by John Bunyan
published by Olive Tree
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- An evangelical classic
- A spiritual autobiography of John Bunyan's life
- Written while Bunyan was in prison
Written in 1666, Grace Abounding to the Chief of Sinners chronicles John Bunyan's spiritual journey from a profane life filled with cursing, blasphemy, and Sabbath desecration to a new creation in Christ Jesus.
About the Author
John Bunyan was born at Elstow, near Bedford, England in 1628. In 1644, he enlisted in the army and left in 1646 when the army was disbanded. In 1653, he joined a church in Bedford, and took up residence in Bedford a year or two later. About this time he began to preach, and was very successful at it.
During the Restoration in 1660, the pastor of Bunyan's church died, and their building was taken from them and given back to the Established Church. On November 12, 1660, Bunyan was arrested for unlicensed preaching; and being again arrested in 1661, and refusing to abstain, he was kept in prison with one short interval until 1672, when he was released at the Declaration of Indulgence. Bunyan wrote and published several books of meditations while in prison, and one of the most remarkable autobiographies ever written, Grace Abounding to the Chief of Sinners, in 1666.
In 1672, on his release, Bunyan was chosen minister of the community at Bedford with whom he worshiped, and a barn in Mill Lane was licensed for their meeting-place. He seems to have been imprisoned again, in the winter of 1675-6, in the jail on Bedford bridge, and there to have composed the "Pilgrim's Progress" published in 1678. The book at once leaped into fame; it has been republished scores of times, and translated into more than seventy languages. In 1688 he traveled to London, and died there, and he was buried in Bunhill Fields.
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