Bunyan's Holy War (Available from Amazon or free here) - Read Chapter 16.
Diabolus now hatches a new plot to win Mansoul over - flush them with material wealth so they are led to sin.
Meanwhile Captian Credence receives word from Emmanuel that he is coming to fight the Diabolonians. The army of Mansoul goes out to battle, Emmanuel shows up and the army of the Doubters is routed.
Thus, Emmanuel is welcomed back into the town with great celebration and the bodies of the Doubters are buried by the Mansoulians.
Interesting to see Diabolus' plan to win the town through materialism: '...let Mansoul be taken up in much business, and let them grow full and rich, and this is the way to get ground of them; remember ye not that thus we prevailed upon Laodicea, and how many at present do we hold in this snare? Now when they begin to grow full, they will forget their misery, and if we shall not affright them they may happen to fall asleep, and so be got to neglect their town-watch, their castle-watch as well as their watch at the gates.'
Worldly wealth is indeed a snare by which Satan still holds many today.
Read Chapter 17 and 18.
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