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

Mr. Recorder

Mr. Conscience is the Recorder for Shaddai's Mansoul.[3]

"Mr. Recorder whose name was Mr. Conscience is the memory of the heart, the moral memory of man, the recorder of the soul. This ruling power of Mansoul, having consented to the entrance of DIABOLUS, must now reap as it hath sown. The Fall has more than doubled the work of Conscience; for it has now not only to remember the height of glory from whence it has fallen, but also to preserve the records of its present degradation. Conscience is the detector of the heart, the ready-reckoner of the soul. A man’s conscience is his very self; he may escape from others, but he can never escape from himself. Men would banish Conscience to a far-off land, but he cleaves all the more closely to them still; they would drown it in the deep, but only to find that many waters cannot quench it; they would intoxicate it with the wine-cup, but only to be bound again in stronger bondage; they would bury the dead out of their sight, but the dead past will not be buried, but ever rises again in a daily resurrection, washed up on the wave of thought, exhumed from the grave of forgetfulness, by the unresting power of this inward monitor. Conscience is the undying exercise of memory here, and will be the immortality of remembrance hereafter."[2]

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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.