SOURCE: Knott, John R. “‘A Suffering People’: Bunyan and the Language of Martyrdom.” In Puritanism: Transatlantic Perspectives on a Seventeenth-Century Anglo-American Faith, edited by Francis J. Bremer, pp. 88-123. Boston: Massachusetts Historical Society, 1993.
In the following essay, Knott discusses the role of martyrdom in Bunyan's works as well as his belief that the persecution faced by Christians was a battle for truth that was part of God's plan.
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