The Riches of Bunyan Selected from His Works

By John Bunyan

Book Overview

John Bunyan ( baptised on November 30, 1628 - August 31, 1688) was an English writer and Puritan preacher best remembered as the author of the Christian allegory The Pilgrim's Progress. In addition to The Pilgrim's Progress, Bunyan wrote nearly sixty titles, many of them expanded sermons. Bunyan came from the village of Elstow, near Bedford. He had some schooling and at the age of sixteen joined the Parliamentary army during the first stage of the English Civil War. After three years in the army he returned to Elstow and took up the trade of tinker, which he had learned from his father. He became interested in religion after his marriage, attending first the parish church and then joining the Bedford Meeting, a nonconformist group in Bedford, and becoming a preacher. After the restoration of the monarch, when the freedom of nonconformists was curtailed, Bunyan was arrested and spent the next twelve years in jail as he refused to give up preaching. During this time he wrote a spiritual autobiography, Grace Abounding to the Chief of Sinners, and began work on his most famous book, The Pilgrim's Progress, which was not published until some years after his release.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1720419655
• ISBN13: 9781720419655
• Release Date: July 2018
• Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
• Length: 258 Pages
• Weight: 0.77 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

"Big John," truly anointed.

The depth of understanding and the ability to put forth such complex ideas and doctrines in a 1600's backwoods preacher would have to be from the indwelling of the Holy Spirit. Later to find he was studied and read by C.H.Spurgeon sheds further light on this Spirit-filled man. AAM

The Glad Goodness of God

I never knew that Bunyan had done much writing aside from Pilgrim's Progress, but this collection from his many other writings makes me want to read all I can of his thoughts. The book opens with this thought: "No one can be happy or experience any goodness unless God communicates His own glad goodness, and nothing pleases unless it is a vehicle for God. God is the only good worth wanting." I found the rest of the book to be full to the brim of that same "glad goodness." I came away with a renewed sense of the joy and glory of God.