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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,...

nothing that was in its primitive state was at all amazing to them.27 Then they proceeded to the third thing, which was, Third. Whether they had best to show their intentions or the design of his coming to Mansoul, or no. This also was answered in the negative, because of the weight that was in the former reasons, to wit, for that Mansoul were a strong people, a strong people in a strong town, whose wall and gates were impregnable, to say nothing of their castle, nor can they by any means be won
Volume 3, Page 258
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