. The pilgrim's progress from this world to that which is to come, delivered under the similitude of a dream . nclosing him, and he rejoiced,though still with exceeding great and constant conflicts, for seven oreight weeks; for still tins passage about the sufficiency of grace, andthe former terrible one about Esau parting with his birthright,fought against one another in his soul, and were as a pair of sharpglittering swords crossing and clashing, or as a pair of scales goingup and down; sometimes the hope and sometimes the fear beinguppermost, sometimes Esau and sometimes Christ. It was a co
. The pilgrim's progress from this world to that which is to come, delivered under the similitude of a dream . nclosing him, and he rejoiced,though still with exceeding great and constant conflicts, for seven oreight weeks; for still tins passage about the sufficiency of grace, andthe former terrible one about Esau parting with his birthright,fought against one another in his soul, and were as a pair of sharpglittering swords crossing and clashing, or as a pair of scales goingup and down; sometimes the hope and sometimes the fear beinguppermost, sometimes Esau and sometimes Christ. It was a conflict now between faith and unbelief, and Bunyansdescription of it is one of the most instructive and interesting por-tions of the Grace Abounding. He still pleaded with God that Hewould give him the whole of that great Scripture about the suffi-ciency of Christs grace, that He would let him have the words forthee, and enable him to apply them to himself, as well as the abstractsufficiency of grace. For as yet Bunyan could not apply the wholesentence, but, as he says, could only gather what God gave, the. AUTHOR OF THE PILGRIMS PROGRESS. xli words for thee being still left out, and lie being not able to rise to -,„ that appropriating faith in Christ, p QM as addressing himself, My grace is I Wfa> sufficient for thee. So he prayed earnestly for the whole passage, and, in answer to prayer, the whole came. It came unexpectedly, in the midst of a meeting of the people of God, when Bunyan, in sadness and terror, was waiting upon God, with his fears again strong upon him; then suddenly, with great power, the whole passage broke into his soul, with glory and refreshing comfort; it broke his heart, filled him full of joy, laid him low, and sent him mourning home; a beautiful and most scriptural union of the varieties of true religious emotion. He received the whole, My grace is sufficient for thee ; and every word was a mighty word to lrhn; and thus it continued for several weeks
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