John Bunyan - Essential Facts and extensive reading list


	Essential facts about John Bunyan, as well as a very extensive reading list!


	Christened November 30, 1628, in Elstow, Bedfordshire, England. Oldest of 1 sister, 2 brothers. Father: tinker (itinerant mender of pots and pans). Mandatory attendance of Anglican church. Schooling limited but adequate. Childhood distinctions: delinquency, athletics. In 1644 mother and sister died, father remarried. Same year John at 16 joined Army of the Parliament in the Civil War against King Charles I. Left army 1647, married 1648 and began to tinker in Elstow. Wife led him into Bible study. 1650 mystical experience (first of several) on Elstow village green. Breezy attitude and foul habits changed when exposed to pious nonconformists. 1655 began to preach. 1656 published tract against Quakers. 1658 wife died, leaving four children. 1659 remarried (Elizabeth, with whom he had two children). 1660 reputation for caustic writings and scathing sermons - mostly aimed at the privileged - marked him for trouble with ascendancy of Charles II. Refusal to stop preaching kept him in prison for 12 years! 1666 spiritual journal, Grace Abounding to the Chief of Sinners, signaled growing genius. Release from prison 1672 followed by prison on and off again. 1678 Part 1 of Pilgrim's Progress was an international sensation. Final 10 years was as a celebrated writer and preacher. Died August 31, 1688, in London. Buried Bunhill Fields (London).


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	BY JOHN BUNYAN (many titles considerably shortened): 1656 Some Gospel Truths Opened… 1657 Vindication of...Gospel Truths… 1658 Few Sighs from Hell… 1659 Doctrine of Law and Grace Unfolded… 1661 Profitable Meditations… 1662 I will pray with the spirit… 1663 Prison Meditations… 1663 Christian Behavior… 1663 Map showing order and causes of Salvation and Damnation… 1665 One thing is needful… 1665 Ebel and Gerrizim… 1665 Holy City… 1665 Resurrection of the dead… 1666 Grace Abounding to the Chief of Sinners PB 1671 Heavenly Footman… PB 1672 Defense of the Doctrine of Justification by Faith… 1672 Confession of my Faith... 1673 Differences in Judgment about water baptism… 1673 Barren Fig-tree… 1674 Peaceable Principles and True… 1675 Light for them that sit in darkness… PB 1675 Instruction for the ignorant… 1676 Saved by grace… 1676 The Strait Gate… PB 1678 Come, and welcome, to Jesus Christ… 1678 Pilgrim's Progress, Part 1 (Part 2, 1684) HC PB 1679 Treatise of the Fear of God… HC 1680 Life and Death of Mr. Badman HC 1682 Holy War PB 1682 Greatness of the Soul… 1683 Case of Conscience… 1683 Holy Life… PB 1684 Seasonal Counsel… 1684 Caution to stir up to watch against sin… 1685 Discourse upon the Pharisee and the Publican… PB 1685 Nature and Perpetuity of seventh-day Sabbath… 1686 Book for Boys and Girls, or Country Rhymes HC 1688 Advocateship of Jesus Christ… 1688 Jerusalem sinner saved... 1688 Discussion of...House of God… PB 1688 Water of Life… 1688 Solomon's Temple Spiritualized… 1689 Bunyan's Last Sermon (John 1:13)… 1689 Acceptable Sacrifice… 1692 Justification by imputed righteousness… 1692 Ten First Chapters of Genesis... 1692 Paul's departure and crown… PB 1692 Of the trinity and a Christian… 1692 Of the law and a Christian… 1692 Israels' Hope Encouraged… 1692 Desire of the Righteous Granted… 1692 Saint's privilege and profit… 1692 Christ a complete savior… 1692 Saints' knowledge of Christ's love… PB 1692 Of the House of the Forest of Lebanon… 1692 Of Antichrist and his ruin… PB 1765 A relation of my imprisonment… PB Clarendon Press has issued the Miscellaneous Works of John Bunyan; general editor is Roger Sharrock. Each volume was edited by a foremost Bunyan expert: Some Gospel-Truths Opened; A Vindication of Some Gospel-Truths Opened; A Few Sighs from Hell HC (MWOJB, V. 1) 1978. The Doctrine of the Law and Grace Unfolded and I Will Pray With the Spirit… (MWOJB, V. 2) HC Christian Behaviour, the Holy City, the Resurrection of the Dead… (MWOJB, V. 3) 1987. HC A defence of the doctrine of justification by faith; A confession of my faith, and a reason of my practice; HC Differences in judgment about water-baptism; Peaceable principles and true; A case of conscience resolved; Questions about the nature and perpetuity of the seventh-day Sabbath… (MWOJB, V. 4) 1990 The Barren Fig-Tree; the Strait Gate; the Heavenly Foot-Man… (MWOJB, V. 5) 1986 HC 'The Poems' ed. Graham Midgley, (MWOJB, V. 6) 1980. HC Solomon's Temple Spiritualized : The House of the Forest of Lebanon : The Water of Life… (MWOJB, V. 7) 1989 HC Instruction for the ignorant; Light for them that sit in darkness; Saved by grace; Come, and welcome, HC to Jesus Christ… (MWOJB, V. 8) 1979. A treatise of the fear of God; The greatness of the soul; A holy life… (MWOJB, V. 9) 1981. HC Seasonable Counsel; A Discourse upon the Pharisee and the Publicane (MWOJB, V. 10) 1988 HC Good News for the Vilest of Men; the Advocateship of Jesus Christ (MWOJB, V. 11) 1985 HC The Acceptable Sacrifice; Last Sermon; An Exposition of the Ten First Chapters of Genesis; Of Justification; HC Paul's Departure; Of the Trinity; Of the Law; A Mapp...of Salvation and Damnation… (MWOJB, V. 12) 1994. Israel's Hope Encouraged; The Desire of the Righteous Granted; The Saints Privilege and Profit; Christ a HC Compleat Saviour; The Saints Knowledge of…. (MWOJB, V. 13) 1994. ABOUT THE LIFE AND TIMES OF JOHN BUNYAN: Aylemer, G.E., The Struggle for the Constitution, 1603 to 1689: England in the 17th Century. PB London: 1963. Barbary, James, Puritans and Cavaliers: The English Civil War. Nashville: Nelson, 1977. PB Brown, John, John Bunyan: His Life, Times and Work. 1885 (revised many times,). HC Burton, Elizabeth, The Pageant of Stuart England. New York: Scribner, 1962. Coate, Mary, Social Life in Stuart England. New York: Appleton, 1925. HC Greaves, Richard L., John Bunyan. Grand Rapids, MI: Wm. B. Eerdmmans, 1969. PB Harrison, F.M., John Bunyan, A Story of his Life. London: 1928. PB Hibbert, Christopher, Charles I. New York: Harper & Row, 1968. Hill, Christopher, A Tinker and a Poor Man: John Bunyan and His Church, 1628-1688. New PB York: Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., 1989. Latham, Robert, ed., Passages from the Diary of Samuel Pepys. Un. Calif. Press. HC Owst, G.R., Literature and Pulpit in Medieval England. New York: Barnes & Noble, 1968. Sharrock, Roger, John Bunyan. London: 1954. HC Talon, Henri, John Bunyan: The Man and His Works. London: 1951. HC Weber, Harold, Paper Bullets: Print and Kingship Under Charles II. Un. Ky Press, 1996 HC Wellman, Sam, John Bunyan. Barbour Pub., 1996. HC PB Winslow, Elizabeth Ola, John Bunyan. New York: Macmillan, 1961. PB


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