A Brighter Day Begins with His Word.

Bunyan, John, 1628-1688 • SECTION 58

A RELATION OF MY IMPRISONMENT IN THE MONTH OF NOVEMBER 1660

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WHEN, by the good hand of my God, I had for five or six years together, without any interruption, freely preached the blessed gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ; and had also, through His blessed grace, some encouragement by His blessing thereupon; the devil, that old enemy of man’s salvation, took his opportunity to inflame the hearts of his vassals against me, insomuch that at the last, I was laid out for by the warrant of a justice, and was taken and committed to prison. The relation thereof is as followeth:—

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