Bunyan, J.-An Exhortation to Peace and Unity

An Exhortation to Peace and Unity

By John Bunyan

Peace and Unity. This is a short work on peace and unity by John Bunyan.

This treatise calling for unity within the Christian church, though attributed to John Bunyan and included in all the early collections of his works, is deemed by the editor George Offor to be pseudepigraphal. He included it in his Works of John Bunyan so that the reader could make up his own mind on the subject.

Bunyan has always been one of the most popular of the Puritans—no doubt because, while possessing the Word-centeredness as well as the depth of doctrine and experience of other Puritans, he also possessed a warm simplicity of style.

—Reformation and Revival Ministries, Reformation and Revival Volume 5, 2003

Bunyan is best known for his ageless classic, The Pilgrim’s Progress. His literary genius in this work [is such] that people are prone to forget that this tinker from Bedford was first and foremost a Pastor and preacher…

—Thomas K. Ascol, The Founders Journal

For over 150 years the accepted edition of The Works of John Bunyan has been that edited by George Offor… This scholarly labor has contributed much toward a better appreciation of Bunyan’s gospel motivated writings…

—From Bunyan Ministries

taken from Logos.com

[We deem it proper to state, that, though the following Treatise of Christian Union appears in nearly all the collected editions of Bunyan’s Works, yet its genuineness has been called in question by the Rev. Mr Philip in his admirable work, “The Life and Times of Bunyan.”  Without here entering into this question, we have separately appended it to the works of Bunyan in this volume, and trust that it will not prove unacceptable to our readers, especially considering the efforts that are now being made to promote the living union of all true Christians who hold the one Lord, the one faith, and the one baptism.] – excerpt.

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