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English Men of Letters

EDITED BY JOHN MORLEY

BUNYAN

BY

JAMES ANTHONY FROUDE

London

MACMILLAN AND CO.

1880

CONTENTS.

CHAPTER I.
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Early Life	1
CHAPTER II.
Conviction of Sin	16
CHAPTER III.
Grace Abounding	35
CHAPTER IV.
Call To the Ministry	52
CHAPTER V.
Arrest and Trial	65
CHAPTER VI.
The Bedford Gaol	78
CHAPTER VII.
Life and Death of Mr. Badman	90
CHAPTER VIII.
The Holy War	114
CHAPTER IX.
The Pilgrim's Progress	151
CHAPTER X.
Last Days and Death	173

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BUNYAN.

CHAPTER I.

EARLY LIFE.

'I was of a low and inconsiderable generation, my father's house beingof that rank that is meanest and most despised of all families in theland.' 'I never went to school, to Aristotle or Plato, but was broughtup in my father's house in a very mean condition, among a company ofpoor countrymen.' 'Nevertheless, I bless God that by this door Hebrought me into the world to partake of the grace and life that is byChrist in His Gospel.' This is the account given of himself and hisorigin by a man whose writings have for two centuries affected thespiritual opinions of the English race in every part of the world morepowerfully than any book or books, except the Bible.

John Buny

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