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The Holy War Made by Shaddai Upon Diabolus
The Holy War Made by Shaddai Upon Diabolus Author:John Bunyan Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: A RELATION THE HOLY WAR, etc. IN my travels, as I walked through many regions The and countries, it was my chance to happen into famous that famous contine... more »nt of Universe. A very large cont'nent and spacious country it is: it Keth 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 happened) to be in lesser regions. In this country, 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 of them among whom I was. And, to speak 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,The fair there to do business for him, and to oversee busi- town of ness done. Mansoul Now, there is in this gallant country of Universe a fair and delicate town, a corporation, called Mansoul; a town for its building so curious, for its situation so commodious, for its privileges so advantageous (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. 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 t...« less