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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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The thoughts of this made David tremble, and pray that God would hold him back from Presumptuous Sins, and not suffer them to have Dominion over him, Psal. 19.31.
Now this Presumption, then puts it self in the place of Faith when it tampereth with the Promise of Life, while the Soul is a stranger to Repentance: Wherefore you have in the Text, to prevent doing thus, both Repentance and Remission of Sins to be offered to Jerusalem, not Remission without Repentance; for all that repent not shall perish, let them presume on Grace, and the Promise while they will, Luke 13, 1, 2, 3.
Presumption then is that which severeth Faith and Repentance, concluding that the Soul shall be saved by Grace, tho' the Man was never made sorry for his Sins, nor the love of the Heart turned there from This is to be self willed, as Peter has it, And this is a despising the Word of the Lord, for that has put Repentance and Faith ⟨p. 105⟩together, Mark 1.15. And because he hath despised the Word of the Lord and hath broken the Commandment, that Soul shall utterly be cut off, his Iniquities shall be upon him, Numb. 15.13.