title: Grace Abounding to the Chief of Sinners - Updated Edition (Illustrated): A Brief Account of God?s Exceeding Mercy through Christ to His Poor Servant, John Bunyan
author:  John Bunyan 
description: John Bunyan was born in November 1628, in Elstow, England. A celebrated English minister and preacher, he wrote <i>The Pilgrims Progress</i> (1678), the book that was the most characteristic expression of the Puritan religious outlook. His other works include doctrinal and controversial writings; a spiritual autobiography, <i>Grace Abounding</i> (1666); and the allegory, <i>The Holy War</i> (1682).
zlib_text: Grace Abounding
  
  to the
  
  Chief of Sinners
  
  by
  
  John Bunyan
  
  In a faithful account of the life of John Bunyan, or a brief relation of the
  exceeding mercy of God in Christ to him; namely, in taking him out of the
  dunghill, and converting him to the faith of His blessed Son, Jesus Christ.
  Here is also particularly showed, what sight of, and what trouble he had for
  sin; and also what various temptations he met with; and how God hath carried
  him through them. Corrected and much enlarged by the author, for the benefit
  of the tempted and dejected Christian.
  
  Preface
  
  CHILDREN, grace be with you, Amen. I being taken from you in presence, and so
  tied up, that I cannot perform that duty that from God doth lie upon me to
  youward, for your further edifying and building up in faith and holiness,
  etc., yet that you may see my soul hath fatherly care and desire after your
  spiritual and everlasting welfare; I now once again, as before, from the top
  of Shenir and Hermon, so now from the lions' dens, fr