But when John Bunyan's mind and heart begin to work through his imagination, then-- 'His language is not ours.
'Tis my belief God speaks; no tinker hath such powers.' 1.

In the beginning of his chapter on 'Speaking peace,' Thomas Goodwin tells his reader that he is going to fully couch all his intendments under a metaphor and an allegory.

But Goodwin's reader has read and re- read the great chapter, and has not yet discovered where the metaphor and the allegory came in and where they went out.

But Bunyan does not need to advertise his reader that he is going to couch his teaching in his imagination.
'But having now my method by the end, Still, as I pulled it came: and so I penned It down; until at last it came to be For length and breadth the bigness that you see.' The Blessed Prince, he begins, did also ordain a new officer in the town, and a goodly person he was.

His name was Mr.God's-peace.