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John Bunyan. A Treatise of the Fear of God; The Greatness of the Soul; A Holy Life. Edited by Richard L. Greaves. (Miscellaneous Works, IX.) Pp. x1v + 365. (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1981.) £35.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 October 2008

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page 000 note 1 P. xviii, where the editor finds it plausible that this was one of the Merchants' Lectures then delivered at Pinners' Hall (on a foundation dissolved only a few years ago, when the reviewer was Senior Lecturer); but the Lecturers' names are known, and Bunyan's is not among them.Google Scholar

page 000 note 2 Donne, John, Complete Poetry and Selected Prose, ed. Hayward, John (Nonesuch Press, 1932), pp. 651–2.Google Scholar

page 000 note 3 Wesley, John, Journal, s.d. 26 April 1769.Google Scholar

page 000 note 4 Donne, , pp. 643–4.Google Scholar

page 000 note 1 Cf. Nuttall, G. F., The Faith of Dante Alighieri (1969), pp. 30–1.Google Scholar

page 000 note 2 Fox, George, Journal (8th edn, 1901), p. 56Google Scholar; cf. pp. 65, 71 (bis). In the current (Cambridge 1952) edition two of these four passages are omitted, and the force of the reiteration is lost.Google Scholar

page 000 note 3 In this verse (‘Ye have not received the spirit of bondage again unto fear’) NEB, with current sentiment, construes ‘again’ with ‘unto fear’; but Bunyan's construing it with ‘the spirit of bondage’ is common among earlier exegetes, e.g. Dean Alford, who defends it unhesitatingly.

page 000 note 4 See further Haskin, Dayton, ‘Bunyan, Luther, and the Struggle with Belatedness in Grace Abounding’, in University of Toronto Quarterly, 50 (1981), 300–13.CrossRefGoogle Scholar