The Holy War – John Bunyan

9. The will is a Lord, a person of great importance, a governing faculty;
and there could be no sin till the will consented to the temptation. In
fallen man, it is not subject to the law of God, but obstinately opposed to
it, and therefore a fit deputy for the devil.--Burder.
10. The mind or judgment, whereby we distinguish between good and evil,
lawful and unlawful (2 Cor 3:14; Titus 1:15).--Mason. How awfully has
sin fettered man, and made him a slave.--Ed.
11. The unawakened sinner has no pleasure in the Holy Scriptures; they are
to him like old, rent, torn law parchments, which are written in a
language that he cannot understand, and he casts them away.--Ed.
12. What a progeny! but they are the genuine fruits of sin, which is of an
impudent, scornful, and revengeful nature; and they have made the soul
an enemy to justice, mercy, and truth.--Mason.
13. Relative severities are the duties we owe to God, to ourselves, and to
man, as public and private prayer, obedience and affection to parents
and relatives, and that duty so essential to our spirit's welfare--
'selfexamination.' These being neglected, the sinner becomes to every
good work reprobate.--Mason.
14. Satan would conceal or obliterate the sacred Scriptures, prevent the
practice of duty to God or to our neighbour, and make man merely
carnal and brutish. Awfully has he succeeded; so that man has become
that motley monster, half-beast, half-devil, uniting in himself the sensual
appetites of the former with the diabolic temper of the latter.--Burder.
15. Great is the danger of seeking to be wise above what is written. The
Bible is the limit of all real knowledge in matters of religion. To the law
and to the testimony, if any doctrine or practice is not to be found there,
reject it instantly and for ever; it is poisonous, and tends to death and
hell.--Ed.
16. 'Neither eyes nor ears'; no regard to reason nor danger, but hurried on by
mere appetite to every fleshly indulgence.--Burder. How degraded! Man
becomes a compound of devilish and beastly lusts. 'Lord, what is man
that thou should be mindful of him.'--Ed.
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