Prison-Meditations

Gerizzim and Prison-Meditations) listed as one item, and a spurious work, Hearts-Ease in Heart-Trouble. This would prove to be Doe s most enduring mistake since it continued to be printed as an authentic work of Bunyan well into the twentieth century. It was actually the work of an ejected minister from Dartmouth, James Birdwood, and the mistaken attribution almost certainly owes something to a simple confusion of two authors whose initials were JB. Only between 1698 and 1708 did Doe become convinced that the work was canonical. 

Shakespeare s Third Folio. Samuel Butler s Hudibras (Second Part, 1664 Third Part, 1678). Roger L Estrange appointed Surveyor of the Press. Samuel Fenne and John Whitman elected co-pastors of the Bedford congregation. Prison-Meditations, Bunyan s second verse collection, Christian Behaviour, a conduct book and A Mapp Shewing the Order Causes of Salvation Damnation ( ). 

Johnson, Galen K., Prisoner of Conscience John Bunyan on Self, Community and Christian Faith, Carlisle and Waynesboro, Va. Paternoster Press, 2003. Kaufmann, U. Milo, The Pilgrim s Progress and Traditions in Puritan Meditation, New Haven and London Yale University Press, 1966. 

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