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Grace Abounding to the Chief of Sinners (Paperback)
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Grace Abounding to the Chief of Sinners (Paperback)
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Loot Price R153
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Grace Abounding to the Chief of Sinners (1666) is a spiritual
autobiography by English author and Puritan preacher John Bunyan.
Written while Bunyan was serving a lengthy prison sentence for
preaching without a license, Grace Abounding to the Chief of
Sinners is both a record of Bunyan's personal experience, the story
of his conversion, and a document of a time of historical and
political crisis in England. The restoration of King Charles II to
the throne in 1660-which followed years of sectarian violence and
the 1649 execution of his father Charles I-initiated a period of
religious and political repression. Nonconformist Christians, and
preachers especially, were forbidden from practicing their faith, a
crime for which Bunyan was arrested. He was tried and convicted in
1661, spending the next twelve years in Bedford County Gaol. Grace
Abounding to the Chief of Sinners, written and published during
this period, is the story of Bunyan's life, focusing on his
conversion to Puritanism and his personal trials as a man punished
for his beliefs. Containing numerous biblical references, Bunyan's
work is similar to Saint Augustine's Confessions in its
compositional structure-beginning with the author's sinful youth,
it moves through his process of conversion to his growth as a
Christian and rise to the status of preacher. Where it differs,
however, is in its detailed description of Bunyan's arrest and
imprisonment, a time he relied on his belief in God to carry him
safely through. While less popular than The Pilgrim's Progress, a
Christian allegory Bunyan began writing in jail, Grace Abounding to
the Chief of Sinners is an important and powerful work which has
inspired generations of Christians, including John Brown and Martin
Luther King Jr. With a beautifully designed cover and
professionally typeset manuscript, this edition of John Bunyan's
Grace Abounding to the Chief of Sinners is a classic of English
literature reimagined for modern readers.
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