 | Leland Ryken - 1990 - 306 pàgines
...came on a day when his work took him to Bedford. As he passed through one of the streets, he overheard "three or four poor women sitting at a door in the sun, and talking about the things of God." Bunyan's own account of what followed tells the story best: I drew near to hear what they said, for... | |
 | James Innell Packer - 1994 - 372 pàgines
...they talked freely of their experiences of God, for they had deep experiences to talk about, like the 'three or four poor women sitting at a door in the sun' whom Bunyan met at Bedford: Their talk was about a new birth, the work of God on their hearts, also... | |
 | Thomas H. Luxon - 1995 - 284 pàgines
...me to Bedford, to work on my calling; and in one of the streets of that town, I came where there was three or four poor women sitting at a door in the Sun, and talking about the things of God; and being now willing to hear them discourse, I drew near to hear what they said; for I was now a brisk... | |
 | Margaret Spufford - 1995 - 490 pàgines
...we now know from Dr Stevenson's work that Sister Sneesby was not at all unusual: indeed the group of 'three or four poor women sitting at a door in the sun, and talking about the things of God' in Bedford, who set John Bunyan, he wrote, on the road to salvation,267 tell us that. The Bedford Open... | |
 | Robert A. Erickson - 1997 - 304 pàgines
...the heart. The process of regeneration is recorded memorably by Bunyan who recounts how he came upon "three or four poor women sitting at a door in the sun, talking about the things of God," and how they were out of his reach, "for their talk was about a new... | |
 | 1998 - 510 pàgines
...in Bunyan's spiritual autobiography wherein his conversion was speeded up by a chance encounter with "three or four poor women sitting at a door in the sun, and talking about the things of God" [16]. 9. Architecture appears to have been a crucial point of entry for the circulation of texts among... | |
 | John Bunyan - 1998 - 342 pàgines
...the years t649-55. They ied eventually, after his decisive encounter with the poor women of Bedford, 'sitting at a door in the Sun, and talking about the things of God', to his introduction to the open communion Bedford Baptists. He was baptized and registered as a member... | |
 | Amy Mandelker, Elizabeth Powers - 1999 - 552 pàgines
...to Bedford, to work on my calling; and in one of the streets of that town, I came where there were three or four poor women sitting at a door in the sun, and talking about the things of God; and being now willing to hear them discourse, I drew near to hear what they said, for I was now a brisk... | |
 | Cecile M. Jagodzinski - 1999 - 242 pàgines
...upon the goodly influence of his wife. Here is Bunyan's narration of the event: I came where there was three or four poor women sitting at a door in the Sun, and talking about the things of God; and being now willing to hear them discourse, I drew near to hear what they said; for I was now a brisk... | |
 | Susan Wise Bauer - 2003 - 444 pàgines
...congregations. And this makes him very much alone. He longs to join other believers; when he hears "three or four poor women sitting at a door in the sun, and talking about the things of God," he longs to enter into a brand new life. But the women, he writes, seem to be "on the sunny side of... | |
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But upon a day the good providence of God did cast me to Bedford, to work on my calling; and in one of the streets of that town I came where there were three or four poor women sitting at a door in the sun, and talking about the things of God... 
