Excerpt from The Works of John Bunyan, Vol. 1: Experimental, Doctrinal, and Practical Bunyan's profound and inimitable allegory, The Holy War, was still more neglected than The Pilgrim's Progress; no edition was published for more than 1 00 years so well printed as the first. His other treatises were most numerously but inelegantly published for the use of the poor; and the early editions, like those of The Pilgrim's Progress, have been so worn out with fair but hard use, as to have become exceedingly scarce. Their contents were devoured by anxious readers, far more desirous to store up in their minds the sacred truths the treatises set forth, than to preserve the little books in which these truths were recorded. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.