\u2018It is a masterpiece of piety and genius; and will, we doubt not, be of standing use to the people of God so long as the sun and moon endure.\u2019 — A. M. TOPLADY<\/p>\n
\u2018Read anything of his, and you will see that it is almost like reading the Bible itself. He had read it till his whole being was saturated with Scripture; and, though his writings are charmingly full of poetry, yet he cannot give us his Pilgrim\u2019s Progress \u2013 without continually making us feel and say, \u201cWhy, this man is a living Bible!\u201d\u2019 — C. H. SPURGEON<\/p>\n
Although John Bunyan\u2019s Pilgrim emerged in Puritan dress from the Town Prison on Bedford Bridge in 1676, he has remained to this day, in more than 120 languages, an influence which is almost as wide as Christianity itself. Many explanations are offered for the book\u2019s enduring appeal\u2014the masterly allegory which can charm both child and adult; the great humanness of the characters who, after a few rapid strokes, appear in flesh and blood likeness; the plain, vivid English\u2014and yet all these things are secondary.<\/p>\n
Above all, The Pilgrim\u2019s Progress<\/em> is a life story. It depicts the life which Bunyan himself lived and, at the same time, the life with which all Christians can substantially identify themselves. For, as Augustus M. Toplady wrote, the book describes \u2018every stage of a Christian\u2019s experience, from conversion to glorification.\u2019 It does so with such abiding relevance because Bunyan\u2019s world of thought is that of the Bible itself.<\/p>\n This re-typeset edition of The Pilgrim\u2019s Progress<\/em> is based on the edition published by John C. Nimmo in 1895. It includes marginal notes and Scripture references, together with the fine etchings by William Strang.<\/p>\nDerek Thomas on The Pilgrim’s Progress<\/em><\/h3>\n