The Miscellaneous Works Of John Bunyan The Poems

A scholarly edition of The Miscellaneous Works of John Bunyan: The Poems by Graham Midgley. The edition presents an authoritative text, together with an introduction, commentary notes, and scholarly apparatus.

A scholarly edition of The Miscellaneous Works of John Bunyan: The Poems by Graham Midgley. The edition presents an authoritative text, together with an introduction, commentary notes, and scholarly apparatus.

As a defender of the faith and protector of his flock at a time of great dissent on matters of theology and religious practice John Bunyan spent much of his energies on disputes, both in person and on the printed page. This book contains six of his controversial works with accompanying notes.

A scholarly edition of The Miscellaneous Works of John Bunyan: Some Gospel Truths Opened; Vindication of "Some Gospel Truths Opened" and Few Sighs from Hell by T. L. Underwood and Roger Sharrock. The edition presents an authoritative text, together with an introduction, commentary notes, and scholarly apparatus.

These treatises, written in the year of Bunyan's death, 1688, are edited from the first editions: one of which was published in his lifetime, the others posthumously. Variations in the traditional typological method of biblical interpretation, they concentrate on Old Testament events as prophecies that eventually found fulfillment in the New Testament. Solomon's Temple, his House of the Forest of Lebanon, and the water flowing from beneath the altar of the Temple, help to demonstrate how these are all shadows of the true reality to come in the life and faith of Christ. In a wider context, the book provides examples of another kind of "similitude"--the creative techniques by which Bunyan sought to capture the imagination, and which encompasses simile, metaphor, emblem, symbol, analogy, and above all, allegory.

This tenth volume in a twelve-volume series offers reliable and modern scholarly texts for two treatises by Bunyan published when persecution of nonconformists was reaching a fierce climax. Seasonable Counsel presents Bunyan's reflections on how believers ought to understand and respond to that experience, while A Discourse upon the Pharisee and the Publicane discusses the parable in Luke xviii and provides Bunyan's ultimate thoughts on justification by faith. The introduction to the volume relates Bunyan's arguments to their historical and religious context.