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: ''. . . I did not think
: ''To shew to all the World my Pen and Ink'': ''In such a mode; I only thought to make'': ''I knew not what: nor did I undertake'': ''Thereby to please my Neighbour; no not I;'': ''I did it mine own self to gratifie.''
Its explicitly Protestant theology also made it much more popular than its predecessors. Finally, Bunyan's gifts and plain style breathe life into the abstractions of the anthropomorphized temptations and abstractions Christian encounters and converses with on his course to Heaven. Samuel Johnson said that "this is the great merit of the book, that the most cultivated man cannot find anything to praise more highly, and the child knows nothing more amusing." Three years after its publication, it was reprinted in colonial America, and was widely read in the Puritan colonies.
