The Holy War – John Bunyan

Lord Hategood, with the jury who tried Faithful--Blindman, Nogood,
Malice, Lovelust, Liveloose, Heady, Highmind, Enmity, Liar, Cruelty,
Hatelight, and Implacable.--Ed.
3. Christian, is it possible that thoughts so desperately wicked were ever
injected by Satan into your heart? How thankful will you be to have
them tried and destroyed; see Grace Abounding, No. 101.--Ed.
4. The sinner is not satisfied with his own destruction, but is ever leading
others into the same awful state; sin is a spreading plague, the
unconverted heart is a mystery of iniquity.--Ed.
5. See the woeful end of such, in Romans 2:5; Jeremiah 6:14.--Mason.
6. The gossips at a christening reminds me of a singular circumstance that
took place at the christening of a friend's child about forty years ago.
Our host rapped hard on the table, and said, 'Ladies and Gentlemen, I
hear some talking politics, and some religion; I beg you to recollect that
we have nothing now to do with politics or religion, but are at a
christening, so fill your glasses.'--Ed.
7. 'There is no peace, saith my God, to the wicked' (Isa 57:21). Till
convinced of sin, and Christ becomes the sinner's friend, there is no
peace, no mercy, no hope, no heaven.--Mason. Alas! how many slumber
into hell, under the misguiding influence of false peace.--Ed.
8. A similar circumstance, in the trial of Faithful, took place in the
examination of the witness Envy, who commenced his testimony
without being sworn, probably arising from what Bunyan had seen at the
assizes.--Ed.
9. 'With names of virtue she deceives The aged and the young; And while
the heedless wretch believes, She makes his fetters strong.'
10. Bonnets or caps were commonly worn by men. 'To vail the bonnet' was
to take it off and bow, cap in hand--equivalent to taking off the hat and
bowing at the present day. 'As for vailing bonnet before great rulers.'--
Holland's Pliny, b. xxviii.--Ed.
11. There is in the renewed soul a sincere detestation of all sin. As the jury
were unanimous in their verdict, so all read Christians will most
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