and the townsme
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thee as in former days, but I will
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and make thyself by my law straight
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will be well; when thou dost ill, t
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eradicate the love, and destroy the
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