XXIV.  Death
    Death of the sinner
    Death of the Christian
    The Christian wishing to depart
    The dying Christian
    Death of Mr. Badman’s wife
    Death of Standfast
    Death of Christian and Hopeful
    Bunyan’s death

XXV.  The resurrection
    Salvation complete at the resurrection

XXVI.  The judgment
    The saints judged
    Saints rewarded at the judgment
    Sinners judged
    Sinners without excuse at the judgment
    “Ignorance” condemned at the judgment

XXVII.  Heaven
    Happiness and glory of heaven
    Employments of heaven
    Soul and body glorified in heaven
    Christ the glory of heaven
    The glory of salvation
    Heaven

XXVIII.  HELL

XXIX.  Miscellaneous
    The Sabbath
    Woman
    The family
    Bunyan’s domestic character
    Dr. Owen
    Truth
    Style
    The old and new dispensations
    The Pilgrim in New England

NOTICES OF BUNYAN

Prefatory notice.

The subscriber has been requested by his friend the Rev. Jeremiah Chaplin, the worthy son of an honored father, [Footnote:  The late Rev. Dr. Chaplin, the founder and first president of Waterville college, in the state of Maine.] and the editor of the present selections from Bunyan, to attach to them some prefatory remarks.  Needless as he feels it himself to be, and presumptuous as, to some, the attempt even may seem, to say aught in behalf of a work that, faithfully drawn as it is from Bunyan’s overflowing stores, can require no other recommendation; yet the subscriber could not refuse all compliance with the wishes of one who has given diligent and hearty and appreciating study to the rich and varied remains of “the immortal Dreamer.”

Many of the Christians of our time, though conversant with the pilgrim’s progress, and holy war, are apparently little aware of the glowing genius, and fervent piety, and strong sense, and picturesque imagery, and racy, vigorous English, that mark the many other writings of the honored tinker of Elstow.  These last, if less known than the story of the pilgrimage to the Celestial City, and of the siege and recovery of the good town of Mansoul, yet bear all of them the traces of the same vivid fancy, the same earnest heart, and the same robust and sanctified intellect.  To save from comparative disuse and consequent unprofitableness—­from being buried in an undeserved seclusion, if not oblivion, many sparkling truths, and pithy sayings, and pungent rebukes, likely to do great good if they could but have, in our busy day, a more general currency over the wide mart of the world;—­and to bespeak a new circle of influence, and a broader sphere of