046 Vanity Fair 4

Overwhelmed by a biased court, with a case against him that was impossible to win, Faithful conducts himself in an honourable way. He conducts himself as Christ conducted Himself at the cross. Faithful was about to die, but that death would not be the end. Rather, that death was the end of the misery of fallen human life, and the beginning of glory unspeakable! For Faithful, the struggle was over, joy had come. Bunyan rightly encourages believers who face death for the name of Jesus, that they are far better off than believers who must continue to live in this world and endure the rigors of a hostile world.