contemptions

Updated: May 5, 2025

D'Anvers, in a postscript to his History of Baptism, the first edition, 1673, thus violently attacks his brother Bunyan: 'Having read his book, I took myself concerned to give some short return to it, leaving his "manifold absurdities," "contradictions," "unbrotherly tauntings and reflections," "contemptions," "traducings the wisdom of Christ, and his holy appointments," to be called to account by that band that hath so well begun to reckon with him. He was in prison, and his brother thus visits him with gall and wormwood instead of consoling cordials.

John Bunyan - Works of John Bunyan — Volume 02