{"id":65,"date":"2011-05-23T03:59:16","date_gmt":"2011-05-23T03:59:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.blog.ccpc-pca.com\/?p=65"},"modified":"2011-05-23T04:01:41","modified_gmt":"2011-05-23T04:01:41","slug":"john-bunyan%e2%80%99s-pilgrim%e2%80%99s-progress-a-study-guide-lesson-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testblog.ccpc-pca.com\/?p=65","title":{"rendered":"John Bunyan\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Pilgrim\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Progress, A Study Guide, Lesson 3"},"content":{"rendered":"
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STUDY SESSION 3<\/strong><\/span><\/h1>\n<\/div>\n

Introduction (pp. 41-55)<\/strong><\/p>\n

Christian will meet with false professors as well as good brethren in the faith. In this study, Christian will encounter the Porter and the Beautiful House.<\/p>\n

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Readers<\/strong><\/p>\n

Narrator (41) \u00e2\u20ac\u201c large amount of reading<\/p>\n

Christian (42)<\/p>\n

\u00e2\u20ac\u0153there came one to him\u00e2\u20ac\u009d (42) \u00e2\u20ac\u201c one line<\/p>\n

Timorous (42) \u00e2\u20ac\u201c very small amount<\/p>\n

Mistrust (42) \u00e2\u20ac\u201c very small amount<\/p>\n

Porter named \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Watchful\u00e2\u20ac\u009d (45, 53)<\/p>\n

Discretion (48) – short<\/p>\n

Piety (48) \u00e2\u20ac\u201c a good amount<\/p>\n

Prudence (50) \u00e2\u20ac\u201c a page<\/p>\n

Charity (51) \u00e2\u20ac\u201c almost two pages<\/p>\n

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Vocabulary<\/strong><\/p>\n

amain (42) = with all your strength (adv.)<\/p>\n

chid (44) = chided, scolded, rebuked<\/p>\n

benighted (45) = in a pitiful condition or overtaken by darkness<\/p>\n

doleful (45) = woeful, sorrowful, sad, etc.<\/p>\n

ake (49) = ache<\/p>\n

conversation (52) = this word often means one\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s lifestyle, behavior<\/p>\n

accoutred (55) = clothed or equipped<\/p>\n

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Questions (pp. 41-55)<\/strong><\/p>\n

Page #<\/p>\n

41 \u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 Must every believer climb up the hill (Difficulty)? Why or why not? What if the person says that he has not met with any difficulties? (see Lions\u00e2\u20ac\u00a0)<\/p>\n

42\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 What is Bunyan saying when he mentions that the \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Roll fell out of his hand\u00e2\u20ac\u009d? What was the lesson in this incident (44)? What does the loss of the Roll represent?<\/p>\n

44\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 What is \u00e2\u20ac\u0153sinful sleep\u00e2\u20ac\u009d? [\u00e2\u20ac\u0153He that sleeps is a loser.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d 42]<\/p>\n

48\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 What does this [Beautiful] \u00e2\u20ac\u0153House\u00e2\u20ac\u009d represent?<\/p>\n

50\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 Christian said that he had \u00e2\u20ac\u0153much shame and detestation\u00e2\u20ac\u009d when he thought about the Countrey he left. Is this the experience of all true Christians? What if the overall (secret) tendency and affection is to yearn for that Countrey? What does this show? (see Observations and Notes)<\/p>\n

50\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 Prudence asks about the country Christian left and wondered he still had remnants of that country in him (\u00e2\u20ac\u0153Do you not yet beat away with you some of the things that then you were conversant withal?). What was his answer and what does it illustrate?<\/p>\n

50\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 How does Christian get strength to fight his inner corruptions? What are the \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Golden Hours\u00e2\u20ac\u009d?<\/p>\n

51-2\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 Explain what Christian means when he says, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153I know also that a man by his conversation, may soon overthrow what by argument or perswasion he doth labour to fasten upon others for their good.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n

52\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 What do you suppose the \u00e2\u20ac\u0153supper\u00e2\u20ac\u009d represented?<\/p>\n

53\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 What do you think the \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Study\u00e2\u20ac\u009d represents? What happened in the study?<\/p>\n

54\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 Christian is led into the \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Armory.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Again, what do you think this represents? Do all Christians avail themselves of this? How is the \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Armory\u00e2\u20ac\u009d related to the \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Study\u00e2\u20ac\u009d?<\/p>\n

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Observations & Notes<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

LIONS (42)<\/p>\n

Unlike our generation, many believers were jailed for their convictions. Baptists and other Non-Conformists did not follow the Church of England or the established church of the land. They were not allowed to preach or meet without conforming to the religion of the land (that is why some of them \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Pilgrims\u00e2\u20ac\u009d went to America and Holland). Bunyan most likely was referring to the civil and ecclesiastical powers that vexed him and other believers.<\/p>\n

However, on p. 45 we read: \u00e2\u20ac\u0153fear not the Lions, for they are Chained; and are placed there for trial of faith where it is; and for discovery of those that have none\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6\u00e2\u20ac\u009d This suggests it may simply be the trials we meet on our pilgrimage. If they are before the House Beautiful, then it may be best to view the lions as trials and persecutions believers encounter in their endeavors to attend the church.<\/p>\n

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HOUSE BEAUTIFUL (45)<\/p>\n

This represents the church. Cheever says, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153It is well to remark here that the House Beautiful stands beside the road; it does not cross it, so as to make the strait and narrow way run through it, so as that there is no possibility of continuing in that way without passing through it.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d[1]<\/a> He takes this to be Bunyan\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s way of saying that the Visible Church is not necessary to salvation. Several other comments are offered. Perhaps Cheever\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s point is not entirely accurate. Whatever he should draw from this imagery, the church is necessary (though not absolutely in the Roman Catholic sense). She is the body of Christ and no man is ordinarily saved outside of the visible church. Yet, his point that \u00e2\u20ac\u0153he staid not there for pleasure; that was not the end of the journey, nor the object of it\u00e2\u20ac\u009d (p. 307) is worthy of note.<\/p>\n

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ROLL (45)<\/p>\n

\u00e2\u20ac\u0153For this Roll was the assurance of his life, and acceptance at the desired Haven.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d\u00c2\u00a0 (45) He also calls it his \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Evidence\u00e2\u20ac\u009d (47) \u00e2\u20ac\u201d \u00e2\u20ac\u0153but that in my sleep I lost my Evidence\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Assurance can be lost and regained. It is often lost when we sin (as in this case).<\/p>\n

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SHAME AND DETESTATION (50)<\/p>\n

\u00e2\u20ac\u0153Those who stood by and observed Prudence wondered at her delight in the sad discourse on which the pilgrim now entered. But she had her own reasons for her delight in this particular kind of discourse, and it was seldom that she lighted on a pilgrim who both understood her questions and responded to them as did this man now sitting beside her. Now, my brethren, all parable apart, is that your religious experience? Are you full of shame and detestation at your inward cogitations? Are you tormented, enslaved, and downright cursed with your own evil thoughts?\u00e2\u20ac\u009d (Whyte, Bunyan Characters<\/em>, First Series, 152-153)<\/p>\n

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GOLDEN HOURS (50)<\/p>\n

\u00e2\u20ac\u0153The golden hours<\/em>, (fleeting and precious,) are earnests of the everlasting holy felicity of heaven.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d (Thomas Scott, 71)<\/p>\n

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ARMORY (54)<\/p>\n

\u00e2\u20ac\u0153The following allusions in the scriptural history, which have a peculiar propriety in a allegory, intimates that the means of grace are made effectual by the power of God, which we should depend on, in implicit obedience to his appointments.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d (Thomas Scott, 76) Also note, there is no armor on our backs (which we will see on p. 55).<\/p>\n

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[1]<\/a> George B. Cheever, Lectures on the Pilgrim’s Progress <\/em>(New York: Fleming H. Revell Company, 1891?), 306.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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