The Holy War – John Bunyan

ever things should rise so high as a war between Shaddai and their king.[22]
Notes:
1. 'Known unto God are all his works from the beginning of the world.'
'Not a sparrow shall fall without your Father.' 'The very hairs of your
head are all numbered' (Matt 10L29,30).--Ed.
2. 'Ye have said, We have made a covenant with death, and with hell are
we at agreement' (Isa 28:15).--Ed.
3. 'To strike hands' means to enter into agreement, make a contract, or
become security (Prov 17:18).-- Ed.
4. How astonishing is the Divine benignity! Who can express it so well as
in the words of Emmanuel himself, God so loved the world? So loved!
How much he loved, no tongue can tell, no heart conceive. It is love
unsought, unparalleled, free, and everlasting.--Burder.
5. 'Breviat'; a summary or epitome; a word commonly used in Bunyan's
time.--Ed.
6. Early intimation was given to a lost world of God's gracious designs in
favour of rebel man. He was pleased to publish in his word this
benevolent purpose.--Burder.
7. It is the interest of hell to keep men in ignorance of the gospel. His great
instrument, in all ages and climes, has been a wicked priestcraft. All that
tends to prevent anxious personal inquiry for salvation is from beneath,
from the father of lies. 'I believe as the church believes, and the church
believes as I believe,' is the wretched sophistry by which Satan entangles
souls in his net.--Ed.
8. 'They glory in their shame, Reject the sustenance Divine, To beggarly
vile appetites descend; Ask alms of earth, for guests that came from
heav'n; Sink into slaves; and sell for present hire Their rich reversion,
and (what shares its fate), Their native freedom, to the prince who sways
The nether world.'--Young.
9. Odious atheistical pamphlets, and filthy ballads and romances, full of
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