John Bunyan · Spiritual autobiography · 1666
Grace Abounding is valuable because Bunyan does not make the path to assurance look neat or effortless. He records the biblical words that awakened, wounded, corrected, and eventually comforted him, together with the fierce in…
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…ess because it gives memorable form to truths Christians often know only as abstractions. Bunyan makes conviction, temptation, discouragement, fellowship, perseverance, and hope into places and people that stay in the mind. It rewards rereading because different stages of Christi…
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…on me, as the scripture hath said, out of his belly shall flow rivers of living water." —John 7:37–38 John immediately explains what Jesus meant: "But this spake he of the Spirit, which they that believe on him should receive." —John 7:39 This is an invitation, but it is more th…
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