"How awful is that cry of anguish which has reached us from beyond the tomb, even from the infernal realms, and on which Bunyan, with his singular and rare ability, fixes our attention. It is the voice of one who had received his good things in this fleeting life; who had fared sumptuously every day, without providing for eternity, and now cries for a drop of water to cool his parched tongue." In this work, Bunyan offers a verse-by-verse exposition of The Rich Man and Lazarus from Luke 16. This edition reintroduces a biographical preface about John Bunyan, written by his pastor for the first edition but dropped from subsequent editions.
