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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.
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.
Jerusalem, as I told you, •as the place and fea• of God's Worship, but now decayed, degenerated, and apostatized. ⟨p. 4⟩The Word, the Rule of Worship, was rejected of them, and in its place they had put and set up their own Traditions: They had rejected also the most weighty Ordinances, and put in the room thereof their own little things, (Mat. 15. Mark 7.) Jerusalem was therefore now greatly backslidden, and become the place where Truth and true Religion was much defaced.
Jerus•lem, as I toId you, •as the place and fea• of God's Worship, but now decayed, deg•n•rated, and apostatiz•d. ⟨p. 4⟩The Word, the Rule of Worship, was rejected of them, and in its place they had put and set up their own Traditions: They had rejected also the most weighty Ordinances, and put in the room thereof their own little things, (Mat. 15. Mark 7.) Jerusalem was therefore now greatly backslidden, and become the place where Truth and true Religion was much defaced.
It was also now become the very sink of Sin, and seat of Hypocrisy, and gulf where true Religion was drowned. Here also now reigned Presumption, and groundless Confidence in God, which is the bane of Souls. Amongst its Rulers, Doctors, and Leaders, Envy, Malice, and Blasphemy vented it self against the Power of Godliness, in all places where it was espied: As also against the Promoters of it; yea, their Lord and Maker could not escape them.