Pilgrim's Progress §60: "He that will enter in must first without Stand knocking at the Gate, nor need he doubt...
Source: John Bunyan, Pilgrim's Progress (1678) (§60) · external_aligned
"He that will enter in must first without Stand knocking at the Gate, nor need he doubt That is A KNOCKER but to enter in; For God can love him, and forgive his sin." He knocked, therefore, more than once or twice, saying-- "May I now enter here? Will he within Open to sorry me, though I have been An undeserving rebel? Then shall I Not fail to sing his lasting praise on high." At last there came a grave person to the gate, named Good-will, who asked who was there? and whence he came? and what he would have?
Witnesses (Deuteronomy 19:15)
- manuscript_tradition: First edition Nathaniel Ponder, London 1678 — original imprint
- critical_edition: Oxford World's Classics — Roger Sharrock, 1960/1984
- republication: Project Gutenberg — Pilgrim's Progress
- republication: Internet Archive — multiple editions
- non_government_archive: Christian Classics Ethereal Library
- citation_tradition: Cited extensively by Spurgeon, Edwards, modern Reformed writers