Excerpt from The Pilgrim's Progress, And, the Lives of John Donne and George Herbert: With Introductions and Notes

Joan vun woe born at emow, Bedfordshire, England, in November, 1628. Hi: father was a maker and tender of pot: and hettlee, and the soon followed the same trade. Though he is molly called a tinker, Bunyan had a settled home and place of business. He had little schooling, and he describes hie early m roundéng: a: poor and mean. When he um not yet sixteen his mother died; in two month: his father married again; and the con enlisted a: a eoldéer in the Civil War in November, 1644, though whether on the Parliamentary or Royalist side is not certain. The armies were disbanded in 1646, and about two year: later Bunyan monied a wife whose piety redeemed him from his delight in ma] sport and the habit of profane swearing. H e be come much interested in religion, but it was only after a tre meadow spiritual conflict, lasting three or four years, that he found peace. Hi: struggle: are related with extraordinary vivid nees and intensity in his Grace Abounding to the Chief of Sinners. In 1655, the year in which he lost his wife, he began to exhort, and two years later he became a regular Noh-cono fomiet preacher, continuing, however, to practise his trade. Hi: success at a preacher rowed opposition among the regular clergy, and in 1658 he was indicted at the ante. Hi: writing began with a controversy against the Quakers, and show: from the first the command of a homely but vigorous me.

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