THE LIFE AND DEATH OF MR. BADMAN




NOTE



The Life and Death of Mr Badman was published by John Bunyan in
1680, two years after the First Edition of the First Part of The
Pilgrim's Progress. In the opening sentence of his preface he
tells us it was intended by him as the counterpart or companion
picture to the Allegory. But whatever his own intentions may have
been, the Public of his own time seem to have declined to accept
the book in this capacity. Indeed, another writer, who signs
himself T. S., undertook to complete Bunyan's Allegory for him, in
a book in size and type closely resembling it, and entitled The
Second Part of the Pilgrim's Progress . . . exactly Described under
the Similitude of a Dream. It was printed for Jho. Malthus at the
Sun in the Poultry, and published in 1683. So far as is known,
only one copy of this book is now in existence, the copy which was
formerly in the library of the poet Southey and now in that of the
Baptist Union. Upon this Bunyan seems to have changed his purpose,
so far as The Life and Death of Mr Badman was concerned, and on the
first of January, 1685, published the story of Christiana and her
Children as his own Second Part of The Pilgrim's Progress.

The work before us, therefore, now stands apart by itself. In its
composition Bunyan seems to have been greatly influenced, so far as