Suicide and the Keys of Escape in Bunyan and Donne

• Published in: Bunyan studies no. 10; p. 46
• Main Author: Johnson, Galen
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Newcastle Upon Tyne Northumbria University, Department of Humanities, Faculty of Arts, Design and Social Sciences 01.01.2001
• Subjects: British & Irish literature; Bunyan, John (1628-1688); Bunyan, John (1628-88); Donne, John (1572-1631); English literature

Perhaps Firmin even had Bunyan in mind when he wrote, 'We have heard of him, who when he saw a Toad, stood weeping, because God had made him a Man.'30 Ten years before Firmin's Treatise, Bunyan revealed in Grace Abounding: 'Now again I blessed the condition of the Dogge and Toad,...