Count me not then with them that to amaze The people, set them on the stars to gaze, Insinuating with much confidence,

That each of them is now the residence

Of some brave Creatures; yea, a world they will
Have in each star, though it be past their skill
To make it manifest to any man,

That reason bath, or tell his fingers can.

But I have too long held thee in the Porch,
And kept thee from the Sun-shine with a Torch.
Well, now go forward, step within the dore,
And there behold five hundred times much more
Of all sorts of such inward Rarities

As please the mind will, and will feed the eyes
With those, which if a Christian, thou wilt see
Not small, but things of greatest moment be.

Nor do thou go to work without my Key,
(In mysteries men soon do lose their way)
And also turn it right if thou wouldst know
My riddle, and wouldst with my heifer plow,
It lies there in the window, fare thee well,
My next may be to ring thy Passing-Bell.

JO. BUNYAN.

The margent.

A

RELATION

OF THE

Holy War, &c.

N my Travels, as I walked through many Regions and

famous Continent of Universe; a very large and spacious Countrey it is. It lieth between the two Poles, and just amidst the four points of the Heavens. It is a place well watered, and richly adorned with Hills and Valleys, bravely situate; and for the most part (at least where I was) very fruitful, also well peopled, and a very sweet 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 said) do the Planets themselves. Some are right, and some are wrong, even as it happeneth to be in lesser Regions.

flesh.

In this Countrey, as I said, it was my lot to travel, and there travel I did, and that so long, even till I learned much of their mother-tongue, together with the Customs, and manners A natural state of them among whom I was. And to speak pleasing to the truth, I was much delighted to see, and hear many things which I saw and heard among them: Yea I had (to be sure) even lived and died a Native among them, (so was I taken with them and their doings) had not my Master sent for me home to his House, there to do business for him and to over-see business done.

Christ.

Now, there is in this gallant Country of Universe, a fair and delicate Town, a Corporation, called Mansoul: a Man. Town for its Building so curious, for its Situation

so commodious, for its Priviledges so advantagious; (I mean with reference to its Original) that I may say of it, as was said before, of the Continent in which it is placed, There is not its equal under the whole Heaven.

Scriptures.
The Almighty.

mirrour, and

Gen. 1. 26.

As to the Situation of this Town, it lieth just between the two worlds, and the first founder, and builder of it, so far as by the best, and most Authentick records I can gather, was one Shaddai; and he built it for his own delight. He made it the glory of all that he made, even the Top-piece beyond any thing else that he did in that Countrey: yea, so goodly a Town was Mansoul, when first built, that it is said by some, the Gods at the setting up thereof, came down to see it, and sang for joy. And as he made it goodly to behold, so also mighty to have Dominion over all the Country round about. Yea all was commanded to acknowledge Mansoul for their Metropolitan, all was injoyned to do homage to it. Ay, the Town it self had positive commission, and power from her King to demand service of all, and also to subdue any, that any ways denied to do it.

Created.

Angels.

The heart.

There was reared up in the midst of this Town, a most famous and stately Palace; for strength, it might be called a Castle; for pleasantness, a Paradise; for largeness, a place so copious as to contain all Eccl. 3. 11. the world. 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 strangers should be upon the Town. This place Shaddai made also a Garrison of, but committed the keeping of it, only, to the men of the Town.

The powers of

the Soul.

The wall of the Town was well built, yea so fast and firm was it knit and compact together, that had it not been for the Townsmen themselves, they could not have been shaken, or broken for ever.

For here lay the excellent wisdom of him that builded
Mansoul, that the Walls could never be broken

The body.

down, nor hurt, by the most mighty adverse Potentate, unless the Towns-men gave consent thereto.

This famous Town of Mansoul had five gates, in at which to come, out at which to go, and these were made likewise answerable to the Walls: to wit Impregnable, and such as could

The five
Sences.

never be opened nor forced, but by the will and leave of those within. The names of the Gates were these, Ear-gate, Eye-gate, Mouth-gate, Nose

gate and Feel-gate.

first.

Other things there were that belonged to the Town of Mansoul, which if you adjoyn to these, will yet give farther demonstration to all, of the glory and strength of the place. The state of It had always a sufficiency of provision within its Mansoul at Walls; it had the best, most wholesome, and excellent Law that then was extant in the world. There was not a Rascal, Rogue, or Traiterous person then within its Walls: They were all true men, and fast joyned together; and this you know is a great matter. And to all these, it was always (so long as it had the goodness to keep true to Shaddai the King) his countenance, his protection, and it was his delight, &c.

The Devil.

Well, upon a time there was one Diabolus, a mighty Gyant, made an assault upon this famous Town of Mansoul, to take it, and make it his own habitation. This Gyant was King of the Blacks or Negroes, and a most raving Prince he was. We will if you please first discourse of the Original of this Diabolus, and then of his taking of this famous Town of Mansoul.

Sinners the fallen Angels. The Original of Diabolus.

This Diabolus is indeed, a great and mighty Prince, and yet both poor and beggerly. As to his Original, he was at first, one of the Servants of King Shaddai, made, and taken and put by him into most high and mighty place, yea was put into such Principalities as belonged to the best of his Territories and Dominions. 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

Isa. 14. 12.

income that might have contented his Luciferian heart, had it not been insatiable, and inlarged as Hell it self.

2 Pet. 2. 4.

Jude 6.

Well, he seeing himself thus exalted to greatness and honour, and raging in his mind for higher state, and degree, what doth he but begins to think with himself, how he might be set up as Lord over all, and have the sole power under Shaddai. (Now that did the King reserve for his Son, yea, and had already bestowed it upon him) wherefore he first consults with himself what had best to be done, and then breaks his mind to some other of his companions, to the which they also agreed. So in fine, they came to this issue, that they should make an attempt upon the Kings Son to destroy him, that the Inheritance might be theirs. Well, to be short, the Treason (as I said) was concluded, the time appointed, the word given, the Rebels rendezvouzed, and the assault attempted. Now the King, and his Son being All, and always Eye, could not but discern all passages in his Dominions; and he having always love for his Son, as for himself, could not, at what he saw, but be greatly provoked, and offended: wherefore what does he, but takes them in the very nick, and first Tripp that they made towards their design, convicts them of the Treason, horrid Rebellion, and Conspiracy that they had devised, and now attempted to put into practice: and casts them altogether out of all place of trust, benefit, honour, and preferment; this done, he banishes them the Court, turns them down into the horrible Pits, as fast bound in Chains, never more to expect the least favour from his hands, but to abide the judgment that he had appointed: and that forever, and yet,

Now they being thus cast out of all place of trust, profit, and honour, and also knowing that they had lost their Princes favour for ever, (being banished his Court and cast down to the horrible Pits: you may be sure they would now add to their former pride, what malice and rage against Shaddai, and against his Son they could. Wherefore roving, and ranging in much fury from place to place (if perhaps they might find something that was the Kings, to revenge, by spoiling of that, themselves on him. At last they happened into this spacious Countrey of Universe, and steer their course towards the Town of Mansoul; and considering

1 Pet. 5. 8.