The Collected Works of John Bunyan
Table of Contents
THE PILGRIM'S PROGRESS
From This World To That Which Is To Come
Part One
DELIVERED UNDER THE SIMILITUDE OF A DREAM BY JOHN BUNYAN
The Author's Apology for his Book
THE PILGRIM'S PROGRESS
In the Similitude of a Dream
The Pilgrim's Progress EVERY CHILD CAN READ
EDITED BY REV. JESSE LYMAN HURLBUT, D.D. ILLUSTRATED
PREFACE
THE PILGRIM'S PROGRESS
PART I
CHAPTER I.
CHAPTER II.
CHAPTER III.
CHAPTER IV.
CHAPTER V.
CHAPTER VI.
CHAPTER VII.
CHAPTER VIII.
CHAPTER IX.
CHAPTER X.
CHAPTER XI.
CONCLUSION.
THE PILGRIM'S PROGRESS.
PART II.
CHAPTER I.
Courteous Companions,—
CHAPTER II.
THE WICKET-GATE.
CHAPTER III.
THE INTERPRETER'S HOUSE.
CHAPTER IV.
THE CROSS AND THE CONSEQUENCES.
CHAPTER V.
THE PALACE BEAUTIFUL.
CHAPTER VI.
THE VALLEY OF HUMILIATION.
CHAPTER VII.
ENTERTAINED BY GAIUS.
CHAPTER VIII.
THE DELECTABLE MOUNTAINS AND THE SHEPHERDS.
CHAPTER IX.
THE ENCHANTED GROUND.
CHAPTER X.
THE PILGRIMS AT HOME.
THE LITTLE PILGRIM.
THE STORY OF A LITTLE GIRL WHO TRIED TO GO ON PILGRIMAGE.
FOOTNOTES:
THE PILGRIM'S PROGRESS IN WORDS OF ONE SYLLABLE
Contents
AUTHOR'S PREFACE
PILGRIM'S PROGRESS
PART I.
PART II.
LIFE AND DEATH OF MR BADMANAND THE HOLY WAR [1a]
NOTE
THE AUTHOR TO THE READER
Books lately Printed for and Sold by Nathaniel Ponder at the Peacock in the Poultrey, neer the Church.
ERRATA.
THE LIFE AND DEATH OF MR. BADMAN
THE HOLY WAR MADE BY SHADDI UPON DIABOLUS FOR THEREGAINING OF THE METROPOLISOF THE WORLD OR THE LOSINGAND TAKING AGAIN OF THE TOWNOF MANSOUL. BY JOHN BUNYAN
PREFACE.
TO THE READER.
AN ADVERTISEMENT TO THE READER.
A RELATION OF THE HOLY WAR.
THE JERUSALEM SINNER SAVED; or, GOOD NEWS FOR THE VILEST OF MEN
THE APPLICATION.
THE PHARISEE AND THE PUBLICAN.
MISCELLANEOUS PIECES BY JOHN BUNYAN OF THE TRINITY AND A CHRISTIAN
OF THE LAW AND A CHRISTIAN
BUNYAN'S LAST SERMON—PREACHED JULY 1688.
BUNYAN'S DYING SAYINGS.
OF SIN.
THE HEAVENLY FOOTMAN A DESCRIPTION OF THE MAN THAT GETS TO HEAVEN:
WITH DIRECTIONS
HOW TO RUN SO AS TO OBTAIN.
THE AUTHOR'S EPISTLE TO ALL SLOTHFUL AND CARELESS PEOPLE.
CHAPTER I.
HEAVEN MUST BE RUN FOR.
CHAPTER II.
DIRECTIONS FOR THIS HEAVENLY COURSE.
CHAPTER III.
MOTIVES TO PURSUE THIS HEAVENLY COURSE.
CHAPTER IV.
APPLICATION OF THE POINT
AN EXHORTATION TO PEACE AND UNITY.
THE WORKS OF JOHN BUNYAN
MEMOIR OF JOHN BUNYAN FOOTNOTES:
FOOTNOTES:
POSTSCRIPT.
[OF THE CAUSE OF THE LOSS OF THE SOUL.]
ADVERTISEMENT BY THE EDITOR.
THE WORKS OF JOHN BUNYAN
THE SAINTS' KNOWLEDGE OF CHRIST'S LOVE; OR, THE UNSEARCHABLE RICHES OF CHRIST.
PREFATORY REMARKS BY THE EDITOR.
THE SAINTS' KNOWLEDGE OF CHRIST'S LOVE.
PREFATORY REMARKS BY THE EDITOR
OF ANTICHRIST.
FOOTNOTES:
ADVERTISEMENT BY THE EDITOR.
PREFACE. OF THE RESURRECTION OF THE DEAD.
FOOTNOTES:
EDITOR'S ADVERTISEMENT.
THE AUTHOR TO THE READER.
FOOTNOTE:
THE EPISTLE WRIT BY MR. BURTON, MINISTER AT BEDFORD
SOME QUESTIONS TO THE QUAKERS, OR A FEW QUERIES TO THOSE WHO ARE POSSESSED WITH A SPIRIT OF DELUSION IN THIS GENERATION.
FOOTNOTES:
FOOTNOTES:
ADVERTISEMENT BY THE EDITOR.
TO THE READER.
FOOTNOTES:
A PREMONITION TO THE READER
FOOTNOTES:
A DEFENCE OF THE DOCTRINE OF JUSTIFICATION BY FAITH IN JESUS CHRIST;
[FOWLER'S ASSERTION THAT THE GRAND, THE ONLY AND ULTIMATE DESIGN OF THE GOSPEL OF CHRIST IS TO RE-PRODUCE MAN'S ORIGINAL RIGHTEOUSNESS EXAMINED AND CONFUTED.]
THE CONCLUSION.
FOOTNOTES:
EDITOR'S ADVERTISEMENT.
REPROBATION ASSERTED.
CHAPTER 1.
CHAPTER 2
CHAPTER 3.
CHAPTER 4.
CHAPTER 5.
CHAPTER 6.
CHAPTER 7.
CHAPTER 8.
CHAPTER 9.
CHAPTER 10.
CHAPTER 11.
FOOTNOTES:
EDITOR'S ADVERTISEMENT.
TO THE READER.
QUESTIONS ABOUT THE NATURE AND PERPETUITY OF THE SEVENTH-DAY SABBATH.
QUESTION I.
QUESTION II.
QUESTION III.
QUESTION IV.
QUESTION V.
FOOTNOTES:
EDITOR'S ADVERTISEMENT.
OF THE TRINITY AND A CHRISTIAN
OF THE LAW AND A CHRISTIAN.
ADVERTISEMENT BY THE EDITOR.
GEO. OFFOR.
SCRIPTURAL POEMS
TO THE READER.
THE BOOK OF RUTH
THE HISTORY OF SAMSON
CHRIST'S SERMON ON THE MOUNT
THE PROPHECY OF JONAH
THE LIFE OF JOSEPH, TAKEN OUT OF THE LATTER PART OF THE BOOK OF GENESIS.
THE GENERAL EPISTLE OF JAMES FOOTNOTES:
FOOTNOTES:
THE EDITOR'S ADVERTISEMENT.
AN INTRODUCTION TO THE FOLLOWING DISCOURSE
A HOLY LIFE THE BEAUTY OF CHRISTIANITY
[FIRST, THE EXHORTATION—THAT MEN DEPART FROM INIQUITY]
[SECOND, THE EXTENSION OF THE EXHORTATION—TO EVERY ONE THAT NAMETH THE NAME OF CHRIST.]
[OBSERVATION FIRST.]
[OBSERVATION SECOND.]
WHAT INIQUITY THEY MUST DEPART FROM THAT RELIGIOUSLY NAME THE NAME OF CHRIST?
FOOTNOTES.
ADVERTISEMENT BY THE EDITOR.
CAUTION TO STIR UP TO WATCH AGAINST SIN
FOOTNOTE:
II.
III.
IV.
V.
VI.
VII.
VIII.
IX.
X.
XI.
XII.
FOOTNOTES:
ADVERTISEMENT BY THE EDITOR.
A CONFESSION OF MY FAITH, AND A REASON OF MY PRACTICE; OR, WITH WHO, AND WHO NOT, I CAN HOLD CHURCH FELLOWSHIP, OR THE COMMUNION OF SAINTS.
TO THE READER.
A CONFESSION OF MY FAITH, AND A REASON OF MY PRACTICE, ETC. A REASON OF MY PRACTICE IN WORSHIP.
I NOW COME TO A SHORT APPLICATION.
FOOTNOTES:
DIFFERENCES IN JUDGMENT ABOUT WATER BAPTISM, NO BAR TO COMMUNION.
I COME NOW TO YOUR FOURTEEN ARGUMENTS, AND SHALL IMPARTIALLY CONSIDER THEM.
HERE FOLLOWETH MR. HENRY JESSEY'S JUDGMENT UPON THE SAME ARGUMENT.
FOOTNOTES:
OF THE LOVE OF CHRIST
FOOTNOTES:
FOOTNOTES:
ADVERTISEMENT BY THE EDITOR.
INSTRUCTION FOR THE IGNORANT
FOOTNOTES:
ADVERTISEMENT BY THE EDITOR.
FOOTNOTES:
[ADVERTISEMENT BY THE EDITOR]
FOOTNOTE:
[ADVERTISEMENT BY THE EDITOR]
THE WORKS OF JOHN BUNYAN
THE PILGRIM'S PROGRESS; FOOTNOTES:
THE PILGRIM'S PROGRESS;
THE SECOND PART.
FOOTNOTES:
TO THE READER.
A RELATION OF THE HOLY WAR
[CHAPTER V.]
AN EPISTLE TO ALL THE SLOTHFUL AND CARELESS PEOPLE.
THE HEAVENLY FOOTMAN
FOOTNOTES:
THE EPISTLE TO FOUR SORTS OF READERS
III. TO THE CAPTIOUS READER.
FOOTNOTES:
THE HOLY CITY; OR, THE NEW JERUSALEM
[THIRD. A RELATION OF THE GLORY OF THE CITY, ITS WALLS, GATES, AND FOUNDATIONS.]
[FOURTH. THE INHABITANTS OF THE CITY, THEIR QUALITY, AND NUMEROUSNESS.]
[FIFTH. THE PROVISION AND MAINTENANCE OF THE CITY, BY WHICH IT CONTINUETH IN LIFE, EASE, PEACE, TRANQUILITY, AND SWEETNESS FOR EVER.]
FOOTNOTES:
[TO THE CHRISTIAN READER]
FOOTNOTES:
ADVERTISEMENT BY THE EDITOR.
THE HOUSE OF THE FOREST OF LEBANON.
THE EPISTLE TO THE READER.
THE WATER OF LIFE.
FOOTNOTES:
TO THE READER.
THE BARREN FIG-TREE, OR THE DOOM AND DOWNFALL OF THE FRUITLESS PROFESSOR.
FOOTNOTES:
ADVERTISEMENT BY THE EDITOR.
THE AUTHOR TO THE READER.
CONTENTS.
THE LIFE AND DEATH OF MR. BADMAN,
CHAPTER I.
CHAPTER II.
CHAPTER III.
CHAPTER IV.
CHAPTER V.
CHAPTER VI.
CHAPTER VII.
CHAPTER VIII.
CHAPTER IX.
CHAPTER X.
CHAPTER XI.
CHAPTER XII.
CHAPTER XIII.
CHAPTER XIV.
CHAPTER XV.
CHAPTER XVI.
CHAPTER XVII.
CHAPTER XVIII.
CHAPTER XIX.
CHAPTER XX.
FOOTNOTES:
BY THAT POOR AND CONTEMPTIBLE SERVANT OF JESUS CHRIST, JOHN BUNYAN.
ADVERTISEMENT BY THE EDITOR
PREFACE, BY THE REV. JOHN GIFFORD,
THE AUTHOR TO THE READER.
FOOTNOTES:
ADVERTISEMENT BY THE EDITOR.
ONE THING IS NEEDFUL,
AN INTRODUCTION TO THE ENSUING DISCOURSE.
OF DEATH
OF JUDGMENT.
OF HEAVEN.
OF HELL, AND THE ESTATE OF THOSE THAT PERISH.
EBAL AND GERIZZIM, FROM MOUNT GERIZZIM.
FROM MOUNT EBAL.
FOOTNOTES:
TO THE READER.
FOOTNOTES:
REASONS
THE STRUGGLER
FOOTNOTES:
THE RICHES OF BUNYAN:
CONTENTS.
NOTICES OF BUNYAN
THE RICHES OF BUNYAN.
II. THE TRINITY
III. THE SCRIPTURES.
IV. MAN.
V. THE LAW.
VI. DIVINE GRACE.
VII. CHRIST.
VIII. THE HOLY SPIRIT.
IX. JUSTIFICATION BY FAITH.
X. CONVICTION OF SIN.
XI. CONVERSION.
XII. THE CHRISTIAN DESCRIBED
XIII. THE CHRISTIAN RACE.
XIV. TRIALS OF THE CHRISTIAN
XV. TEMPTATIONS.
XVI. SECURITY OF CHRISTIANS.
XVII. THE PROMISES.
XVIII. CHRISTIAN GRACES.
XIX. PRAYER.
XX. FALSE PROFESSION.
XXI. THE CHURCH.
XXIII. ANTICHRIST.
XXIV. DEATH.
XXV. THE RESURRECTION.
XXVI. THE JUDGMENT.
XXVII. HEAVEN.
XXVIII. HELL.
XXIX. MISCELLANEOUS.
THE PILGRIM'S PROGRESS
From This World To That Which Is To Come
by
John Bunyan
Part One
DELIVERED UNDER THE SIMILITUDE OF A DREAM BY JOHN BUNYAN
The Author's Apology for his Book
{1} When at the first I took my pen in hand
Thus for to write, I did not understand
That I at all should make a little book
In such a mode; nay, I had undertook
To make another; which, when almost done,
Before I was aware, I this begun.
And thus it was: I, writing of the way
And race of saints, in this our gospel day,
Fell suddenly into an allegory
About their journey, and the way to glory,
In more than twenty things which I set down.
This done, I twenty more had in my crown;
And they again began to multiply,
Like sparks that from the coals of fire do fly.
Nay, then, thought I, if that you breed so fast,
I'll put you by yourselves, lest you at last
Should prove ad infinitum, and eat out
The book that I already am about.
Well, so I did; but yet I did not think
To shew to all the world my pen and ink
In such a mode; I only thought to make
I knew not what; nor did I undertake
Thereby to please my neighbour: no, not I;
I did it my own self to gratify.
{2} Neither did I but vacant seasons spend
In this my scribble; nor did I intend
But to divert myself in doing this
From worser thoughts which make me do amiss.
Thus, I set pen to paper with delight,
And quickly had my thoughts in black and white.
For, having now my method by the end,
Still as I pulled, it came; and so I penned
It down: until it came at last to be,
For length and breadth, the bigness which you see.
Well, when I had thus put mine ends together,
I shewed them others, that I might see whether
They would condemn them, or them justify:
And some said, Let them live; some, Let them die;
Some said, JOHN, print it; others said, Not so;
Some said, It might do good; others said, No.
Now was I in a strait, and did not see
Which was the best thing to be done by me:
At last I thought, Since you are thus divided,
I print it will, and so the case decided.
{3} For, thought I, some, I see, would have it done,
Though others in that channel do not run:
To prove, then, who advised for the best,
Thus I thought fit to put it to the test.
I further thought, if now I did deny
Those that would have it, thus to gratify.
I did not know but hinder them I might
Of that which would to them be great delight.
For those which were not for its coming forth,
I said to them, Offend you I am loth,
Yet, since your brethren pleased with it be,
Forbear to judge till you do further see.
If that thou wilt not read, let it alone;
Some love the meat, some love to pick the bone.
Yea, that I might them better palliate,
I did too with them thus expostulate:--
{4} May I not write in such a style as this?
In such a method, too, and yet not miss
My end--thy good? Why may it not be done?
Dark clouds bring waters, when the bright bring none.
Yea, dark or bright, if they their silver drops
Cause to descend, the earth, by yielding crops,
Gives praise to both, and carpeth not at either,
But treasures up the fruit they yield together;
Yea, so commixes both, that in her fruit
None can distinguish this from that: they suit
Her well when hungry; but, if she be full,
She spews out both, and makes their blessings null.
You see the ways the fisherman doth take
To catch the fish; what engines doth he make?
Behold how he engageth all his wits;
Also his snares, lines, angles, hooks, and nets;
Yet fish there be, that neither hook, nor line,
Nor snare, nor net, nor engine can make thine:
They must be groped for, and be tickled too,
Or they will not be catch'd, whate'er you do.
How does the fowler seek to catch his game
By divers means! all which one cannot name:
His guns, his nets, his lime-twigs, light, and bell:
He creeps, he goes, he stands; yea, who can tell
Of all his postures? Yet there's none of these
Will make him master of what fowls he please.
Yea, he must pipe and whistle to catch this,
Yet, if he does so, that bird he will miss.
If that a pearl may in a toad's head dwell,
And may be found too in an oyster-shell;
If things that promise nothing do contain
What better is than gold; who will disdain,
That have an inkling of it, there to look,
That they may find it? Now, my little book,
(Though void of all these paintings that may make
It with this or the other man to take)
Is not without those things that do excel
What do in brave but empty notions dwell.
{5} 'Well, yet I am not fully satisfied,
That this your book will stand, when soundly tried.'
Why, what's the matter? 'It is dark.' What though?
'But it is feigned.' What of that? I trow?
Some men, by feigned words, as dark as mine,
Make truth to spangle and its rays to shine.
'But they want solidness.' Speak, man, thy mind.
'They drown the weak; metaphors make us blind.'
Solidity, indeed, becomes the pen
Of him that writeth things divine to men;
But must I needs want solidness, because
By metaphors I speak? Were not God's laws,
His gospel laws, in olden times held forth
By types, shadows, and metaphors? Yet loth
Will any sober man be to find fault
With them, lest he be found for to assault
The highest wisdom. No, he rather stoops,
And seeks to find out what by pins and loops,
By calves and sheep, by heifers and by rams,
By birds and herbs, and by the blood of lambs,
God speaketh to him; and happy is he
That finds the light and grace that in them be.
{6} Be not too forward, therefore, to conclude
That I want solidness--that I am rude;
All things solid in show not solid be;
All things in parables despise not we;
Lest things most hurtful lightly we receive,
And things that good are, of our souls bereave.
My dark and cloudy words, they do but hold
The truth, as cabinets enclose the gold.
The prophets used much by metaphors
To set forth truth; yea, who so considers Christ,
his apostles too, shall plainly see,
That truths to this day in such mantles be.
Am I afraid to say, that holy writ,
Which for its style and phrase puts down all wit,
Is everywhere so full of all these things--
Dark figures, allegories? Yet there springs
From that same book that lustre, and those rays
Of light, that turn our darkest nights to days.
{7} Come, let my carper to his life now look,
And find there darker lines than in my book
He findeth any; yea, and let him know,
That in his best things there are worse lines too.
May we but stand before impartial men,
To his poor one I dare adventure ten,
That they will take my meaning in these lines
Far better than his lies in silver shrines.
Come, truth, although in swaddling clouts, I find,
Informs the judgement, rectifies the mind;
Pleases the understanding, makes the will
Submit; the memory too it doth fill
With what doth our imaginations please;
Likewise it tends our troubles to appease.
Sound words, I know, Timothy is to use,
And old wives' fables he is to refuse;
But yet grave Paul him nowhere did forbid
The use of parables; in which lay hid
That gold, those pearls, and precious stones that were
Worth digging for, and that with greatest care.
Let me add one word more. O man of God,
Art thou offended? Dost thou wish I had
Put forth my matter in another dress?
Or, that I had in things been more express?
Three things let me propound; then I submit
To those that are my betters, as is fit.
{8} 1. I find not that I am denied the use
Of this my method, so I no abuse
Put on the words, things, readers; or be rude
In handling figure or similitude,
In application; but, all that I may,
Seek the advance of truth this or that way
Denied, did I say? Nay, I have leave
(Example too, and that from them that have
God better pleased, by their words or ways,
Than any man that breatheth now-a-days)
Thus to express my mind, thus to declare
Things unto thee that excellentest are.
2. I find that men (as high as trees) will write
Dialogue-wise; yet no man doth them slight
For writing so: indeed, if they abuse
Truth, cursed be they, and the craft they use
To that intent; but yet let truth be free
To make her sallies upon thee and me,
Which way it pleases God; for who knows how,
Better than he that taught us first to plough,
To guide our mind and pens for his design?
And he makes base things usher in divine.
3. I find that holy writ in many places
Hath semblance with this method, where the cases
Do call for one thing, to set forth another;
Use it I may, then, and yet nothing smother
Truth's golden beams: nay, by this method may
Make it cast forth its rays as light as day.
And now before I do put up my pen,
I'll shew the profit of my book, and then
Commit both thee and it unto that Hand
That pulls the strong down, and makes weak ones stand.
This book it chalketh out before thine eyes
The man that seeks the everlasting prize;
It shews you whence he comes, whither he goes;
What he leaves undone, also what he does;
It also shows you how he runs and runs,
Till he unto the gate of glory comes.
{9} It shows, too, who set out for life amain,
As if the lasting crown they would obtain;
Here also you may see the reason why
They lose their labour, and like fools do die.
This book will make a traveller of thee,