SECTION 11.

POSTSCRIPT

In this his pilgrimage, God blessed him with four children, one of which, named Mary, was blind, and died some years before; his other children were Thomas, Joseph, and Sarah; his wife Elizabeth having lived to see him overcome his labour and sorrow, and pass from this life to receive the reward of his work, long survived him not; but in 1692 she died, to follow her faithful pilgrim from this world to the other, whither he was gone before her; whilst his works, which consist of sixty books, remain for the edifying of the reader, and praise of the author.

Vale.

FINIS

FOOTNOTES

[7]  The marginal summaries have not been included in this Project Gutenberg eText.—DP.

[184]  The text from which he intended to preach was, Doth thou believe on the Son of God?  Jn. ix. 35.  See Preface to his Confession of Faith.

[187a]  Justice Wingate.

[187b]  Ibid.

[191a]  A right Judas.

[191b]  Bunyan.

[210]  The Venner insurrection is here referred to.

[214]  Bunyan here refers to a translation of Wickliffe’s doctrine in John Foxe’s Martyrology, a favourite book of his.

[219]  April 23, 1661.

[224]  ‘Smayed,’ an obsolete contraction of ‘dismayed,’

[241]  It is an established fact that John Bunyan died on Friday, August 31, 1688.  He is recorded to have preached his last sermon on August 19.