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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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Again, then Men presume when they are resolved to abide in their Sins, and yet expect to be saved by God's Grace through' Christ: This is as much as to say God liketh of Sin as well as I do, and careth not how Men live, if so be they lean upon his Son. Of this Sort are they that build up Zion with Blood, and Jerusalem with Iniquity; that judge for reward, and teach for hire, and divine for Money, and lean upon the Lord, Mich. 3.10, 11. This is doing things with an high hand against the Lord our God, and a taking him as it were, at the Catch! This is, as we may say among Men, to seek to put a trick upon God, as if he had not sufficiently fortified his Proposals of Grace by his Holy Word, against all such kind of Fools as these. But look to it,
Again, then Men presume when they are resolved to abide in their Sins, and yet expect to be saved by God's Grace thro' Christ: This is as much as to say God liketh of Sin as well as I do, and careth not how Men live, if so be they lean upon his Son. Of this Sort are they that build up Zion with Blood, and Jerusalem with Iniquity; that judge for reward, and teach for hire, and divine for Money, and lean upon the Lord, Mich. 3.10, 11. This is doing things with an high hand against the Lord our God, and a taking him as it were, at the Catch! This is, as we may say among Men, to seek to put a trick upon God, as if he had not sufficiently fortified his Proposals of Grace by his Holy Word, against all such kind of Fools as these. But look to it,
Such will be found at the Day of God, not among that great Company of Jerusalem-sinners, ⟨p. 106⟩that shall be saved by Grace, but among those that have been the great abusers of the Grace of God, in the World. Those that say, Let us sin that Grace may abound, and let us do Evil that Good may come, their Damnation is just; and if so, they are a great way off of that Salvation, that is by Jesus Christ presented to the Jerusalem-sinners.