Chapter Viii. The Holy War : CHAPTER VIII. "THE HOLY WAR." THE supernatural has been successfully represented in poetry, painting, or sculpture, only at particular periods of human history, and under peculiar mental conditions. The artist must himself believe in the supernatural, or his description of it will be a sham...
Chapter X. Last Days And Death : CHAPTER X. LAST DAYS AND DEATH. LITTLE remains to be told of Bunyans concluding years. No friends preserved his letters. No diaries of his own survive to gratify curiosity. Men truly eminent think too meanly of themselves or their work to care much to be personally remembered. He lived for sixteen...
Chapter I. Early Life : CHAPTER I. EARLY LIFE. "I was of a low and inconsiderable generation, my fathers house being of that rank that is meanest and most despised of all families in the land." "I never went to school, to Aristotle or Plato, but was brought up in my fathers house in a very mean condition, among a company...
Untitled : BUNYAN BY JAMES ANTHONY FROUDE, LL.D. [1901] Contents Chapter I. Early Life Chapter II. Conviction of Sin Chapter III. Grace Abounding Chapter IV. Call to the Ministry Chapter V. Arrest and Trial Chapter VI. The Bedford Gaol Chapter VII. Life and Death of Mr. Badman Chapter VIII. The Holy War...
Chapter Ii. Conviction Of Sin : CHAPTER II. CONVICTION OF SIN. "THE Pilgrims Progress "is the history of the struggle of human nature to overcome temptation and shake off the bondage of sin, under the convictions which prevailed among serious men in England in the seventeenth century. The allegory is the life of its author cast...
Chapter Vii. Life And Death Of Mr. Badman : CHAPTER VII. LIFE AND DEATH OF MR. BADMAN. TO his contemporaries Bunyan was known as the Nonconformist Martyr, and the greatest living Protestant preacher. To us he is mainly interesting through his writings, and especially through "The Pilgrims Progress. "Although he possessed in a remarkable...
Chapter Iii. Grace Abounding : CHAPTER III "GRACE ABOUNDING." THE women in Bedford, to whom Bunyan had opened his mind, had been naturally interested in him. Young and rough as he was, he could not have failed to impress anyone who conversed with him with a sense that he was a remarkable person. They mentioned him to Mr. Gifford...
Chapter Ix. The Pilgrim's Progress : CHAPTER IX. "THE PILGRIMS PROGRESS." IF "The Holy War "is an unfit subject for allegorical treatment, "The Pilgrims Progress "is no less perfectly adapted for it. The Holy War is a representation of the struggle of human nature with evil, and the struggle is left undecided. "The Pilgrims Progress...
Chapter Iv. Call To The Ministry : CHAPTER IV. CALL TO THE MINISTRY. THE Pilgrim falls into the hands of Giant Despair because he has himself first strayed into Byepath Meadow. Bunyan found an explanation of his last convulsion in an act of unbelief, on which, on looking back, he perceived that he had been guilty. He had been...
Chapter V. Arrest And Trial : CHAPTER V. ARREST AND TRIAL. BUNYANS preaching enterprise became an extraordinary success. All the Midland Counties heard of his fame, and demanded to hear him. He had been Deacon under Gifford at the Bedford Church; but he was in such request as a preacher, that, in 1657, he was released from his...
Chapter Vi. The Bedford Gaol : CHAPTER VI. THE BEDFORD GAOL. THE irregularities in the proceedings against Bunyan had perhaps been suggested by the anticipation of the general pardon which was expected in the following spring. At the coronation of Charles, April 23, 1661, an order was issued for the release of prisoners who were...
