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In this work, "...Man's soul is figured under the simile of a town, which having surrendered to an insidious and mortal enemy, is besieged by its lawful Sovereign with all the 'pomp and circumstances' of war; the arch-enemy is driven out, the town retaken, new-modelled, and garrisoned by Emmanuel." The editor, George Offor, calls it an "extraordinary book, manifesting a degree of genius,...

of his faithful friends had suffered, in the confusion of this murderous scene of rapine and plunder. In the ‘Holy War,’ Bunyan has not been, nor can he ever be, charged with copying from any author who preceded him. Erasmus, Gouge, and many other of our Reformers, Puritans, and Nonconformists, commented upon the Christian’s armour and weapons. Benjamin Keach, about the time that the ‘Holy War’ appeared, published his War with the Devil, or, the Young Man’s Conflict with the Powers of Darkness. It
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