item: #1 of 5 id: 1037 author: Venables, Edmund title: The Life of John Bunyan date: None words: 51005 flesch: 67 summary: In the midst of the hurry which so many newcomers occasioned, writes the friend to whom we are indebted for the details of his prison life, I have heard Mr. Bunyan both preach and pray with that mighty spirit of faith and plerophory of Divine assistance that has made me stand and wonder. His biographer Charles Doe tells us that just before his death, when Mr. Bunyan preached in London, if there were but one day's notice given, there would be more people come together than the meeting-house could hold. keywords: bedford; book; bunyan; christ; church; day; days; death; end; faith; father; gaol; god; good; heart; holy; home; house; imprisonment; john; john bunyan; law; life; lord; man; mind; people; pilgrim; place; power; prison; progress; second; sin; soul; spirit; things; thought; time; tinker; town; way; wife; words; work; world; years cache: 1037.txt plain text: 1037.txt item: #2 of 5 id: 1885 author: Whyte, Alexander title: Bunyan Characters (1st Series) date: None words: 80158 flesch: 74 summary: Good men, better men than we are, men who in public life and in private life pursue great and good ends, of necessity cross and go counter to us in our pursuit of small, selfish, evil ends, and of necessity we hate them. Again, good men who come into contact with us cannot help seeing our bad lives, our tempers, our selfishness, our public and private vices; and we see that they see us, and we cannot love those whose averted eye so goes to our conscience. keywords: bunyan; burden; character; children; christian; church; day; experience; gate; god; good; grace; hand; heart; house; interpreter; john; know; life; look; lord; love; man; men; mind; minister; night; people; pilgrim; place; prayer; religion; self; shame; sin; slough; soul; thee; things; thou; thy; time; truth; way; words; world cache: 1885.txt plain text: 1885.txt item: #3 of 5 id: 1886 author: Whyte, Alexander title: Bunyan Characters (2nd Series) date: None words: 87583 flesch: 79 summary: Good man! For the sight of good men to them that are going on pilgrimage is like to the appearing of the moon and stars to them that are sailing upon the seas. keywords: bunyan; children; christiana; city; day; death; eyes; faith; father; fearing; god; good; grace; greatheart; hand; heart; honest; hopeful; house; john; know; life; look; lord; love; man; men; mercy; mind; mother; new; night; people; pilgrim; place; poor; read; river; secret; set; sin; soul; standfast; thee; things; thou; thy; time; truth; way; words; world cache: 1886.txt plain text: 1886.txt item: #4 of 5 id: 2308 author: Whyte, Alexander title: Bunyan Characters (3rd Series) date: None words: 85261 flesch: 78 summary: In those wild times great men built their houses on high places, and then the weak and endangered people gathered around the strongholds of the powerful, as we see in our own city. But good men have sometimes bad children, and the sincere do sometimes beget hypocrites. keywords: book; bunyan; captain; christ; church; city; day; emmanuel; evil; eyes; father; god; good; head; heart; heaven; holy; house; ill; john; know; law; life; look; lord; love; man; mansoul; men; mind; minister; nature; new; night; old; peace; people; prince; self; set; sin; thee; things; think; thou; thy; time; town; truth; war; way; work; world cache: 2308.txt plain text: 2308.txt item: #5 of 5 id: 29929 author: Froude, James Anthony title: Bunyan date: None words: 56362 flesch: 77 summary: Yet, in the midst of all that hurry, I heard Mr. Bunyan both preach and pray with that mighty spirit of faith and plerophory of Divine assistance, that he made me stand and wonder. To which end of Mr. Badman Bunyan attaches the following remarks: 'If a wicked man, if a man who has lived all his days in notorious sin, dies quietly, his quiet dying is so far from being a sign of his being saved that it is an incontestable proof of his damnation. keywords: badman; bunyan; children; christ; christian; church; conscience; day; death; devil; diabolus; emmanuel; father; form; god; good; great; heart; heaven; hell; human; law; life; lord; man; mansoul; men; mind; nature; people; pilgrim; place; religion; shaddai; sin; things; thought; time; town; truth; way; words; work; world cache: 29929.txt plain text: 29929.txt