Lectures on the Pilgrim's Progress, and on the Life and Times of Bunyan (Paperback)

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: LECTURE THIRD. it'g ir aminatton. Bunyan's use of his temptations.?The gloom of his mind in the early part of his imprisonment?His faithfulness to Christ in the midst of it.?His perfect disinterestedness.?His little blind daughter.?Relation of his examination and imprisonment.?That old enemy Dr Lindalc Bunyan's admirable answers and Christian deportment?The nature and preciousness of religious liberty.?Parable by Dr Franklin. There never was a man who made better use of his temptations, especially the temptations by his Great Adversary, than Bunyan. In the preface to his Grace Abounding, addressed to those whom God had counted him worthy to bring to the Redeemer by his ministry, he says, " I have sent you here enclosed a drop of the honey that I have taken out of the carcass of a lion. I have eaten thereof myself, and am much refreshed thereby. Temptations, when we meet them at first, are as the lion that roared upon Samson; but if we overcome them, the next time we see them we shall find a nest of honey within them." Nor was there ever a man who traced the parental care, tenderness, and goodness of God more clearly, or with more gratitude, in those temptations, the designs of God in suffering such things to befall him, ind the manner in which those designs were accomplished. It was for this, Bunyan said, that God suffered him to lie so long at Sinai, to see the fire, and the cloud, and the darkness, " that I might fear the Lord all the days of my life upon earth, and tell of his wondrous works to my children." It was in the calm, clear light of heaven, in the light of divine mercy to his rescued soul, that Bunyan rememberedhis ways, his journeyings, the desert and the wilderness, the Rock that followed him, and the Manna that fed him. " Thou shalt remember all the w...