L IN THE ORDER IN WHICH THEY WERE PUBLISHED. Those with aft] were published while the Author was in prison. The letter [p] signifies that the Treatise is in poetry. 18 Light for Them that sit in Darkness 1674 19 Christian Behaviour, being the Fruits of True Christianity 1674 20 Instruction for the Ignorant, being a Salve to Cure that great Want of Knowledge which so much reigns in Young and Old 21 Saved by Grace 1675 1675 22 The Strait Gate; or, The Great Difficulty of going to Heaven 1676 23 The Pilgrim's Progress, Part the First 1678 24 A Treatise of the Fear of God 1679 25 The Life and Death of Mr. Badman 1680 26 Come and Welcome to Jesus Christ 1681 1682 27 The Holy War 28 The Barren Fig Tree; or, The Doom and Downfall of the Fruitless Professor 29 The Greatness of the Soul, and Unspeakableness of the Loss thereof 1683 30 A Case of Conscience resolved Whether Women may hold Prayer Meetings without Men, 4to. 1683 31 A Caution to stir up to watch against Sin [p]. 1683 32 Advice to Sufferers; or, Seasonable Counsel 1684 33 The Pilgrim's Progress, Part 2nd 1684 34 A Holy Life, the Beauty of Christianity 1684 35 A Discourse upon the Pharisee and the Publican 1685 36 A Book for Boys and Girls; or, Country Rhymes for Children-afterwards entitled "A Book for Boys and Girls; or, Temporal things Spiritualized;' at last, in 1724 it was published as "Divine Emblems; or, Temporal things Spiritualized [p] 37 Nature and Perpetuity of the Seventh day Sabbath, and Proof that the First day is the True Christian Sabbath 1685 38 The Jerusalem Sinner Saved; or, Good News for the vilest of Men.. 1688 89 The Work of Jesus Christ as an Advocate clearly explained 1688 40 A Discourse of the Building, Nature, Excellency and Government of the House of God [p] 41 The Water of Life 1688 1688 42 Solomon's Temple Spiritualized 1688 43 The Acceptable Sacrifice; or, The Excellency of a Broken Heart.. 1689 44 Last Sermon Preached at London 1688 Posthumous Works prepared by Bunyan for the Press, and Published soon after his discease by Chandler, Wilson and Doe 1691 45 An Exposition on the Ten First Chapters of Genesis (The Creation Spiritualized) 46 Justification by Imputed Righteous ness 47 Paul's Departure and Crown 48 Of the Trinity, and a Christian 49 Of the Law, and a Christian 50 Israel's Hope Encouraged 51 The Desires of the Righteous Granted 52 Christ's Love, and The Saint's Knowledge-The Unsearchable Riches of Christ; or, Throne of Grace 53 Christ a Complete Saviour in his Intercession 54 The Saint's Knowledge of Christ's Love 55 The House in the Forest of Lebanon Spiritualised 56 A Description of Antichrist 59 Scriptural Poems and Paraphrases [p] 60 Bunyan's Relation of his Imprisonment, Examinations, and Efforts of his Wife for his Deliverance. Elegy and Acrostic Besides, A Christian Dialogue, A Pocket Concordance, and other Manuscripts which have not been published. THE AUTHOR'S APOLOGY FOR HIS BOOK. WHEN at the first I took my pen in hand And thus it was: I, writing of the way About their journey, and the way to glory, Like sparks that from the coals of fire do fly. Well, so I did; but yet I did not think Neither did I but vacant seasons spend But to divert myself in doing this From worser thoughts which make me do amiss. And quickly had my thoughts in black and white. For, having now my method by the end, Still as I pulled, it came; and so I penned It down until it came at last to be, For length and breadth, the bigness which you see. And some said, Let them live; some, Let them die; For, thought I, some, I see, would have it done, I further thought, if now I did deny For those which were not for its coming forth, I said to them, Offend you I am loath, If that thou wilt not read, let it alone; Some love the meat, some love to pick the bone. I did too with them thus expostulate :- In such a method, too, and yet not miss My end-thy good? Why may it not be done? None can distinguish this from that: they suit Also his snares, lines, angles, hooks, and nets; Yet fish there be, that neither hook, nor line, How does the fowler seek to catch his game If that a pearl may in a toad's head dwell, 66 Well, yet I am not fully satisfied, That this your book will stand, when soundly tried." Why, what's the matter? "It is dark." What though? "But it is feigned." What of what? I trow Some men, by feigned words, as dark as mine, Make truth to spangle and its rays to shine. "But they want solidness." Speak, man, thy mind. "They drown the weak; metaphors make us blind," Solidity, indeed, becomes the pen Of him that writeth things divine to men: But must I needs want solidness, because By metaphors I speak? Were not God's laws, By types, shadows, and metaphors? Yet loath With them, lest he be found for to assault • Inkling-slight knowledge. The first editions had no cuts or ornaments, • Brave-showy, ostentatious. d What though it be dark? By calves and sheep, by heifers and by rams, The prophets used much by metaphors To his poor one I dare adventure ten, That they will take my meaning in these lines Come, truth, although in swaddling clouts, I find, With what doth our imaginations please; Sound words, I know, Timothy is to use, The use of parables; in which lay hid That gold, those pearls, and precious stones that were Worth digging for, and that with greatest care. • The BIBLE, which filled a desolate prison with wondrous visions of heaven, with angels, and the presence of the Eternal! |