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Love me against temptation, and I will love thee notwithstanding thine infirmities.

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“Love me against temptation, and I will love thee notwithstanding thine infirmities.”

John Bunyan

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Within Bunyan’s Christian allegory, Emmanuel asks Mansoul for continued loyalty amid temptation while promising continuing love despite weakness.

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The Holy War, represented by Project Gutenberg #395. Emmanuel addresses the allegorical town of Mansoul in an explicitly Christian passage about redemption, temptation and divine love. Emmanuel is the Christ-like fictional/allegorical speaker; the sentence is not Bunyan autobiography or a nonreligious factual guarantee.

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