No man more than he does justice to the love of liberty which absolutely burned in the souls of the Puritans,that glorious party which produced Milton and Cromwell, and Hampden and Bunyan, and Owen and Calamy, and Baxter and Howe.

PERIOD JOHN BUNYAN (1628-1688)

LIFE OF BUNYAN.

Bunyan's life is an epitome of that astonishing religious individualism which marked the close of the English Reformation.

When he was sixteen years old his father married the second time, whereupon Bunyan ran away and became a soldier in the Parliamentary army.

With Bunyan's marriage to a good woman the real reformation in his life began.

The only dowry which the girl brought to her new home was two old, threadbare books, The Plain Man's Pathway to Heaven, and The Practice of Piety Bunyan read these books, which instantly gave fire to his imagination.

After years of such struggle, chased about between heaven and hell, Bunyan at last emerges into a saner atmosphere, even as Pilgrim came out of the horrible Valley of the Shadow.

His judges pleaded with Bunyan to conform with the law.

With characteristic diligence Bunyan set to work in prison making shoe laces, and so earned a living for his family.

"Bishop Bunyan" he was soon called on account of his missionary journeys and his enormous influence.

"Aye," said Bunyan, "you need not remind me; the devil told me that before I was out of the pulpit.

WORKS OF BUNYAN.

At the very end, when in sight of the city and while he can hear the welcome with which Christian is greeted, Ignorance is snatched away to go to his own place; and Bunyan quaintly observes, "Then I saw that there was a way to hell even from the gates of heaven as well as from the city of Destruction.

Protestantism is the doctrine of salvation by grace, and no writer has equaled Bunyan in making this doctrine understood."

Grace Abounding to the Chief of Sinners, published in 1666, twelve years before Pilgrim's Progress, is the work from which we obtain the clearest insight into Bunyan's remarkable life, and to a man with historical or antiquarian tastes it is still excellent reading.

As Bunyan's one book was the Bible, we have here a suggestion of its influence in all our prose literature.

This "busiest man of his age" strongly suggests Bunyan in his life and writings.

Like Bunyan, he was poor and uneducated, a nonconformist minister, exposed continually to insult and persecution; and, like Bunyan, he threw himself heart and soul into the conflicts of his age, and became by his public speech a mighty power among the common people.

Like Bunyan, he was poor and uneducated, a nonconformist minister, exposed continually to insult and persecution; and, like Bunyan, he threw himself heart and soul into the conflicts of his age, and became by his public speech a mighty power among the common people.

Brown's John Bunyan, His Life, Times, and Works; Life, by Venables, and by Froude (English Men of Letters); Essays by Macaulay, by Dowden, supra, and by Woodberry, in Makers of Literature.

7. Tell the story of Bunyan's life.

Bunyan's Grace Abounding | | 1667.

Bunyan's Dream.

He has a touch of Bunyan, and, like that enthusiastic tinker, hammers away, à la Gitano, whenever he thinks he can thwack the Devil or his man-of-all-work on earththe Pope.