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Updated: May 26, 2025
The hand writing against thee is exhibited in blood-stained and indelible characters. All who are found partakers in his community, must be consumed with an everlasting destruction. No "paper-winkers" 1 can hide this truth from the enlightened regenerated mind. "O my soul, come not thou into their secret, unto their assembly, mine honour, be not thou united: for in their anger they slew a man.
Why, the church is now at the rising of the year; let then the blasts at present, or to come, be what they will, Antichrist is assuredly drawing towards his downfall: And though the devil, knowing what is to be done to him, and to his kingdom, shall so blind his disciples, and fright the godly, do something like it upon the church of Christ; yet we should look through these paper-winkers,22 and espy in all this, that fear, yea, certain terrible judgments are following of him at the heels, by which not only the soul, spirit, and life of Antichrist, but the body thereof; yea, body, and soul, and head, are quickly to go down thither; from whence they, as such, shall not arise again.
22 'Paper-winkers, in every edition, except the first, which was from the author's manuscript, has been altered to 'paper-windows. Bunyan's allusion is to the winkers, called by many 'blinkers, put by the side of a horse's eyes, to keep him under the complete control of his driver and by 'paper-winkers' the flimsy attempt of Antichrist to hoodwink mankind by printed legends, miracles, and absurd assumptions it is one of the almost innumerable sparks of wit, which render all the writings of Bunyan so entertaining and strikingly instructive.
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