What Milton and Penn and Locke wrote in defence of Liberty, Bunyan lived out and acted.

He made no concessions to worldly rank.
Dissolute lords and proud bishops he counted less than the humblest and poorest of his disciples at Bedford.

When first arrested and thrown into prison, he supposed he should be called to suffer death for his faithful testimony to the truth; and his great fear was, that he should not meet his fate with the requisite firmness, and so dishonor the cause of his Master.

And when dark clouds came over him, and he sought in vain for a sufficient evidence that in the event of his death it would be well with him, he girded up his soul with the reflection, that, as he suffered for the word and way of God, he was engaged not to shrink one hair's breadth from it.

"I will leap," he says, "off the ladder blindfold into eternity, sink or swim, come heaven, come hell.