Like Milton's Paradise Lost, Bunyan's allegory has been improperly placed by many persons on a par with the Bible as a body of Christian doctrine, and for instruction in righteousness.
ROBERT SOUTH .-- This eccentric clergyman was born in 1633.

While king's scholar at Dr.Busby's school in London, he led the devotions on the day of King Charles' execution, and prayed for his majesty by name.

At first a Puritan, he became a churchman, and took orders.

He was learned and eloquent; but his sermons, which were greatly admired at the time, contain many oddities, forced conceits, and singular anti-climaxes, which gained for him the appellation of the witty churchman.
He is accused of having been too subservient to Charles II.; and he also is considered as displaying not a little vindictiveness in his attacks on his former colleagues the Puritans.

He is only known to this age by his sermons, which are still published and read.
OTHER THEOLOGICAL WRITERS.
_Isaac Barrow_, 1630-1677: a man of varied learning, a traveller in the East, and an oriental scholar.