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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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What therefore I have said of Presumption, concerns not the humble in Spirit at ⟨p. 108⟩all: I therefore am for gathering up the Stones, and for taking the stumbling Blocks out of the way of God's People; and forewarning of them that they lay the stumbling Block of their Iniquity before their Faces, and that are for presuming upon God's Mercy; and let them look to themselves, Ezek. 14.6, 7, 8.
What therefore I have said of Presumption, concerns not the humble in Spirit at ⟨p. 108⟩all: I therefore am for gathering up the Stones, and for taking the stumbling Blocks out of the way of God's People; and forwarning of them that they lay the stumbling Block of their Iniquity before their Faces, and that are for presuming upon God's Mercy; and let them look to themselves, Ezek. 14.6, 7, 8.
Also our Text stands firm as ever it did, and our observation is still of force, That Jesus Christ would have Mercy offered in the first place to the biggest Sinners. So then let none Despair, let none Presume: Let none Despair that are sorry for their Sins, and would be saved by Jesus Christ. Let none resume that abide in the liking of their Sins; tho' they seem to know the exceeding Grace of Christ; for tho' the Door stand wide open for the reception of the Penitent, yet 'tis fast enough barred and bolted against the presumptuous Sinner. Be not deceived, God is not mocked; whatsoever a Man sows, that he shall reap. It cannot be that God should be wheedled out of his Mercy, or prevailed upon by Lips of Dissimulation; He knows them that trust in him▪ and that sincerely come to him by Christ for Mercy, Nahum 1.9