The Holy War – John Bunyan

might instruct them in the things that did concern their present and future
state.[5]
For, said he, you of yourselves, without you have teachers and guides,
will not be able to know, and if not to know, to be sure, not to do the will of
my Father (Jer 10:23; 1 Cor 2:14).
At this news, when the elders of Mansoul brought it to the people, the
whole town came running together, for it pleased them well, as whatever the
Prince now did pleased the people, and all with one consent implored his
Majesty, that he would forthwith establish such a ministry among them as
might teach them both law and judgment, statute and commandment, that
they might be documented[6] in all good and wholesome things. So he told
them that he would grant them their requests, and would establish two
among them, one that was of his Father's court, and one that was a native of
Mansoul.
He that is from the court, said he, is a person of no less quality and
dignity than is my Father and I, and he is the Lord Chief Secretary of my
Father's house; for he is, and always has been, the chief dictator of all my
Father's laws; a person altogether well skilled in all mysteries, and
knowledge of mysteries, as is my Father, or as myself is. Indeed, he is one
with us in nature, and also as to loving of, and being faithful to, and in, the
eternal concerns of the town of Mansoul.
And this is he, said the Prince, that must be your chief teacher, for it is
he, and he only, that can teach you clearly in all high and supernatural things
(1 Thess 1:5,6). He and he only it is that knows the ways and methods of my
Father at court, nor can any like him show how the heart of my Father is at
all times, in all things, upon all occasions, towards Mansoul; for as no man
knows the things of a man, but that spirit of a man which is in him, so the
things of my Father knows no man but this his high and mighty Secretary.
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