Pictures from Pilgrim’s Progress: A Commentary on Portions of John Bunyan’s Immortal Allegory

The Pilgrim’s Progress has been entertaining and illuminating readers for over three centuries, and there can have been few readers more expert about both the book and its meaning than C.H. Spurgeon. Here we have the greatest of nineteenth-century preachers setting forth timeless truths from Bunyan, with infectious enthusiasm about his favourite author. ‘The reason for his liking is not far to seek,’ writes Spurgeon’s son and successor in his Introduction. ‘They both loved “the Book of books.”’ Just so, today’s reader will come away from these chapters with a renewed appreciation not only of Bunyan and Spurgeon, but of the truth and wisdom of the Scriptures.

Contents

Introduction by Thomas Spurgeon

1. Pliable Sets out with Christian
2. The Two Pilgrims in the Slough
3. The Man Whose Name Was Help
4. ‘Helps’
5. Christian and the Arrows of Beelzebub
6. Christian at the Cross
7. Formalist and Hypocrisy
8. Formalist and Hypocrisy (concluded)
9. Christian Arrives at the Palace Beautiful
10. ‘Come in, Thou Blessed of the Lord’
11. Christian and Apollyon
12. What Faithful Met with in the Way
13. What Faithful Met with in the Way (concluded)
14. Vanity Fair
15. ‘Beware of the Flatterer’
16. The Enchanted Ground
17. How Mr. Fearing Fared
18. How Mr. Fearing Fared (concluded)
19. Mr. Feeble-mind and Mr. Ready-to-halt
20. Christiana at the Gate and the River