[Bunyan Characters - Third Series by Alexander Whyte]@TWC D-Link bookBunyan Characters - Third Series CHAPTER I--THE BOOK 12/12
But who that thinks, and that knows by experience what all that means, will feel himself sufficient for all that? No man: no sinful man.
But, among many other noble and blessed things, the _Holy War_ will show us that our sufficiency in this impossibility also is all of God.
Who, then, will enlist? Who will risk all and enlist? Who will matriculate in the military school of Mansoul? Who will submit himself to all the severity of its divine discipline? Who will be made willing to throw open and to keep open his whole soul, with all the gates and doors thereof, to all the sieges, assaults, capitulations, submissions, occupations, and such like of the war of gospel holiness? And who will enlist under that banner now? 'Set down my name, sir,' said a man of a very stout countenance to him who had the inkhorn at the outer gate.
At which those who walked upon the top of the palace broke out in a very pleasant voice, 'Come in, come in; Eternal glory thou shalt win.' We have no longer, after what we have come through, any such stoutness in our countenance, yet will we say to-night with him who had it, Set down my name also, sir!.
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