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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.
Works on this site: 1666 to 1682.
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In their own words
I had, also, once a sweet glance from that in 2 Cor. v. 21: For He hath made Him to be sin for us, Who knew no sin, that we might be made the righteousness of God in Him.
John Bunyan· Grace Abounding to the Chief of Sinners, 1666English Puritan
2 Corinthians 5:21 God made Him who knew no sin to be sin on our behalf, so that in Him we might become the righteousness of God.
I have felt this thorn in the flesh, 2 Cor. xii. 8, 9, the very mercy of God to me.
John Bunyan· Grace Abounding to the Chief of Sinners, 1666English Puritan
2 Corinthians 12:8–9 Three times I pleaded with the Lord to take it away from me.
Now was I as one bound, I felt myself shut up unto the judgment to come; nothing now, for two years together, would abide with me, but damnation, and an expectation of damnation.
John Bunyan· Grace Abounding to the Chief of Sinners, 1666English Puritan
Hebrews 12:16–17 See to it that no one is sexually immoral, or is godless like Esau, who for a single meal sold his birthright.
This great glory did not continue upon me until morning, yet the twelfth of the Author to the Hebrews, Heb. xii. 22, 23, was a blessed scripture to me for many days together after this.
John Bunyan· Grace Abounding to the Chief of Sinners, 1666English Puritan
Hebrews 12:22–23 Instead, you have come to Mount Zion, to the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem. You have come to myriads of angels
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.
John Bunyan· Grace Abounding to the Chief of Sinners, 1666English Puritan
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.
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.
John Bunyan· Grace Abounding to the Chief of Sinners, 1666English Puritan
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.
About this voice
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).
3 works
What this site reads them for
| The work | Year | Quoted here |
|---|---|---|
| The Pilgrim's Progress, Part IOne of the most-printed and most-translated books in Christian literary history. Standard text for Protestant spiritual-formation across denominations and centuries. | 1678 | Not quoted here yet |
| Grace Abounding to the Chief of SinnersBunyan's own spiritual-autobiography; one of the most influential Puritan conversion-and-assurance narratives. | 1666 | 10 quotations |
| The Holy WarBunyan's articulation of spiritual-warfare-and-deliverance through the City of Mansoul allegory. | 1682 | Not quoted here yet |
Where to find them
10 quotations across 7 books
Where this voice is quoted
God made Him who knew no sin to be sin on our behalf, so that in Him we might become the righteousness of God.
“I had, also, once a sweet glance from that in 2 Cor. v. 21: For He hath made Him to be sin for us, Who knew no sin, that we might be made the righteousness of God in Him.”
Three times I pleaded with the Lord to take it away from me.
“I have felt this thorn in the flesh, 2 Cor. xii. 8, 9, the very mercy of God to me.”