Grace abounding to the chief of sinners Author:John Bunyan Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: A BRIEF ACCOUNT OF THE AUTHOR'S IMPRISONMENT. 318. Having made profession of the glorious Gospel of Christ a long time, and preached the same about five... more » years, I was apprehended at a meeting of good people in the country, among whom, had they let me alone, I should have preached that day, but they took me away from amongst them, and had me before a justice; who, after I had offered security for my appearing the next sessions, yet committed me, because my sureties would not consent to be bound that I should preach no more to the people. 319. At the sessions, after I was indicted for an upholder and maintainer of unlawful assemblies and conventicles, and for not conforming to the national worship of the Church of England, and after some conference there with the justices, they, taking my plain dealing with them for a confession, as they termed it, of the indictment, did sentence me to a perpetual banishment, because I refused to conform. So being again delivered up to the gaoler's hands, I was had home to prison, and there have lain now complete twelve years, waiting to see what God would suffer those men to do with me. 320. In which condition I have continued with much content, through grace, but have met withmany turnings and goings upon my heart, both from the Lord, Satan, and my own corruption; by all which, glory be to Jesus Christ! I have also received, among many things, much conviction, instruction, and understanding, of which at large I shall not here discourse; only give you a hint or two, a word that may stir up the godly to bless God, and to pray for me; and also to take encouragement, should the case be their own, not to fear what man can do unto them. 321. I never had in all my life so great an inlet into the Word of God as now: Those scriptures that ...« less