Bunyan's One Verse Lifeline

In 1660, John Bunyan sat in a cold Bedford jail cell, imprisoned for preaching without a license. But the iron bars were not his worst torment. For years, the former tinker had been ravaged by spiritual despair, convinced he had sinned beyond forgiveness. He later wrote in his autobiography, Grace Abounding to the Chief of Sinners, that some days the accusation thundered so loudly in his mind that he could barely stand.…