The Pilgrim's Progress (Read and Reflect with the Classics) - Hardcover

Bunyan, John

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1433649934 ISBN 13: 9781433649936

Verlag: B&H KIDS, 2017

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The Pilgrim's Progress was written by John Bunyan in 1678 and is an allegory on the Christian life. It is regarded by many as one of the most significant religious works ever written. This publication gives an added layer by providing thought provoking questions at the end of each chapter, to encourage the reader to dig deeper into the biblical truths present in this classic piece of literature.

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John Bunyan was a 17th century Baptist preacher and writer. He became imprisoned for his Christian beliefs, and it was at that time he began work on A Pilgrim's Progress.  Bunyan passed away in 1688, but left the legacy of 58 published titles; The Pilgrim's Progress being his most popular.

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The Pilgrim's Progress

By John Bunyan, Lore Ferguson Wilbert

B&H Publishing Group

Copyright © 2017 B&H Publishing Group
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ISBN: 978-1-4336-4993-6

Contents

Letter to the Reader, 
Chapter One: The Beginning of Christian's Journey and the Burden He Carried, 
Chapter Two: The Interpretation of Things Christian Will Need to Know, 
Chapter Three: Christian Loses His Roll and Meets Three Damsels, 
Chapter Four: Christian Fights with Apollyon and Experiences Many Dark Things, 
Chapter Five: Christian and Faithful Testify to One Another and Talk with Talkative, 
Chapter Six: Christian and Faithful in the Fair and the Witness of Faithfulness, 
Chapter Seven: Hopeful Joins Christian and They Encounter the Entrapments of Life, 
Chapter Eight: The Pilgrims Take the Easy Path and Become Prisoners of Doubt, 
Chapter Nine: The Pilgrims Travel on Meeting Flatterers and Hopeful Shares His Testimony, 
Chapter Ten: The Pilgrims Talk with Ignorance and Near the End of Their Journey, 
Chapter Eleven: The Pilgrims Arrive in the Celestial City and Meet Their King, 

CHAPTER 1

The Beginning of Christian's Journey and the Burden He Carried

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As I walked through the wilderness of this world, I came to a certain place where there was a den, and I laid down to sleep there. And as I slept, I dreamed a dream. I dreamed, and saw a Man clothed with rags, standing there, faced away from his own house, a Book in his hand, and a great burden upon his back. I looked, and saw him open the book, and read. And as he read, he wept and trembled. Not being able longer to contain, he broke out with a lamentable cry, saying, "What shall I do?"

In this way he went home, and restrained himself as long as he could, so his wife and children should not know his distress, but he could not be silent long, because his trouble increased. Soon he spoke his mind to his wife and children. He began to say to them: "O my dear wife, and you my children, I, your dear friend, am undone by reason of a burden that lies hard upon me; moreover, I am informed for certain that our City will be burned with fire from Heaven; in which fearful overthrow, both myself, with you, my wife, and you, my sweet Babes, shall miserably come to ruin, except (which I cannot see yet) some way of escape can be found, where we may be delivered." At this his Relations were amazed; not that they believed what he had said to them was true, but because they thought some frenzy temper had got into his head. Since it was drawing towards night, and they were hoping sleep might settle his brain, they hastily got him to bed: But the night was as troublesome to him as the day, and instead of sleeping, he spent it in sighs and tears. So when the morning had come they asked how he was and he told them worse and worse. He also began talking to them again, but they began to be hardened. They also thought to drive away his temper by harsh and surly words to him. Sometimes they would deride, sometimes they would chide, and sometimes they would just neglect him. And so he began to retire himself to his chamber, to pray for and pity them, and also to condole his own misery. He would also walk alone in the fields, sometimes reading, and sometimes praying. He spent his days like this for a long time.

I saw a time when he was walking in the fields, that he was, as he was accustomed to, reading in his Book, and greatly distressed in his mind. As he read, he burst out, as he had done before, crying, "What shall I do to be saved?" I saw also that he looked this way and that way, as if he would run, but he stood still, because, as I saw, he could not tell which way to go. I looked then, and saw a man named Evangelist coming to him, asking, "Why do you cry?" He answered, "Sir, I see by the Book in my hand, that I am condemned to die, and after that to come to Judgment, and I find that I am not willing to do the first, nor able to do the second."

Christian no sooner leaves the World but meets
Evangelist, who lovingly him greets
With tidings of another: and doth shew
Him how to mount to that from this below.

Then Evangelist said, "Why are you unwilling to die, since this life is attended with so many evils?"

The Man answered, "Because I fear this burden upon my back will sink me lower than the grave, and I shall fall into Tophet. And, sir, if I am not fit to go to prison, I am not fit to go to judgment, and from there to execution. The thoughts of these things make me cry."

Then Evangelist said, "If this is your condition, why are you standing still?"

He answered, "Because I do not know where to go." Then Evangelist gave him a Parchment-roll, and there was written within, "Fly from the wrath to come."

The Man read it, and looking upon Evangelist very carefully said, "Where must I fly?" Evangelist said, pointing with his finger over a very wide field, "Do you see yonder Wicket gate?"

The Man said, "No."

The other asked, "Do you see yonder shining Light?"

He said, "I think I do."

Then Evangelist said, "Keep that Light in your eye, and go up directly there: so shall you see the Gate; at which, when you knock, it shall be told you what you shall do."

So I saw in my Dream that the Man began to run.

Now he had not run far from his own door, but his wife and children, seeing it, began to cry after him to return. But the Man put his fingers in his ears, and ran on, crying, "Life! Life! Eternal Life!" He did not look behind him, but fled towards the middle of the Plain.

The Neighbors also came out to see him run, and as he ran, some mocked, others threatened, and some cried after him to return. And among those that did so, there were two that resolved to fetch him back by force. One was named Obstinate and the name of the other was Pliable. Now by this time the Man had gone a good distance from them, but they were resolved to pursue him, which they did, and in a little time they overtook him. Then the Man said, "Neighbors, why have you come for me?"

They replied, "To persuade you to go back with us."

But he said, "That can by no means be, for you live," said he, "in the City of Destruction, the place also where I was born, I see it to be so. Dying there, sooner or later, you will sink lower than the Grave, into a place that burns with Fire and Brimstone. No, be content, good Neighbors, and go along with me."

"What," said Obstinate, "and leave our friends and our comforts behind us!"

"Yes," said Christian, for that was his name. "Because all which you shall forsake is not worthy to be compared with a little of that that I am seeking to enjoy. If you will go along with me and hold it, you shall fare as I myself, for where I go, there is enough and more to spare. Come away, and prove my words."

"What are the things you seek, since you leave all the world to find them?" asked Obstinate

Christian replied, "I seek an incorruptible Inheritance, undefiled, and one that fades not away, and it is laid up in Heaven, and safe there, to be given at the time appointed, on those who diligently seek it. Read it so, if you will, in my Book."

"Tush," said Obstinate, "away with your Book. Will you go back with us or not?"

"No, not I," said the other, "because I have laid my hand to the Plow."

"Come then, Neighbor Pliable," Obstinate said. "Let us turn again, and go home without him. There is a company of these crazed-headed coxcombs, who, when they have a fancy, are wiser in their own eyes than seven men who can render a reason."

Then Pliable...

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: B&H KIDS
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2017
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1433649934
• ISBN 13: 9781433649936
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Anzahl der Seiten: 248
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