Excerpt from Lectures on Pilgrim's Progress: Also, a Sketch of the Author's Life and Labors These Lectures on Pilgrim's Progress were not prepared with a view to publication. The friends of the author, knowing his ability as an ex positor of the Scriptures, requested during his last illness, his sermons and lectures for publication. To all these proposals he constantly objected. However, afterward he said to his wife, You may gather up those lectures on Pilgrim's Progress and publish them if you think it will do any good. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.