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John Bunyan
Works of John Bunyan — Complete
Published by Good Press, 2019
EAN 4057664647320
Table of Contents
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.
OF THE RESURRECTION OF THE DEAD.
THE EPISTLE WRIT BY MR. BURTON, MINISTER AT BEDFORD
ADVERTISEMENT BY THE EDITOR.
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
THE BOOK OF RUTH
THE LIFE OF JOSEPH,. TAKEN OUT OF THE LATTER PART OF THE BOOK OF GENESIS.
A HOLY LIFE THE BEAUTY OF CHRISTIANITY
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
[ADVERTISEMENT BY THE EDITOR]
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
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'