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Tables of Contents for Glimpses of Glory
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Abbreviations
xv
Prologue
1
2
The Early Years
3
27
``My Heighth of Vanity'': Bunyan's Youth
4
7
``Kill, Kill, Was in Mine Ears'': Bunyan in the Military
11
10
``The Religion of the Times'': Early Religious Influences
21
9
Spiritual and Psychological Crisis
30
45
``An Exceeding Maze'': The Struggle with Despair
31
30
``To Joyne in Fellowship'': John Gifford and the Bedford Church
61
6
``Thred-bare at an Ale-House'': The Ranter Challenge
67
8
The Young Preacher
75
52
``A New Upstart Sect'': Bunyan and the Quakers
75
13
``These Dangerous Rocks'': Sectarian Ferment
88
8
``Scalding Lead'': Professional Clergy and the Rich
96
7
``Two Covenants in Their Right Places'': Pulpit Theology
103
12
``Inchantments, and Witchcrafts'': Quakers and Witches
115
6
``Throw Away All Thy Own Wisdome'': Pulpit Controversy
121
6
Confronting Persecution
127
46
``Sweetly in the Prison'': Arrest, Trial, and Appeal
130
16
``Holding Fast the Good'': The Early Prison Years
146
15
``Gospelly Good'': Christian Behaviour, a Last Testament
161
12
Millenarian Expectations
173
37
``Out of Babylon'': The Return of the Holy City
176
13
``Now Is the End Come'': The Last Judgment
189
10
``Read My Lines'': Poetry and the End Times
199
8
``A Drop of Honey'': Autobiographical Reflections
207
3
Charting the Pilgrimage
210
56
``The Way He Runs'': The Christian Life as Metaphor
211
5
``Against Our Religion'': The Setting of The Pilgrim's Progress
216
11
``Whither Must I Fly?'': The Pilgrimage
227
2
``As I Pull'd, It Came'': Inspiration and Experience
229
14
``By Dint of Sword'': Persecution and Allegorical Warfaring
243
9
``Turn up My Metaphors'': Interpreting the Allegory
252
14
The Anvil of Debate
266
47
``A Strict Separation'': Church Membership and Communion
271
7
``Like an Eel on the Angle'': Edward Fowler and the Debate about Justification
278
8
``Escape the Prison'': Freedom
286
5
``Union and Communion Among the Godly'': The Baptismal Controversy
291
10
``Cumber-ground Professors'': Prophetic Admonitions
301
8
``Shie of Women'': The Agnes Beaumont Episode
309
4
Evangelical Concerns
313
42
``Anathematised of God'': Enemies of the Faith
317
6
``Wholsome Medicine'': Teaching the Basics
323
5
``Holy-day Saints'': Damned Professors
328
6
``Venture Heartily'': Preaching Grace
334
7
``What Chaines So Heavy?'': Evangelical Outreach
341
14
Popery's Long Shadows
355
46
``This Day of Jacobs Trouble'': The Popish Plot and the Godly
356
10
``Good Coin in the Best of Tryals'': A Sense of Impending Danger
366
8
``O Debauchery, Debauchery'': Restoration Society and the Reprobate
374
16
``The Drum in the Day of Alarum'': England in Crisis
390
11
Holy Warfare
401
38
``The Alarm of War'': The Campaign to Repress Dissent
403
8
``New Modelling the Town'': Efforts to Control the Boroughs
411
3
``Blood, Blood, Nothing but Blood'': The Plot of The Holy War
414
5
``If Thou Wouldest Know My Riddle'': Interpreting the Allegory-Soteriology and Personal Experience
419
7
``Things of Greatest Moment Be'': Millenarian and Historical Concerns
426
7
``Turn the World Upside Down'': Challenging Unregenerate England
433
6
The Struggle with Evil
439
40
``Tyranny of the Antichristian Generation'': Antichrist and the Tory-Anglicans
443
9
``Vipers Will Come'': Maintaining Priorities amid Political Turmoil
452
3
``The Rage of the Enemy'': Battling Persecution
455
15
``A Place to Fight and Wrestle in'': Repudiating Iniquity
470
9
Nonconformity and the Tory Backlash
479
47
``To Set You Right'': Defining Women's Place
480
5
``Kiss the Rod'': Survival and the Ethic of Suffering
485
13
``To Friends, Not Foes'': A Return to The Pilgrim's Progress
498
17
``His Own Executioner'': The Suicide of John Child
515
4
``The Christians Market-day'': Repulsing the Seventh-day Sabbatarians
519
7
Facing a Catholic Monarch
526
38
``These Pretended Righteous Men'': Denouncing Hypocritical, Persecuting Conformists
530
5
``God's Iron Whip'': Seeking Hope Amid Persecution
535
3
``Catching Girls and Boys'': Homely Rhymes and Poetic Diversions
538
10
``Take Shelter'': Christ as Refuge
548
6
``Sack-cloth, Tears and Affliction'': The Church in the Wilderness
554
10
Toleration Renewed: Bunyan's Final Months
564
37
``Liberty...to Eat Freely'': Dissent and the Lure of Toleration
565
8
``Watchman, Watchman, Watch'': Reinforcing the Faithful
573
7
``A Voice from the Throne'': Grace as a River, Christ as an Advocate
580
8
``Where Promises Swarm'': The Quest for Jerusalem Sinners
588
6
``Ah! Pride, Pride!'': A Transcript of the Heart
594
7
Epilogue
601
36
``Ah Goodman Bunyan!'': A Retrospect
601
9
``To Every Place'': Bunyan and His Pilgrims Through the Ages
610
9
``As Fancy Leads the Writers'': Bunyan's Literary Reputation
619
18
Appendix: Provisional Dating of Bunyan's Publications
637
6
Bibliography of Primary Sources
643
18
Index of Biblical References
661
4
General Index
665