The Life and Times of John Bunyan |
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... dreadful massacre of Protestants in Paris , and other French cities , the 24th of August , 1572 , nearly an hundred years previous ; and a day on which more than two thousand conscientious ministers were silenced , ejected from their ...
... dreadful massacre of Protestants in Paris , and other French cities , the 24th of August , 1572 , nearly an hundred years previous ; and a day on which more than two thousand conscientious ministers were silenced , ejected from their ...
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... dreadful rate , and flames came out of it , and threatened to consume him . He saw more of this afterwards : " But , poor wretch as I was , " he says , " I was all this while ignorant of Jesus Christ , and going about to establish my ...
... dreadful rate , and flames came out of it , and threatened to consume him . He saw more of this afterwards : " But , poor wretch as I was , " he says , " I was all this while ignorant of Jesus Christ , and going about to establish my ...
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... dreadful temptations , the account of Christian's fight with Apollyon in the Valley of Humiliation . " In this combat no man can imagine , unless he had seen and heard , as I did , what yelling and hideous roaring Apollyon made all the ...
... dreadful temptations , the account of Christian's fight with Apollyon in the Valley of Humiliation . " In this combat no man can imagine , unless he had seen and heard , as I did , what yelling and hideous roaring Apollyon made all the ...
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... dreadful violence for the space of another whole year , in which , if I should take the whole even- ing , I could not describe to you the twinings and wrestlings , the strivings and agonies of Bunyan's spirit . Strange as it may seem ...
... dreadful violence for the space of another whole year , in which , if I should take the whole even- ing , I could not describe to you the twinings and wrestlings , the strivings and agonies of Bunyan's spirit . Strange as it may seem ...
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... dreadful perverseness and ingenuity of unbelief under the power of his adversary , who seemed now indeed to have gotten the victory , he would compare his case with that of all the greatest criminals recorded in the Bible , but always ...
... dreadful perverseness and ingenuity of unbelief under the power of his adversary , who seemed now indeed to have gotten the victory , he would compare his case with that of all the greatest criminals recorded in the Bible , but always ...
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Page 169 - But I tell you of a truth, many widows were in Israel in the days of Elias, when the heaven was shut up three years and six months...
Page 68 - But I certify you, brethren, that the gospel which was preached of me is not after man. For I neither received it of man, neither was I taught it, but by the revelation of Jesus Christ.
Page 14 - For God speaketh once, Yea twice, yet man perceiveth it not. In a dream, in a vision of the night, When deep sleep falleth upon men, In slumberings upon the bed ; Then he openeth the ears of men, And sealeth their instruction, That he my withdraw man from his purpose, And hide pride from man.
Page 94 - Such a nation might truly say to corruption, thou art my father, and to the worm, thou art my mother and my sister.
Page 107 - And they called them, and commanded them not to speak at all nor teach in the name of Jesus.
Page 136 - All the presidents of the kingdom, the governors, and the princes, the counsellors and the captains, have consulted together to establish a royal statute, and to make a firm decree, that whosoever shall ask a petition of any god or man for thirty days, save of thee, O king, he shall be cast into the den of lions.
Page 66 - God, in much patience, in afflictions, in necessities, in distresses, in stripes, in imprisonments, in tumults, in labours, in watchings, in fastings; by pureness, by knowledge, by longsuffering, by kindness, by the Holy Ghost, by love unfeigned, by the word of truth, by the power of God, by the armour of righteousness on the right hand and on the left...
Page 116 - Lo, children are an heritage of the Lord : and the fruit of the womb is his reward. As arrows are in the hand of a mighty man ; so are children of the youth. Happy is the man that hath his quiver full of them : they shall not be ashamed, but they shall speak with the enemies in the gate.
Page 52 - Two men went up into the temple to pray, the one a pharisee and the other a publican ; the pharisee stood and prayed thus with himself, God, I thank thee, that I am not as other men are, extortioners, unjust, adulterers, or even as this publican ; I fast twice in the week, I give tithes of all that I possess.
Page 54 - Me miserable ! which way shall I fly Infinite wrath, and infinite despair? Which way I fly is Hell; myself am Hell; And, in the lowest deep, a lower deep Still threatening to devour me opens wide, To which the Hell I suffer seems a Heaven.