"So through their importunity I went back again, but not believing that I should be delivered: for I feared their spirit was too full of opposition to the truth to let me go, unless I should in something or other dishonour my God, and wound my conscience."
— Bunyan, John (bap. 1628, d. 1688)
Place of Publication
London
Publisher
Printed for James Buckland
Date
1765
Metaphor
"So through their importunity I went back again, but not believing that I should be delivered: for I feared their spirit was too full of opposition to the truth to let me go, unless I should in something or other dishonour my God, and wound my conscience."
Metaphor in Context
But as I was going, two of my brethren met with me by the way, and desired the constable to stay, supposing that they should prevail with the justice, through the favour of a pretended friend, to let me go at liberty. So we did stay, while they went to the justice; and after much discourse with him, it came to this; that if I would come to him again, and say some certain words to him, I should be released. Which when they told me, I said if the words were such that might be said with a good conscience, I should, or, else, I should not. So through their importunity I went back again, but not believing that I should be delivered: for I feared their spirit was too full of opposition to the truth to let me go, unless I should in something or other dishonour my God, and wound my conscience. Wherefore, as I went, I lifted up my heart to God for light and strength to be kept, that I might not do anything that might either dishonour him, or wrong my own soul, or be a grief or discouragement to any that was inclining after the Lord Jseus Christ.
(p. 101 in Oxford ed.)
(p. 101 in Oxford ed.)
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Citation
Only 1 entry in the ESTC (1765).
A Relation of the Imprisonment of Mr. John Bunyan, Minister of the Gospel at Bedford, in November, 1660. ... Written by Himself, and Never Before Published. (London: Printed for James Buckland, 1765). <Link to ECCO>
Reading Grace Abounding: With Other Spiritual Autobiographies, eds. John Stachniewski and Anita Pacheco (Oxford UP, 1998).
A Relation of the Imprisonment of Mr. John Bunyan, Minister of the Gospel at Bedford, in November, 1660. ... Written by Himself, and Never Before Published. (London: Printed for James Buckland, 1765). <Link to ECCO>
Reading Grace Abounding: With Other Spiritual Autobiographies, eds. John Stachniewski and Anita Pacheco (Oxford UP, 1998).
Date of Entry
09/03/2013
