Written in 1678 by a faithful lay preacher, confined twelve years in a loathsome British prison for preaching without a license, John Bunyan's The Pilgrim's Progress has become a spiritual classic. It has been said no book except the Bible has been translated into as many languages.
Here’s how Bunyan begins the story:
As I walked through the wilderness of this world, I lighted on a certain place where was a den, and I laid me down in that place to sleep: and as I slept, I dreamed a dream. I dreamed; and behold, I saw a man clothed with rags standing in a certain place, with his face from his own house, a book in his hand, and a great burden upon his back. I looked, and saw him open the book, and read therein; and as he read, he wept and trembled;
"For mine iniquities are gone over mine head: as an heavy burden they are too heavy for me." Psalm 38:4
