The Pilgrim's Progress
Elstow Church and Belfrf.J THE LIFE OF JOHN BUNYAN. When Cowj-er composed hisS atires, he hid the name of Whitefield beneath well-sounding Greek ;and abstamed from mentioning Bunyan while he panegyrized him, lest so despised a name should move a sneer. In Bunyan scase this could hardly have been needful forty years ago ;for though a just appreciation of our elder and better writers was at that time far less general than it appears to be at present, the author of the Pilgrim sP rogress was even then in high repute. His fame may literally be said to have risen; beginning among the people it had made its way up to those who are called the public. In most instances the many receive gradually and slowly the opinions of the few respecting literary merit; and sometimes in assentation to such authority profess with their lips an admiration of they know not what, they know not why. But here the opinion of the multitude had been ratified by the judicious. The people knew what they admired. It is a book which makes its way through the fancy to the understanding and the heart: the child peruses it with wonder and delight; in youth we discover the genius which it displays ;its worth is apprehended as we advance in years, and va perceive its merits feelingly in decH ning age.
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John Bunyan was an English Christian writer and preacher who is best known for his allegorical novel The Pilgrim' s Progress, published in 1678. Bunyan' s faith was profoundly influenced by two books owned by his wife: Arthur Dent's Plain Man's Pathway to Heaven and Lewis Bayly's Practice of Piety, and he turned to preaching following the death of his guide and mentor, John Gifford. The restoration of the monarchy of Charles II of England marked England' s return to Anglicanism, and Bunyan' s freedom to preach was curtailed. He was arrested numerous times for preaching without a licence, and was finally imprisoned for the offence in November 1660. Bunyan was released from prison in January 1672 and resumed preaching (as permitted under the Declaration of Religious Indulgence) until his death in 1688.
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- Publication date2009
- ISBN 10 1439579741
- ISBN 13 9781439579749
- BindingLibrary Binding
- Number of pages384
- EditorPooley Roger
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