Bad Street

The street where Evil-Questioning was hanged.[3]

Mr. Diligence

"When the Will of the renewed man is seconded by diligence in search and action, all is well for the soul’s health and well-being. Something like Mr. PRYWELL is this trusty servant of the sanctified Will, Mr. DILIGENCE. He goes up and down, and to and fro, in the soul, searching out the lurking power of evil. Bunyan means by this to lay repeated honor on the principle of self-examination. It is well for the soul when it is thus watchful and diligent, and prompt in giving information; and when the Will is strong and resolute to act upon the information given."[2]

Evil-Questioning

"The form that this present phase of peril assumes, is that of doubt arising in the soul from the spirit of evil-questioning. This is not the spirit of legitimate inquiry, nor of diligent self-examination, but rather a spirit of unbelief, engendered in the soul by the encouragement of morbid doubts, as indicated by the names of the Doubters here referred to, which signify a revival of those doubts which question God’s electing love, his effectual call, the fullness of salvation, and that all is of God’s good grace and mercy."[2]

Malice in the county of Envy

"Persecutors who are influenced by malice. These are the guilty persecutors, whose spirit comes of sin. These know the truth, but hate it; see the light, but come not to it; and with malice prepense pursue good men to death. These are they who seek to fulfill their lust of blood upon the servants of the Most High—the Blood-men of the past history of the Church and people of God. Well did the soul cry out to the Prince against this danger, 'Lord, save Mansoul from bloody men!'"[2]

Blind-zeal-shire

"Those who are influenced by blind zeal. These are alluded to by our blessed Lord, when he said to his disciples, 'Yea, the time cometh, that whosoever killeth you will think that he doeth God service;' and this would arise from spiritual blindness; for he adds, 'And these things will they do unto you, because they have not known the Father, nor me,' John 16:2, 3. This is that sort of zeal of which the Apostle speaks, as being 'not according to knowledge.'"[2]

Blind-man-shire

"There are those who persecute in ignorance. Such were even some of the persecutors of our Lord, and hence his dying prayer—'Father, forgive them; for they know not what they do,' Luke 23:34. For such as these there is mercy. Hence the dying prayer of the martyr Stephen—'Lay not this sin to their charge,' Acts 7:60. Saul of Tarsus was also one of this class, for he says of himself, 'Who was before a blasphemer, and a persecutor, and injurious: but I obtained mercy, because I did it ignorantly in unbelief,' 1 Timothy 1:13."[2]

Captain Self-Denial

"In the face of threatening danger, there is no more effective ally to the soul than the principle of self-denial. Self-indulgence is not the spirit of martyrs; it needs a stronger principle to enable a man to resist the blood-men of persecution.
Self-denial is the discipline of the Christian man; he has to fight the good fight, therefore he must be bred and inured to hardships; he has to sail the voyage of life, and must therefore be strong to face the tempests, and brave the billows of the deep. Self-denial is the medicine of the soul—not always sweet, but most frequently bitter. Self-denial is the foundation of manly heroism and of all heroic virtues—'seeking not her own.' This is a cross-bearing place, even to the mount of sacrifice. Self-denial thinks more of tomorrow’s sunshine than of the tempest of today. It provides for the time to come at the cost of the time now present; and walks by faith of future glory, and not by sight of present suffering—'choosing rather to suffer affliction—having respect unto the recompense of the reward.' Martyrs have always been self-denying men."[2]