It is in my conviction the best Summa Theologiae
Evangelicae ever produced by a writer not miraculously inspired.
Coleridge's Remains.
So great was Bunyan's popularity as a preacher, that an eyewitness
says, when he preached in London, "If there were but one day's
notice given, there would be more people come together to hear him
preach than the meeting-house would hold. I have seen, to hear him
preach, about twelve hundred at a morning lecture, by seven o'clock
on a working-day, in the dark winter time." Charles Doe.
I hold John Bunyan to have been a man of incomparably greater genius
than any of them, [the old English divines,] and to have given a far
truer and more edifying picture of Christianity. His Pilgrim's
Progress seems to be a complete reflection of Scripture, with none
of the rubbish of the theologians mixed up with it. Thomas Arnold,
D. D
O thou whom, borne on fancy's eager wing Back to the season of
life's happy spring, I pleased remember, and while memory yet Holds
fast her office here, can ne'er forget; Ingenious Dreamer! in whose
weil-told tale, Sweet fiction and sweet truth alike prevail; Whose
humorous vein, strong sense, and simple style, May teach the gayest,
make the gravest smile; Witty, and well-employed, and like thy Lord,
Speaking in parables his slighted word; I name thee not, lest so
despised a name Should move a sneer at thy deserved fame; Yet e'en
in transitory life's late day, That mingles all my brown with sober
gray, Revere the man, whose Pilgrim marks the road And guides the
Progress of the soul to God.
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