John Bunyan
1628 – 1688 · England
“These all died in faith, not having received the promises, but having seen them afar off, and were persuaded of them, and embraced them, and confessed that they were strangers and pilgrims on the earth.”
Jailed for twelve years for preaching without a license, Bunyan used the time to write The Pilgrim's Progress, an allegory of the Christian journey that became one of the most published books in the English language, second only to the Bible.
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