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John Bunyan
John Bunyan (November 1628 – August 31, 1688) was an English Puritan preacher, popular allegorical writer, and Particular (Reformed) Baptist.
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This site quotes John Bunyan 10 times across 7 books, and lists 3 works.
- Lived died 1688.
- Quoted here most in Romans: 2 of 10.
John Bunyan
- Lived
- died 1688
- Tradition
- English Puritan
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That scripture did also tear and rend my soul in the midst of these distractions, The wicked are like the troubled sea, when it cannot rest, whose waters cast up mire and dirt. There is no peace, saith my God, to the wicked.
Isaiah 57:20–21 But the wicked are like the storm-tossed sea, for it cannot be still, and its waves churn up mire and muck. “There is no peace,” says my God, “for the wicked.” BSB
I had no sooner said it, but with sweetness this returned upon me, as an echo, or sounding again, I have loved thee with an everlasting love. Now I went to bed in quiet.
Jeremiah 31:3 The LORD appeared to us in the past, saying: “I have loved you with an everlasting love; therefore I have drawn you with loving devotion. BSB
These words, but especially those, And yet there is room, were sweet words to me; for truly I thought that by them I saw there was place enough in heaven for me.
Luke 14:22–23 ‘Sir,’ the servant replied, ‘what you ordered has been done, and there is still room.’ So the master told his servant, ‘Go out to the highways and hedges and compel them to come in, so that my house will be full. BSB
That word of God took hold of my heart, Ye are justified freely by His grace, through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus. Rom. iii. 24. But oh! what a turn it made upon me!
Romans 3:24 and are justified freely by His grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus. BSB
That word came suddenly upon me, What shall we say to these things? If God be for us, who can be against us?
Romans 8:31 What then shall we say in response to these things? If God is for us, who can be against us? BSB
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John Bunyan (November 1628 – August 31, 1688) was an English Puritan preacher, popular allegorical writer, and Particular (Reformed) Baptist. Born in Elstow, Bedfordshire, the son of a tinker (itinerant metal-worker), he served briefly in the Parliamentary army during the English Civil War. He joined John Gifford's Bedford Baptist congregation in 1653, was converted shortly thereafter, and began preaching in public in 1655 after Gifford's death. He served 12 years in the Bedford county jail (1660–1672, with a brief 1675–1676 second imprisonment) under Charles II's Act of Uniformity for preaching without Anglican license. The first installment of The Pilgrim's Progress (1678) was written during the imprisonment. He authored 60+ works including the spiritual-autobiography Grace Abounding to the Chief of Sinners (1666), the allegorical The Holy War (1682), and The Pilgrim's Progress, Part II (1684).
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The Pilgrim's Progress, Part I
1678
One of the most-printed and most-translated books in Christian literary history. Standard text for Protestant spiritual-formation across denominations and centuries.
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Grace Abounding to the Chief of Sinners
1666
Bunyan's own spiritual-autobiography; one of the most influential Puritan conversion-and-assurance narratives.
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The Holy War
1682
Bunyan's articulation of spiritual-warfare-and-deliverance through the City of Mansoul allegory.
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