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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. Oh! don't be mocked out of eternal Life, Sinner.
Thy Stubbornness affects, afflicts the Heart of thy Saviour. Carest thou not for this? Of old, He beheld the City and wept over it. Canst thou hear this and not be concerned? Luke 19.41, 42. Shall Christ weep to see thy Soul going to Destruction and wilt thou sport thy self in that way; Yea, shall Christ, tha• can be eternally Happy without thee, be more afflicted at the thought of the loss of thy Soul than thy self, who art certainly eternally miserable if thou neglectest to come to him.
These things that keep thee and thy Saviour on thy part asunder, are but bubbles; the least prick of an affliction will let out as to thee, what now thou thinkest is worth the venture of Heaven to enjoy.
Hast thou not Reason? Canst thou not so much as once soberly think of thy dying Hour? or of whither thy sinful Life will drive thee then? Hast thou no Conscience! or having one, is it rocked so fast asleep by Sin, or made so weary with an unsuccessful calling upon thee, that it is laid down, and cares for thee no more? Poor Man, thy State is to be lamented. Hast no Judgment? Art not able to conclude, that to be saved, is better than to burn in Hell; and that eternal Life with God's Favour, is better then a temporal Life in God's Displeasure? Hast no Affection but what is brutish? What, none at all? No