Notes from The Pilgrim’s Progress

The theology is nothing but good. A must read even though it’s fiction. It’s a great piece of literature though!

Who make thee?
-God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Ghost

Who saves thee?
-God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Ghost

But how doth God the Father save thee?
-By his grace.

How doth God the Son save thee?
-By his righteousness, death, and blood, and life.

How doth God the Holy Ghost save thee?
-By his illumination, by his renovation, by his preservation.

What is man?
-A reasonable creature, made so by God.

What is supposed by this word saved?
-That man by sin has brought himself into a state of captivity and misery.

What is supposed by his being saved by the Trinity?
-That sin is so great and mighty a tyrant that none can pull us out of its clutches but God, and that God is so good and loving to man as to pull him indeed out of this miserable state.

What is God’s design in saving of poor men?
-The glorifying of his name, of his grace, justice etc. And the everlasting happiness of his creature.

Who are they that must be saved?
-Those that accept of his salvation.

Why wouldest thou go to Heaven?
-That I may see God, and serve him without weariness; that I may see Christ, and love him everlastingly; that I may have the fullness of hte Holy Spirit in me, that I can by no means here enjoy.

Is there was ever anything that had a being, antecedent to, or before God?
-No, for God is eternal, nor is there anything excepting himself that had a being until the beginning of the first day. For in six days the Lord made Heaven and earth, the sea and all that in them is.

What do you do when you meet with such places therein, that you do not understand (in the Bible)?
-I think God is wiser than I. I pray also that he will please to let me know all therein that he knows will be for my good.

How believe you as touching the resurrection of the dead?
-I believe that they shall rise, the same that was buried; the same in nature, though not in corruption. And I believe this upon a double account; first because God has promised it; secondly, because he is able to perform it.

pg 287- 289. Prudence catechizing James, Joseph, Samuel and Matthew.

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