Then said he, ’I am going to my Father’s; and though with great difficulty I am got hither, yet now I do not repent me of all the trouble I have been at to arrive where I am. My sword I give to him that shall succeed me in my pilgrimage, and my courage and skill to him that can get it. My marks and scars I carry with me, to be a witness for me that I have fought His battles who now will be my rewarder.’.... So he passed over, and all the trumpets sounded for him on the other side.

In his autobiography Grace Abounding Bunyan wrote that he had led an abandoned life in his youth and was morally reprehensible as a result. Its full title is The Pilgrim's Progress from This World to That Which Is to Come. In that same year Bunyan married again Elizabeth by whom he had two more children Sarah and Joseph.

Some other Churches of the Anglican Communion such as the Anglican Church of Australia honour him on the day of his death (August 31) together with St Aidan of Lindisfarne. Though he became a non-conformist and member of an Independent church and although he has been described both as a Baptist and as a Congregationalist he himself preferred to be described simply as a Christian. John Bunyan (28 November 1628 – 31 August 1688) was an English Christian writer and preacher who is well known for his book The Pilgrim's Progress.