. The pilgrim's progress from this world to that which is to come, delivered under the similitude of a dream . rbarities went on, practised by a Church called Chris-tian ; but, as the excellent Dr. Scott once observed, these crueltiesare the iniquity of Paganism, which Christian doctrine not onlycannot sanctify for its own pretended support, but ten thousandfoldcondemns. Mr. OfFor has gathered a striking summary of thesefrightful ferocities, and refers to the memorial presented to the Kingand Council at Whitehall in behalf of the persecuted Quakers, inproof that such was the thronged state of
. The pilgrim's progress from this world to that which is to come, delivered under the similitude of a dream . rbarities went on, practised by a Church called Chris-tian ; but, as the excellent Dr. Scott once observed, these crueltiesare the iniquity of Paganism, which Christian doctrine not onlycannot sanctify for its own pretended support, but ten thousandfoldcondemns. Mr. OfFor has gathered a striking summary of thesefrightful ferocities, and refers to the memorial presented to the Kingand Council at Whitehall in behalf of the persecuted Quakers, inproof that such was the thronged state of the prisons, that insome cases they were crowded into so small a space, that some hadto stand while the others laid down. Many were taken out of eight thousand suffered imprisonment, and hundredsdied. As to the number of Nonconformists, or Dissenters of allsects, who suffered or died, it cannot be told; but it is stated thateight thousand died in prison under Charles II. Bunyan himself must have died, if he had been thrown into oneof these crowded prisons, and consigned to the brutality of an. lxx INTRODUCTORY MEMOIR OF THE inhuman jailer, to say nothing of the impossi-bility of writing any such work as the PilgrimsProgress under such circumstances. These things,therefore, present in a more impressive shape theprovidence of God in suffering Bunyan to be soearly arrested, and lodged safely in a prison wherethe keepers were friendly to him, to pursue Msquiet work, hidden as in a pavilion from the strifeof tongues. His first jailer was so kind to him, that for a season heperilled Ins own situation by permitting him to visit his family, andeven to go up to London. No freedom of this nature, however, seemsto have been granted for several years after the year 1662; and per-haps, for the production of his works, it was better so than , multitudes were tossed up and down from dwelling todwelling, having no resting-place nor refuge; and Baxter himself,afte
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