The Puritan spiritual autobiographies, following the inward reflection of Augustine's Confession, absorbed English Empiricism in the 17th century. The Puritan experience includes physical expe-rience, i.e., outer signs of grace, and spiritual experience, i.e., inner signs of grace. In his spiritual autobiography, Grace Abounding, John Bunyan tries to reveal his subjectivity by framing the Bible and his faith through his experience. However, this attempt is unacceptable in puritanism with the Bible as the ultimate authority. Bunyan, therefore, i...
