indulgence was patent. Bunyan was not deceived. He exhorted his
hearers to prepare themselves by fasting and prayer for the
danger which menaced their civil and religious liberties, and
refused even to speak to the courtier who came down to remodel
the corporation of Bedford, and who, as was supposed, had it in
charge to offer some municipal dignity to the Bishop of the
Baptists.

Bunyan did not live to see the Revolution. In the summer of 1688
he undertook to plead the cause of a son with an angry father,
and at length prevailed on the old man not to disinherit the
young one. This good work cost the benevolent intercessor his
life. He had to ride through heavy rain. He came drenched to
his lodgings on Snow Hill, was seized with a violent fever, and
died in a few days. He was buried in Bunhill Fields; and the
spot where he lies is still regarded by the Nonconformists with a
feeling which seems scarcely in harmony with the stern spirit of
their theology. Many Puritans, to whom the respect paid by Roman
Catholics to the reliques and tombs of saints seemed childish or
sinful, are said to have begged with their dying breath that
their coffins might be placed as near as possible to the office
of the author of the "Pilgrim's Progress."

The fame of Bunyan during his life, and during the century which
followed his death, was indeed great, but was almost entirely
confined to religious families of the middle and lower classes.
Very seldom was he during that time mentioned with respect by any
writer of great literary eminence. Young coupled his prose with
the poetry of the wretched D'Urfey. In the Spiritual Quixote,
the adventures of Christian are ranked with those of Jack the