The Life and Times of John Bunyan |
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Strona 12
... better to keep sealed from his soul , if the pure river of the water of life was to flow through his pages . This peculiarity of his training fitted him to be one of the most original writers in the world . Almost the only books Bunyan ...
... better to keep sealed from his soul , if the pure river of the water of life was to flow through his pages . This peculiarity of his training fitted him to be one of the most original writers in the world . Almost the only books Bunyan ...
Strona 16
... better impulses . All these things together wrought upon him for an external reformation at least , and produced certain church - going habits to fall in , as Bunyan says , 66 very eagerly with the re- ligion of the times ; to wit , to ...
... better impulses . All these things together wrought upon him for an external reformation at least , and produced certain church - going habits to fall in , as Bunyan says , 66 very eagerly with the re- ligion of the times ; to wit , to ...
Strona 23
... better next time , and then got help again ; for then I thought I pleased God as well as any man in England . Thus I continued about a year ; all which time our neighbours did take me to be a very godly man , a new and religious man ...
... better next time , and then got help again ; for then I thought I pleased God as well as any man in England . Thus I continued about a year ; all which time our neighbours did take me to be a very godly man , a new and religious man ...
Strona 27
... better . " The very extreme plainness of this work adds to its power ; never was the inward life of any being depicted with more vehement and burning lan- guage ; it is an intensely interesting description of the workings of a mind of ...
... better . " The very extreme plainness of this work adds to its power ; never was the inward life of any being depicted with more vehement and burning lan- guage ; it is an intensely interesting description of the workings of a mind of ...
Strona 30
... better philosophy , if Southey had said that the Spirit of God was preparing Bunyan , by that severe discipline , to send forth into the world the Pilgrim's Progress . And when he was at length prepared for the task , then an overruling ...
... better philosophy , if Southey had said that the Spirit of God was preparing Bunyan , by that severe discipline , to send forth into the world the Pilgrim's Progress . And when he was at length prepared for the task , then an overruling ...
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Strona 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...
Strona 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.
Strona 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.
Strona 94 - Such a nation might truly say to corruption, thou art my father, and to the worm, thou art my mother and my sister.
Strona 107 - And they called them, and commanded them not to speak at all nor teach in the name of Jesus.
Strona 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.
Strona 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...
Strona 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.
Strona 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.
Strona 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.