John Bunyan
Baptist and Puritan

John Bunyan's Allegory On
"THE HOLY WAR"
(Ed. Note: Always remember as you read any "Allegory" or any "allegorical writing" that it is NOT A THEOLOGICAL or DOCTRINAL TEXTBOOK. Allegorical writings, while they often bring great spiritual insight and guidance to the subject at hand, are by their very nature subject to a great deal of "artistic or poetic license" and are not generally suited for use as a Theology guide. However, John Bunyan, and many other allegorical writers, are all well worth reading, and can be quite insightful and helpful in deep spiritual teaching and understanding. - JHD)
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"THE HOLY WAR"
made by Shaddai upon Diabolus, for the Regaining
of the Metropolis of the World;
OR,
The losing and taking again
of the Town of Man-soul.

By JOHN BUNYAN

John Bunyan wrote this book sometime during the first
six years of his incarceration in Bedford Prison.

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("The Holy War" Part 1) AN 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 show why I my 'Pilgrim' patronize.

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

Then to my pen, from whence immediately
On paper I did dribble it daintily.

Manner and matter, too, was all mine own,
Nor was it unto any mortal known

Till I had done it; nor did any then
By books, by wits, by tongues, or hand, or pen,

Add five words to it, or write half a line
Thereof: the whole, and every whit is mine.

Also for THIS, thine eye is now upon,
The matter in this manner came from none

But the same heart, and head, fingers, and pen,
As did the other. Witness all good men;

For none in all the world, without a lie,
Can say that this is mine, excepting I

I write not this of my ostentation,
Nor 'cause I seek of men their commendation;

I do it to keep them from such surmise,
As tempt them will my name to scandalize.

Witness my name, if anagram'd to thee,
The letters make - 'Nu hony in a B.'

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