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This site provides automatic cross-references among the documents of the Bunyan-Burrough debate. By clicking on these links a reader can immediately see where one document quotes, or is quoted by, another, and by following a chain of such links a single thread of argument can be followed throughout the sequence of documents.
Since it may be useful to follow a chain of links either forward or backward, I am using two visually distinct methods of marking the links. These correspond to "active" links (leading from the quoting document to the document quoted) and "passive" links (in the reverse direction).
Active links are marked by underlining and highlighting the quotation formula, such as "he saith" or "thy next words." This is the usual method by which text is marked as a link in Web documents. In some cases, where the earlier document is alluded to without an explicit quotation formula, some portion of the allusion is marked.
Passive links are indicated by a graphic icon ![[cloud with quotation marks]](../../pix/cited.gif)
, since of
course there are no words in the original text meaning "someone is
going to quote this passage." Text-only browsers, or browsers with
graphics turned off, will show this as a bracketed expression such as
"[cited by Bunyan]"; the same expression will appear briefly
in most graphical browsers when the mouse is rested on the icon. (A
different graphic ![[pencil]](../../pix/pencil.gif)
, with
an expression such as "[editor's note]", indicates that I am
citing the passage myself in a document such as this one.)
A sample argumentative thread begins with a long sentence by Bunyan, which Burrough quotes only in part. Bunyan then complains he has been misrepresented, to which Burrough replies that he did indicate the omission with an "etc." Beginning at any one of the four locations marked in this paragraph, one can explore the entire sequence of argument by following the links contained in the documents.
The text of Burrough is from The Memorable Works of a Son of Thunder and Consolation edited by Ellis Hookes (London, 1672). Where necessary for accuracy it has been corrected from the original printed editions. At one point a crucial typographical error in the 1656 printing of one of Burrough's pamphlets calls for an extended annotation.
For copyright reasons, the text of Bunyan is from The Entire Works of
John Bunyan edited by Henry Stebbing (London: Virtue & Co.,
1860), which as a 19th-century edition makes Bunyan appear to write a
more modern and standardized English than the 17th-century text of
Burrough (in fact he did not). Where the superior edition of T. L.
Underwood in The Miscellaneous Works of John Bunyan (vol. 1,
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1980) differs significantly from the
text given here, this fact is marked with a graphic based on the Oxford
University Press logo ![[cf. MW1, page:line]](../../pix/oxford.gif)
. The page and line number in Underwood's
edition will appear in place of the graphic in text-only browsers, and
as a temporary pop-up in most graphic browers when the mouse is rested
on the icon. "Significant" differences are those that involve
more than capitalization, punctuation, spelling, fonts, and the
placement, formatting, and occasional correction of scripture
references. An important marginal
note, entirely omitted from the
19th-century printing, is restored from Underwood's text in an editorial annotation, which also
investigates Fox's
cryptic reply.
The division of these documents into numbered parts is not original to the sources, and is intended chiefly to make downloading more manageable on slower systems. KB figures are approximate file sizes.
Larry Kuenning <kuenning-larry@voicenet.com>
Last modified 5/11/2000.