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Title: Bunyan

Author: James Anthony Froude

Release Date: September 7, 2009 [eBook #29929]

Language: English

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English Men of Letters

Edited by John Morley

BUNYAN

by

JAMES ANTHONY FROUDE

London
Macmillan and Co.
1880

CONTENTS.

CHAPTER I. PAGE

EARLY LIFE 1

CHAPTER II.

CONVICTION OF SIN 16

CHAPTER III.

GRACE ABOUNDING 35

CHAPTER IV.

CALL TO THE MINISTRY 52

CHAPTER V.

ARREST AND TRIAL 65

CHAPTER VI.

THE BEDFORD GAOL 78

CHAPTER VII.

LIFE AND DEATH OF MR. BADMAN 90

CHAPTER VIII.

THE HOLY WAR 114

CHAPTER IX.

THE PILGRIM'S PROGRESS 151

CHAPTER X.

LAST DAYS AND DEATH 173

BUNYAN.

CHAPTER I.

EARLY LIFE.

'I was of a low and inconsiderable generation, my father's house being
of that rank that is meanest and most despised of all families in the
land.' 'I never went to school, to Aristotle or Plato, but was brought
up in my father's house in a very mean condition, among a company of
poor countrymen.' 'Nevertheless, I bless God that by this door He
brought me into the world to partake of the grace and life that is by
Christ in His Gospel.' This is the account given of himself and his
origin by a man whose writings have for two centuries affected the
spiritual opinions of the English race in every part of the world more
powerfully than any book or books, except the Bible.

John Bunyan was born