Wherefore he must be more concern'd than they
Whofe Fears begin and end the felf fame Day :
Or where none other Harm doth come to him
That is engag'd, but Lofs of Life or Limb,
As all mujl needs confess that now do dwell,
In Univerfe, and can this Story tell.

Count me not then with them, that to amaze
The People, fet them on the Stars to gaze,
Infinuating with much Confidence

They are the only Men that have Science

Of fame brave Creatures; yea, a World they will
Have in each Star, tho' it be paft their Skill
To make it manifeft unto a Man

That Reafon kaib, or tell his Fingers can.

But I have too long keld thee in the Porch,
And kept thee from the Sun-fhine with a Torch.
Well, now go forward, fep within the Door,
And there behold five hundred Times much more
Of all Sorts of fuch inward Rarities,
As please the Mind well, and well feed the Eyes,
With thofe which of a Chriflian, thou wilt fee.
Nor do thou go to work without my Key.
(In Myfteries Men do Joon lose their Way)
And alfo turn it right if thou would'ft know
My Riddle, and would't with my Heifer plow;
It lies there in the Window, fare thee well,
My next may be to ring thy Paling Bell.

The

Margin.

John Bunyan.

Α

. RELATION

OF THE

HOLY WAR, &c.

IN

N my Travels, as I walked through many Regions and Countries, it was my chance to happen into that famous Continent of Universe a very large and fpacious Country it is. It lieth between the two Poles, and juft amidit the four Points of the Heavens. It is a Place well watered, and richly adorned with Hills and Valleys, bravely fituated; and for the most part (at least where I was) very fruitful, alfo well peopled, and a very fweet Air.

The People are not all of one Complexion, nor yet of one Language, Mode, or Way of Religion; but differ as much as ('tis faid) do the Planets themselves: Some are right and fome are wrong even as it happeneth to be in leffer Regions..

In this Country, as I faid, it was my Lot to trave', and there travel I did, and that fo long, even till I had learned much of their Mother tongue, together with the Culoms and Manners of them among whom I was. And to fpeak Truth, I was much delighted to fee and hear many Things which I faw and heard among them: Yea, I had (to be fure) even lived and

A naturad

State pleafing to the Flesh.

died a Native among them was fo taken with 'em and their Doings had not my Malter fent for ine home to his Houfe, there to do Business for him, and to øver. fee Bufinefs done."

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Now there is in this gallant Country of Universe, a fair and delicate Town, a Corporation called Manfoul, a Town for its Building fo curious, for its Situation fo commodious, for its Privileges fo advantageous; (I mean with reference to its Original) that I may fay of it, as was faid-before, of the Continent in which it is placed, There is not its Equal under the whole Heaven.

Scriptures.

The Almighty.

As to the Situation of this Town, it lieth just between the two Worlds, and the firft Founder, and Builder of it, fo far as by the best and most authentic Records I can gather, was one Shaddai; and he built it for his own Delight. Gen. i 26. He made it the Mirror and Glory of all that he made, even the Top-piece, beyond any Thing else that he did in that Country: Yea, fo goodly a Town was Manfoul, when firft built, that it is faid by fome, the Gods at the

Created Angels. fetting up thereof, came down to fee it,

and fung for Joy. And as he made it goodly to behold, fo alfo mighty to have Dominion over all the Country round about. Yea, all was commanded to acknowledge Manfoul for their Metropolitan, all was enjoined to do homage to it. Ay, the Town itfelf had pofitive Commiffion, and Power from her King to demand Service of all, and alfo to fubdue any, that any ways. denied to do it.

The Heart.

There was reared up in the midft of this Town, a moft famous and stately Palace for Strength it may be called a Cafile; for Pleafantnefs, a Paradife; for Largeness, a Place fo copious as to contain all the World, Ecclef. iii. 11. This Place, the King Shaddai intended but for himself alone, and not another with him: Partly because of his own Delights, and partly because he would not that the Terror of Stranfhould be upon the Town. This Place Shaddai made alfo a Garrison of,

The Power of the Souls.

gers

but committed the keeping of it, only to the Men of

Town

The

The Wall of the Town was well built, yea, fo fast and firm was it knit and compacted together, that had it not been for the Townfmen themfelves, they could. not have been fhaken, or broken for ever.

The Body..

For here lay the excellent Wisdom of him that built Marfoul, that the Walls could never be broken down nor hurt, by the most mighty adverse Potentates, unless the Townfmen gave Confent thereto..

This famous Town of Manfoul had five Gates, at which to come out, and at which to go in, and these were made likewife anfwerable to the Walls: To wit, impregnable, and fuch as could never be opened nor forced, but by the Will and Leave of those within. The Names of the Gates were thefe,

Ear-gate, Eye-gate, Mouth gate, Nofe- The five Senfes.. gate, and Feel-gate..

The State of

Manfoul at fift..

Other Things there were that belonged to the Town of Manfoul, which if you adjoin to thefe, will yet give: further Demonftration to all, of the Glory and Strength of the Place. It had always a Sufficiency of Provifion within its Walls; it had the best, most wholesome, and excellent Law. that was then extant in the World. There was not a Rafcal, Rogue,. or traiterous Perfon then within its Walls: They were all true Men, and faft joined together, and this you know is a great Matter And to all thefe, it was always fo long as it had the Goodness to keep true to Shaddai the King,. his Countenance, his Protection, and it was his Delight,. &c.

Sinners the

Well, upon a Time, there was one Diabolus a mighty Giant, made an Affault upon the famous Town of Manfoul, to take it, and make it his own Habitation. This Giant was King of the Blacks or Negroes, and a moft raving Prince he We will, if you pleafe, firft dif. courfe of the Original of this Diabolus,. and then of his taking of this famous. Town of Manfoul.

was.

fallen Angels.
Diabolus..
The Original of

This Diabolus is indeed a great and mighty Prince, and yet both. poor and beggarly. As to his Original,

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he was at first one of the Servants of King Shaddai, made and taken, put by him into molt high and mighty Place, yea, and was put into fuch. Principalities as belonged to the belt of his Territories and Dominions, faiah xiv. 12. This Diabolus was made Son of the Morning, and a brave Place he had of it: It brought him much Glory, and gave him much Brightness, an Income that might have contented his Luciferian Heart, had it not been infatiable, and enlarged as Hell itfelf.

Well, he feeing himself thus exalted to Greatnefs and Honour, and raging in his Mind for higher State and Degree, what doth he but begins to think with himfelf, how he might be fet up as Lord over all, and have the fole Power under Shaddai, 2 Pet. ii. 4. Jude vi. (Now that did the King referve for his Son, yea, and had al eady bestowed it upon him) wherefore he first confults with himself what had beft to be done, and then breaks his Mind to fome other of his Companions, to the which they alfo agreed. So in fine, they came to this Iffue, that they should make an Attempt upon the King's Son to deftroy him, that the Inheritance might be theirs. Well, to be fhort, the Treafon (as I faid) was concluded, the Time appointed, the Word given, the Rebels rendesvouzed, and the Affault attempted. Now the King and his Son being all, and always Eye, could not but difcern all Paffages in his Dominions; and he having always à Love for his Son, as for himself, could not, at what he' faw, but he greatly provoked and offended: Wherefore what does he, but takes them in the very Nick, and firft Trip that they made towards their Defign, convicts them of the Treafon, horrid Rebellion and Confpiracy that they had devised, and now attempted to put into Practice, and cafts them aitogether out of all Place of Truft, Benefit, Honour, and Preferment; this done, he banishes them the Court, turns them down into the horrid Pits, and as falt bound in Chains; never more to expect the leaft Favour from his Hands, but to abide the Judgment

that