. The pilgrim's progress from this world to that which is to come, delivered under the similitude of a dream . Elatow Place. INTRODUCTORY MEMOIR OF THE. Here was the future author of the Pilgrims Progress, with thespontaneous power of genius already set on fire and stirring withinhim. But to begin that work yet would have been premature, evenwith all the fire of love with which his soul was burning, even hadit continued bright and sensible. Manyyears more of difficulty and danger, oftrial, conflict, and temptation, of exceed-ingly varied and alternating experience,and much deeper depths of the
. The pilgrim's progress from this world to that which is to come, delivered under the similitude of a dream . Elatow Place. INTRODUCTORY MEMOIR OF THE. Here was the future author of the Pilgrims Progress, with thespontaneous power of genius already set on fire and stirring withinhim. But to begin that work yet would have been premature, evenwith all the fire of love with which his soul was burning, even hadit continued bright and sensible. Manyyears more of difficulty and danger, oftrial, conflict, and temptation, of exceed-ingly varied and alternating experience,and much deeper depths of the knowledgeof Ms own heart, and of the Divine Scrip-tures, and of the dealings of God withothers, would be requisite, all melloweddown by grace into a heavenly wisdom,sevenfold purified, before God would setHis servant to that work. And whereas poor Bunyan thought thatforty years could not make him forget thatglad experience, within forty days he beganto question it all again, and to doubt its reality, or its belonging toliimself. And now indeed the great tempter was about to open one ofhis main batteries upon him, of which Bunyan afterwards felt
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