[184] The text from which he intended to preach was, Doth thou believe on the Son of God? Jn. ix. 35. See Preface to his Confession of Faith.
[187a] Justice Wingate.
[187b] Ibid.
[191a] A right Judas.
[191b] Bunyan.
[210] The Venner insurrection is here referred to.
[214] Bunyan here refers to a translation of Wickliffe’s doctrine in John Foxe’s Martyrology, a favourite book of his.
[219] April 23, 1661.
[224] ‘Smayed,’ an obsolete contraction of ‘dismayed,’
[241] It is an established fact that John Bunyan died on Friday, August 31, 1688. He is recorded to have preached his last sermon on August 19.