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       John Bunyan

      Works of John Bunyan — Complete

      Published by Good Press, 2019

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      EAN 4057664647320

       THE SAINTS' KNOWLEDGE OF CHRIST'S LOVE; OR, THE UNSEARCHABLE. RICHES OF CHRIST.

       THE SAINTS' KNOWLEDGE OF CHRIST'S LOVE.

       PREFATORY REMARKS BY THE EDITOR

       OF ANTICHRIST.

       ADVERTISEMENT BY THE EDITOR.

       PREFACE.

       OF THE RESURRECTION OF THE DEAD.

       THE AUTHOR TO THE READER.

       THE EPISTLE WRIT BY MR. BURTON, MINISTER AT BEDFORD

       SOME QUESTIONS TO THE QUAKERS, OR A FEW QUERIES TO THOSE WHO ARE. POSSESSED WITH A SPIRIT OF DELUSION IN THIS GENERATION.

       ADVERTISEMENT BY THE EDITOR.

       A PREMONITION TO THE READER

       A DEFENCE OF THE DOCTRINE OF JUSTIFICATION BY FAITH IN JESUS CHRIST;

       QUESTIONS ABOUT THE NATURE AND PERPETUITY OF THE SEVENTH-DAY. SABBATH.

       OF THE TRINITY AND A CHRISTIAN

       OF THE LAW AND A CHRISTIAN.

       SCRIPTURAL POEMS

       THE BOOK OF RUTH

       THE HISTORY OF SAMSON

       CHRIST'S SERMON ON THE MOUNT

       THE PROPHECY OF JONAH

       THE LIFE OF JOSEPH,. TAKEN OUT OF THE LATTER PART OF THE BOOK OF GENESIS.

       THE GENERAL EPISTLE OF JAMES

       A HOLY LIFE THE BEAUTY OF CHRISTIANITY

       A CONFESSION OF MY FAITH, AND A REASON OF MY PRACTICE; OR, WITH. WHO, AND WHO NOT, I CAN HOLD CHURCH FELLOWSHIP, OR THE COMMUNION. OF SAINTS.

       A CONFESSION OF MY FAITH, AND A REASON OF MY PRACTICE, ETC.

       A REASON OF MY PRACTICE IN WORSHIP.

       DIFFERENCES IN JUDGMENT ABOUT WATER BAPTISM, NO BAR TO COMMUNION.

       OF THE LOVE OF CHRIST

       INSTRUCTION FOR THE IGNORANT

       ADVERTISEMENT BY THE EDITOR.

       [ADVERTISEMENT BY THE EDITOR]

       [ADVERTISEMENT BY THE EDITOR]

       THE PILGRIM'S PROGRESS;

       TO THE READER.

       A RELATION OF THE HOLY WAR

       AN EPISTLE TO ALL THE SLOTHFUL AND CARELESS PEOPLE.

       THE HEAVENLY FOOTMAN

       THE HOLY CITY; OR, THE NEW JERUSALEM

       ADVERTISEMENT BY THE EDITOR.

       THE AUTHOR TO THE READER.

      'We have this treasure in earthen vessels, that the excellency of the power may be of God, and not of us.'—2 Cor 4:7

      'For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, saith the Lord.'—Isaiah 55:8.

      'Though ye have lien among the pots, yet shall ye be as the wings of a dove covered with silver, and her feathers with yellow gold.'—Psalm 68:13.

      When the Philistine giant, Goliath, mocked the host of Israel, and challenged any of their stern warriors to single combat, what human being could have imagined that the gigantic heathen would be successfully met in the mortal struggle by a youth 'ruddy and of a fair countenance?' who unarmed, except with a sling and a stone, gave the carcases of the hosts of the Philistines to the fouls of the air, and to the wild beasts of the earth.'

      Who, upon seeing an infant born in a stable, and laid in a manger, or beholding him when a youth working with his father as a carpenter, could have conceived that he was the manifestation of the Deity in human form, before whom every knee should bow, and every tongue confess Him to be THE ETERNAL?

      Father Michael, a Franciscan friar, on a journey to Ancona, having lost his way, sought direction from a wretched lad keeping hogs—deserted, forlorn, his back smarting with severe stripes, and his eyes suffused with tears. The poor ragged boy not only went cheerfully with him to point out his road, but besought the monk to take him into his convent, volunteering to fulfill the most degrading services, in the hope of procuring a little learning, and escaping from 'those filthy hogs.' How incredulously would the friar have listened to anyone who could have suggested that this desolate, tattered, dirty boy, might and would fill a greater than an imperial throne! Yet, eventually that swine-herd was clothed in purple and fine linen, and, under the title of Pope Sixtus V., became one of those mighty magicians who are described in Rogers Italy, as

      'Setting their feet upon the necks of kings,

       And through the worlds subduing, chaining down

       The free, immortal spirit—theirs a wondrous spell.' [1]

      A woman that was 'a loose and ungodly wretch'