Postscript
In this his pilgrimage, God blessed him with four children, one of which, named Mary, was blind, and died some years before; his other children were Thomas, Joseph, and Sarah; his wife Elizabeth having lived to see him overcome his labour and sorrow, and pass from this life to receive the reward of his work, long survived him not; but in 1692 she died, to follow her faithful pilgrim from this world to the other, whither he was gone before her; whilst his works, which consist of sixty books, remain for the edifying of the reader, and praise of the author.
Vale.
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Footnotes
184 The text from which he intended to preach was, Doth thou believe on the Son of God? Jn. ix. 35. See Preface to his Confession of Faith.
187a Justice Wingate.
187b Ibid.
191a A right Judas.
191b Bunyan.
210 The Venner insurrection is here referred to.
214 Bunyan here refers to a translation of Wickliffe’s doctrine in John Foxe’s Martyrology, a favourite book of his.
219 April 23, 1661.
224 ‘Smayed,’ an obsolete contraction of ‘dismayed,’
241 It is an established fact that John Bunyan died on Friday, August 31, 1688. He is recorded to have preached his last sermon on August 19.