A30143:117
Grace Abounding to the Chief of Sinners
Grace abounding to the chief of sinners, or, A brief and faithful relation of the exceeding mercy of God in Christ, to his poor servant John Bunyan wherein is particularly showed, the manner of his conversion, his fight and trouble for sin, his dreadful temptations, also how he despaired of Gods mercy, and how the Lord at length through [sic] Christ did deliver him from all the guilt and terror that lay upon him : whereunto is added, a brief relation of his call to the work of the ministry, of his temptations therein, as also what he hath met with in prison : all which was written by his own hand there, and now published for the support of the the weak and tempted people of God.Grace abounding to the chief of sinners, or, A brief and faithful relation of the exceeding mercy of God in Christ, to his poor servant John Bvnyan wherein is particularly shewed, the manner of his conversion, his fight and trouble for sin, his dreadful temptations, also how he despaired of Gods mercy, and how the Lord at length thorow [sic] Christ did deliver him from all the guilt and terrour that lay upon him : whereunto is added, a brief relation of his call to the work of the ministry, of his temptations therein, as also what he hath met with in prison : all which was written by his own hand there, and now published for the support of the the weak and tempted people of God.
London: printed by George Larkin, 1666
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
100. When I have considered also the truth of his resurrection, and have remembered that word, touch me not Mary, &c. I have seen, as if he leaped at the Graves mouth, for joy that he was risen again, and had got the conquest over our dreadful foes, John 20.17. I have also in the Spirit seen him a man on the right hand of God the Father for me, and have seen the manner of his coming from Heaven to judge the world with glory, and have been confirmed in these things by these Scriptures following, Acts 1.9, 10. Acts. 7. ⟨p. 35⟩56. Act• 10.42. Heb. 7.24. Heb. 8.38. Rev. 1.18. 1 Thes. 4.17, 18. Once I was much troubled to know whether the Lord Jesus was both Man as well as God, and God as well as Man; and truly in those days, let men say what they would, unless I had it with evidence from Heaven, all was as nothing to me, I counted not my self set down in any truth of God; well, I was much troubled about this point, and could not tell how to be resolved: at last, that in the fifth of the Revelations came into my mind, And I beheld, and lo, in the midst of the Throne, and of the four Beasts, and in the midst of the Elders stood a Lamb; in the midst of the Throne, there is his God-head, in the midst of the Elders, there is his man hood; but O me thought this did glister, it was a goodly touch and gave me sweet satisfaction; that other Scripture also did help me much in this, To us a Child is born, to us a Son is given, and the government shall be upon his shoulder, and his Name shall be called Wonderful, Counsellor, the Mighty God, the Everlasting Father, the Prince of Peace, &c. Isa. 9.6.