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over 150 years the accepted edition of The Works of John Bunyan
has been that edited by George Offor. More recently Oxford University
Press has published a revised estimate of Bunyan's Works that
has both inclusion and exclusion with regard to Offor's collection. This
scholarly labor has contributed much toward a better appreciation of Bunyan's
gospel motivated writings, though its cost is prohibitive for the average
student of the Bedford tinker. Further, while it includes the more recently
discovered Profitable Meditations, yet the exclusion of Reprobation
Asserted rests upon arguments that this writer and others have disputed.
On the other hand the exclusion as well of An Exhortation To Peace And
Unity and Scriptural Poems does appear to have more in its
support.
Hence,
The Banner of Truth Trust, in more recently publishing the George
Offor edition at a very reasonable price, is to be commended. Here also,
with the advent of electronic publishing, these same three volumes are
now available for the public in general. While copying of the various
PDF files is permissible for personal use, no reproduction for multiple
and commercial publication is allowed without the written permission of
Dr. Barry Horner.
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