Grace Abounding to the Chief of Sinners: A Brief Account of God’s Exceeding Mercy through Christ to His Poor Servant, John Bunyan (Bunyan Updated Classics Book 5)

by John Bunyan

God did not utterly leave me though. He followed me still – now not with convictions, but with judgments; yet even then His judgments were mixed with mercy. Once I fell into a creek by the sea and barely escaped drowning. Another time I fell out of a boat into the Bedford river, but mercy preserved me alive once again. Another time I was in the field with one of my friends, and a venomous snake passed over the road; so I, having a stick in my hand, struck it on the back. The snake was stunned, and I forced its mouth open with my stick and plucked her fangs out with my fingers. If God had not been merciful to me, I might have brought myself to my end by that act.