INTRODUCTION. xvii own eyes, I commit myself to the blind to lead me, as I doubt not is desired by some,-I have determined, the Almighty God being my help and shield, yet to suffer—if frail life continue so long-even till the moss shall grow upon mine eyebrows, rather than thus violate my faith and principles." But although the views he gives as in the first part of this Treatise on the Resurrection of the Just, are thus suited powerfully to sustain the believer, and especially to cheer suffering Saints, yet the Author's main object is evidently the awakening and conversion of Sinners. Hence, the far greater portion of it is occupied with the Resurrection of the Unjust, the Opening of the Books to them, and the entire process of their Trial, Conviction, and final Condemnation. Nothing more complete, searching, and overwhelming on this subject, perhaps is to be found in our popular religious literature. As such it seems a fit conclusion to this volume of Bunyan's Awakening Works. Philadelphia, July 4, 1850. J. N. B. THE GREATNESS OF THE SOUL. CHAPTER I. WHAT SHALL A MAN GIVE IN EXCHANGE FOR HIS SOUL?-Mark viii. 37. · I HAVE chosen at this time to handle these words, and that for several reasons. First of all, because the Soul, and the Salvation of the Soul, are such great, such wonderful great things. Nothing is a matter of that concern as is, and should be, the Soul of each one of you. House and land, trades and honors, places and preferments, what are they to Salvation, to the Salvation of the Soul?—And then I perceive that this so great a thing, and about which persons should be so much concerned, is neglected to amazement, and that by the most of men. Yea, who are there of the many thousands that sit daily under the sound of the gospel that are concerned, heartily concerned, about the salvation of their souls? -that are concerned, I say, as the nature of the thing requireth. If ever a lamentation was fit to be taken up in this age about any thing, it is about the horrid neglect that every where puts forth itself with reference to Eternal Salvation. Where is one man of a thousand-yea, where are there two of ten thousand that do show by their conversation, public and private, that the Soul-their own souls-are considered by them, and that they are taking that care for their salvation which becomes them ?—that is, which the weight of the |