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The Jerusalem-sinner saved, or, Good news for the vilest of men being a help…
The Jerusalem-sinner saved, or, Good news for the vilest of men being a help for despairing souls, showing that Jesus Christ would have mercy in the first place offered to the biggest sinners / by John Bunyan.The Jerusalem-sinner saved, or, Good news for the vilest of men being a help for despairing souls, shewing that Jesus Christ would have mercy in the first place offered to the biggest sinners / by John Bunyan.
London : Printed and are to be sold by George Larkin, 1689
GOOD NEWS For the Vilest of Men. OR, A Help for Despairing Souls. › The APPLICATION.
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.
Ans. Now thou talkest like a fool, and meddlest with what thou understandest not: No sin; but the sin of final impenitence, can prove a Man a Reprobate. And I am sure thou hast not arrived as yet unto that: Therefore thou understandest not what thou sayest, and makest groundless conclusions against thy self. Say thou art a Sinner, and I will hold with thee. Say thou art a great sinner, and I will say so too. Yea, say thou art one of the biggest sinners and spare not, for the Text yet is beyond thee, is yet betwixt Hell and thee; Begin at Jerusalem, has yet a smile upon thee: And thou talkest as if thou wast a Reprobate, and that the greatness of thy sins do ⟨p. 96⟩prove thee so to be; when yet they of Jerusalem were not such, whose sins I dare say, were such, both for bigness and heinousness, as thou art not capable of committing beyond them; unless now, after thou hast received Conviction that the Lord Jesus is the only Saviour of the World, thou shouldest wickedly and despitefully turn thy self from him, and conclude he is not to be trusted to for Life, and so crucify him for a Cheat afresh. This I must confess, will bring a Man under the Black rod, and set him in danger of eternal Damnation, Heb. 6.6. chap. 10.29. This is trampling under foot the Son of God, and counting his Blood an unholy thing. This did th•y of Jerusalem, but they did it ignorantly in Unbelief, and so were yet capable of Mercy: But to do this against professed Light, and to stand to it, puts a man beyond the Text indeed, Act. 3, 14, 15, l6, 17. 1 Tim. 1.13.
Ans. Now thou talkest like a fool, and medlest with what thou understandest not: No sin; but the sin of final impenitence, can prove a Man a Reprobate. And I am sure thou hast not arrived as yet unto that: Therefore thou understandest not what thou sayest, and makest groundless conclusions against thy self. Say thou art a Sinner, and I will hold with thee. Say thou art a great sinner, and I will say so too. Yea, say thou art one of the biggest sinners and spare not, for the Text yet is beyond thee, is yet betwixt Hell and thee; Begin at Jerusalem, has yet a smile upon thee: And thou talkest as if thou wast a Reprobate, and that the greatness of thy sins do