The Riches of Bunyan: Selected from His Works. John Bunyan

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       Changing sins

       The unholy professor

       The fruitless professor

       The unpardonable sin

       The man in the iron cage

      XXI. THE CHURCH

       From the preface to the "Holy City"

       Church-fellowship

       The church a light

       Spiritual character of the church

       Warning to the professor

       Church-order

       The church in affliction

       Satan's hostility to the church

       Security of the church

       Future glory of the church

      XXII. THE MINISTRY

       Importance of the ministry

       Duty of churches to the ministry

       Different classes of ministers

       Duty of ministers

       Ministers warned

       Ministers servants of the church

       Gifts and grace in ministers

       The false minister

       The minister at the day of judgment

       Bunyan's ministry

       Bunyan's character and principles

      XXIII. ANTICHRIST

       Antichrist described

       Rise and progress of antichrist

       Corruption of the church by antichrist

       Conflict between the church and antichrist

       Fall of antichrist

       Manner of antichrist's destruction

       Present state of antichrist

       Slaying of the witnesses

       Reasons for antichrist's destruction

       Time of antichrist's destruction

       Signs of antichrist's destruction

       Hope of antichrist's destruction

       Effects of antichrist's destruction

       Warning against a return to antichrist

       Introduction to the "Holy City"

       The wooden cross

      XXIV. DEATH

       Death of the sinner

       Death of the Christian

       The Christian wishing to depart

       The dying Christian

       Death of Mr. Badman's wife

       Death of Standfast

       Death of Christian and Hopeful

       Bunyan's death

      XXV. THE RESURRECTION

       Salvation complete at the resurrection

      XXVI. THE JUDGMENT

       The saints judged

       Saints rewarded at the judgment

       Sinners judged

       Sinners without excuse at the judgment

       "Ignorance" condemned at the judgment

      XXVII. HEAVEN

       Happiness and glory of heaven

       Employments of heaven

       Soul and body glorified in heaven

       Christ the glory of heaven

       The glory of salvation

       Heaven

      XXVIII. HELL

      XXIX. MISCELLANEOUS

       The Sabbath

       Woman

       The family

       Bunyan's domestic character

       Dr. Owen

       Truth

       Style

       The old and new dispensations

       The Pilgrim in New England

NOTICES OF BUNYAN

       Table of Contents

      PREFATORY NOTICE.

      The subscriber has been requested by his friend the Rev. Jeremiah Chaplin, the worthy son of an honored father, [Footnote: The late Rev. Dr. Chaplin, the founder and first president of Waterville college, in the state of Maine.] and the editor of the present selections from Bunyan, to attach to them some prefatory remarks. Needless as he feels it himself to be, and presumptuous as, to some, the attempt even may seem, to say aught in behalf of a work that, faithfully drawn as it is from Bunyan's overflowing stores, can require no other recommendation; yet the subscriber could not refuse all compliance with the wishes of one who has given diligent and hearty and appreciating study to the rich and varied remains of "the immortal Dreamer."

      Many of the Christians of our time, though conversant with the PILGRIM'S PROGRESS, and HOLY WAR, are apparently little aware of the glowing genius, and fervent piety, and strong sense, and picturesque imagery, and racy, vigorous English, that mark the many other writings of the honored tinker of Elstow. These last, if less known than the story of the pilgrimage to the Celestial City, and of the siege and recovery of the good town of Mansoul, yet bear all of them the traces of the same vivid fancy, the same earnest heart, and the same robust and sanctified intellect. To save from comparative disuse and consequent unprofitableness—from being buried in an undeserved seclusion, if not oblivion, many sparkling truths, and pithy sayings, and pungent rebukes, likely to do great good if they could but have, in our busy day, a more general currency over the wide mart of the world;—and to bespeak a new circle of influence, and a broader sphere of notoriety and usefulness for these overlooked legacies of a good and great man of a former age, has been the editor's object in the prolonged sifting to which he has subjected all Bunyan's writings. Of that patient СКАЧАТЬ