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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
form is concerned, by a book which his wife brought with her on her
marriage, and which, as he tells us in his Grace Abounding, they read
together. It was entitled The Plaine Man's Pathway to Heaven: By
Arthur Dent, Preacher of the Word of God at South Shoobury in Essex.
The eleventh impression, the earliest now known, is dated 1609. Both
books are in dialogue form, and in each case the dialogue is supposed
to be carried on through one long day. Bunyan's Mr Wiseman, like
Dent's Theologus, holds forth instructive discourse, while the Mr
Attentive of the former, like the Philagathus of the latter, listens and
draws on his teacher by friendly questionings. There is not in Bunyan's
conference, as there is in Dent's, an Asunetus, who plays the part of an
ignorant man to come out enlightened and convinced at last, or an
Antilegon, who carps and cavils all the way; and there is not in Dent's
book what there is in Bunyan's, a biographical narrative connecting the
various parts of the dialogue; but the groundwork of each is the same--a
searching manifestation and exposure of the