Just as Oliver Cromwell aimed to bring about the kingdom of God on earth and founded the British Empire, so Bunyan wanted the millennium and got the novel.

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Just as Oliver Cromwell aimed to bring about the kingdom of God on earth and founded the British Empire, so Bunyan wanted the millennium and got the novel.

— Christopher Hill ‧ A Turbulent, Seditious, and Factious People: John Bunyan and his Church, 1628 - 1688 (1988)