Bunyan, Luther, and the Struggle with Belatedness in Grace Abounding

Abstract

At many points in his autobiography John Bunyan attests to a longstanding worry that, by the time he got religion, 'the day of grace' was 'past and gone.' He feared greatly, he says, that 'I came too late, for [others] had got the blessing before I came.' It was as if there were not enough grace for him; and he therefore felt a close kinship with Esau, who, although he was to inherit his father's blessing, got there too late and lost it to his brother Jacob.

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