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Often appears with: sessions and justices · religious persecution and toleration · nonconformity to church of england · justice as a virtue · imprisonment · crime and punishment
Usually: narrative (1) · injustice endured (1) · the test or trial (1) · lament (1)
Bunyan explains that Satan’s slanders were followed by imprisonment, describing his arrests for preaching and for refusing conformity to the Church of England worship.
the jailer’s hands, I was had home to prison, and there have lain now complete twelve years, waiting to see what God would suffer these men to do with me. 320. In which condition I have continued with much content, through grace, but have met with many turnings and goings upon my heart, both from the Lord, Satan, and my own corruptions; by all which (glory be to Jesus Christ) I have also received among many things,…