10 thoughts on conversion from John Bunyan

In The Acceptable Sacrifice or The Excellency of a Broken Heart: Showing the Nature, Signs, and Proper Effects of a Contrite Spirit John Bunyan summarises himself thus

And thus have I showed you the necessity of a broken heart.

1. Man is dead, and must be quickened

2. Man is a fool, and must be made wise

3. Man is proud, and must be humbled

4. Man is self-willed, and must be broken

5. Man is fearless, and must be made to consider

6. Man is a false believer, and must be rectified

7. Man is a lover of sin, and must be weaned from it

8. Man is wild, and must be tamed

9. Man disrelishes the things of God, and can take no savour in them, until his heart is broken

We can add

10. Man is bound for hell, and must be rescued