Read the Introduction by Rev. Robert Maguire, D. D.

Captain Resistance

"Captain Resistance fell down dead quite over the wall. Resistance to the suggestions of Satan failed in our first mother. She parleyed with the temptation which she ought to have resisted and rejected with abhorrence. She paused: and it was an ill-pause. There was no occasion to pause or ponder on what the Devil had said, for he had given the lie to the God of truth. Whatever contradicts the word of God should be instantly resisted as diabolical."[1]

"Captain RESISTANCE falls. “Resist the devil, and he will flee from you;” but if he once beats down the spirit of man’s resistance, he draws to close quarters, and soon attains the mastery."[2]
Compiled by Charles J. Doe
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Sources


1. Rev. George Burder, Explanatory, Experimental and Practical Notes. The Holy War. By John Bunyan. Philadelphia: Presbyterian Board of Publication, [Pref. 1803.]
2. Rev. Robert Maguire, Annotations. The Holy War. By John Bunyan. London: Cassell, Petter and Galpin, c1866.
3. John Bunyan, The Holy War.
4. Charlie Doe, my own comments.