Nitpick about Bunyan's "Pilgrim's Progress"

[Wilson23]

Yes, I know, this is the last place on the Intertubes I should expect to find any helpful insight on a Christian allegorical novel . . . bear with me.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Pilgrim's_Progress
Bunyan describes salvation as something you have to EARN.
But wasn't he a Puritan? A Calvinist? A believer in predestination? You're born damned or saved, there's nothing you can do to change it.

 

[Wilson23]

You might not have heard of this book -- but there was a time when every Protestant home in the English-speaking world was as likely to have a copy of it as a Bible.