John Bunyan
John Bunyan
John Bunyanwas an English writer and Baptist preacher best remembered as the author of the Christian allegory The Pilgrim's Progress. In addition to The Pilgrim's Progress, Bunyan wrote nearly sixty titles, many of them expanded sermons...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionClergyman
Date of Birth28 November 1628
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To lay hold of and receive the gospel by a true and saving faith is an act of the soul that has been made a new creature, which is the workmanship of God... Wherefore whoever receiveth the grace that is tendered in the gospel, they must be quickened by the power of God, their eyes must be opened, their understandings illuminated, their ears unstopped, their hearts circumcised, their wills also rectified, and the Son of God revealed in them.
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Faith is a fruit, work, or gift of the Spirit of God, whereby a poor soul is enabled through the mighty operation of God, in a sense of its sins and wretched estate to lay hold on the righteousness, blood, death, resurrection, ascension, intercession, and coming again of the Son of God which was crucified without the gates of Jerusalem, for eternal life.
name progress
The name of the slough was Despond. -'Pilgrim's Progress
name palace
A very stately palace before him, the name of which was Beautiful.
walked wilderness
As I walked through the wilderness of this world.
man soon word
So soon as the man overtook me, he was but a word and a blow.
honey lion meet nest next overcome shall time within
Temptations, when we meet them at first, are as the lion that roared upon Samson; but if we overcome them, the next time we see them we shall find a nest of honey within them
honey lion meet nest next overcome shall time within
Temptations, when we first meet them, are like a lion that roared at Samson; but if we overcome them, the next time we see them we shall find a nest of honey within them.
passed
So he passed over, and all the trumpets sounded for him on the other side.
behold
So I awoke, and behold it was a dream.
ashamed desire difference grace looked mine sin sorry wonder
Hope. I am sorry that I was so foolish, and am made to wonder that I am not now as Lot's wife, for wherein was the difference betwixt her sin and mine? She only looked back and I had a desire to go see. Let grace be adored, and let me be ashamed that ever such a thing should be in mine heart.
fear needs pride
He that is down needs fear no fall, He that is low, no pride
fall fear
He that is down need fear no fall
dismal round strength themselves
Who so beset him round / With dismal stories, / Do but themselves confound; / His strength the more is.