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Publish'd by W Button & Son, 24, Pater noster Row.

HOLY WAR,

MADE BY

KING SHADDAI UPON DIABOLUS,

FOR THE REGAINING OF THE

METROPOLIS OF THE WORLD;

OR,

THE LOSING AND TAKING AGAIN

OF

THE TOWN OF MANSOUL.

WRITTEN BY

JOHN BUNYAN,

AUTHOR OF "THE PILGRIM'S PROGRESS," &c.

A NEW EDITION,

DIVIDED INTO EIGHTEEN CHAPTERS;

WITH EXPLANATORY AND PRACTICAL NOTES.

BY THE

REV. GEORGE BURDER,

Author of "The Village Sermons," Notes on "The Pilgrim's Progress," &c.
ORNAMENTED WITH SEVEN NEW DESIGNS, ELEGANTLY ENGRAVED.

LONDON:

PRINTED BY C. WHITTINGHAM,

Dean Street, Fetter Lane;

FOR W. BUTTON AND SON, PATER-NOSTER-ROW.
SOLD ALSO BY JAMES, BRISTOL.

1000

1QJUL 1917

JOHN BUNYAN'S

ADVERTISEMENT TO THE READER.

SOME say the PILGRIM'S PROGRESS is not mine,
Insinuating as if I would shine

In name and fame by the worth of another,
Like some made rich by robbing of their brother :
Or that, so fond I am of being sire,
I'll father bastards, or, if need require,
I'll tell a lie in print to get applause :

I scorn it; John such dirt-heap never was
Since God converted him.

Let this suffice

To shew why I my Pilgrim patronize.

It came from mine own heart; so to my head, And thence into my fingers tickled;

Then to my pen, from whence immediately

On paper I did dribble it daintily.

Manner and matter too were all mine own,

Nor was it unto any mortal known

Till I had done it. Nor did any then

My books, by wits, by tongues, or hand or pen
Add five words to it, or write half a line;
Therefore, the whole, and every whit is mine.

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