Bunyan's King

• Published in: Bunyan studies no. 19; p. 12
• Main Author: Keeble, N H
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Newcastle Upon Tyne Northumbria University, Department of Humanities, Faculty of Arts, Design and Social Sciences 01.01.2015
• Subjects: British & Irish literature; Bunyan, John (1628-1688); Bunyan, John (1628-88); Christianity; Christians; Displaced persons; English literature; Imprisonment; Pilgrims; Prisoners; Prisons; Witnesses
• ISSN: 0954-0970

Faith lodgeth the Soul with Christ [...] [...]it were no shame to him, to wear a Chain for his Name and Sake' (MW, 12: 342). [...]prisoner for defying the Restoration regime though he might be, Bunyan insists that he is 'one of the old-fashioned Professors, that covet to fear God, and honour the King' (MW, 13: 489). [...]as Christopher Hill long ago noted,'2 in Bunyan's writings fashionable carriage, wealth and social privilege are almost invariably signs of moral turpitude: [...]as this implies, Heaven can make use of kings, and will do so signally in the last days: from the vision of the kings of the earth bringing their glory and honour to the New Jerusalem in Revelation 21:24 ?we see, that though in the first day of the Gospel, the poor, the halt, the lame and the blind are chief in the embracing of the tenders of Grace, yet in the latter day thereof, God will take hold of Kings', those kings who, hitherto besotted with the Mother of Harlots, the ?