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LAST-SERMON

LAST-SERMON John Bunyan’sL A S T – S E R M O NPreached, August 19, 1688, from John 1:13.  By J O H N. B U N Y A N1628-1688  John Bunyan died within two months of completinghis sixtieth year, on the 31st of August, 1688. Advertisement by the Editor This sermon, although very short, is peculiarly interesting: […]

Unbeliever’s Doom – John Bunyan

Unbeliever’s Doom – John Bunyan T H ELife and DeathO FMr. Badman,Presented to the World in aFamiliar Dialogue BetweenMr. Wiseman and Mr. Attentive. ByJ O H N. B U N Y A N1628-1688  1680.Published two years after Pilgrim’s Progress. Edited by George Offor.  ADVERTISEMENT BY THE EDITOR. The life of Badman is a very interesting description, a true […]

Suffering – John Bunyan

Suffering – John Bunyan Seasonable Counsel:O R,Advice To Sufferers.  ByJ O H N. B U N Y A N1628-1688  L O N D O N,Printed for Benjamin Alsop, at theAngel and Bible in the Poultry, 1684. Published four years before John Bunyan’s death. Edited by George Offor.  ADVERTISEMENT BY THE EDITOR. THIS valuable treatise was first published […]

Spiritual Warfare – John Bunyan

Spiritual Warfare – John Bunyan T H EHoly Warmade by Shaddai upon Diabolus, for the Regainingthe Metropolis of the World;O R,The losing and takingagain of the Town of Man-soul. ByJ O H N .B U N Y A N(1628-1688) John Bunyan wrote this book sometime during the firstsix years of his incarceration in Bedford Prison. TO […]

Salvation [04] – John Bunyan

Salvation [04] – John Bunyan Come and WelcomeT OJ E S U S _ C H R I S T;O R,A Plain and ProfitableDiscourse on John 6:37Showing the cause, truth,and manner of the coming of a sinner to Jesus Christ;with his happy reception and blessed entertainment.  ByJ O H N. B U N Y A N1628-1688  “And they […]

Salvation [03] – John Bunyan

Salvation [03] – John Bunyan T H EGreatness of the Soul,A N DUnspeakableness of the Loss Thereof;W I T HThe Causes of the Losing It.  First Preached at Pinners Halland nowEnlarged and Published for Good.  ByJ O H N. B U N Y A N1628-1688  L O N D O N,Printed for Benjamin Alsop,at the Angel […]

Salvation [02] – John Bunyan

Salvation [02] – John Bunyan John Bunyan’sL A S T – S E R M O NPreached, August 19, 1688, from John 1:13.  By J O H N. B U N Y A N1628-1688  John Bunyan died within two months of completinghis sixtieth year, on the 31st of August, 1688. Advertisement by the Editor    This sermon, although […]

Salvation [01] – John Bunyan

Salvation [01] – John Bunyan T H EJerusalem Sinner Saved;O RGood News for the Vilest of Men;Being a help for Despairing Souls,Showing that JESUS CHRIST would have mercyin the first place offered to the biggest sinners.  THE THIRD EDITION,In which is added,A NA N S W E Rto those grand objectionsthat lie in the way of […]

Sacrifice – John Bunyan

Sacrifice – John Bunyan T H EAcceptable Sacrifice;OR,The Excellency of a Broken Heart:Showing the Nature, Signs, and ProperEffects of a Contrite Spirit. Being the Last Works of that Eminent Preacher and Faithful Minister of Jesus Christ, Mr. John Bunyan, of Bedford. With a Preface Prefixed Thereunto by an Eminent Minister of the Gospel In London.  ByJ […]

Prayer – John Bunyan

Prayer – John Bunyan I Will Pray with the SpiritA N DWith the Understanding Also-O R,A Discourse Touching Prayer;Wherein is discovered,I. What Prayer Is.II. What It Is To Pray With The Spirit.III. What It Is To Pray With The SpiritA N DWith the U N D E R S T A N D I N G also…spiritually […]

Law and Grace – John Bunyan

Law and Grace – John Bunyan T H EDoctrineO F – T H ELaw and Grace Unfolded;O R,A discourse touching the law and grace; the nature of the one,and the nature of the other; showing what they are, as theyare the two covenants; and likewise, who they be, and what theirconditions are, that be under either of […]

Justification – John Bunyan

Justification – John Bunyan JustificationBy AnImputedR I G H T E O U S N E S SORNo Way to Heaven but by JESUS CHRIST.I. By justification with God, we stand clear, quit, free, or in asaved condition, in the approbation of His holy law.II. By justification with men, we stand clear and quit from justground […]

Judgment – John Bunyan

Judgment – John Bunyan T H EResurrection of the Dead,And Eternal Judgment:O R,The truth of the Resurrection of the bodies, both of good andbad at the Last Day: asserted, and proved by God’s word.A L S O,The manner and order of their coming forth of their graves;as also, with what bodies they do arise. Together, […]

John Bunyan [02]

John Bunyan [02] M R.J O H N – B U N Y A N’ sDying Sayings  ByJ O H N. B U N Y A N(1628-1688)  1861.Published in Offor’s 1861 edition of “Bunyan’s Works.”   A collection of aphorisms gathered and classified under headings.They are his thoughts, whether uttered in his last illness, or expressed earlier in […]

John Bunyan [01]

John Bunyan [01] AM E M O I RO NJ O H N – B U N Y A N(1628-1688) Published in George Offor’s 1861 edition of “Bunyan’s Works.”  By R E V.–G E O R G EC H E E V E R  1861. A Memoir On John Bunyan.By Rev. George Cheever  THE life of John […]

Jesus Christ [03] – John Bunyan

Jesus Christ [03] – John Bunyan T H EWork of Jesus ChristA S _ A NA D V O C A T EClearly Explained,A N D,Largely Improved,F O R _ T H EBenefit of All Believers.  1 John 2:1 – “And if any man sin, we have anadvocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous.”  ByJ O H N. B […]

Jesus Christ [02] – John Bunyan

Jesus Christ [02] – John Bunyan C H R I S TAComplete Savior:OR,The Intercession of Christ,And Who Are Privileged in It.The meaning of the word‘ I N T E R C E S S I O N .’The benefits of this intercession of Christ. Its perpetuity..He ever lives to make intercession. The persons who are […]

Jesus Christ [01] – John Bunyan

Jesus Christ [01] – John Bunyan TheSaints’ KnowledgeO FC H R I S T ‘ S – L O V EO RThe Unsearchable Riches of Christ,Eph 3:18, 19The extent implied in the words breadth, length, depth, and height; as far beyondall other breadths, lengths, depths, and heights, as God is infinitely beyond allcreatures. Some degrees of this […]

Holy City – John Bunyan

Holy City – John Bunyan T H EHoly CityO R,The New JerusalemWherein,Its goodly light, walls, gates, angels, and the manner of theirstanding are expounded; also, her length and breadth; together with theGolden Measuring Reed explained; and the glory of all unfolded: as also,the numerousness of its inhabitants, and what the Tree and Water of Lifeare, […]

Hell – John Bunyan

Hell – John Bunyan A F E WSighs From Hell,orT H E G R O A N SO FThe Damned SoulorAn exposition of thoseW O R D Sin the Sixteenth of Luke,Concerning the Rich Man and the Beggarwherein is discoveredthe lamentable state of the D A M N E D;their cries, their desires in their distresses,W […]

Heaven [02] – John Bunyan

Heaven [02] – John Bunyan T H EStrait GateO R,Great Difficulty of Going to Heaven:Plainly proving, by the Scriptures, that not only the rude and profane, butmany great professors, will come short of that kingdom:with directions how and why every one should strive to enter in.  “Enter ye in at the strait gate; for wide […]

Heaven [01] – John Bunyan

Heaven [01] – John Bunyan T H EHeavenly FootmanO R,A description of the man that gets to Heaven; together with the wayhe runs in, the marks he goes by; also, someD I R E C T I O N Show to run so as to obtain.With an epistle to all theslothful and careless people.  ByJ […]

Grace [04] – John Bunyan

Grace [04] – John Bunyan T H EWater of LifeO R,A discourse showing the richness and gloryO F_T H EGrace of the Gospel,as set forth in the Scripture by this term,The Water of Life.  ByJ O H N. B U N Y A N1628-1688  “And whosoever will, let him take thewater of life freely.”–Revelation 22:17  L […]

Grace [03] – John Bunyan

Grace [03] – John Bunyan ADiscourse UponT H EPhariseeA N D – T H EPublicanWherein several great and weighty things are handled:as, the nature of prayer, and of obedience to the law,with how it obliges Christians, and wherein it consists.  Wherein is also shewed, the equally deplorable condition of the Pharisee,or hypocritical and self-righteous man; and of […]

Grace [02] – John Bunyan

Grace [02] – John Bunyan Saved By Grace O R A Discourse of the Grace of God Showing  I. What it is to be saved.II. What it is to be saved by grace.III. Who they are that are saved by grace.IV. How it appears that they are saved by grace.V. What should be the reason […]

Grace [01] – John Bunyan

Grace [01] – John Bunyan Grace Abounding to the Chief of Sinners John Bunyan(1628-1688) PUBLISHER’S FOREWORD A BRIEF ACCOUNT OF THE AUTHOR’S CALL TO THE WORK OF THE MINISTRY A BRIEF ACCOUNT OF THE AUTHOR’S IMPRISONMENT THE CONCLUSION PUBLISHER’S FOREWORD John Bunyan was born at Elstow, near Bedford, England, sometime in the fall of 1628, […]

Genesis – John Bunyan

Genesis – John Bunyan An Exposition on theFirst Ten ChaptersO FG E N E S I SAnd Part of the Eleventh  ByJ O H N. B U N Y A N1628-1688  First published in 1691, by Charles Doe. An unfinished commentary on the Bible, found among JohnBunyan’s papers after his death, in his own handwriting. Edited […]

The Fear of God – John Bunyan

The Fear of God – John Bunyan ATreatise of the Fear of God;Showing,What it is, and how distinguishedfrom that which it is not so.Also,Whence it comes; who has it; what are theeffects; and what the privileges of those thathave it in their hearts.  By J O H N. B U N Y A N1628-1688  “And whosoever […]

Election – John Bunyan

Election – John Bunyan Reprobation Asserted: The Doctrine of Eternal Election and ReprobationPromiscuously Handled,In Eleven Chapters.Wherein the most material objections made by the opposers ofthis doctrine, are fully answered; several doubts removed,and sundry cases of conscience resolved.The difference between being reprobated and being appointed tocondemnation; reprobation not the cause of sin or of condemnation.  By […]

Christian Walk – John Bunyan

Christian Walk – John Bunyan Christian BehaviorBeing the fruits of true Christianity:Teaching husbands, wives, parents, children,masters, servants, etc.,how to walk so as to please GOD.  With a word of direction to all backsliders.  By J O H N. B U N Y A N1628-1688  1674.Written in 1663, while imprisoned in Bedford Prison.This was John Bunyan’s third book […]

Antichrist – John Bunyan

Antichrist – John Bunyan ANDH I S – R U I N:ANDOf the Slaying the Witnesses.I. Of Antichrist.II. Of the ruin of Antichrist.III. Of the manner of the ruin of Antichrist.IV. Of the signs of the approach of the downfall of Antichrist.V. Of the instruments that God will use to bring Antichrist to his ruin.VI. Of the […]

PILGRIM’S PROGRESS – PART 2 – SECTION 8 – John Bunyan

PILGRIM’S PROGRESS – PART 2 – SECTION 8 – John Bunyan EIGHTH STAGE When they were gone from the shepherds, they quickly came to the place where Christian met with one Turn-away that dwelt in the town of Apostasy. Wherefore of him Mr. Great-Heart their guide now put them in mind, saying, This is the […]

PILGRIM’S PROGRESS – PART 2 – SECTION 7 – John Bunyan

PILGRIM’S PROGRESS – PART 2 – SECTION 7 – John Bunyan SEVENTH STAGE Well, the time grew on that the pilgrims must go on their way; wherefore they prepared for their journey. They sent for their friends; they conferred with them; they had some time set apart therein to commit each other to the protection […]

PILGRIM’S PROGRESS – PART 2 – SECTION 6 – John Bunyan

PILGRIM’S PROGRESS – PART 2 – SECTION 6 – John Bunyan SIXTH STAGE Now I saw that they went on to the ascent that was a little way off, cast up to be a prospect for pilgrims. That was the place from whence Christian had the first sight of Faithful his brother. Wherefore, here they […]

PILGRIM’S PROGRESS – PART 2 – SECTION 5 – John Bunyan

PILGRIM’S PROGRESS – PART 2 – SECTION 5 – John Bunyan FIFTH STAGE Now I saw in my dream, that they went forward until they were come to the brow of the Hill; where Piety, bethinking herself, cried out, Alas, I have forgot what I intended to bestow upon Christiana and her companions: I will […]

PILGRIM’S PROGRESS – PART 2 – SECTION 4 – John Bunyan

PILGRIM’S PROGRESS – PART 2 – SECTION 4 – John Bunyan FOURTH STAGE Now when they had eaten and drank, and had chatted a little longer, their guide said to them, The day wears away; if you think good, let us prepare to be going. So they got up to go, and the little boys […]

PILGRIM’S PROGRESS – PART 2 – SECTION 3 – John Bunyan

PILGRIM’S PROGRESS – PART 2 – SECTION 3 – John Bunyan THIRD STAGE The Interpreter then called for a man-servant of his, one Great-heart, and bid him take A sword, and helmet, and shield; and, Take these my daughters, said he, conduct them to the house called Beautiful, at which place they will rest next. […]

PILGRIM’S PROGRESS – PART 2 – SECTION 2 – John Bunyan

PILGRIM’S PROGRESS – PART 2 – SECTION 2 – John Bunyan SECOND STAGE So I saw in my dream, that they walked on their way, and had the weather very comfortable to them. Then Christiana began to sing, saying, Blessed be the day that I began A pilgrim for to be; And blessed also be […]

PILGRIM’S PROGRESS – PART 2 – SECTION 1 – John Bunyan

PILGRIM’S PROGRESS – PART 2 – SECTION 1 – John Bunyan FIRST STAGE By this time Christiana was got on her way, and Mercy went along with her: so as they went, her children being there also, Christiana began to discourse. And, Mercy, said Christiana, I take this as an unexpected favor, that thou shouldest […]

PILGRIM’S PROGRESS – PART 2 – John Bunyan

PILGRIM’S PROGRESS – PART 2 – John Bunyan THE PILGRIM’S PROGRESS. PART II. COURTEOUS COMPANIONS, Some time since, to tell you my dream that I had of Christian the pilgrim, and of his dangerous journey towards the Celestial country, was pleasant to me and profitable to you. I told you then also what I saw […]

PILGRIM’S PROGRESS – PART 2 PREFACE – John Bunyan

PILGRIM’S PROGRESS – PART 2 PREFACE – John Bunyan HE PILGRIM’S PROGRESS FROM THIS WORLD TO THAT WHICH IS TO COME; DELIVERED UNDER THE SIMILTUDE OF A DREAM. PART II. WHEREIN IS SET FORTH THE MANNER OF THE SETTING OUT OF CHRISTIAN’S WIFE AND CHILDREN; THEIR DANGEROUS JOURNEY, AND SAFE ARRIVAL AT THE DESIRED COUNTRY. […]

PILGRIM’S PROGRESS – PART 1 – SECTION 10 – John Bunyan

PILGRIM’S PROGRESS – PART 1 – SECTION 10 – John Bunyan TENTH STAGE Then Christian addressed himself thus to his fellow: CHR. – Well, come, my good Hopeful, I perceive that thou and I must walk by ourselves again. So I saw in my dream, that they went on apace before, and Ignorance he came […]

PILGRIM’S PROGRESS – PART 1 – SECTION 9 – John Bunyan

PILGRIM’S PROGRESS – PART 1 – SECTION 9 – John Bunyan NINETH STAGE And I slept, and dreamed again, and saw the same two pilgrims going down the mountains along the highway towards the city. Now, a little below these mountains, on the left hand, lieth the country of Conceit, from which country there comes […]

PILGRIM’S PROGRESS – PART 1 – SECTION 8 – John Bunyan

PILGRIM’S PROGRESS – PART 1 – SECTION 8 – John Bunyan EIGHTH STAGE They went then till they came to the Delectable Mountains, which mountains belong to the Lord of that hill of which we have spoken before. So they went up to the mountains, to behold the gardens and orchards, the vineyards and fountains […]

PILGRIM’S PROGRESS – PART 1 – SECTION 7 – John Bunyan

PILGRIM’S PROGRESS – PART 1 – SECTION 7 – John Bunyan SEVENTH STAGE Now I saw in my dream, that Christian went not forth alone; for there was one whose name was Hopeful, (being so made by the beholding of Christian and Faithful in their words and behavior, in their sufferings at the fair,) who […]

PILGRIM’S PROGRESS – PART 1 – SECTION 6 – John Bunyan

PILGRIM’S PROGRESS – PART 1 – SECTION 6 – John Bunyan Now when they were got almost quite out of this wilderness, Faithful chanced to cast his eye back, and espied one coming after them, and he knew him. Oh! said Faithful to his brother, who comes yonder? Then Christian looked, and said, It is […]

PILGRIM’S PROGRESS – PART 1 – SECTION 5 – John Bunyan

PILGRIM’S PROGRESS – PART 1 – SECTION 5 – John Bunyan FIFTH STAGE Now, as Christian went on his way, he came to a little ascent, which was cast up on purpose that pilgrims might see before them: up there, therefore, Christian went; and looking forward, he saw Faithful before him upon his journey: Then […]

PILGRIM’S PROGRESS – PART 1 – SECTION 4 – John Bunyan

PILGRIM’S PROGRESS – PART 1 – SECTION 4 – John Bunyan FORTH STAGE Then he began to go forward; but Discretion, Piety, Charity, and Prudence would accompany him down to the foot of the hill. So they went on together, reiterating their former discourses, till they came to go down the hill. Then said Christian, […]

PILGRIM’S PROGRESS – PART 1 – SECTION 3 – John Bunyan

PILGRIM’S PROGRESS – PART 1 – SECTION 3 – John Bunyan THIRD STAGE Now I saw in my dream, that the highway up which Christian was to go, was fenced on either side with a wall, and that wall was called Salvation. Isaiah 26:1. Up this way, therefore, did burdened Christian run, but not without […]

PILGRIM’S PROGRESS – PART 1 – SECTION 2 – John Bunyan

PILGRIM’S PROGRESS – PART 1 – SECTION 2 – John Bunyan SECOND STAGE Then did Christian address himself to go back; and Evangelist, after he had kissed him, gave him one smile, and bid him God speed; So he went on with haste, neither spake he to any man by the way; nor if any […]

PILGRIM’S PROGRESS – PART 1 – SECTION 1 – John Bunyan

PILGRIM’S PROGRESS – PART 1 – SECTION 1 – John Bunyan THE FIRST STAGE. As I walked through the wilderness of this world, I lighted on a certain place where was a den, 3 and laid me down in that place to sleep; and as I slept, I dreamed a dream. I dreamed, and behold, […]

PILGRIM’S PROGRESS – PART 1 APOLOGY – John Bunyan

PILGRIM’S PROGRESS – PART 1 APOLOGY – John Bunyan THE AUTHOR’S APOLOGYFORHIS BOOK. WHEN at the first I took my pen in hand Thus for to write, I did not understand That I at all should make a little book In such a mode: nay, I had undertook To make another; which, when almost done, […]

PILGRIM’S PROGRESS – CONTENTS – John Bunyan

PILGRIM’S PROGRESS – CONTENTS – John Bunyan Author’s Apology for his Book PART I. THE FIRST STAGE. – Christian’s deplorable condition Evangelist directs him Obstinate and Pliable Slough of Despond Worldly Wiseman Mount Sinai Conversation with Evangelist THE SECOND STAGE. – The Gate conversation with Good-Will the Interpreter’s House Christian entertained the sights there shown […]

GRACE ABOUNDING TO THE CHIEF OF SINNERS – SECTION 12 – John Bunyan

GRACE ABOUNDING TO THE CHIEF OF SINNERS – SECTION 12 – John Bunyan THE CONCLUSION 1. Of all the temptations that ever I met with in my life, to question the being of God, and the truth of His gospel, is the worst, and the worst to be borne; when this temptation comes, it takes […]

GRACE ABOUNDING TO THE CHIEF OF SINNERS – SECTION 11 – John Bunyan

GRACE ABOUNDING TO THE CHIEF OF SINNERS – SECTION 11 – John Bunyan 300. This consideration, therefore, together with some others, were, for the most part, as a maul on the head of pride, and desire of vain glory; what, thought I, shall I be proud because I am a sounding brass? Is it so […]

GRACE ABOUNDING TO THE CHIEF OF SINNERS – SECTION 10 – John Bunyan

GRACE ABOUNDING TO THE CHIEF OF SINNERS – SECTION 10 – John Bunyan 270. By this text I was made to see that the Holy Ghost never intended that men who have gifts and abilities should bury them in the earth, but rather did command and stir up such to the exercise of their gift, […]

GRACE ABOUNDING TO THE CHIEF OF SINNERS – SECTION 9 – John Bunyan

GRACE ABOUNDING TO THE CHIEF OF SINNERS – SECTION 9 – John Bunyan 240. Another cause of this temptation was, that I had tempted God; and on this manner did I do it. Upon a time my wife was great with child, and before her full time was come, her pangs, as of a woman […]

GRACE ABOUNDING TO THE CHIEF OF SINNERS – SECTION 8 – John Bunyan

GRACE ABOUNDING TO THE CHIEF OF SINNERS – SECTION 8 – John Bunyan 210. These, as the elders of the city of refuge, I saw were to be the judges both of my case and me, while I stood, with the avenger of blood at my heels, trembling at their gate for deliverance, also with […]

GRACE ABOUNDING TO THE CHIEF OF SINNERS – SECTION 7 – John Bunyan

GRACE ABOUNDING TO THE CHIEF OF SINNERS – SECTION 7 – John Bunyan 180. About this time I took an opportunity to break my mind to an ancient Christian, and told him all my case; I told him, also, that I was afraid that I had sinned the sin against the Holy Ghost; and he […]

GRACE ABOUNDING TO THE CHIEF OF SINNERS – SECTION 6 – John Bunyan

GRACE ABOUNDING TO THE CHIEF OF SINNERS – SECTION 6 – John Bunyan 150. And now began I to labour to call again time that was past; wishing a thousand times twice told, that the day was yet to come, when I should be tempted to such a sin; concluding with great indignation, both against […]

GRACE ABOUNDING TO THE CHIEF OF SINNERS – SECTION 5 – John Bunyan

GRACE ABOUNDING TO THE CHIEF OF SINNERS – SECTION 5 – John Bunyan 120. Truly, I then found, upon this account, the great God was very good unto me; for, to my remembrance, there was not anything that I then cried unto God to make known and reveal unto me but He was pleased to […]

GRACE ABOUNDING TO THE CHIEF OF SINNERS – SECTION 4 – John Bunyan

GRACE ABOUNDING TO THE CHIEF OF SINNERS – SECTION 4 – John Bunyan 90. But I got nothing by what he said at present, only when he came to the application of the fourth particular, this was the word he said: If it be so, that the saved soul is Christ’s love when under temptation […]

GRACE ABOUNDING TO THE CHIEF OF SINNERS – SECTION 3 – John Bunyan

GRACE ABOUNDING TO THE CHIEF OF SINNERS – SECTION 3 – John Bunyan 60. 0 Lord, thought I, what if I should not, indeed? It may be you are not, said the tempter; it may be so, indeed, thought I. Why, then, said Satan, you had as good leave off, and strive no further; for […]

GRACE ABOUNDING TO THE CHIEF OF SINNERS – SECTION 2 – John Bunyan

GRACE ABOUNDING TO THE CHIEF OF SINNERS – SECTION 2 – John Bunyan 30. Wherefore I fell to some outward reformation, both in my words and life, and did set the commandments before me for my way to heaven; which commandments I also did strive to keep, and, as I thought, did keep them pretty […]

GRACE ABOUNDING TO THE CHIEF OF SINNERS – SECTION 1 – John Bunyan

GRACE ABOUNDING TO THE CHIEF OF SINNERS – SECTION 1 – John Bunyan GRACE ABOUNDING TO THE CHIEF OF SINNERS OR, A BRIEF RELATION OF THE EXCEEDING MERCY OF GOD IN CHRIST, TO HIS POOR SERVANT JOHN BUNYAN 1. In this my relation of the merciful working of God upon my soul, it will not […]

GRACE ABOUNDING TO THE CHIEF OF SINNERS – PREFACE – John Bunyan

GRACE ABOUNDING TO THE CHIEF OF SINNERS – PREFACE – John Bunyan OR BRIEF ACCOUNT OF THE PUBLISHING OF THIS WORK WRITTEN BY THE AUTHOR THEREOF, AND DEDICATED TO THOSE WHOM GOD HATH COUNTED HIM WORTHY TO BEGET TO FAITH, BY HIS MINISTRY IN THE WORD CHILDREN, grace be with you, Amen. I being taken […]

GRACE ABOUNDING TO THE CHIEF OF SINNERS – FORWARD – John Bunyan

GRACE ABOUNDING TO THE CHIEF OF SINNERS – FORWARD – John Bunyan John Bunyan was born at Elstow, near Bedford, England, sometime in the fall of 1628, the first of three children born to Thomas and Margaret Bunyan. The parish register indicates that he was baptized on November 30, 1628. In Grace Abounding Bunyan describes […]

HOLY WAR – CHAPTER 19 – John Bunyan

HOLY WAR – CHAPTER 19 – John Bunyan When the town of Mansoul had thus far rid themselves of their enemies, and of the troublers of their peace, in the next place a strict commandment was given out, that yet my Lord Willbewill should, with Diligence his man, search for, and do his best to […]

HOLY WAR – CHAPTER 18 – John Bunyan

HOLY WAR – CHAPTER 18 – John Bunyan But there were three of those that came from the land of Doubting, who, after they had wandered and ranged the country a while, and perceived that they had escaped, were so hardy as to thrust themselves, knowing that yet there were in the town Diabolonians,-I say, […]

HOLY WAR – CHAPTER 17 – John Bunyan

HOLY WAR – CHAPTER 17 – John Bunyan So order was given out by the Lord Mayor, that wise and trusty friend of the town of Mansoul, that persons should be employed about this necessary business; and Mr. Godly-Fear, and one Mr. Upright, were to be overseers about this matter: so persons were put under […]

HOLY WAR – CHAPTER 16 – John Bunyan

HOLY WAR – CHAPTER 16 – John Bunyan Now the townsmen began to perceive what interest the captain had, both with the court, and also with the Lord Secretary in Mansoul; for no man before could speed when sent, nor bring such good news from Emmanuel as he. Wherefore what do they, after some lamentation […]

HOLY WAR – CHAPTER 15 – John Bunyan

HOLY WAR – CHAPTER 15 – John Bunyan After the town of Mansoul had been in this sad and lamentable condition for so long a time as I have told you, and no petitions that they presented their Prince with, all this while, could prevail, the inhabitants of the town, namely, the elders and chief […]

HOLY WAR – CHAPTER 14 – John Bunyan

HOLY WAR – CHAPTER 14 – John Bunyan Now, as Diabolus was busy and industrious in preparing to make his assault upon the town of Mansoul without, so the captains and soldiers in the corporation were as busy in preparing within; they mounted their slings, they set up their banners, they sounded their trumpets, and […]

HOLY WAR – CHAPTER 13 – John Bunyan

HOLY WAR – CHAPTER 13 – John Bunyan And not many days after he provided for his journey, and went towards Hell-Gate Hill, into the country where the Doubters were, where he heard of all that had been talked of in Mansoul, and he perceived also that Diabolus was almost ready for his march, etc. […]

HOLY WAR – CHAPTER 12 – John Bunyan

HOLY WAR – CHAPTER 12 – John Bunyan Now all the while that the raging runagates and hellish Diabolonians were thus contriving the ruin of the town of Mansoul, they (namely the poor town itself) were in a sad and woful case; partly because they had so grievously offended Shaddai and his Son, and partly […]

HOLY WAR – CHAPTER 11 – John Bunyan

HOLY WAR – CHAPTER 11 – John Bunyan Well, when the Sabbath-day was come, they went to hear their subordinate preacher; but oh, how he did thunder and lighten this day! His text was that in the prophet Jonah: ‘They that observe lying vanities forsake their own mercy.’But there was then such power and authority […]

HOLY WAR – CHAPTER 10 – John Bunyan

HOLY WAR – CHAPTER 10 – John Bunyan When the Prince had thus far new-modelled the town of Mansoul, and had instructed them in such matters as were profitable for them to know, then he appointed another day in which he intended, when the townsfolk came together, to bestow a further badge of honour upon […]

HOLY WAR – CHAPTER 9 – John Bunyan

HOLY WAR – CHAPTER 9 – John Bunyan Now when Mr. True-Man, the gaoler, perceived that he had lost his prisoner, he was in a heavy taking, because that prisoner was, to speak on, the very worst of all the gang: wherefore, first he goes and acquaints my Lord Mayor, Mr. Recorder, and my Lord […]

HOLY WAR – CHAPTER 8 – John Bunyan

HOLY WAR – CHAPTER 8 – John Bunyan Now, when the time was come, and the court set, commandment was sent to Mr. True-Man, the gaoler, to bring the prisoners down to the bar. Then were the prisoners brought down, pinioned and chained together, as the custom of the town of Mansoul was. So, when […]

HOLY WAR – CHAPTER 7 – John Bunyan

HOLY WAR – CHAPTER 7 – John Bunyan Well, I told you before how the prisoners were entertained by the noble Prince Emmanuel, and how they behaved themselves before him, and how he sent them away to their home with pipe and tabor going before them. And now you must think that those of the […]

HOLY WAR – CHAPTER 6 – John Bunyan

HOLY WAR – CHAPTER 6 – John Bunyan Now, Captain Boanerges and Captain Conviction were, both of them, men of very great majesty; their faces were like the faces of lions, and their words like the roaring of the sea; and they still quartered in Mr. Conscience’s house, of whom mention was made before. When, […]

HOLY WAR – CHAPTER 5 – John Bunyan

HOLY WAR – CHAPTER 5 – John Bunyan So when Emmanuel saw that Mansoul was thus involved in sin, he calls his army together (since now also his words were despised), and gave out a commandment throughout all his host to be ready against the time appointed. Now, forasmuch as there was no way lawfully […]

HOLY WAR – CHAPTER 4 – John Bunyan

HOLY WAR – CHAPTER 4 – John Bunyan Now Diabolus had waited for his return, for he had heard that they had been at their points. So, when he was come into the chamber of state, Diabolus saluted him with-‘Welcome, my lord. How went matters betwixt you to-day?’So the Lord Incredulity, with a low congee, […]

HOLY WAR – CHAPTER 3 – John Bunyan

HOLY WAR – CHAPTER 3 – John Bunyan Now all this time the good King, the King Shaddai, was preparing to send an army to recover the town of Mansoul again from under the tyranny of their pretended king Diabolus; but he thought good, at first, not to send them by the hand and conduct […]

HOLY WAR – CHAPTER 2 – John Bunyan

HOLY WAR – CHAPTER 2 – John Bunyan When the giant had thus engarrisoned himself in the town of Mansoul, and had put down and set up whom he thought good, he betakes himself to defacing. Now there was in the market- place in Mansoul, and also upon the gates of the castle, an image […]

HOLY WAR – CHAPTER 1 – John Bunyan

HOLY WAR – CHAPTER 1 – John Bunyan In my travels, as I walked through many regions and countries, it was my chance to happen into that famous continent of Universe. A very large and spacious country it is: it lieth between the two poles, and just amidst the four points of the heavens. It […]

HOLY WAR – ADVERTISMENT – John Bunyan

HOLY WAR – ADVERTISMENT – John Bunyan SOME say the ‘Pilgrim’s Progress’ is not mine, Insinuating as if I would shine In name and fame by the worth of another, Like some made rich by robbing of their brother. Or that so fond I am of being sire, I’ll father bastards; or, if need require, […]

HOLY WAR – TO THE READER – John Bunyan

HOLY WAR – TO THE READER – John Bunyan ‘Tis strange to me, that they that love to tell Things done of old, yea, and that do excel Their equals in historiology, Speak not of Mansoul’s wars, but let them lie Dead, like old fables, or such worthless things, That to the reader no advantage […]

FOOTNOTES – John Bunyan

FOOTNOTES – John Bunyan PILGRIMS PROGRESS Ft1 Without end. Ft2 Hint, whisper, insinuation. Ft3 Bedford jail, in which the author was a prisoner for conscience sake. Ft4 Wish a curse to. Ft5 The Holy Spirit. Ft6 Of the flesh and blood of Christ. Ft7 A musical instrument. Ft8 A gold angel was a coin of […]

PEACEABLE PRINCIPLES AND TRUE – John Bunyan

PEACEABLE PRINCIPLES AND TRUE – John Bunyan OR, A BRIEF ANSWER TO MR. DANVERS’ AND MR. PAUL’S BOOKS AGAINST MY CONFESSION OF FAITH, AND DIFFERENCES IN JUDGMENT ABOUT WATER BAPTISM NO BAR TO COMMUNION; WHEREIN THEIR SCRIPTURELESS NOTIONS ARE OVERTHROWN AND MY PEACEABLE PRINCIPLES STILL MAINTAINED. Do ye indeed speak righteousness, O congregation? Do ye […]

DIFFERENCES IN JUDGMENT – John Bunyan

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A CONFESSION OF MY FAITH. – John Bunyan

A CONFESSION OF MY FAITH. – John Bunyan 1. IBELIEVE that there is but one only true God, and that there is none other but he: “To us there is but one God, the Father, of whom are all things. And this is life eternal, that they might know thee, the only true God,” etc. […]

A CONFESSION OF MY FAITH AND A REASON OF MY PRACTICE – John Bunyan

A CONFESSION OF MY FAITH AND A REASON OF MY PRACTICE – John Bunyan Or, With Who, and Who Not, I Can Hold Church Fellowship of the Communion of Saints: Showing, by Divers Arguments, That Though I Dare Not Communicate With the Open Profane, Yet I Can With Those Visible Saints That Differ About Water […]

REPROBATION ASSERTED – John Bunyan

REPROBATION ASSERTED – John Bunyan OR, THE DOCTRINE OF ETERNAL ELECTION AND REPROBATION PROMISCUOUSLY HANDLED: IN ELEVEN CHAPTERS WHEREIN THE MOST MATERIAL OBJECTIONS MADE BY THE OPPOSERS OF THIS DOCTRINE ARE FULLY ANSWERED, SEVERAL DOUBTS REMOVED, AND SUNDRY CASES OF CONSCIENCE RESOLVED. What then? Israel hath not obtained that which he seeketh for; but the […]

CHRIST’S SERMON ON THE MOUNT. – John Bunyan

CHRIST’S SERMON ON THE MOUNT. – John Bunyan <400501> MATTHEW And Jesus, seeing the multitudes, ascended Up to a mount, where sitting, and attended By his disciples, he began to preach; And on this manner following did them teach: Blessed are all such as are poor in spirit, For they the heavenly kingdom do inherit. […]

A DISCOURSE ON PRAYER – John Bunyan

A DISCOURSE ON PRAYER – John Bunyan WHEREIN ARE BRIEFLY DISCOVERED — I. WHAT PRAYER IS. — II. WHAT IT IS TO PRAY WITH THE SPIRIT. — III. WHAT IT IS TO PRAY WITH THE SPIRIT, AND WITH THE UNDERSTANDING ALSO. For we know not what we should pray for as we ought; only the […]

THE GLORY OF THE TEMPLE – John Bunyan

THE GLORY OF THE TEMPLE – John Bunyan OR, SOLOMON’S TEMPLE, AND THE MATERIALS THEREOF, SPIRITUALIZED. I. WHERE THE TEMPLE WAS BUILT. The temple was built at Jerusalem, on Mount Moriah, in the threshing-floor of Arnon the Jebusite; whereabout Abraham offered up Isaac; there where David met the angel of the Lord when he came […]

NEW TESTAMENT TRUTHS. – John Bunyan

NEW TESTAMENT TRUTHS. – John Bunyan Thou son of man, show the house to the house of Israel — show the form of the house, and the fashion thereof, and the goings out thereof, and the comings in thereof, and all the forms thereof, and all the ordinances thereof, and all the forms thereof, and […]

PILGRIM’S PROGRESS – THE EIGHTH STAGE. – John Bunyan

PILGRIM’S PROGRESS – THE EIGHTH STAGE. – John Bunyan THE EIGHTH STAGE. WHEN they were gone from the shepherds, they quickly came to the place where Christian met with one Turn-away that dwelt in the town of Apostasy. Wherefore of him Mr. Great-heart their guide did now put them in mind, saying, “This is the […]

THE PILGRIMS GO FORWARD – THE SEVENTH STAGE. – John Bunyan

THE PILGRIMS GO FORWARD – THE SEVENTH STAGE. – John Bunyan THE SEVENTH STAGE. WELL, the time grew on that the pilgrims must go on their way; wherefore they prepared for their journey. They sent for their friends; they conferred with them; they had some time set apart therein to commit each other to the […]

PILGRIM’S PROGRESS – THE SIXTH STAGE. – John Bunyan

PILGRIM’S PROGRESS – THE SIXTH STAGE. – John Bunyan THE SIXTH STAGE. NOW I saw that they went on to the ascent that was a little way off, cast up to be a prospect for pilgrims. That was the place from whence Christian had the first sight of Faithful his brother. Wherefore, here they sat […]

PILGRIM’S PROGRESS – THE FIFTH STAGE. – John Bunyan

PILGRIM’S PROGRESS – THE FIFTH STAGE. – John Bunyan THE FIFTH STAGE. NOW I saw in my dream, that they went forward until they were come to the brow of the hill; where Piety, bethinking herself, cried out, “Alas, I have forgot what I intended to bestow upon Christiana and her companions: I will go […]

PILGRIM’S PROGRESS – THE FOURTH STAGE. – John Bunyan

PILGRIM’S PROGRESS – THE FOURTH STAGE. – John Bunyan THE FOURTH STAGE. NOW when they had eaten and drank, and had chatted a little longer, their guide said to them, “The day wears away; if you think good, let us prepare to be going.” So they got up to go and the little boys went […]

GREAT-HEART – THE THIRD STAGE. – John Bunyan

GREAT-HEART – THE THIRD STAGE. – John Bunyan THE THIRD STAGE. THE Interpreter then called for a man-servant of his, one Great-heart, and bid him take a sword and helmet and shield, and, “Take these my daughters,” said he, “conduct them to the house called Beautiful, at which place they will rest next.” So he […]

IN THE SIMILITUDE OF A DREAM. – John Bunyan

IN THE SIMILITUDE OF A DREAM. – John Bunyan — — — — — — PART 2. COURTEOUS COMPANIONS — Some time since, to tell you my dream that I had of Christian the pilgrim, and of his dangerous journey towards the celestial country, was pleasant to me and profitable to you. I told you […]

THE PILGRIM. – John Bunyan

THE PILGRIM. – John Bunyan GO now, my little Book, to every place Where my first Pilgrim has but shown his face: Call at their door; if any say, “Who’s there?” Then answer thou, “Christiana is here.” If they bid thee come in, then enter thou, With all thy boys; and then, as thou knowest […]

PILGRIM’S PROGRESS – PART 2 – John Bunyan

PILGRIM’S PROGRESS – PART 2 – John Bunyan FROM THIS WORLD TO THAT WHICH IS TO COME; DELIVERED UNDER THE SIMILITUDE OF A DREAM. PART 2 , WHEREIN IS SET FORTH THE MANNER OF THE SETTING OUT OF CHRISTIAN担 WIFE AND CHILDREN, THEIR DANGEROUS JOURNEY, AND SAFE ARRIVAL AT THE DESIRED COUNTRY. I have used […]

BLINDNESS PREVALENT – THE TENTH STAGE. – John Bunyan

BLINDNESS PREVALENT – THE TENTH STAGE. – John Bunyan THE TENTH STAGE. THEN Christian addressed thus himself to his fellow: Christian. Well, come, my good Hopeful, I perceive that thou and I must walk by ourselves again. So I saw in my dream that they went on apace before, and Ignorance he came hobbling after. […]

IGNORANCE MET – THE NINTH STAGE. – John Bunyan

IGNORANCE MET – THE NINTH STAGE. – John Bunyan THE NINTH STAGE. AND I slept, and dreamed again, and saw the same two Pilgrims going down the mountains along the highway towards the city. Now, a little below these mountains, on the left hand, lieth the country of Conceit; from which country there comes into […]

PILGRIM’S PROGRESS – THE EIGHTH STAGE. – John Bunyan

PILGRIM’S PROGRESS – THE EIGHTH STAGE. – John Bunyan THE EIGHTH STAGE. THEY went then till they came to the Delectable Mountains, which mountains belong to the Lord of that hill of which we have spoken before; so they went up to the mountains, to behold the gardens and orchards, the vineyards and fountains of […]

BY-ENDS OVERTAKEN – THE SEVENTH STAGE. – John Bunyan

BY-ENDS OVERTAKEN – THE SEVENTH STAGE. – John Bunyan THE SEVENTH STAGE. NOW I saw in my dream, that Christian went not forth alone; for there was one whose name was Hopeful (being so made by the beholding of Christian and Faithful in their words and behavior, in their sufferings at the fair,) who joined […]

PILGRIM’S PROGRESS – THE SIXTH STAGE. – John Bunyan

PILGRIM’S PROGRESS – THE SIXTH STAGE. – John Bunyan THE SIXTH STAGE. NOW, when they were got almost quite out of this wilderness, Faithful chanced to cast his eye back, and espied one coming after them, and he knew him. “Oh’” said Faithful to his brother, “who comes yonder?” Then Christian looked, and said, “It […]

PURSUES HIS JOURNEY – THE FOURTH STAGE. – John Bunyan

PURSUES HIS JOURNEY – THE FOURTH STAGE. – John Bunyan THE FOURTH STAGE. THEN he began to go forward; but Discretion, Piety, Charity, and Prudence would accompany him down to the foot of the hill. So they went on together, reiterating their former discourses, till they came to go down the hill. Then said Christian […]

LOSES HIS BURDEN – THE THIRD STAGE. – John Bunyan

LOSES HIS BURDEN – THE THIRD STAGE. – John Bunyan THE THIRD STAGE. NOW I saw in my dream, that the highway up which Christian was to go, was fenced on either side with a wall, and that wall was called Salvation. Isaiah 26:1. Up this way, therefore, did burdened Christian run, but not without […]

PILGRIM’S PROGRESS – THE FIRST STAGE – John Bunyan

PILGRIM’S PROGRESS – THE FIRST STAGE – John Bunyan FROM THIS WORLD TO THAT WHICH IS TO COME; DELIVERED UNDER THE SIMILITUDE OF A DREAM. BY JOHN BUNYAN (INCLUDES LIFE OF BUNYAN, OR GRACE ABOUNDING. ) THE PILGRIM’S PROGRESS FROM THIS WORLD TO THAT WHICH IS TO COME. DELIVERED UNDER THE SIMILITUDE OF ADREAM THE […]

COMPLETE WORKS OF JOHN BUNYAN. – John Bunyan

COMPLETE WORKS OF JOHN BUNYAN. – John Bunyan BY REV. JOHN P. GULLIVER, D.D., PRESIDENT OF KNOX COLLEGE, GALESBURG, ILLINOIS, THE career of Bunyan is a marvel. It will repay the labor of a careful analysis by the rhetorician, the orator, the writer of fiction, the preacher, the Sabbath-school teacher and the Christian parent; for […]

FOOTNOTES – John Bunyan

FOOTNOTES – John Bunyan ADVISE TO SUFFERS Not equipages to ride, but dainty formalities. — Ed. “A good and harmless conscience”; not as the procuring cause of confidence in God’s tender care of us, but as the strong evidence of our election and regeneration. — Ed. “Bravery”; magnificence or excellence. “Like a stately ship, with […]

AN ELEGY – John Bunyan

AN ELEGY – John Bunyan ON THE DEATH OF THE WORTHY AND PIOUS MR. JOHN BUNYAN, LATE PREACHER OF THE GOSPEL AT BEDFORD, AND AUTHOR OF THE PILGRIM’S PROGRESS, HOLY WAR, AND THE ADVOCATESHIP OF JESUS CHRIST, WITH MANY MORE EXCELLENT BOOKS; WHO DEPARTED THIS LIFE ON FRIDAY THE LAST DAY OF AUGUST, 1688. DEEP […]

A CONTINUATION OF MR. BUNYAN’S LIFE

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MR. JOHN BUNYAN’S DYING SAYINGS. – John Bunyan

MR. JOHN BUNYAN’S DYING SAYINGS. – John Bunyan OF SIN. SIN is the great block and bar to our happiness, the procurer of all miseries to man, both here and hereafter. Take away sin, and nothing can hurt us; for death, temporal, spiritual and eternal, is the wages of it. sin, and man for sin, […]

PASTORAL LETTERS.,, – John Bunyan

PASTORAL LETTERS.,, – John Bunyan LETTER TO MR. ANTHONY HARRINGTON, OF BEDFORD. (1669-1672.) Mr. Harrington, prior to 1650, was a leading man among the Dissenters of Bedford. His zeal so provoked John Gifford, (in his ungodliness,) that he thought often of killing him. Mr. Harrington was driven from his family by persecution in 1669; but […]

PASTORAL LETTERS – John Bunyan

PASTORAL LETTERS – John Bunyan ADDRESSED TO SEVERAL MEMBERS OF THE CHURCH OF BEDFORD. BY JOHN BUNYAN, Written by the Appointment, and Subscribed in the Name and With the Consent of the Church.

THE CONCLUSION. – John Bunyan

THE CONCLUSION. – John Bunyan BEFORE I wind up this discourse, I would lay down these few things for you to consider and meditate upon. 1. Consider, that seeing all and every one by nature are accounted sinners, it is no matter whether thy actual sins be little or great, few or many; thy sinful […]

OF SELF-DENIAL. – John Bunyan

OF SELF-DENIAL. – John Bunyan Question. I am glad you have thus far granted my request; but you told me that there was another part of God’s worship; pray repeat that again? Answer. It is self-denial. Question. Now I remember it well. Pray how do you prove that selfdenial is called a part of God’s […]

OF PRAYER. – John Bunyan

OF PRAYER. – John Bunyan Question. Well, I am glad that you have showed me that I must worship God by confession of sin, and faith in Jesus Christ. Is there any other thing a part of the true worship of God? Answer. Yes, several; I will mention only two more at this time. Question. […]

OF FAITH IN CHRIST. – John Bunyan

OF FAITH IN CHRIST. – John Bunyan Question. I am glad that you have instructed me into this part of the worship of God; I pray tell me also how else I should worship him? Answer. Thou must believe his word. Question. Is that worshiping God? Answer. Yes. “After the way which you call heresy, […]

OF CONFESSION OF SIN. – John Bunyan

OF CONFESSION OF SIN. – John Bunyan Question. You have showed me, if I will indeed worship God, I must first know him aright; now then to the question in hand. Pray how must I worship him? Answer. In confessing unto him. Nehemiah 9:1-3. Question. What must I confess? Answer. Thou must confess thy transgressions […]

OF SEEKING SALVATION YOUNG. – John Bunyan

OF SEEKING SALVATION YOUNG. – John Bunyan Question. Did ever God punish little children for sin against him? Answer. Yes; when the flood came, he drowned all the little children that were in the old world; he also burnt up all the little children which were in Sodom; and because upon a time the little […]

OF THE PUNISHMENT OF SIN. – John Bunyan

OF THE PUNISHMENT OF SIN. – John Bunyan Question. Where will God punish sinners for their sins? Answer. Both in this world, and in that which is to come. Genesis 3:24; 4:10-12; Job 21:30. Question. How are men punished in this world for sin? Answer. Many ways, as with sickness, losses, crosses, disappointments, and the […]

OF MAN’S SIN. – John Bunyan

OF MAN’S SIN. – John Bunyan Question. How did God make Man in the day of his first creation? Answer. God made Man upright. In the image of God created he him. Ecclesiastes 7:29; Genesis 1:27. Question. Did God when he made Man, leave him without a rule to walk by? Answer. No; he gave […]

A FAMILIAR CATECHISM – John Bunyan

A FAMILIAR CATECHISM – John Bunyan OR, INSTRUCTION FOR THE IGNORANT, Being a salve to cure that great want of knowledge which somuch reigns in young and old. prepared and presented to them in a plain and easy dialogue pitted to the capacity of the weakest. “My People perish for lack of Knowledge.” — Hosea […]

CONCLUDING COUNSELS TO UNQUIET SUFFERERS. – John Bunyan

CONCLUDING COUNSELS TO UNQUIET SUFFERERS. – John Bunyan IWILL conclude, then, with a word to those professors, if there be any such, that are of an unquiet and troublesome spirit. Friends, I may say to you, as our Lord said once to his disciples, “Ye know not what manner of spirit ye are of.” To […]

GENERAL USES OF THE WHOLE DISCUSSION – John Bunyan

GENERAL USES OF THE WHOLE DISCUSSION – John Bunyan We will now conclude with a short word by way ofUSE. You see how I have opened the text, and what hath naturally followed thereupon; from the whole of which may be gathered: First, That the people of God are a suffering people — a people […]

ALL OUR FEARS DISPELLED BY GOD’S FAITHFULNESS. – John Bunyan

ALL OUR FEARS DISPELLED BY GOD’S FAITHFULNESS. – John Bunyan ACOMELY Thing It Is For The Soul That Feareth God, To Love And Reverence him in all his appearances. We should be like the spaniel dog, even lie at the foot of our God, as he at the foot of his master; yea, and should […]

GOOD EFFECT OF OBSERVING THE FOREGOING ADVICE. – John Bunyan

GOOD EFFECT OF OBSERVING THE FOREGOING ADVICE. – John Bunyan ICOME now to speak to the third and last part of the text, namely, of the good effect that will certainly follow to those that, after a due manner, shall take the advice afore given. “Let them that suffer according to the will of God, […]

ADVICE GROUNDED ON THE DOCTRINE ESTABLISHED – John Bunyan

ADVICE GROUNDED ON THE DOCTRINE ESTABLISHED – John Bunyan AND thus, in a word or two, I have finished the first two parts of the text, and showed you what there is in Peter’s counsel and advice; and showed you also, to whom his advice is given: in which last, as you see, I have […]

ALL OUR SUFFERINGS SUBJECT TO GOD’S DISPOSAL. – John Bunyan

ALL OUR SUFFERINGS SUBJECT TO GOD’S DISPOSAL. – John Bunyan IHAVE now done with that first head that was to be spoken to, as touching the law and testament; which we have said was to be understood of the will of God spoken of in the text: “Let them that suffer according to the will […]

WHAT IT IS TO SUFFER FOR RIGHTEOUSNESS’ SAKE – John Bunyan

WHAT IT IS TO SUFFER FOR RIGHTEOUSNESS’ SAKE – John Bunyan BUT we will pass this, and come to our second particular, namely,TO SHOW WHEN IT MAY BE SAID AMAN DOTH NOT ONLY SUFFER FOR RIGHTEOUSNESS,BUT ALSO FOR RIGHTEOUSNESS’SAKE. To suffer for righteousness’ sake must be either with the intention of the persecutor or else […]

WHAT IT IS TO SUFFER FOR RIGHTEOUSNESS. – John Bunyan

WHAT IT IS TO SUFFER FOR RIGHTEOUSNESS. – John Bunyan ICOME now to the second thing propounded to be spoken to, as to suffering, which is this. —THAT THERE HAVE BEEN,AND YET MAY BE, APEOPLE IN THE WORLD THAT HAVE,AND MAY,SUFFER IN THE SENSE OF THE APOSTLE HERE,ACCORDING TO THE WILL OF GOD,OR FOR RIGHTEOUSNESS’SAKE. […]

WHO ARE PARTICULARLY CONCERNED IN THIS EXHORTATION. – John Bunyan

WHO ARE PARTICULARLY CONCERNED IN THIS EXHORTATION. – John Bunyan ISHALL now come to the second thing contained in the text, namely, to give you a more distinct description of the men that are thus bid to commit the keeping of their souls to God. And they are thus described: they that “suffer according to […]

HOW TO FULFILL THIS NECESSARY DUTY. – John Bunyan –

HOW TO FULFILL THIS NECESSARY DUTY. – John Bunyan – BUT what is committing of the soul to God? Answer. I have, in general, briefly spoken to that already, and now, for thy further help, we will a little enlarge. Wherefore, 1. To commit is to deliver up to custody to be kept. Hence prisoners, […]

REASONS FOR THIS EXHORTATION – John Bunyan

REASONS FOR THIS EXHORTATION – John Bunyan We will now come to touch upon that which may more immediately be called the reason of this exhortation; for, although all these things that have been mentioned before may, or might be called reasons of the point, yet there are those, in my judgment, that may be […]

ADVICE TO SUFFERERS. – John Bunyan

ADVICE TO SUFFERERS. – John Bunyan CHAPTER -EXTORTION OF THE TEXT EXPLAINED “Wherefore let them that suffer according to the will of God, commit the keeping of their souls to Him in well doing, as unto a faithful creator” — 1 Peter 4:19. THIS epistle was written to saints in affliction, specially those of the […]

SEASONABLE COUNSEL – John Bunyan

SEASONABLE COUNSEL – John Bunyan OR, ADVICE TO SUFFERERS. BY JOHN BUNYAN. London: Printed for Benjamin Alsop, at the Angel and Bible in the Poultry, 1684. ADVERTISEMENT BY THE EDITOR. THIS valuable treatise was first published in a pocket volume in 1684, and has only been reprinted in Whitfield’s edition of Bunyan’s works, 2 vols. […]

PRISON MEDITATIONS. – John Bunyan

PRISON MEDITATIONS. – John Bunyan DEDICATED TO THE HEART OF SUFFERING SAINTS AND REIGNING SINNERS FRIEND, I salute thee in the Lord, And wish thou may’st abound In faith, and have a good regard To keep on holy ground. Thou dost encourage me to hold My head above the flood; Thy counsel better is than […]

A RELATION OF THE IMPRISONMENT OF MR. JOHN BUNYAN – John Bunyan

A RELATION OF THE IMPRISONMENT OF MR. JOHN BUNYAN – John Bunyan MINISTER OF THE GOSPEL AT BEDFORD, IN NOVEMBER, HIS EXAMINATION BEFORE THE JUSTICES. HIS CONFERENCE WITH THE CLERK OF THE PEACE, WHAT PASSED BETWEEN THE JUDGES AND HIS WIFE WHEN SHE PRESENTED A PETITION FOR HIS DELIVERANCE, ETC. WRITTEN BY HIMSELF. Blessed are […]

A PREFACE – John Bunyan

A PREFACE – John Bunyan OR BRIEF ACCOUNT OF THE PUBLISHING OF THIS WORK WRITTEN BY THE AUTHOR THEREOF, AND DEDICATED TO THOSE WHOM GOD HATH COUNTED HIM WORTHY TO BEGET TO FAITH, BY HIS MINISTRY IN THE WORD CHILDREN, grace be with you, Amen. I being taken from you in presence, and so tied […]

GRACE ABOUNDING TO THE CHIEF OF SINNERS – John Bunyan

GRACE ABOUNDING TO THE CHIEF OF SINNERS – John Bunyan BY JOHN BUNYAN THE AUTHOR TO THOSE WHOM GOD HATH COUNTED HIM WORTHY TO BEGET TO FAITH BY HIS MINISTRY IN THE WORD. PUBLISHER’S FOREWORD JOHN BUNYAN was born at Elstow, near Bedford, England, sometime in the fall of 1628, the first of three children […]

FOOTNOTES – John Bunyan

FOOTNOTES – John Bunyan SAVED BY GRACE Ft1 General course of manners, behavior, deportment, especially as it regards morals (see Philippians 1:27, 1 Peter 1:15). Ft2 Their conduct proved to the living that they were dead, they themselves having no feeling or sense of spiritual life; but, when quickened, their penitence and good works were […]

THE TRINITY AND A CHRISTIAN. – John Bunyan

THE TRINITY AND A CHRISTIAN. – John Bunyan HOW A YOUNG OR SHAKEN CHRISTIAN SHOULD DEMEAN HIMSELF UNDER THE WEIGHTY THOUGHTS OF THE DOCTRINE OF THE TRINITY, OR PLURALITY OF PERSONS IN THE ETERNAL GODHEAD. THE reason why I say young or shaken Christian, is, because some one who is not young, but of an […]

THE LAW AND A CHRISTIAN. – John Bunyan

THE LAW AND A CHRISTIAN. – John Bunyan THE law was given twice upon Mount Sinai; but the appearance of the Lord, when he gave it the second time, was wonderfully different from that, when at the first he delivered it to Israel. When he gave it the first time, he caused his terror and […]

OBJECTIONS AS TO PRESENT DIFFICULTIES ANSWERED. – John Bunyan

OBJECTIONS AS TO PRESENT DIFFICULTIES ANSWERED. – John Bunyan Objection. But, alas, though I should never sin that sin, yet I have other sins enough to damn me. Answer. What though thou hadst the sins of a thousand sinners, yet if thou come to Christ, He will save thee ( John 6:37; See also Hebrews […]

OBJECTIONS AS TO PAST SINS ANSWERED – John Bunyan

OBJECTIONS AS TO PAST SINS ANSWERED – John Bunyan AND thus also you may see that the doctrine of the Gospel is of great advantage to the people of God that are already come in, or to them that shall at the consideration hereof be willing to come in, to partake of the glorious benefits […]

THE SUBJECT APPLIED IN CONSOLATION. – John Bunyan

THE SUBJECT APPLIED IN CONSOLATION. – John Bunyan NOW a few words to the second doctrine, and so I shall draw towards a conclusion. The doctrine doth contain in it very much comfort to thy soul who art a new-covenant man, or one of those who are under the new covenant. There is, 1. pardon […]

THE SUBJECT APPLIED IN SELF-EXAMINATION. – John Bunyan

THE SUBJECT APPLIED IN SELF-EXAMINATION. – John Bunyan THUS have I, reader, given thee a brief discourse touching the Covenant of Works and the Covenant of Grace, also of the nature of the one, together with the nature of the other. I have also in this discourse endeavored to show you the condition of them […]

PRIVILEGES OF THOSE WHO ARE UNDER GRACE – John Bunyan

PRIVILEGES OF THOSE WHO ARE UNDER GRACE – John Bunyan In the next place, I shall show you the several privileges and advantages that the man or woman hath that is under this Covenant of Grace, over what they have that are under the Covenant of the Law and Works. As, First. The Covenant of […]

HOW SINNERS ARE BROUGHT UNDER GRACE – John Bunyan

HOW SINNERS ARE BROUGHT UNDER GRACE – John Bunyan TheSECOND thing that I am to speak unto is this —WHO they are that are actually brought into this free and unchangeable grace; and alsoHOW they are brought in. Answer. Indeed, now we come to the pinch of the whole discourse; and if God do but […]

PROOF THAT THIS GRACE IS FREE AND UNCHANGEABLE – John Bunyan

PROOF THAT THIS GRACE IS FREE AND UNCHANGEABLE – John Bunyan THUS I have showed you in particular, that the Covenant of Grace of God is free and unchangeable to men — that is, in that it hath been obtained for men, and that perfectly, to the satisfying of justice, and taking all things out […]

OFFICES OF CHRIST AS MEDIATOR OF THE COVENANT OF GRACE. – John Bunyan

OFFICES OF CHRIST AS MEDIATOR OF THE COVENANT OF GRACE. – John Bunyan BUT, in the next place, this was not all — that is, the Covenant of Grace, with the conditions thereof, was not only concluded on by both parties to be done, but Jesus Christ [Christ is put into office by the Father, […]

THIS GRACE, BY COVENANT, IS FREE AND UNCHANGEABLE – John Bunyan

THIS GRACE, BY COVENANT, IS FREE AND UNCHANGEABLE – John Bunyan NOW we are to proceed, and the things that we are to treat upon in the second place are these 1. [Besides the reasons already given.] Why is it a free and unchangeable grace? 2. Who they are that are actually brought into His […]

SOME MEN NOT UNDER THE LAW, BUT UNDER GRACE. – John Bunyan

SOME MEN NOT UNDER THE LAW, BUT UNDER GRACE. – John Bunyan NOW, in the next place, I shall come to some application of the truth of that which hath been spoken; but I shall in the first place speak something to he second doctrine, and then afterwards I shall speak something by way of […]

HOW FAR MEN MAY GO, YET BE UNDER THE LAW. – John Bunyan

HOW FAR MEN MAY GO, YET BE UNDER THE LAW. – John Bunyan Question . “But seeing you have spoken thus far, I wish you would do so much as to show in some particulars, both what men have done, and how far they have gone, and what they have received, being yet under this […]

WHO ARE THUS UNDER THE LAW – John Bunyan

WHO ARE THUS UNDER THE LAW – John Bunyan BUT you will say — “But who are those that are thus under the law?” Answer. Those that are under the law may be branched out into three ranks of men; either, first, such as are grossly profane, or such as are more refined; which may […]

WHAT IT IS TO BE UNDER THE LAW. – John Bunyan

WHAT IT IS TO BE UNDER THE LAW. – John Bunyan ASECOND thing to be spoken to is this: to show what it is to be under the law as it is a Covenant of Works; to which I shall speak, and that thus — To beUNDER THE LAW AS IT IS ACOVENANT OF WORKS, […]

THE DOCTRINE OF THE LAW AND GRACE UNFOLDED – John Bunyan

THE DOCTRINE OF THE LAW AND GRACE UNFOLDED – John Bunyan SOME IN GOSPEL TIMES ARE STILL UNDER THE LAW “For ye are not under the law, but under grace” ( Romans 6:14). In the three former chapters, the Apostle is pleading for the salvation of sinners by grace without the works of the law, […]

THE LAW AND GRACE UNFOLDED; – John Bunyan

THE LAW AND GRACE UNFOLDED; – John Bunyan OR, A DISCOURSE TOUCHING THE LAW AND GRACE; THE NATURE OF THE ONE, AND THE NATURE OF THE OTHER; SHOWING WHAT THEY ARE, AS THEY ARE THE TWO COVENANTS; AND LIKEWISE, WHO THEY BE, AND WHAT THEIR CONDITIONS ARE, THAT BE UNDER EITHER OF THESE TWO COVENANTS: […]

FINAL APPLICATION – John Bunyan

FINAL APPLICATION – John Bunyan THE THIRD USE. If justifying righteousness be alone to be found in the person of Jesus Christ, then this shews us the sad condition of two sorts of men — (1.) Of those that hang in doubt betwixt Christ and the law. (2.) Of those that do professedly make denial […]

ENCOURAGEMENT TO LIVE BY FAITH – John Bunyan

ENCOURAGEMENT TO LIVE BY FAITH – John Bunyan ICOME now toTHE SECOND USE — HaveFAITH IN CHRIST. Question. ‘But what are we to understand by faith?’ Answer: Faith importeth as much as to say, receive, embrace, accept of, or trust in, the benefit offered. All which are, by holy men of God, words used on […]

WARNING AGAINST SELF-RIGHTEOUSNESS. – John Bunyan

WARNING AGAINST SELF-RIGHTEOUSNESS. – John Bunyan THE FIRST USE. Is justifying righteousness to be found in the person of Christ only? Then this should admonish us to take heed of seeking it in ourselves — that is, of working righteousness, thereby to appease the justice of God, lest by so doing we affront and blaspheme […]

MEN ARE JUSTIFIED ONLY BY THE PERSONAL RIGHTEOUSNESS OF CHRIST – John Bunyan

MEN ARE JUSTIFIED ONLY BY THE PERSONAL RIGHTEOUSNESS OF CHRIST – John Bunyan AND that thou mayest yet be helped in this matter, I shall now come to speak to the second conclusion. The second position is,THAT MEN CAN BE JUSTIFIED FROM THE CURSE BEFORE GOD WHILE SINNERS IN THEMSELVES BY NO OTHER RIGHTEOUSNESS THAN […]

CAUTION TO AN ANXIOUS SINNER – John Bunyan

CAUTION TO AN ANXIOUS SINNER – John Bunyan TO conclude. Notwithstanding all that hath or can be said, there are six things that have great power with the heart to bend it to seek life before God by the law; of all which I would caution that soul to beware that would have happiness in […]

SEVERAL REASONS ADDUCED FOR THIS – John Bunyan

SEVERAL REASONS ADDUCED FOR THIS – John Bunyan I should now come to the second conclusion — viz., that this can be done by no other righteousness than that long ago performed by, and remaining with, the person of Christ. But before I speak to that, I will a little further press this, by urging […]

EXAMPLES OF JUSTIFIED PERSONS. – John Bunyan

EXAMPLES OF JUSTIFIED PERSONS. – John Bunyan HAVING passed over these few scriptures, I shall come to particular instances of persons who have been justified; and shall briefly touch their qualifications in the act of God’s justifying them. I. By the Old Testament examples. First, “And unto Adam also and to his wife did the […]

SCRIPTURE PROOFS OF THE FIRST POSITION – John Bunyan

SCRIPTURE PROOFS OF THE FIRST POSITION – John Bunyan But to pass this digression, and to come to my argument — namely, that men are justified from the curse of the law before God while sinners in themselves. This is evident by what hath already been said; for if the justification of their persons is […]

JUSTIFICATION BY AN IMPUTED RIGHTEOUSNESS 2 – John Bunyan

JUSTIFICATION BY AN IMPUTED RIGHTEOUSNESS 2 – John Bunyan MEN ARE JUSTIFIED WITH IN THEMSELVES SINNERS JUSTIFICATION is to be diversely taken in the scripture. 1. Sometimes it is taken for the justification of persons. 2. Sometimes for the justification of actions. 3. And sometimes for the justification of the person and action too. It […]

APPLICATION OF THE SUBJECT – John Bunyan

APPLICATION OF THE SUBJECT – John Bunyan AFEW words by way of use, and so I shall conclude. I. My first use is forDOCTRINE. And it is threefold. First. Is the salvation of the sinner by the grace of God? Then here you see the reason why God hath not respect to the personal virtues […]

WHY GOD SAVES BY GRACE, RATHER THAN BY ANY OTHER MEANS – John Bunyan

WHY GOD SAVES BY GRACE, RATHER THAN BY ANY OTHER MEANS – John Bunyan ICOME now to answer the fifth question; namely, to show why God saveth those that he saveth by grace, rather than by any other means. First. God saveth us by grace, because since sin is in the world, he can save […]

HOW IT APPEARS THAT THE SAVED, ARE SAVED BY GRACE? – John Bunyan

HOW IT APPEARS THAT THE SAVED, ARE SAVED BY GRACE? – John Bunyan This fourth question requireth that some demonstration be given of the truth of this doctrine — to wit, thatTHEY THAT ARE SAVED ARE SAVED BY GRACE. What hath been said before hath given some demonstration of the truth; wherefore, first repeating in […]

WHO THEY ARE THAT ARE TO BE SAVED BY GRACE. – John Bunyan

WHO THEY ARE THAT ARE TO BE SAVED BY GRACE. – John Bunyan ICOME now to the third particular — namely, to show youWHO THEY ARE THAT ARE TO BE SAVED BY GRACE. First. Not the self-righteous, not they that have no need of the physician. “The whole have no need of the physician,” saith […]

WHAT IS IT TO BE SAVED BY GRACE? – John Bunyan

WHAT IS IT TO BE SAVED BY GRACE? – John Bunyan NOW I come to the second question — to wit, What is it to be saved by grace? For so are the words of the text, “By grace ye are saved.” But, First. I must touch a little upon the wordGRACE, and show you […]

SAVED BY GRACE. 2 – John Bunyan

SAVED BY GRACE. 2 – John Bunyan CHAPTER -WHAT IT IS TO BE SAVED “By grace ye are saved.” — Ephesians 2:5. In the first chapter, from the fourth to the twelfth verse, the apostle is treating of the doctrine of election, both with respect to the act itself, the end, and means conducing thereto. […]

SAVED BY GRACE. 1 – John Bunyan

SAVED BY GRACE. 1 – John Bunyan THE EPISTLE TO THE READER. COURTEOUS READER, IN this little book thou art presented with a discourse of the GRACE of God, and of salvation by that grace. In which discourse, thou shalt find how each Person in the Godhead doth his part in the salvation of the […]

THE WATER OF LIFE – CHAPTER 6 – John Bunyan

THE WATER OF LIFE – CHAPTER 6 – John Bunyan FINAL APPLICATION. AND thus much for the explication of the text. I now come to make some use of the whole. You know our discourse has been at this time of. the water of life, of its quantity, headspring and quality: and I have showed […]

THE WATER OF LIFE – CHAPTER 5 – John Bunyan

THE WATER OF LIFE – CHAPTER 5 – John Bunyan PECULIAR PROPERTIES OF THE WATER OF LIFE. BUT I leave this, and proceed to the fourth and last thing, namely, to the nature and quality of this water. It is said to be pure and clear, pure and clear as crystal. “And he showed me […]

THE WATER OF LIFE – CHAPTER 4 – John Bunyan

THE WATER OF LIFE – CHAPTER 4 – John Bunyan ORIGINAL SPRING OF THE WATER OF LIFE. AND thus I pass the second, and come to the third particular, and that is to show the head and spring from whence this river proceeds. Rivers have their heads from whence they rise, out of which they […]

THE WATER OF LIFE – CHAPTER 2 & 3 – John Bunyan

THE WATER OF LIFE – CHAPTER 2 & 3 – John Bunyan  THE WATER OF LIFE EXPLAINED. AND HE SHOWED ME A PURE RIVER OF WATER OF LIFE, CLEAR AS CRYSTAL, PROCEEDING OUT OF THE THRONE OF GOD AND OF THE LAMB. — Revelation 22:1 THESE words are part of that description that one of […]

THE WATER OF LIFE – CONTENTS – John Bunyan

THE WATER OF LIFE – CONTENTS – John Bunyan THE WATER OF LIFE: OR, THE RICHNESS AND GLORY OF THE GRACE AND SPIRIT OF THE GOSPEL. The Epistle To The Reader CHAPTER 1. The Water Of Life Explained CHAPTER 2. Abundance Of The Water Of Life CHAPTER 3. Original Spring Of The Water Of Life […]

THE WATER OF LIFE – CHAPTER 1 – John Bunyan

THE WATER OF LIFE – CHAPTER 1 – John Bunyan THE WATER OF LIFE: – OR, A DISCOURSE SHOWING THE RICHNESS AND GLORY OF THE GRACE AND SPIRIT OF THE GOSPEL, AS SET FORTH IN SCRIPTURE BY THIS TERM, THE WATER OF LIFE. And whosoever will, let him take the Water of Life freely. — […]

THE ACCEPTABLE SACRIFICE – CHAPTER 8 – John Bunyan

THE ACCEPTABLE SACRIFICE – CHAPTER 8 – John Bunyan APPLICATION OF THE SUBJECT. BUT, to draw to a conclusion, let us now then make some use of this doctrine: as, Firstly , From the truth of the matter, namely, that the man who is truly come to God, has had his heart broken, his heart […]

THE ACCEPTABLE SACRIFICE – CHAPTER 7 – John Bunyan

THE ACCEPTABLE SACRIFICE – CHAPTER 7 – John Bunyan ADVANTAGES OF KEEPING THE HEART TENDER. AND here, as in a fit place, before I go any further, I will show you some of the advantages that a Christian gets by keeping his heart tender. For, as to have a broken heart, is to have an […]

THE ACCEPTABLE SACRIFICE – CHAPTER 6 – John Bunyan

THE ACCEPTABLE SACRIFICE – CHAPTER 6 – John Bunyan WHY A BROKEN HEART IS ACCEPTABLE TO GOD. AND thus have I done with this, and shall come next to the reasons of the point, namely, to show you, why or how it comes to pass, that a broken heart, a heart truly contrite, is to […]

THE ACCEPTABLE SACRIFICE – CHAPTER 5 – John Bunyan

THE ACCEPTABLE SACRIFICE – CHAPTER 5 – John Bunyan NECESSITY OF A BROKEN HEART. I COME, in the next place, to speak to this question. ‘But what NECESSITY is there that the heart must be broken? Cannot a man be saved unless his heart be broken?’ I answer, avoiding secret things, which only belong to […]

THE ACCEPTABLE SACRIFICE – CHAPTER 4 – John Bunyan

THE ACCEPTABLE SACRIFICE – CHAPTER 4 – John Bunyan SIGNS OF A BROKEN HEART. I NOW come more particularly to give you some signs of a broken heart, of a broken and a contrite spirit. First , a broken-hearted man, such as is intended in the text, is a sensible man. He is brought to […]

THE ACCEPTABLE SACRIFICE – CHAPTER 3 – John Bunyan

THE ACCEPTABLE SACRIFICE – CHAPTER 3 – John Bunyan WHAT A REALLY BROKEN HEART IS. I come now in order, to show you what a broken heart, and what a contrite spirit is. This must be done, because in the discovery of this lies both the comfort of them that have it, and the conviction […]

THE ACCEPTABLE SACRIFICE – CHAPTER 1 & 2 – John Bunyan

THE ACCEPTABLE SACRIFICE – CHAPTER 1 & 2 – John Bunyan EXCELLENCE OF A BROKEN HEART. THE SACRIFICES OF GOD ARE A BROKEN SPIRIT: A BROKEN AND A CONTRITE HEART, O GOD! THOU WILT NOT DESPISE. — Psalm 51:17. THIS Psalm is David’s penitential Psalm. It may be fitly so called, because it is a […]

JESUS CHRIST AS ADVOCATE – CONTENTS – John Bunyan

JESUS CHRIST AS ADVOCATE – CONTENTS – John Bunyan Use Of The Whole Discussion THE WORK OF JESUS CHRIST AS AN ADVOCATE, EXPLAINED. The Author’s Epistle To The Reader CHAPTER 1. Things Presupposed In The Text CHAPTER 2. This Office Of Christ Explained CHAPTER 3. How This Office Is Managed CHAPTER 4. For Whom This […]

JESUS CHRIST AS ADVOCATE – CHAPTER 9 – John Bunyan

JESUS CHRIST AS ADVOCATE – CHAPTER 9 – John Bunyan USES OF THE WHOLE DISCUSSION. HAVING thus spoken to these objections, let us now come to make some use of the whole. First Use. First, I would exhort the children of God to consider the dignity that God hath put upon Jesus Christ their Savior. […]

JESUS CHRIST AS ADVOCATE – CHAPTER 8 – John Bunyan

JESUS CHRIST AS ADVOCATE – CHAPTER 8 – John Bunyan VARIOUS OBJECTIONS ANSWERED. VIII. Thus have I given you an account of the nature, end, and necessity of the advocateship of Jesus Christ; and should now come to application: only I must first remove an objection or two. Objection 1. ‘But what need of all […]

JESUS CHRIST AS ADVOCATE – CHAPTER 7 – John Bunyan

JESUS CHRIST AS ADVOCATE – CHAPTER 7 – John Bunyan NECESSITY OF SUCH AN ADVOCATE. ICOME now to the fifth thing, which is, To show you whatNECESSITY there is that Christ should be our Advocate. That Christ should be a Priest to offer a sacrifice, a King to rule, and a Prophet to teach, all […]

JESUS CHRIST AS ADVOCATE – CHAPTER 6 – John Bunyan

JESUS CHRIST AS ADVOCATE – CHAPTER 6 – John Bunyan PRIVILEGES PECULIAR TO SUCH. IV. AND for thy further encouragement in this matter, I will here bring in the fourth chief head, to wit, to show whatEXCELLENT PRIVILEGES (I mean over and above what has already been spoken of) they have, that are made partakers […]

JESUS CHRIST AS ADVOCATE – CHAPTER 5 – John Bunyan

JESUS CHRIST AS ADVOCATE – CHAPTER 5 – John Bunyan FOR WHOM THIS OFFICE IS EXERCISED. ISHALL come now to the third head, namely, to show you more particularly who they are that have Jesus Christ for their Advocate: In my handling of this head, I shall show, 1. That this office of an Advocate […]

JESUS CHRIST AS ADVOCATE – CHAPTER 4 – John Bunyan

JESUS CHRIST AS ADVOCATE – CHAPTER 4 – John Bunyan HOW THIS OFFICE IS MANAGED. AND thus I have showed you the nature, the matter, the order, and occasion of this office of our blessed Lord Jesus. II. I come now to show you how Jesus Christ dothMANAGE this office of an Advocate for us. […]

JESUS CHRIST AS ADVOCATE – CHAPTER 1,2 & 3 – John Bunyan

JESUS CHRIST AS ADVOCATE – CHAPTER 1 & 2 – John Bunyan THE WORK OF JESUS CHRIST AS AN ADVOCATE, EXPLAINED. THINGS PRESUPPOSED IN THE TEXT. And If Any Man Sin, We Have An Advocate With The Father, Jesus Christ The Righteous. — 1 John 2:1. THAT the apostle might obtain due regard from those […]

ISRAEL’S HOPE ENCOURAGED – CHAPTER 9 – John Bunyan

ISRAEL’S HOPE ENCOURAGED – CHAPTER 9 – John Bunyan USE OF THE WHOLE DISCUSSION I WOULD come now to speak one short word of use to the whole. And, 1. This still shows more and more, what a sad state God ’s people have brought themselves into by sin. I told you before, that the […]

ISRAEL’S HOPE ENCOURAGED – CHAPTER 8 – John Bunyan

ISRAEL’S HOPE ENCOURAGED – CHAPTER 8 – John Bunyan THE REASON OF HOPE STRENGTHENED MORE ABUNDANTLY Now, as this last clause, as I termed it, is the amplification of the reason going before; so itself yieldeth amplifying reasons as a conclusion of the whole. For, 1. Add redemption unto mercy, and then things still are […]

ISRAEL’S HOPE ENCOURAGED – CHAPTER 7 – John Bunyan

ISRAEL’S HOPE ENCOURAGED – CHAPTER 7 – John Bunyan THE REASON OF HOPE STRENGTHENED But I shall pass from this to the third thing found in the text, and that is the AMPLIFICATION OF THE REASON I told you that there were in the text these three things: 1. An exhortation to the children of […]

ISRAEL’S HOPE ENCOURAGED – CHAPTER 6 – John Bunyan

ISRAEL’S HOPE ENCOURAGED – CHAPTER 6 – John Bunyan THE REASON OF HOPE FRUITFUL IN RESULTS I COME now to the second thing, which is to show what is to be inferred from this REASON OF HOPE . And, 1. This, to be sure, is to be inferred, That Israel, as the child of God, […]

ISRAEL’S HOPE ENCOURAGED – CHAPTER 5 – John Bunyan

ISRAEL’S HOPE ENCOURAGED – CHAPTER 5 – John Bunyan THE REASON OF HOPE IN GOD’S MERCY THUS have I gone through the first part of the text., which consists of an exhortation to hope in the Lord And I have showed you, 1. The matter contained therein. 2. Something of the reason of the manner […]

ISRAEL’S HOPE ENCOURAGED – CHAPTER 4 – John Bunyan

ISRAEL’S HOPE ENCOURAGED – CHAPTER 4 – John Bunyan HOW HOPE IS MADE A DUTY BY THE WORD HAVING thus briefly touched upon those three things that are contained in the matter of the exhortation, I now come to speak a word to the MANNER of phrases, by which the exhortation is presented to us. […]

ISRAEL’S HOPE ENCOURAGED – CHAPTER 3 – John Bunyan

ISRAEL’S HOPE ENCOURAGED – CHAPTER 3 – John Bunyan THE LORD THE HOPE OF HIS PEOPLE I SHALL, therefore, come, in the next place, to treat of the well managing of this duty with reference to its primary object, which is the Lord himself: “Let Israel hope in the Lord.” There is a general object […]

ISRAEL’S HOPE ENCOURAGED – CHAPTER 2 – John Bunyan

ISRAEL’S HOPE ENCOURAGED – CHAPTER 2 – John Bunyan THE BEST THINGS ARE YET FUTURE THE Psalmist, therefore, by exhorting us unto this duty, doth put us in mind of four things. 1. That the best things are yet behind, and in reversion for the saints. 2. That those that have believed, will yet meet […]

ISRAEL’S HOPE ENCOURAGED – CHAPTER 1 – John Bunyan

ISRAEL’S HOPE ENCOURAGED – CHAPTER 1 – John Bunyan THE TEXT EXPLAINED Let Israel Hope In The Lord: For With The Lord There Is Mercy, And With Him Is Plenteous Redemption, — <19D007> Psalm 130:7. THIS psalm is said to be one of the psalms of degrees, which some say, if I be not mistaken, […]

THE ACCEPTABLE SACRIFICE – CONTENTS – John Bunyan

THE ACCEPTABLE SACRIFICE – CONTENTS – John Bunyan OR, THE EXCELLENCY OF A BROKEN HEART. CHAPTER 1. Excellency Of A Broken Heart CHAPTER 2. What A Really Broken Heart Is CHAPTER 3. Signs Of A Broken Heart CHAPTER – Necessity Of A Broken Heart CHAPTER 5. Why A Broken Heart Is Acceptable To God. CHAPTER […]

BUNYAN’S CONSOLING WORKS. – John Bunyan

BUNYAN’S CONSOLING WORKS. – John Bunyan ISRAEL’S HOPE ENCOURAGED: THE WORK OF JESUS CHRIST AS AN ADVOCATE EXPLAINED: THE ACCEPTABLE SACRIFICE: THE WATER OF LIFE. BY JOHN BUNYAN. AUTHOR OF THE PILGRIM’S PROGRESS, AND THE HOLY WAR. Comfort ye, comfort ye my people, saith your God. — Isaiah 40:1. ARRANGED AND CLASSIFIED IN NATURAL ORDER, […]

FOOTNOTES – John Bunyan

FOOTNOTES – John Bunyan THE PHARISEE AND THE PUBLICAN The word “merit” was changed for “mercy” after the author’s death.— Ed. Ft2 “Not he that commendeth himself is approved, but whom the Lord commendeth.” ( 2 Corinthians 10:18) “Carry the bell and wear the garland,” alluding to our old English races; the winner being rewarded […]

DIVINE EMBLEMS: 2 – John Bunyan

DIVINE EMBLEMS: 2 – John Bunyan OR, TEMPORAL THINGS SPIRITUALIZED. THE LARK AND THE FOWLER. THOU simple bird, what makes thee here to play? Look, there’s the fowler, prithee come away. Dost not behold the net? Look! there ‘tis spread. Venture a little farther, thou art dead! Is there not room enough in all the […]

DIVINE EMBLEMS 1 – John Bunyan

DIVINE EMBLEMS 1 – John Bunyan OR, TEMPORAL THINGS SPIRITUALIZED. FITTED FOR THE USE OF BOYS AND GIRLS, OF ALL AGES AND SIZES. THE AUTHOR TO THE READER. COURTEOUS READER: THE title page will show, if thou wilt look, Who are the proper subjects of this book. They’re boys and girls, of all sorts and […]

A DISCOURSE UPON THE PHARISEE AND PUBLICAN. – John Bunyan

A DISCOURSE UPON THE PHARISEE AND PUBLICAN. – John Bunyan CHAPTER – “Two men went up into the temple to pray; the one a Pharisee, and the other a publican: The Pharisee stood and prayed thus with himself, God, I thank thee, that I am mot as other men are, extortioners, unjust, adulterers, or even […]

TO THE READER. – John Bunyan

TO THE READER. – John Bunyan COURTEOUS READER, I have made bold once again to present thee with some of my meditations; and they are now about thePHARISEE and thePUBLICAN: Two men in whose condition the whole world is comprehended, both as to their state now, and condition at the judgment. Wherefore in reading this […]

A DISCOURSE UPON THE PHARISEE AND THE PUBLICAN – John Bunyan

A DISCOURSE UPON THE PHARISEE AND THE PUBLICAN – John Bunyan WHEREIN SEVERAL GREAT AND WEIGHTY THINGS ARE HANDLED: AS, THE NATURE OF PRAYER, AND OF OBEDIENCE TO THE LAW, WITH HOW FAR IT OBLIGES CHRISTIANS, AND WHEREIN IT CONSISTS. Wherein is Also Shewed, the Equally Deplorable Condition of the Pharisee, or Hypocritical and Self-Righteous […]

THE BARREN FIG TREE. 2 – John Bunyan

THE BARREN FIG TREE. 2 – John Bunyan A certain man had a fig tree planted in his vineyard; and he came and sought fruit thereon, and found none. Then said he unto the dresser of his vineyard, Behold, these three years I come seeking fruit on this fig tree, and find none; cut it […]

THE BARREN FIG TREE 1 – John Bunyan

THE BARREN FIG TREE 1 – John Bunyan OR, THE DOOM AND DOWNFALL OF THE FRUITLESS PROFESSOR: SHOWING THAT THE DAY OF GRACE MAY BE PAST WITH HIM LONG BEFORE HIS LIFE IS ENDED: THE SIGNS, ALSO, BY WHICH SUCH MISERABLE MORTALS MAY’ BE KNOWN. TO THE READER. COURTEOUS READER: I have written to thee […]

THE HEAVENLY FOOTMAN – HEAVEN MUST BE RUN FOR – John Bunyan

THE HEAVENLY FOOTMAN – HEAVEN MUST BE RUN FOR – John Bunyan CHAPTER -HEAVEN MUST BE RUN FOR. So run that ye may obtain. — 1 Corinthians 9:24. HEAVEN and happiness is that which every one desireth, insomuch that wicked Balsam could say, “Let me die the death of the righteous, and let my last […]

THE HEAVENLY FOOTMAN – John Bunyan

THE HEAVENLY FOOTMAN – John Bunyan OR A DESCRIPTION OF THE MAN THAT GETS TO HEAVEN: TOGETHER WITH THE WAY HE RUNS IN, THE MARKS HE GOES BY; ALSO SOME DIRECTIONS HOW TO RUN SO AS TO OBTAIN. And it came to pass, when they had brought them forth abroad, that he said, Escape for […]

THE STRAIT GATE – John Bunyan

THE STRAIT GATE – John Bunyan OR GREAT DIFFICULTY OF GOING TO HEAVEN. “Strive to enter in at the strait gate; for many, I say unto you, will seek to enter in, and shall not be able.” — Luke 13:24. These are the words of our Lord Jesus Christ, and are, therefore, in especial manner […]

TO THE READER – John Bunyan

TO THE READER – John Bunyan COURTEOUS READER, God (I hope) hath put it into my heart to write unto thee another time, and that about matters of the greatest moment (for now we discourse not about things controverted among the godly, but directly about the saving or damning of the soul; yea, moreover, this […]

THE STRAIT GATE – John Bunyan

THE STRAIT GATE – John Bunyan OR, GREAT DIFFICULTY OF GOING TO HEAVEN: Plainly proving, by the Scripture, that not only the Rude and Profane, but many great Professors, will come short of that Kingdom. “Enter ye in at the strait gate; for wide is the gate, and broad is the way, that leadeth to […]

FOOTNOTES – John Bunyan

FOOTNOTES – John Bunyan CHRISTIAN BEHAVIOR Hermotimus of Lucian. During one of these wanderings his wife thought him dead, and his body was burnt. Whether the poor soul, thus suddenly ejected, obtained another habitation is not narrated. ‘Of their relations,’ related or belonging to themselves. — Ed. Also where the gardener hath set them, there […]

A CAUTION TO STIR UP THE SOUL – John Bunyan

A CAUTION TO STIR UP THE SOUL – John Bunyan TO WATCH AGAINST SIN. The first eight lines one did commend to me; The rest I thought good to commend to thee. Reader, in reading be thou ruled by me; With rhymes nor lines, but truths, affected be. 1. Sin will at first, just like […]

POSTSCRIPT – John Bunyan

POSTSCRIPT – John Bunyan Reader, I thought good to advertise thee, that I have delivered this to thy hand in the same order and method in which it was preached, and almost in the same words, without any diminishings, or considerable enlargings, unless it be in the twelve last particulars; upon some of which I […]

EXHORTATION TO UNITY AND PEACE – CHAPTER 3 – John Bunyan

EXHORTATION TO UNITY AND PEACE – CHAPTER 3 – John Bunyan THE FRUITS OF UNITY AND PEACE III. Having shown you wherein this Unity consists, I now come to the third general thing propounded: and that is, to show you the fruits and benefits of unity and peace, together with the mischiefs and inconveniences that […]

EXHORTATION TO UNITY AND PEACE – CHAPTER 4 – John Bunyan

EXHORTATION TO UNITY AND PEACE – CHAPTER 4 – John Bunyan DIRECTIONS AND MOTIVES Last of all, I now come to give you directions and motives for obtaining peace and unity. First . If ever we would live in peace and unity, we must pray for it. We are required to seek peace: of whom […]

EXHORTATION TO UNITY AND PEACE – CHAPTER 2 – John Bunyan

EXHORTATION TO UNITY AND PEACE – CHAPTER 2 – John Bunyan WHEREIN UNITY AND PEACE CONSIST II. I now come to show youWHEREIN THIS UNITY AND PEACE CONSIST. And this I shall demonstrate in five particulars. 1. This unity and peace may consist with the ignorance of many truths, and the holding of some errors; […]

EXHORTATION TO UNITY AND PEACE – CHAPTER 1 – John Bunyan

EXHORTATION TO UNITY AND PEACE – CHAPTER 1 – John Bunyan THE SENSE OF THE TEXT OPENED Endeavoring to keep the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace. Ephesians 4:3. Beloved, religion is the great bond of human society; and it were well if itself were kept within the bond of unity. And […]

FEAR OF GOD – CHAPTER 6 – John Bunyan

FEAR OF GOD – CHAPTER 6 – John Bunyan THE USE OF THIS DOCTRINE HAVING proceeded thus far about this doctrine of the fear of God, I now come to make some use and application of the whole; and my first use shall be a use of examination. I. Is this fear of God such […]

FEAR OF GOD – CHAPTER 5 – John Bunyan

FEAR OF GOD – CHAPTER 5 – John Bunyan THE PRIVILEGE OF THOSE THAT FEAR THE LORD. HAVING thus briefly handled, in particular, thus far this fear of God, I shall now show you certain of the excellent privileges of those that fear the Lord: not that they are not privileges that have been already […]

FEAR OF GOD – CHAPTER 4 – John Bunyan

FEAR OF GOD – CHAPTER 4 – John Bunyan THE EFFECTS OF GODLY FEAR. HAVING showed you what godly fear flows from, I come now to show you what proceeds or flows from the godly fear of God, when it is seated in the heart of man. 1. There flows from this godly fear, a […]

FEAR OF GOD – CHAPTER 3 – John Bunyan

FEAR OF GOD – CHAPTER 3 – John Bunyan THE TRUE CHARACTER OF THE FEAR OF GOD. INOW come, in the next place, to treat of the grace of ear more immediately intended in the text, which I call a lasting godly fear. And first, by way of explication, by which I shall show, I. […]

FEAR OF GOD – CHAPTER 2 – John Bunyan

FEAR OF GOD – CHAPTER 2 – John Bunyan THE RULE OF FEAR, AND ITS SEVERAL KINDS. I SHALL now come to the second thing, to wit, the rule, and directory of our fear. Of this word FEAR, as it is taken for the word of God, the written word of God; for that also […]

FEAR OF GOD – CHAPTER 1 – John Bunyan

FEAR OF GOD – CHAPTER 1 – John Bunyan OBJECT AND REASONS OF FEAR . Fear God. -Revelation 14:7. THIS exhortation is not only found here in the text, but is in several other places of the Scripture pressed, and that with much vehemency, upon the children of men, as in Ecclesiastes 12:13; 1 Peter […]

FEAR OF GOD – CONTENT – John Bunyan

FEAR OF GOD – CONTENT – John Bunyan CHAPTER 1 — The Object and Reasons of Fear CHAPTER 2 — The Rule of Fear, and its Several Kinds CHAPTER 3 — The True Character of the Fear of God CHAPTER 4 — The Effects of Godly Fear CHAPTER 5 — The Privileges of Those that […]

CHAPTER – MOMENTOUS USES OF THIS WHOLE DISCUSSION. – John Bunyan

CHAPTER – MOMENTOUS USES OF THIS WHOLE DISCUSSION. – John Bunyan Thus much have I though good to speak, in answer to this question, what iniquity should we depart from, that religiously name the name of Christ; and now we will make some use of what has been spoken. And theFIRST shall be a use […]

CHAPTER – PARTICULAR INIQUITIES THAT MUST BE GIVEN UP.. – John Bunyan

CHAPTER – PARTICULAR INIQUITIES THAT MUST BE GIVEN UP.. – John Bunyan From all these domestic iniquities, let every one depart that religiously nameth the name of Christ. And before I leave this head, let me, to enforce my exhortation, urge upon you a few considerations to work with you, yet further to depart from […]

CHAPTER – PARTICULAR INIQUITIES THAT MUST BE GIVEN UP. – John Bunyan

CHAPTER – PARTICULAR INIQUITIES THAT MUST BE GIVEN UP. – John Bunyan But perhaps some may ask me,WHAT INIQUITY THEY MUST DEPART FROM, that religiously name the name of Christ? I answer,FIRST, in general. Those that religiously profess the name of Christ, must depart fromALL INIQUITY. They should lay aside every weight; they should fly […]

CHAPTER – REASONS WHY ALL CHRISTIAN PROFESSORS SHOULD BE HOLY. – John Bunyan

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CHAPTER – THE TEXT OPENED. – John Bunyan

CHAPTER – THE TEXT OPENED. – John Bunyan And let every one that nameth the name of Christ, depart from iniquity. 2 Timothy 2:9. Timothy, unto whom this epistle was written, was an Evangelist, that is, inferior to the Apostles and extraordinary Prophets, and above ordinary Pastors and Teachers. 2 Timothy 4:5; Ephesians 4:11, And […]

THE AUTHOR TO THE READER – John Bunyan

THE AUTHOR TO THE READER – John Bunyan When I write of justification before God, from the dreadful curse of the law, then I must speak of nothing but grace, Christ, the promise, and faith. But when I speak of our justification before men, then I must join to these, good works. For grace, Christ, […]

CONTENTS – John Bunyan

CONTENTS – John Bunyan The Author To The Reader Chapter 1 — The Text Opened Chapter 2 — Some Christian Professors Do Not Depart From Iniquity Chapter 3 — Why The Christian Profession Is So Extensively Disgraced Chapter 4 — Reasons Why All Christian Professors Should Be Holy Chapter 5 — Particular Iniquities That Must […]

A HOLY LIFE – John Bunyan

A HOLY LIFE – John Bunyan THE BEAUTY OF CHRISTIANITY BY JOHN BUNYAN “Let every one that nameth the name of Christ, depart from iniquity.” 2 Timothy 2:19 “And the Lord direct your hearts into the love of God.” 2 Thessalonians 3:5.

CHRISTIAN BEHAVIOR – John Bunyan

CHRISTIAN BEHAVIOR – John Bunyan ‘That being justified by his grace, we should be made heirs according to the hope of eternal life. This is a faithful saying, and these things I will that thou affirm constantly, that they which have believed in God might be careful to maintain good works. These things are good […]

ADVERTISEMENT BY THE EDITOR – John Bunyan

ADVERTISEMENT BY THE EDITOR – John Bunyan This valuable practical treatise, was first published as a pocket volume about the year 1674, soon after the author’s final release from his long and dangerous imprisonment. It is evident from the concluding paragraph that he considered his liberty and even his life to be still in a […]

CHRISTIAN BEHAVIOR – John Bunyan

CHRISTIAN BEHAVIOR – John Bunyan BY JOHN BUNYAN Being the fruits of true Christianity: Teaching husbands, wives, parents, children, masters, servants, etc., how to walk so as to please God. With a word of direction to all backsliders.

FOOTNOTES – John Bunyan

FOOTNOTES – John Bunyan THE SPIRIT OF PRAYER This treatise was written in 1663, while Bunyan was a prisoner in Bedford jail. He here explains the cause of his long imprisonment, and that of thousands more in those unhappy times. It is well to remember that Bunyan was the first sufferer for conscience’ sake under […]

PAUL’S DEPARTURE AND CROWN – John Bunyan

PAUL’S DEPARTURE AND CROWN – John Bunyan OR, PRACTICAL DEVOTION TO THE WORK OF LIFE ALLOTTED TO US BY GOD, THE WAY TO BE ALWAYS READY FOR DEATH. CHAPTER CONNECTION AND MEANING OF THE WORDS. For I am now ready to be offered, and the time of my departure is at hand. I have fought […]

THE UNSEARCHABLE RICHES OF CHRIST – John Bunyan

THE UNSEARCHABLE RICHES OF CHRIST – John Bunyan OR, THE SAINT’S KNOWLEDGE OF CHRIST’S INCOMPREHENSIBLE LOVE. A FULL ANSWER TO ALL TEMPTATIONS AND OBJECTIONS, AND AN UNFAILING ENCOURAGEMENT TO PRAYER. CHAPTER – BREADTH AND LENGTH OF MERCY IN CHRIST. THE apostle, having in the first chapter of this epistle treated of the doctrine of election, […]

THE DESIRE OF THE RIGHTEOUS GRANTED – John Bunyan

THE DESIRE OF THE RIGHTEOUS GRANTED – John Bunyan The desire of the righteous is only good, Proverbs 11:23. CHAPTER 1. “The fear of the wicked; it shall come upon him: but the desire of the righteous shall be granted.” Proverbs 10:24 THIS book of the Proverbs is so called because it containeth hard, dark, […]

THE SAINT’S PRIVILEGE AND PROFIT. – John Bunyan

THE SAINT’S PRIVILEGE AND PROFIT. – John Bunyan CHAPTER 1. THE TEXT OPENED. Let us, therefore, come boldly unto the throne of grace, that we may obtain mercy, and find grace to help in time of need. ¾ Hebrews 4:16. THIS epistle is indited and left to the church by the Holy Ghost, to show […]

THE SPIRIT OF PRAYER: – John Bunyan

THE SPIRIT OF PRAYER: – John Bunyan OR, A DISCOURSE TOUCHING PRAYER. WHEREIN ARE BRIEFLY DISCOURSED, 1. WHAT PRAYER IS; 2. WHAT IT IS TO PRAY WITH THE SPIRIT; 3. WHAT IT IS TO PRAY WITH THE SPIRIT AND WITH THE UNDERSTANDING ALSO. “For we know not what we should pray for as we ought; […]

CONTENTS.- DEVOTIONAL WORKS – John Bunyan

CONTENTS.- PRACTICAL WORKS – John Bunyan EDITORIAL INTRODUCTION THE SPIRIT OF PRAYER: OR, A DISCOURSE TOUCHING PRAYER. CHAPTER 1. WHAT PRAYER IS CHAPTER 2. WHAT IT IS TO PRAY WITH THE SPIRIT CHAPTER 3. WHAT IT IS TO PRAY WITH THE UNDERSTANDING CHAPTER 4. APPLICATION OF THE SUBJECT THE SAINTS PRIVILEGE AND PROFIT: OR, THE […]

INTRODUCTION. – DEVOTIONAL WORKS – John Bunyan

INTRODUCTION. – DEVOTIONAL WORKS – John Bunyan THIS volume, composed of Bunyan’sDEVOTIONAL WORKS, is designed, in the order originally indicated, to follow his Awakening and Inviting Works. It will meet the wants of all new-born souls. It will instruct them by just degrees in the nature, manner, medium, and encouragement’s of Prayer. It will begin […]

BUNYAN’S DEVOTIONAL WORKS. – John Bunyan

BUNYAN’S DEVOTIONAL WORKS. – John Bunyan THE SPIRIT OF PRAYER: THE SAINTS PRIVILEGE AND PROFIT: THE DESIRE OF THE RIGHTEOUS GRANTED: THE UNSEARCHABLE RICHES OF CHRIST: AND PAUL’ S DEPARTURE AND CROWN. BY JOHN BUNYAN, Author Of The Pilgrim’s Progress, And The Holy War.

BUNYAN’S PRACTICAL WORKS. – John Bunyan

BUNYAN’S PRACTICAL WORKS. – John Bunyan VOLUME 3. DEVOTIONAL. THE PRACTICAL WORKS OF JOHN BUNYAN. Arranged and Classified in Natural Order, With Introductions and Notes. BY J. NEWTON BROWN, Editor of the Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge.

FOOTNOTES – John Bunyan

FOOTNOTES – John Bunyan JERUSALEM SINNER SAVED FT1 Having preached many times, and from various texts, upon this subject, the whole substance of many sermons is here published. — Ed. FT2 The Jews, and their sacred city, are standing monuments of God’s dreadful vengeance against unbelief in rejecting the Lord Christ, in whom alone is […]

THE NEW BIRTH. – John Bunyan

THE NEW BIRTH. – John Bunyan BUNYAN’S LAST SERMON: PREACHED IN LONDON, JULY, 1688. Which were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God. ¾ John 1:13. THESE words have a dependence on what goes before, and therefore I must direct you to […]

CHRIST A COMPLETE SAVIOR – John Bunyan

CHRIST A COMPLETE SAVIOR – John Bunyan CHAPTER 1. THE INTERCESSION OF CHRIST EXPLAINED. Wherefore he is able also to save them to the uttermost, that come unto God by him, seeing he ever liveth to make intercession for them. ¾ Hebrews 7:25. THE apostle in this chapter presenteth us with two things, that is, […]

COME AND WELCOME TO JESUS CHRIST – John Bunyan

COME AND WELCOME TO JESUS CHRIST – John Bunyan OR, A PLAIN AND PROFITABLE DISCOURSE ON JOHN 6:37 SHOWING THE CAUSE, TRUTH, AND MANNER OF THE COMING OF A SINNER TO JESUS CHRIST; WITH HIS HAPPY RECEPTION AND BLESSED ENTERTAINMENT. WRITTEN BY JOHN BUNYAN,AUTHOR OF “THE PILGRIM’ S PROGRESS.” “And they shall come which were […]

DOCTRINE – John Bunyan

DOCTRINE – John Bunyan From these words, therefore, thus explained, we gain this observation: — That Jesus Christ . would have mercy offered, in the first place, to the biggest sinners That these Jerusalem sinners were the biggest sinners that ever were in the world, I think none will deny, that believes that Christ was […]

TO THE READER – John Bunyan

TO THE READER – John Bunyan COURTEOUS READER, One reason which moved me to write and print this little book was, because, though there are many excellent heart-affecting discourses in the world that tend to convert the sinner, yet I had a desire to try this simple method of mine; wherefore I make bold thus […]

THE JERUSALEM SINNER SAVED – John Bunyan

THE JERUSALEM SINNER SAVED – John Bunyan OR GOOD NEWS FOR THE VILEST OF MEN Being A Help For Despairing Souls, Showing That Jesus Christ Would Have Mercy In The First Place Offered To The Biggest Sinners. THE THIRD EDITION In Which Is Added, An Answer To Those Grand Objections That Lie In The Way […]

FOOTNOTES – John Bunyan

FOOTNOTES – John Bunyan Bunyan quotes this from the Genevan or Puritan version; our present translation has “in our body.” — Ed. From the verb “to chit,” to sprout — to shoot at the end of the grain; provincial and almost obsolete. — Ed. These ideas are as new as they are striking and splendid. […]

RESURRECTION OF THE DEAD. – John Bunyan

RESURRECTION OF THE DEAD. – John Bunyan AND ETHERNAL JUDGMENT “But this I confess unto thee, that after the way which they call heresy, so worship I the God of my fathers, believing all things which are written in the law and in the prophets: and have hope toward God, which they themselves also allow, […]

THE RESURRECTION OF THE DEAD – John Bunyan

THE RESURRECTION OF THE DEAD – John Bunyan AND ETERNAL JUDGMENT: or, the Truth of the Resurrection of the Bodies, Both of Good and Bad at the Last Day: Asserted, and Proved by God’s Word. ALSO, THE MANNER AND ORDER OF THEIR COMING FORTH OF THEIR GRAVES; AS ALSO,WITH WHAT BODIES THEY DO ARISE.TOGETHER, WITH […]

SIGHS FROM HELL-2 – John Bunyan

SIGHS FROM HELL-2 – John Bunyan or, THE GROANS OF A LOST SOUL. CHAPTER 1. There Was A Certain Rich Man, Which Was Clothed In Purple And Fine Linen, Fared Sumptuously Everyday — Luke 16:19-31. THIS scripture was not spoken by our Lord Jesus Christ, to show you the state of two single persons only, […]

SIGHS FROM HELL-1 – John Bunyan

SIGHS FROM HELL-1 – John Bunyan OR, THE GROANS OF A LOST SOUL. DISCOVERING FROM <421601> LUKE 16. THE LAMENTABLE STATE OF THE DAMNED; WHICH MAY FITLY SERVE AS A WARNING WORD TO SINNERS, BOTH OLD AND YOUNG, BY FAITH IN JESUS CHRIST, TO AVOID THE SAME PLACE OF TORMENT. WITH A DISCOVERY OF THE […]

DOCTRINE SECOND – John Bunyan

DOCTRINE SECOND – John Bunyan I now come to the second doctrine that I gathered from the words — namely, that how unconcerned and careless soever some now be about the loss or salvation of their souls, the day is coming, but it will then be too late, when men will be willing, had they […]

DOCTRINE FIRST – John Bunyan

DOCTRINE FIRST – John Bunyan So then, the first truth drawn from the words stands firm — namely, THAT THE LOSS OF THE SOUL IS THE HIGHEST, THE GREATEST LOSS; A LOSS THAT CAN NEVER BE REPAIRED OR MADE UP. In my discourse upon this subject, I shall observe this method: — First , I […]

GREATNESS OF THE SOUL – John Bunyan

GREATNESS OF THE SOUL – John Bunyan AND UNSPEAKABLENESS OF THE LOSS THERE OF WITH THE CAUSES OF THE LOSING IT FIRST PREACHED AT PINNER’S HALL AND NOW ENLARGED AND PUBLISHED FOR GOOD BY JOHN BUNYAN ADVERTISEMENT BY THE EDITOR. Our curiosity is naturally excited to discover what a poor, unlettered mechanic, whose book-learning had […]

What Do We Ask?-John Bunyan

What Do We Ask ? – John Bunyan “Now unto him that is able to do exceeding abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that worketh in us” (Eph. 3:20). It is a text made up of words picked and packed together by the wisdom of God, picked and packed […]

UNCONDITIONAL PARDON-John Bunyan

UNCONDITIONAL PARDON – John Bunyan There was a certain man that had committed treason against his king; but for as much as the king had compassion on him, he sent him, by the hand of a faithful messenger, a pardon under his own hand and seal. But in the country where this poor man dwelt […]

To Believe-John Bunyan

To Believe – John Bunyan “For whom the Lord loveth he chasteneth….” (Heb. 12:6). To believe he loves us when he shows himself terrible to us, is also very much becoming of us. Wherefore has he given us grace? Is it that we should five by sense? Wherefore has he sometimes visited us? Is it […]

The New Birth-John Bunyan

The New Birth – John Bunyan THESE WORDS have a dependence on what goes before, and therefore I must direct you to it for the right understanding of them. You have it thus: “He (Christ) came unto his own, and his own received him not. But as many as received him, to them gave he […]

The Conversion of John Bunyan-John Bunyan

The Conversion of John Bunyan – John Bunyan [John Bunyan was arguably the last and the greatest of the Puritans. An uneducated tinker by training, Bunyan spent nearly fourteen years of his life in prison because he refused to stop preaching the gospel without a license. Nonetheless, even the eminent Puritan theologian John Owen often […]

Refined-John Bunyan

Refined – John Bunyan   “But and if ye suffer for righteousness’ sake, happy are ye: and be not afraid of their terror, neither be troubled” (I Peter 3:14). Dost thou suffer for righteousness’ sake? why then, thy righteousness is not diminished, but rather increased by thy sufferings. Righteousness thriveth best in affliction, the more […]

One Sin-John Bunyan

One Sin – John Bunyan   “Let every one that nameth the name of Christ depart from iniquity” (2 Tim. 2:19). And, indeed, if a man will depart from iniquity, he must depart from his darling sin first; for as long as that is entertained, the others, at least those that are most suiting with […]

Mr. John Bunyan’s Dying Sayings – Sin-John Bunyan

Mr. John Bunyan’s Dying Sayings – Sin – John Bunyan Sin is the great block and bar to our happiness, the Procurer of all miseries to man, both here and hereafter. Take away sin, and nothing can hurt us; for death, temporal, spiritual, and eternal, is the wages of it. Sin, and man for sin, […]

Mr. John Bunyan’s Dying Sayings – OF THE TORMENTS OF HELL.-John Bunyan

Mr. John Bunyan’s Dying Sayings – OF THE TORMENTS OF HELL.-John Bunyanh Heaven and salvation are not surely more promised to the godly, than hell and damnation is threatened to and executed on the wicked. When once a man is damned, he may bid adieu to all pleasures. O! who knows the power of God’s […]

Mr. John Bunyan’s Dying Sayings – OF THE JOYS OF HEAVEN.-John Bunyan

Mr. John Bunyan’s Dying Sayings – OF THE JOYS OF HEAVEN – John Bunyan There is no good in this life but what is mingled with some evil; honours perplex, riches disquiet, and pleasures ruin health. But in heaven we shall find blessings in their purity, without any ingredient to embitter, with everything to sweeten […]

Mr. John Bunyan’s Dying Sayings – OF SUFFERING.-John Bunyan

Mr. John Bunyan’s Dying Sayings – OF SUFFERING. – John Bunyan It is not every suffering that makes a martyr, but suffering for the word of God after a right manner; that is, not only for righteousness, but for righteousness’ sake; not only for truth, but out of love to truth; not only for God’s […]

Mr. John Bunyan’s Dying Sayings – OF PRAYER.-John Bunyan

Mr. John Bunyan’s Dying Sayings – OF PRAYER.-John Bunyan Before you enter into prayer, ask thy soul these questions–1. To what end, O my soul, art thou retired into this place? Art thou not come to discourse the Lord in prayer? Is he present; will he hear thee? Is he merciful; will he help thee? […]

Mr. John Bunyan’s Dying Sayings – OF AFFLICTION-John Bunyan

Mr. John Bunyan’s Dying Sayings – OF AFFLICTION-John Bunyan Nothing can render affliction so insupportable as the load of sin; would you, therefore, be fitted for afflictions, be sure to get the burden of your sins laid aside, and then what afflictions soever you may meet with will be very easy to you. If thou […]

Light-John Bunyan

Light – John Bunyan “And God said, Let there be light” (Gen. 1:3). This is the first thing with which God began the order of the creation; to wit, light, ‘Let there be light:’ From which many profitable notes may be gathered, as to the order of God in the salvation of the soul. As, […]

Grace Abounding to the Chief of Sinners – Preface-John Bunyan

Grace Abounding to the Chief of Sinners – Preface-John Bunyan A PREFACE, OR BRIEF ACCOUNT OF THE PUBLISHING OF THIS WORK, WRITTEN BY THE AUTHOR THEREOF, AND DEDICATED TO THOSE WHOM GOD HATH COUNTED HIM WORTHY TO BEGET TO FAITH, BY HIS MINISTRY IN THE WORD. Children, grace be with you, Amen. I being taken […]

Grace Abounding to the Chief of Sinners – Part 5-John Bunyan

Grace Abounding to the Chief of Sinners – Part 5 – John Bunyan [A BRIEF ACCOUNT OF THE AUTHOR’S IMPRISONMENT] 318. Having made profession of the glorious gospel of Christ a long time, and preached the same about five years, I was apprehended at a meeting of good people in the country, among whom, had […]

Grace Abounding to the Chief of Sinners – Part 4-John Bunyan

Grace Abounding to the Chief of Sinners – Part 4 – John Bunyan [ENTERS INTO FELLOWSHIP WITH THE CHURCH OF CHRIST AT BEDFORD, IN WHICH HE AFTERWARDS BECAME A MINISTERING ELDER.] 253. Now I shall go forward to give you a relation of other of the Lord’s dealings with me, of his dealings with me […]

Grace Abounding to the Chief of Sinners – Part 3-John Bunyan

Grace Abounding to the Chief of Sinners – Part 3 – John Bunyan [BUNYAN ATTENDS THE MINISTRY OF MR. GIFFORD, AND BECOMES INTENSELY EARNEST TO UNDERSTAND THE DOCTRINES OF THE GOSPEL.] 117. At this time, also, I sat under the ministry of holy Mr. Gifford, whose doctrine, by God’s grace, was much for my stability. […]

Grace Abounding to the Chief of Sinners – Part 2-John Bunyan

Grace Abounding to the Chief of Sinners – Part 2 – John Bunyan [HIS CONVERSION AND PAINFUL EXERCISES OF MIND, PREVIOUS TO HIS JOINING THE CHURCH AT BEDFORD.] 37. But upon a day, the good providence of God did cast me to Bedford, to work on my calling; and in one of the streets of […]

Grace Abounding to the Chief of Sinners – Part 1-John Bunyan

Grace Abounding to the Chief of Sinners – Part 1 – John Bunyan GRACE ABOUNDING TO THE CHIEF OF SINNERS; OR, A BRIEF RELATION OF THE EXCEEDING MERCY OF GOD IN CHRIST, TO HIS POOR SERVANT, JOHN BUNYAN. [BUNYAN’S ACCOUNT OF HIMSELF PREVIOUS TO HIS CONVERSION.] 1. In this my relation of the merciful working […]

Grace Abounding to the Chief of Sinners – Introduction-John Bunyan

Grace Abounding to the Chief of Sinners – Introduction – John Bunyan GRACE ABOUNDING TO THE CHIEF OF SINNERS: A BRIEF AND FAITHFUL RELATION OF THE EXCEEDING MERCY OF GOD IN CHRIST TO HIS POOR SERVANT, JOHN BUNYAN; WHEREIN IS PARTICULARLY SHOWED THE MANNER OF HIS CONVERSION, HIS SIGHT AND TROUBLE FOR SIN, HIS DREADFUL […]

Affliction with Patience-John Bunyan

Affliction with Patience – John Bunyan “Thou hast enlarged my steps under me; so that my feet did not slip” (2 Sam. 22:37). I have often thought that the best Christians are found in the worst of times: and I have thought again, that one reason why we are no better, is because God purges […]

A CASE OF CONSCIENCE RESOLVED

A CASE OF CONSCIENCE RESOLVED A CASE OF CONSCIENCE RESOLVED; by John Bunyan  WHETHER, WHERE A CHURCH OF CHRIST IS SITUATE, IT IS THE DUTY OF THE WOMEN OF THAT CONGREGATION, ORDINARILY, AND BY APPOINTMENT, TO SEPARATE THEMSELVES FROM THEIR BRETHREN, AND SO TO ASSEMBLE TOGETHER, TO PERFORM SOME PARTS OF DIVINE WORSHIP, AS PRAYER, […]

A Few Sighs from Hell; Or, Groans of a Damned Soul

A Few Sighs from Hell; Or, Groans of a Damned Soul Luke 16:19-31 There was a certain rich man which was clothed in purple and fine linen, and fared sumptuously every day. And there was a certain beggar, named Lazarus, which was laid at his gate, full of sores, And desiring to be fed with […]

A Few Considerations Of Encouragement

A Few Considerations Of Encouragement First Encouragement.] Consider, for I would fain have thee come in, sinner, that there is way made by Jesus Christ for them that are under the curse of God, to come to this comfortable and blessed state of Lazarus I was speaking of. See Ephesians 2.   [Second Encouragement.] Consider […]

John Bunyan’s Last Sermon

John Bunyan’s Last Sermon – John Bunyan Preached, July, 1688, from John 1:13. “Which were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God;” –John 1:13 The words have a dependence on what goes before, and therefore I must direct you to them for […]

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