The following are the principal works from which the Notes to this edition of The Pilgrim’s Progress have been selected:⁠— The Pilgrim’s Progress, Part the First. 12mo, 1776. The preface states, that ...

When at the first I took my pen in hand Thus for to write, I did not understand That I at all should make a little book In such a mode; nay, I had undertook To make another; which, when almost done, B...

As I walked through the wilderness of this world, I lighted on a certain place, where was a den;1 and I laid me down in that place to sleep: and as I slept, I dreamed a dream. I dreamed, and, behold, ...

Go now, my little book, to every place, Where my first Pilgrim has but shown his face, Call at their door. If any say, Who’s there? Then answer thou, Christiana is here. If they bid thee come in, then...

Courteous Companions, Some time since, to tell you my dream that I had of Christian the Pilgrim, and of his dangerous journey towards the Celestial Country, was pleasant to me, and profitable to you. ...

The jail. Mr. Bunyan wrote this precious book in Bedford jail, where he was imprisoned 12 years for preaching the Gospel. His bonds were those of the Gospel; and, like Peter, he could sleep soundly in...