I might reiate, but these out of the spoils won in battle have I dedicated to maintain the house of God." These "spoils," remarks Mr. Philip, happily remain for the use of the church.

For how many of Bunyan's works we are indebted to his imprisonment, it is difficult to determine, as some which he wrote during that period were not published till some years after his release. Concerning the following, however, there is no doubt:-Sighs from Hell; or the Groans of a damned Soul-The Two Covenants: Law and Grace-Discourse on Prayer -A Map of Salvation, &c.-One Thing is Needful; or Serious Meditations upon the Four Last Things-Ebal and Gerizim; or the Blessing and the Curse Prison Meditations-The Holy City; or the New Jerusalem-The Resurrection of the Dead, and eternal Judgment-Grace abounding to the Chief of Sinners-Defence of the Doctrine of Justification, against Bp. FowlerA Confession of my Faith, and a Reason of my Practice The PILGRIM'S PROGRESS: Part I.

In the Address to the Reader, prefixed to the first-mentioned of the above works, the author thus alludes to his persecutions :-" Friend, if thou dost love me pray for me, that my God would not forsake me, nor take his Holy Spirit from me; and that God would fit me to do and

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flicted upon me. I must tell thee, the world rages; they stamp, and shake their heads; and fain they would be doing. The Lord help me to take all they shall do with patience; and when they smite the one cheek, to turn the other to them, that I may do as Christ hath bidden me; for then the Spirit of God and of glory shall rest upon me.”

One of the old lives of Bunyan states that another work, entitled, "Christian Behaviour, being the Fruits of true Christianity,” was written during his confinement: and to the same period (though it was not published till 1675) we think must be referred the authorship of his "Instructions for the Ignorant;" for in dedicating it "To the Church of Christ in and about Bedford," he speaks of his being "driven from them in presence, not in affection;" and subscribes himself, "Yours, to serve you by my ministry (when I can) to your edification," &c. Mr. Philip also gives some plausible reasons for supposing the "Divine Emblems" to have been one of his prison labours.

His "Grace abounding to the Chief of Sinners," was written and published for the edification and encouragement of his spiritual children. Having already given our readers the

substance of this narrative, we here append the dedicatory preface, which may be regarded as a kind of pastoral letter. It is addressed

"To those whom God hath counted me worthy to beget to Faith by my Ministry in the Word. Ameu.

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"CHILDREN,-Grace be with you.

I being taken from you in presence, and so tied that I cannot perform that duty that from God doth lie upon me to you-ward, for your further edifying and building up in faith and holiness, &c. ; yet that you may see my soul hath fatherly care and desire after your spiritual and everlasting welfare, I now once again, as before from the top of Shenir and Hermon, so now from the lion's den, and from the mountain of the leopards, (Solomon's Song iv, 8,) do look yet after you all, greatly longing to see your safe arrival in the desired haven.

"I thank God upon every remembrance of you; and rejoice, even while I stick between the teeth of the lions in the wilderness, that the grace, and mercy, and knowledge of Christ our Saviour, which God hath bestowed upon you, with abundance of faith and love; your hungerings and thirstings after further acquaintance with the Father, in the Son; your tenderness of heart, your trembling at sin, your sober and

holy deportment also, before both God and men, is a great refreshment to me; for 'you are my glory and joy.' 1 Thess. ii, 20.

"I have sent you here enclosed a drop of that honey that I have taken out of the carcass of a lion: (Judg. xiv, 5-8:) 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.) The Philistines understand me not. It is something of a relation of the work of God upon my soul, even from the very first till now, wherein you may perceive my castings down and risings up: for he woundeth, and his hands make whole. It is written in the Scripture, The father to the children shall make known the truth of God,' Isa. xxxviii, 19. Yea, it was for this reason I lay 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, which we have heard and known, and our fathers have told us. We will not hide them from our children, shewing to the generation to come the praises of the Lord, and his strength, and his wonderful works that he hath done. For he

established a testimony in Jacob, and appointed a law in Israel, which he commanded our fathers that they should make them known unto their children.' Deut. iv, 10, 11; Psa. lxxviii, 3-5.

"Moses wrote of the journeyings of the children of Israel from Egypt to the land of Canaan; (Num. xxxiii, 1, 2 ;) and commanded also that they did remember their forty years' travel in the wilderness. Deut. viii, 1, 2. Wherefore this I have endeavoured to do;* and not only so, but to publish it also; that, if God will, others may be put in remembrance of what he hath done for their souls, by reading of his work upon me.

"It is profitable for Christians to be often calling to mind the very beginnings of grace with their souls. 'It is a night much to be observed unto the Lord, for bringing them out of the land of Egypt: this is that night of the Lord, to be observed of all the children of Israel in their generations.' Exod. xii, 42. O, my God,' saith David, ' my soul is cast down within me; but I will remember thee from the land of Jordan, and of the Hermonites, from the hill

*Does not Bunyan here allude to his own age? He was but thirty-two years old at the beginning of his imprisonment, and therefore it is not improbable that he was about forty when he wrote his narrative.