I faw him put upon her Chains of Gold,
And Rings and Bracelets, goodly to behold.

What shall I fay? I heard the Peoples Cries,
And faw the Prince wipe Tears from Mansoul's Eyes.
I heard the Groans, and faw the Joy of many:
Tell you of all I neither will, nor can 1,
But by what here I fay, you well may fee
That Manfoul's matchless Wars no Fables be.
Manfoul! the Defire of both Princes was,
One keep his Gáin would t'other gain his Lofs;
Diabolus would cry, The Town is mine,
Emanuel would plead a Right Divine
Unto his Manfoul; then to Blows they go,
And Manfoul cries, Thefe Wars will me undo!
Manfoul, ber Wars feem'd endless in her Eyes,
She's loft by one, becomes another's Prize;
And he again that loft her last would fwear,
Have her, I will, or her in Pieces tear.

Manfoul, it was the very Seat of War,
Wherefore her Troubles greater were by far,
Than only where the Noife of War is heard,
Or where the shaking of a Sword is fear'd:
Or only where Small Skirmishes are fought,
Or where the Fancy fighteth with a Thought.

She faw the Swords of Fighting Men made red,
And heard the Cries of thofe with them wounded.
Must not her Frights then be much more by far,
Than theirs that to fuch Doings Strangers are?
Or theirs that hear the Beating of a Drum,
But not made fly for Fear from House and Home?
Manfoul not only heard the Trumpet found,
But for her Gallants gafping on the Ground;
Wherefore we must not think that she could reft
With them whofe greatest Earneft is but Jeft:
Or where the bluftering Threatning of great
Do end in Parleys, or in wording Jars.

Wars

Manfoul, her mighty Wars, they do pretend
Her Weal, or Woe, and that World without End;

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Wherefore she 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 muft needs confess that now de dwell,
In Univerfe, and can this Story téll.

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 hase Science

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

That Reafon bath, or tell his Fingers can.

But I have too long held thee in the Porch, And kept thee from the Sun-hine with a Torch. Well, now go forward, ftep within the Door, And there behold five hundred Times much more Of all Sorts of fuch inward Rarities,

Margin.

As please the Mind well, and well feed the Eyes,
With those which of a Chriftian, thou wilt fee. The
Nor do thou go to work without my Key.
(In Myferies Men do joon loje their Way)
And also turn it right if thou would'st know
My Riddle, and would ft with my Heifer plow;
I hes there in the Window, fare thee well,
My next may be to ring thy Paffing Bell.

John Bunyan.

A

RELATION

OF THE

HOLY WAR, &c.

EN 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. Ir lieth between the two Poles, and juft amidst 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 tills had learned much of their Mother tongue, together with the Cuftoms 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, had (to be fure) even lived and

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to the Flefb.1

died a Native among them (I was fo taken with 'em and their Doings) had not my Mafter fent for me home to his foufe, there to do Bufinefs for him, and to overfee Bulinefs done.

Now there is in this gallant Country of Univerfe a fair and delicate Town, a Corporation called Man foul, a Town for its Building fo curious, for its Situa tion 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.

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 Scriptures. moft authentic Records I can gather, The Almighty. 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 elfe that he did in that Country: Yea, fo goodly a Town was Manfoul, when firft built, Created Angels. that it is faid by fome, the Gods at the 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 that any, denied to do it.

The Heart.

any ways

There was reared up in the midst of this Town, a moft famous and statey Palace; for Strength it may be called a Cafle; for Pleafantnefs, a Paradife; for Largenefs, 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 becaufe of his own Delights, and partly because he would not that the Terror of Stranfhould be gers upon the Town. This Place Shaddai made alfo a Garrison of,

The Power of the Souls.

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

be Town.

The

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

The Body..

For here lay the excellent Wisdom of him. that built Manfoul, 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 thofe 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 first..

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 fast 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,

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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 hewas. We will, if you please, first difcourfe of the Original of this Diabolus, and then of his taking of, this famous. Town of Manfoul:

fallen Angels. The Original of

Diabolus.

This Diabolus is indeed a great and mighty Princ and yet both poor and beggarly. As to his. Origina

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