The Life of John Bunyan

The Life of John Bunyan, by Edmund Venables
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Title: The Life of John Bunyan
Author: Edmund Venables Release Date: April 21, 2005 Language: English Character set encoding: ISO-646-US (US-ASCII) [eBook #1037]
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Transcribed from the 1888 Walter Scott edition by David Price, email ccx074@coventry.ac.uk
THE LIFE OF JOHN BUNYAN by Edmund Venables, M.A.
CHAPTER I.
John Bunyan, the author of the book which has probably passed through more editions, had a greater number of readers, and been translated into more languages than any other book in the English tongue, was born in the parish of Elstow, in Bedfordshire, in the latter part of the year 1628, and was baptized in the parish church of the village on the last day of November of that year. The year of John Bunyan’s birth was a momentous one both for the nation and for the Church of England. Charles I., by the extorted assent to the Petition of
Right, had begun reluctantly to strip himself of the irresponsible authority he had claimed, and had taken the first step in the struggle between King and Parliament which ended in the House of Commons ...