E-text prepared by Sankar Viswanathan, Bill Tozier, Barbara Tozier, and the Project Gutenberg Online Distributed Proofreading Team (http://www.pgdp.net) English Men of Letters Edited by John Morley BUNYAN by JAMES ANTHONY FROUDE London Macmillan and Co. 1880 CONTENTS. CHAPTER I. PAGE EARLY LIFE 1 CHAPTER II. CONVICTION OF SIN 16 CHAPTER III. GRACE ABOUNDING 35 CHAPTER IV. CALL TO THE MINISTRY 52 CHAPTER V. ARREST AND TRIAL 65 CHAPTER VI. THE BEDFORD GAOL 78 CHAPTER VII. LIFE AND DEATH OF MR. BADMAN 90 CHAPTER VIII. THE HOLY WAR 114 CHAPTER IX. THE PILGRIM'S PROGRESS 151 CHAPTER X. LAST DAYS AND DEATH 173 BUNYAN. CHAPTER I. EARLY LIFE. 'I was of a low and inconsiderable generation, my father's house being of that rank that is meanest and most despised of all families in the land.' 'I never went to school, to Aristotle or Plato, but was brought up in my father's house in a very mean condition, among a company of poor countrymen.' 'Nevertheless, I bless God that by this door He brought me into the world to partake of the grace and life that is by Christ in His Gospel.' This is the account given of himself and his origin by a man whose writings have for two centuries affected the spiritual opinions of the English race in every part of the world more powerfully than any book or books, except the Bible.