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Choice Works; Containing Grace Abounding to the Chief of Sinners
Choice Works Containing Grace Abounding to the Chief of Sinners Author:John Bunyan General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1811 Original Publisher: W. Milner Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can selec... more »t from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: A CONTINUATION MR. BUNYAN'S LIFE, Beginning where he left off, and concluding with the time and manner of his Death and Burial: together with his true Character, §c. Reader, The painful and industrious author of this book, has already given you a faithful and very moving relation of the beginning and middle of the days of his pilgrimage on earth; and since there yet remains somewhat worthy of notice and regard, which occurred in the last scene of his life, the which for want of time, or fear, some over censorious people should impute it to him as an earnest coveting of praise from men. he has not left behind him in writing. Wherefore as a true friend, and long acquaintance of Mr. Bunyan's that his good end may be known, as well as his evil beginning, I have taken upon me, from my knowledge, and the best account given by other of his friends, to piece this to the thread too soon broke off, and so lengthen it out to his entering upon eternity. He has told you at large, of his birth and education ; the evil habits and corruptions of his youth : the temptations he struggled and conflicted so frequently with, the mercies, comforts, and deliverances he found, how he came to take upon him the preaching of the gospel; the slanders, reproaches, and imprisonments that attended him, and the progress henotwithstanding made (by the assistance of God's frace) no doubt to the saving of many souls. Therefore take these things, as be himself hath methodically laid them down in the words of verity ; and so I oass on to what remains. After his being freed from his twelve years' impriso...« less