HKB
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Often appears with: sin, guilt, and repentance · scripture permanence · scripture and its interpretation · imagery of exclusion · despair
Usually: narrative (1) · the test or trial (1) · detachment (1)
Bunyan depicts assaults of the tempter as he alternates between despair and covenant-works thinking, reflects on Scripture’s permanence, then walks in a town musing on his sin, feeling the world’s tiles and stones “banish” him.
lay guilt upon, and also add continual affliction and shame upon my soul. _The dread of them was upon me*, *and I trembled at God’s Samuels_. 1 Sam. xvi. 4. 184. Now also the tempter began afresh to mock my soul another way, saying, *That Christ indeed did pity my case*, _and was sorry for my loss*; *but forasmuch as I had sinned and transgressed as I had done_, *He could by no means help me*, *nor save me from wha…