The Holy War – John Bunyan

5. 'I felt such a clogging and heat at my stomach, by reason of my terrors,
that I was, especially at some times, as if my breast-bone would split
asunder.’—Grace Abounding, No. 164.
6. The death of the body, or loss of a limb, is as nothing compared with the
eternal loss of a neverdying soul.—Ed.
7. This line, in the first edition, is at the bottom of a page. In many copies,
viz., in that of 1752, printed both at London and at Glasgow; that with
Mason’s notes, 1782; and that with Adam’s notes, 1795, &c., this line is
omitted, and one inserted to make up the rhyme—'They are the only
men that have science.’
8. It is not surprising that Bunyan wondered at the confidence with which
these speculations were published. His knowledge of invisible things
was drawn exclusively from the Bible, which is silent upon the subject
of a plurality of worlds. He does not say there is no such thing, but that it
cannot be demonstrated.—Ed.
9. Bunyan intended his marginal notes as a key to the text. How strikingly
does this illustrate the first page of his 'Pilgrim’—’I lighted on a certain
place where was a den’; the margin is a key to show that it was written
in 'the jail.’ So, in the latter part of the 'Holy War,’ the Diabolonians
dashed young children in pieces; the margin explains this to mean 'good
and tender thoughts.’—Ed.
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