John Bunyan, Federalist: Of Parchment Rolls and Covenants

• Published in: Bunyan studies no. 14; p. 85
• Main Author: McGiffert, Michael
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Newcastle Upon Tyne Northumbria University, Department of Humanities, Faculty of Arts, Design and Social Sciences 01.01.2010
• Subjects: British & Irish literature; Bunyan, John (1628-1688); Bunyan, John (1628-88); English literature

Bunyan made clear beyond doubt that those rolls, especially the second one, were the Pilgrim's successive passports to heaven and that his reading of them sustained his hope and enhanced his assurance of God's saving grace. [...]God's pledge of grace to the Pilgrim, covenantally inscr...