"Grace can justify freely, when it will, who it will, from what it will. Grace can continue to pardon, favour, and save from falls, in falls, out of falls. Grace can comfort, relieve, and help those who have hurt themselves. And grace can bring the unworthy to glory."
John Bunyan in *Grace Abounding For the Chief of Sinners*
posted by David Browder at 7/21/2007 11:38:00 AM
4 Comments:
Thanks, David, for the quote. When I was in high school, excerpts from Pilgrim's Progress were required reading as the illustration of how allegory works. Now, almost no one knows who Bunyan was, and this is apparently true even in Great Britain.
I am currently reading Grace Abounding and other writings by and about Bunyan, thanks to the excellent theological library at Samford. We are doing another series of vestry testimonials in the dean's class, and I have witnessed to my Zahlian conversion so many times at Advent that I decided this time to take Bunyan's insights into how redemption works and show how universal they are by applying them to my "story."
The thing about the Puritans is that they are really obnoxious when they are in power but excellent when they are in prison.
But remember David, that is true of us all.
Touche!
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