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| Jwd Registered user Username: Jwd Post Number: 37 Registered: 4-2005 |
"Sin is the dare of God's justice, the rape of His mercy, the contempt of His love." ~~ John Bunyan jwd | ||
| Riverfonz Registered user Username: Riverfonz Post Number: 471 Registered: 3-2005 |
Jess, That is great. I love reading John Bunyan's work on www.johnbunyan.org There is a lot of rich material, but it is in the old King's english. There is also a treatise on the Sabbath on that site, where he refutes Seventh day Sabbath keepers. You can now get modern translations of "Pilgrim's Progress" which are easy to read. His conversion story is also remarkable. Stan | ||
| Colleentinker Registered user Username: Colleentinker Post Number: 2213 Registered: 12-2003  |
Great quote, Jwd! Colleen | ||
| Jwd Registered user Username: Jwd Post Number: 38 Registered: 4-2005 |
Stan, I agree with the old and thankful for the new. I was not aware of this site. Thanks. His story in the modern translation helped me a great deal as a much younger man to grasp some of the beauty of the Gospel. But when I visited the Adventist minister giving our Week of Prayer at the Academy, and asked him how I could get closer to Jesus, he pulled all of "Pilgrim's Progress" out from under me with his reply - - quoted word for word, "Well, just try harder!" Isn't that pathetic? I wonder what his congregation had for spiritual food on Sabbath morning? Incredible! God bless, Jess | ||
| Riverfonz Registered user Username: Riverfonz Post Number: 475 Registered: 3-2005 |
Jess, It is interesting that Ellen White speaks very highly of Bunyan, and was even quoted as saying that "Bunyan breathed the very air of heaven." D.M. Canright made use of of this in his book on the Sabbath, since Bunyan was very hard on 7th day Sabbatarians. So he reasoned that EGW must not have known that Bunyan attacked the Sabbath. Stan |
