Bunyan, Professors and Sinners

'Shall it be said at the last day, that wicked men made more haste to hell than you did to heaven?'4 In 1673 Bunyan devoted a whole tract, The Barren Fig-tree, to 'The Doom and Downfall of the Fruitless Professor'. Only if the Prince dwells among them can Mansoul be relied on.29...

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Published inBunyan studies Vol. 2; no. 1; p. 7
Main Author Hill, Christopher
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published London Bunyan Studies 01.04.1990
Northumbria University, Department of Humanities, Faculty of Arts, Design and Social Sciences
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British & Irish literature
Bunyan, John (1628-1688)
Bunyan, John (1628-88)
English literature
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Summary:'Shall it be said at the last day, that wicked men made more haste to hell than you did to heaven?'4 In 1673 Bunyan devoted a whole tract, The Barren Fig-tree, to 'The Doom and Downfall of the Fruitless Professor'. Only if the Prince dwells among them can Mansoul be relied on.29 III Professors loom large in Bunyan's poems too. [...]Graham Midgley's splendid edition of the Poems in 1982 Bunyan's poetry had been seriously underestimated. [...]we return to the making of excuses (Luke 14) and Paul's question: 'How shall we escape if we neglect so great salvation?' The sinner's last stanza is left without comment. First published 1934.
ISSN:0954-0970