English Comp 2, T2, Professor Owens

1. How his views of Christianity were reflected
in his writings.

3. Bunyan’s Beginning

 Born 1628 in Elstow, Bedfordshire, England
 Father was a mender of pots and kettles, Bunyan was
to follow in his footsteps but was more of a “Tinker”
 Mother passed away when he was sixteen
 Enlisted shortly after passing, fought for almost
three years
 Married at age twenty
 Christian Conversion began

4.  Bunyan was imprisoned
for preaching without a
license
 He remained in prison for
12 years where he wrote
his first 15 books Prison for Preaching
 Pardoned by King
Charles II
 Pastors Bedfordshire
Church

5. Bunyan’s Most
Famous Works
 “The Pilgrim’s Progress”
 “Grace abounding to the
Chief of Sinners”

6. John Bunyan’s Work

 Some Gospel Truths opened  The Holy City
 A Vindication of “Some Gospel  The Resurrection of the Dead and
Truths opened” Eternal Judgment
 A few Sighs from Hell  Defense of the Doctrine of
 The Doctrine of the Law and justification by Faith
Grace unfolded  Confession of Faith
 Profitable Meditations, fitted to  Difference of Judgment about
man’s different Conditions. In Water Baptism no bar to
nine particulars. Communion
 I will pray with the Spirit and  Peaceable Principles and True
with the Understanding also  Light for them that sit in
 Christian Behaviour; being the Darkness
Fruits of True Christianity  Instruction for the Ignorant
 The Four Last Things  Saved by Grace
 Ebal and Gerizim  The Strait Gate
 Prison Meditations

7. John Bunyan’s Work
continued
 A Treatise of the Fear of God
  Questions about the Nature and
 The Life and Death or Mr. Perpetuity of the Seventh-day
Badman Sabbath
 The Holy War  The Pharisee and the Publican
 The Barren Fig Tree  A Book for Boys and Girls
 The Greatness of the Soul  The Jerusalem Sinner saved
 A Case of Conscience resolved  The Work of Jesus Christ as an
 Seasonable Counsel or Advice to Advocate
Sufferers  Discourse of the Building,
 A Holy Life the Beauty of Nature, Excellency, and
Christianity Government of the House of God
 A Caution to stir up to Watch  The Water of Life
against Sin  Solomon’s Temple spiritualized
 The second part of Pilgrim’s  The Acceptable Sacrifice
Progress  Last Sermon

8. John Bunyan’s Work
Continued

 An Exposition of the Ten  The Saint’s Knowledge of
first Chapters of Genesis Christ’s Love
and part of the Eleventh
 Paul’s Departure and  The House of the Forest
Crown of Lebanon
 Israel’s Hope encouraged  Antichrist and her Ruin
 The Desires of the  The Heavenly Footman
Righteous granted
 The Saint’s Privilege and  The Relation of his
Profit Imprisonment
 Christ a Complete  The Pocket Concordance
Saviour
 The Scriptural Poems

9. Works Cited
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 "Biography of John Bunyan." n.d. http://www.ccel.org/b/bunyan. John Bunyan - (1628-
1688), Puritan author. 9 December 2011.
 Bunyan, John. Grace abounding to the Chief of Sinners. London: George Larkin, 1666.
 —. The Barren Fig Tree. London: Golden Lion, 1688. Edited by George Offer.
 —. "The Pilgrim's Progress - John Bunyan." 2001. www.bartleby.com/15/1/. The Pilgrim's
Progress. Vol. XV, Part 1. The Harvard Classics. New York: P.F. Collier & Son, 1909-14. 3
December 2011.
 —. The Water of Life. Londo: Peacock in the Poultry, 1688. Edited by George Offor.
 Cheever, George B. "A Memoir on John Bunyan." May 1861. truthinheart.com. 10 December
2011.
 Davis, Emmalon. "Holy War." n.d. ccel.org. Description and Review of The Holy War. 10
December 2011.

10. Works Cited
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Editors., SparkNotes. "SparkNote on The Pilgrim's Progress." 2006. sparknotes.com. Sparknotes LLC. . 10
December 2011.
 "Grace Abounding to the Chief of Sinners: Publisher's Foreword." 31 March 2003. believersweb.org. 10
December 2011.
 Jesus. The King James Bible. n.d.
 Offor, George. "Sermons & Allegories." n.d. truthinheart.com. 10 December 2011.
 Ross, Stephen. "John Bunyan: Author and Preacher." n.d.
http://www.wholesomewords.org/biography/bbunyan.html/. Dictionary of National Biography. London:
Smith, Elder, & Co., 1886. 9 December 2011.
 —. "John Bunyan: Author and Preacher." n.d. http://www.wholesomewords.org/biography/bbunyan.html.
Dictionary of National Biography. London: Smith, Elder, & Co., 1886. 9 December 2011.
 —. "John Bunyan: English Author and Preacher." n.d.
http://www.wholesomewords.org/biography/bbunyan3.html. The New Schaff-Herzof Encyclopedia of
Religious Knowledge. 9 December 2011.