Venture All for God

The Piety of John Bunyan

Roger D. Duke, Phil A. Newton

• Publisher: Reformation Heritage Books
• Year: 2012
• Print ISBN: 9781601781536
• eBook ISBN: 9781601783912
• Topic: Theology & Religion
• Subtopic: History of Christianity

Many Christians are familiar with The Pilgrim's Progress, John Bunyan's (1628–1688) famous book written from a prison cell, which portrays the Christian life as one traveling from the City of Destruction to the Celestial City. During Bunyan's life, however, he produced nearly sixty books and tracts. Roger Duke and Phil Newton, with Drew Harris, trace the significant events that shaped Bunyan's life and thought in a biographical introduction and, in thirty-one excerpts from a variety of this great man of faith's writings, give us a glimpse of his piety, which flowed from his desire to "venture all for God."

Table of Contents:
Section One: Christ Our Advocate
Section Two: Christ Jesus the Merciful Savior
Section Three: Hope for Sinners
Section Four: True Humility
Section Five: Christian Ethics
Section Six: The Gospel Applied
Section Seven: Warnings
Series Description

Seeking, then, both to honor the past and yet not idolize it, we are issuing these books in the series Profiles in Reformed Spirituality . The design is to introduce the spirituality and piety of the Reformed Profiles in Reformed Spirituality tradition by presenting descriptions of the lives of notable Christians with select passages from their works. This combination of biographical sketches and collected portions from primary sources gives a taste of the subjects' contributions to our spiritual heritage and some direction as to how the reader can find further edification through their works. It is the hope of the publishers that this series will provide riches for those areas where we are poor and light of day where we are stumbling in the deepening twilight.

Table of contents

• Dedication
• Preface
• Quote
• Title Page
• John Bunyan
• Copyright Page
• Series Page
• Table of Contents
• Profiles in Reformed Spirituality
• John Bunyan Frontispiece
• The Piety of John Bunyan 1628-1688
• Section One
• St John's Church
• 1 Advantages and Privileges for Those Who Have Jesus Christ as Advocate
• 2 The Physician Who Cures Gets Himself a Name and Begets Encouragement in the Minds of Diseased Folk
• 3 Things Related to the Promises of Christ Our Advocate
• Bronze Door
• 4 Concerning Christ's Sacrifice
• 5 Concerning Eternal Security
• 6 Concerning Christ's Blood
• Section Two
• Christian's Burden Falls Off
• 7 Christ's Mercy Offered to the Biggest Sinners
• 8 Christ's Offer of Mercy
• 9 Encouragement to the Unbeliever Not to Despair
• John Speed's Map of Bedfordshire
• 10 Mercy Offered to All Sinners
• 11 What Is Meant by This Water of Life
• Section Three
• Bunyan's Cottage at Elstow
• 12 A Great Sinner's Encouragement to Come to Christ
• 13 Biggest Sinners Have the Most Need of Mercy
• 14 God's Bending of Men's Hearts
• Statue of Bunyan
• 15 Born to God
• 16 The Excellence of a Broken Heart before God
• 17 The Questioning Soul
• Elstow Abbey Church
• 18 A Contrite Heart before God
• Section Four
• Bunyan's Wife before the Judge
• 19 Four Things That Are Acceptable to God
• 20 The Evil Effects of the Sin of Pride
• 21 Some Signs of a Broken Heart, of a Broken and Contrite Spirit
• Section Five
• The Life and Death of Mr. Badman
• 22 A Simple Christian's View of Extortion
• 23 Instructions for Righteous Trading
• 24 Strictures against Fraudulent Bankruptcy
• Section Six
• Facsimile of Bunyan's Will
• 25 What It Is to Be Offered
• The Bunyan Oak
• 26 Prison Meditations
• Section Seven
• Bunyan Dreaming
• 27 God Would Show the Greatness of His Anger against Sin and Sinners
• 28 Reasons or Causes for Pride
• 29 Of the Unchangeableness of Eternal Reprobation
• 30 Warning to False Professors of Religion
• 31 Without Godly Repentance, the Wicked Man's Hope and Life Die Together
• The Order and Causes of Salvation and Damnation
• Reading Bunyan