The Puritans: From John Bunyan

OF MAN BY NATURE.

From God he's a backslider,
Of ways he loves the wider;
With wickedness a sider,
More venom than a spider.
In sin he's a considerer,
A make-bate and divider;
Blind reason is his guider,
The devil is his rider.

---John Bunyan, from A Book for Boys and Girls.

(Read more of John's wife Elizabeth's story here. (Read Part 1 and Part 2 first.)