Bunyan Characters (3rd Series)

Bunyan Characters - Third Series, by Alexander Whyte
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Title: Bunyan Characters - Third Series The Holy War
Author: Alexander Whyte Release Date: April 13, 2005 Language: English Character set encoding: ISO-646-US (US-ASCII) [eBook #2308]
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Transcribed from the 1895 Oliphant, Anderson and Ferrier edition by David Price, email ccx074@coventry.ac.uk
BUNYAN CHARACTERS—THIRD SERIES Lectures Delivered in St. George’s Free Church Edinburgh By Alexander Whyte, D.D.
CHAPTER I—THE BOOK
‘—the book of the wars of the Lord.’—Moses. John Bunyan’s Holy War was first published in 1682, six years before its illustrious author’s death. Bunyan wrote this great book when he was still in all the fulness of his intellectual power and in all the ripeness of his spiritual experience. The Holy War is not the Pilgrim’s Progress—there is only one Pilgrim’s Progress. At the same time, we have Lord Macaulay’s word for it that if the Pilgrim’s Progress did not exist the Holy War would be the best allegory that ever was written: and even Mr. Froude admits that the Holy War alone would have entitled ...