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will be your wisdom, your honour, and will be greatly for my glory. When your garments are white, the world will count you mine. Also when your garments are white, then I am delighted in your ways; for then your goings to and fro will be like a flash of lightning, that those that are present must take notice of, also their eyes will be made to dazzle thereat. Deck thyself therefore according to my bidding, and make thyself by my law straight steps for thy feet,* so shall thy King greatly desire thy beauty, for he is thy Lord, and worship thou him..

"Now, that thou mayest keep them as I did thee, I have, as I before told thee, provided for thee an open fountain to wash thy garments in. Look therefore that thou wash often in my fountain, and go not in defiled garments; for as it is to my dishonour, and my disgrace, so it will be to my discomfort, when you shall walk in filthy garments, Zech. iii. 3, 4. Let not therefore my garments, your garments, the garments that I that I gave thee, be defiled or spotted by the flesh, Jude, ver. 23. Keep thy garments always white, and let thy head lack no

ointment.

"My Mansoul, I have oft-times delivered thee from the designs, plots, attempts, and conspiracies of Diabolus, and for all this I ask thee nothing, but that thou render not to me evil for my good, but that thou bear in mind my love, and the continuation of my kindness to my beloved Mansoul, so as to provoke thee to walk in thy measure, according to the benefit bestowed on thee. Of old the sacrifices were bound with cords to the horns of the golden altar. Consider what is said to thee, O my

blessed Mansoul.

"O my Mansoul, I have lived, I have died; I live, and will die no more for thee; I live, that thou mayest not die. Because I live, thou shalt live also. I reconciled

thee

*Integrity of heart, and godliness of life, are indispensible ingredients in the composition of a true disciple of Jesus. A holy walk preserves commmunion with our loving Lord, who is our righteousness and strength,

thee to my Father by the blood of my cross, and being reconciled, thou shalt live through me. I will pray for thee, I will fight for thee, I will yet do thee good.

"Nothing can hurt thee but sin, nothing can grieve me but sin; nothing can make thee base before thy foes but sin; take heed of sin, my Mansoul.*

"And doest thou know why I at first, and do still suffer Diabolonians to dwell within thy walls, O Mansoul? It is to keep thee waiting, to try thy love, to make thee watchful, and to cause thee yet to prize my noble captains, their soldiers, and my mercy.

"It is also that yet thou mayest be made to remember what a deplorable condition thou once wast in, I mean when, not some, but all did dwell, not in thy wall, but in thy castle, and in thy strong hold, O Mansoul.

"O my Mansoul, should I slay all them within, many there be without that would bring thee into bondage; for were all these within cut off, those without would find thee sleeping, and then, as in a momest, they would swallow up my Mansoul, I therefore left them in thee, not to do thee hurt (the which they yet will, if thou hearken to them, and serve them.) but to do thee good, the which they must, if thou watch and fight against them. Know therefore, that whatever they shall tempt thee to, my design is, that they should drive thee, not further off, but nearer to my Father, to learn thee war, to make petitioning desirable to thee, and to make thee little in thine own eyes. Hearken diligently to this, my Mansoul.

"Shew me then thy love, my Mansoul, and let not those that are within thy walls, take thy affections off from him that hath redeemed thy soul. Yea, let the sight of a Diabolonian heighten thy love to me. I

came

It is certainly the duty of every minister of God to represent sin in the most horrible forms, in order, by that means, to impress on the minds of mankind, an abhorrence of it. For a dreadful symbolical representation of sin, we refer the reader to Milton's Paradise Lost.

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came once, and twice, and thrice, to save thee from the poison of those arrows that would have wrought thy death; stand for me, my friend, my Mansoul, against the Diabolonians, and I will stand for thee before my Father, and all his court. Love me against temptation; and I will love thee, notwithstanding thine infirmities.*

"O my Mansoul, remember what my captains, my soldiers, and mine engines have done for thee. They have fought for thee, they have borne much at thy hands to do thee good, O Mansoul. Hadst thou not had them to help thee, Diabolus had certainly made a hand of thee. Nourish them therefore, my Mansoul. When thou dost well, they will be well; when thou dost ill, they will be ill, and sick and weak. Make not my captains sick, O Mansoul; for if they be sick, thou canst not be well; if they be weak, thou canst not be strong; if they be faint, thou canst not be stout and valiant for thy King, O Mansoul. Nor must thou think always to live by sense, thou must live upon my word. Thou must believe, O my Manssoul, when I am from thee, that yet I love and bear thee upon mine heart for ever.

"Remember therefore, O my Mansoul, that thou art beloved of me; as I have therefore taught thee to watch, to fight, to pray, and to make war against my foes, so now I command thee to belive that my love is constant to thee. O my Mansoul, now have I set my heart, my love, upon thee, watch: "Behold I lay none other burden upon thee, than what thou hast already, hold fast, till I come," Rev. ii. 24, 25.

*Seeing that the love of God is so amazingly great, and also unchangeable, let us without ceasing address the throne of his mercy, that he will enable us to be faithful and obedient to the end, that we may obtain the salvation of our souls, and be admitted into his kinddom of glory, to praise redeeming love, and sing salvation to God and the Lamb for ever.

The End of the Holy War.

HISTORY

OF THE

LIFE AND DEATH

OF

Mr. BADMAN:

SHEWING

IN A FULL AND PARTICULAR MANNER,

THE

WHOLE COURSE OF HIS CONDUCT,

FROM HIS

Youth, to his miserable End at Death.

BY MR. JOHN BUNYAN,

LATE MINISTER OF THE GOSPEL AT BEDFORD, AUTHOR OF THE PILGRIM'S PROGRESS, HOLY WAR, &c. &c.

With practical and explanatory Notes.

Printed and published by

J. FOWLER, AUGHTON STREET, ORMSKIRK.

1811.

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