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I found it hard work now to pray to God, because despair was swallowing me up

John Bunyan

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John Bunyan
Age: 59 †
Born: 1628
Born: November 28
Died: 1688
Died: August 31
Novelist
Preacher
Theologian
Writer
Elstow
Bedfordshire
John Bunyan
Despair
Praying
Found
Hard
Work
Swallowing
Pray

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