THE BARREN FIG TREE 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 ‘Who being dead, …
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CHRISTIAN AND THE ARROWS OF BEELZEBUB “When Christian was stepping in at the Wicket Gate, Goodwill gave him a pull. Then said Christian, ‘What means that?’ Good-will said to him, ‘A little distance from this gate there is erected a strong castle, of which Beelzebub …
Pictures from Pilgrim’s Progress A Commentary on Portions of John Bunyan’s Immortal Allegory “HELPS” HAVING spoken about the best way of helping souls out of despondency and distress, I shall now proceed to describe those who may truly be called HELPS—for it is not …
So run that ye may obtain.—1 Cor. 9:24. HEAVEN and happiness is that which every one desireth, insomuch that wicked Balaam could say, “Let me die the death of the righteous, and let my last end be like his.” Yet, for all this, there are …
‘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 psalm by which is manifest the unfeigned sorrow …
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PUBLISHER’S FOREWORD 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 …
Pictures from Pilgrim’s Progress A Commentary on Portions of John Bunyan’s Immortal Allegory THE MAN WHOSE NAME WAS HELP “Wherefore Christian was left to stumble in the Slough of Despond alone; but still he endeavoured to struggle to that side of the Slough that was …
Pictures from Pilgrim’s Progress A Commentary on Portions of John Bunyan’s Immortal Allegory THE TWO PILGRIMS IN THE SLOUGH THROUGH their much talking, and little praying, and giving no heed to where they were going, Christian and Pliable all of a sudden found themselves floundering …
Pictures from Pilgrim’s Progress A Commentary on Portions of John Bunyan’s Immortal Allegory PLIABLE SETS OUT WITH CHRISTIAN NEXT to the Bible, the book that I value most is John Bunyan’s “Pilgrim’s Progress.” I believe I have read it through at least a hundred times. …
“Who would true valor see, Let him come hither; One here will constant be, Come wind, come weather There’s no discouragement Shall make him once relent His first avow’d intent To be a pilgrim. Whoso beset him round With dismal stories, Do but themselves confound; …
