John Bunyan
John Bunyan
John Bunyanwas an English writer and Baptist preacher best remembered as the author of the Christian allegory The Pilgrim's Progress. In addition to The Pilgrim's Progress, Bunyan wrote nearly sixty titles, many of them expanded sermons...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionClergyman
Date of Birth28 November 1628
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honey lion meet nest next overcome shall time within
Temptations, when we first meet them, are like a lion that roared at Samson; but if we overcome them, the next time we see them we shall find a nest of honey within them.
walked wilderness
As I walked through the wilderness of this world.
mercy-of-god soul grace
...Great sins do draw out great grace; and where guilt is most terrible and fierce, there the mercy of God in Christ, when showed to the soul, appears most high and mighty...
denial destruction precipice
The road of denial leads to the precipice of destruction
wheat use lord
The Lord uses his flail of tribulation to separate the chaff from the wheat.
temptation looks look-up
Temptation provokes me to look upward to God.
affliction may sin
Nothing can render affliction so insupportable as the load of sin. Would you then be fitted for afflictions? Be sure to get the burden of your sins laid aside, and then what affliction soever you may meet with will be very easy to you.
deliverance chains my-own
I preach deliverance to others, I tell them there is freedom, while I hear my own chains clang.
chosen
You have chosen the roughest road, but it leads straight to the hilltops.
ungrateful forget saviour
He that forgets his friend is ungrateful to him; but he that forgets his Saviour is unmerciful to himself.
traitor allegiance given
I have given Him my faith, and sworn my allegiance to Him; how, then, can I go back from this, and not be hanged as a traitor?
sorrow given
He hath given me rest by His sorrow, and life by His death.
jesus-christ answers-to-prayer god-answers-prayers
Knock, and it shall be opened unto you.
vat fats bottom
Every fat (vat) must stand upon its bottom.