In print again at last

BOTH VOLUMES of Alexander Whyte's seminal analysis of John Bunyan's The Pilgrim's Progress are here printed in a NEW EDITION, exclusively published by CBy. A collection of lectures delivered to St. George's Free Church at the end of the nineteenth century, each section of the book tackles a different character from both parts of The Pilgrim's Progress, analysing the inspiration behind them, their role in the allegory and the lesson the Christian reader is meant to take from them.

The Pilgrim's Progress was...

Joshua Redivivus: That is to say, Moses' spy and pioneer, Moses' successor and the captain of the Lord's covenanted host come back again. A second Joshua sent to Scotland to go before God's people in that land and in that day; a spy who would both by his experience and by his testimony cheer and encourage the suffering people of God. For all this Samuel Rutherford truly was. As he said of himself in one of his letters to Hugh Mackail, he was indeed a spy sent out to make experiment upon the life of silence and separation, banishment and martyrdom, and to bring back a report of that life for...