John Bunyan

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21.) Mr. John Bunyan's Dying Sayings - OF THE TORMENTS OF HELL.
      Heaven and salvation are not surely more promised to the godly, than hell and damnation is threatened to and executed on the wicked. When once a man is damned, he may bid adieu to all pleasures. O! who knows the power of God's wrath.? none but damned ones. Sinners' company are the devil and his angels, tormented in everlasting fire w ...read more

22.) One Sin
      "Let every one that nameth the name of Christ depart from iniquity" (2 Tim. 2:19). And, indeed, if a man will depart from iniquity, he must depart from his darling sin first; for as long as that is entertained, the others, at least those that are most suiting with that darling, will always be haunting of him. There is a man that has such and s ...read more

23.) Refined
      "But and if ye suffer for righteousness' sake, happy are ye: and be not afraid of their terror, neither be troubled" (I Peter 3:14). Dost thou suffer for righteousness' sake? why then, thy righteousness is not diminished, but rather increased by thy sufferings. Righteousness thriveth best in affliction, the more afflicted, the more holy man; ...read more

24.) The Conversion of John Bunyan
      [John Bunyan was arguably the last and the greatest of the Puritans. An uneducated tinker by training, Bunyan spent nearly fourteen years of his life in prison because he refused to stop preaching the gospel without a license. Nonetheless, even the eminent Puritan theologian John Owen often came to hear him preach and once said of him, 'I would giv ...read more

25.) The New Birth
      THESE WORDS have a dependence on what goes before, and therefore I must direct you to it for the right understanding of them. You have it thus: "He (Christ) came unto his own, and his own received him not. But as many as received him, to them gave he power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on his name: which were born, not of bl ...read more

26.) To Believe
      "For whom the Lord loveth he chasteneth...." (Heb. 12:6). To believe he loves us when he shows himself terrible to us, is also very much becoming of us. Wherefore has he given us grace? Is it that we should five by sense? Wherefore has he sometimes visited us? Is it that our hearts might be estranged from him, and that we still should love the ...read more

27.) UNCONDITIONAL PARDON
      There was a certain man that had committed treason against his king; but for as much as the king had compassion on him, he sent him, by the hand of a faithful messenger, a pardon under his own hand and seal. But in the country where this poor man dwelt there were also many that sought to trouble him, by often putting him in mind of his treason, and ...read more