From Beza to Bunyan: The Pilgrim Road Mapped?

• Published in: Bunyan studies no. 13; p. 64
• Main Author: Titlestad, P J H
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Newcastle Upon Tyne Northumbria University, Department of Humanities, Faculty of Arts, Design and Social Sciences 01.01.2008
• Subjects: British & Irish literature; Bunyan, John (1628-1688); Bunyan, John (1628-88); English literature
• ISSN: 0954-0970

[...]he was arrested, tried and banished from Genevan territory. [...]there is indeed the bit about approximate faith in the reprobate, a confused awareness of grace with uncertain possibilities for church membership.16 Calvin certainly expounds the law of works or of nature, and the law of grace, but perhaps not as resoundingly as later covenant theologians did. [...]they that do finally fall away from a profession of the grace of the Gospel: It is . . . because, they are Bastards and not Sons.31 Fig. 3. The worse the sinner the better, despite Satan's temptations to despair by using prim morality: "Tis enough to make Angels blush, saith Satan, to see so vile a one knock at Heaven gates for Mercy'.33 The pious professors are in a worse case, precisely because they have not been 'sinners of a lusty size'.34 These two passages are vintage Bunyan.