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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. : In which is added, an answer to those grand objections that lie in the ways of them that would believe: for the comfort of those that fear they have sinned against the Holy Ghost / by John Bunyan of Bedford.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. : In which is added, an answer to those grand objections that lie in the ways of them that would believe: for the comfort of those that fear they have sinned against the Holy Ghost / by John Bunyan of Bedford.
Boston: printed for J. Edwards and H. Foster, 1733
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Answ. 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. An-I am sure thou hast not arrived as yet unto that. Therefore thou understand'st 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 the Sins do prove thee so to be, when yet they of Jerusalem were not only such, whose Sins I dare say, were such both for bigness ⟨p. 86⟩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 shouldst 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 they 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 do it, puts a Man beyond the Text indeed, Acts 3.14, to 17. 1 Tim. 1.13.
Answ. 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. An-I am sure thou hast not arrived as yet unto that. Therefore thou understand'st 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 the, Begin at Jerusalem, has yet a smile upon thee: And thou talkest as if thou wast a Reprobate, and that the greatness of the Sins do prove thee so to be, when yet they of Jerusalem were not only such, whose Sins I dare say, were such both for bigness