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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
Title page typeset from the transcription.
GOOD NEWS For the Vilest of Men: OR A Help for Despairing SOULS.
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
Thirdly, We are to consider Jerusalem also in her Decays; for as she is so considered, she is the proper Object of our Text, as will be further showed by and by.
Thirdly, We are to consider Jerusalem also in her Decays; for as she is so considered, she is the proper Object of our Text, as will be further shewed by and by.
Jerusalem, as I told you, was the place and seat of God's Worship, but now decayed, degenerated, and apostatized. The Word, the Rule of Worship, was rejected of them, and in its place they had set up their own Traditions, they had rejected also the most weighty Ordinances, & put in the room thereof their own little things (Mat. 15. Mark 7.) Jerusalem was therefore now greatly back slidden, and become the place where Truth and true Religion was much defaced.
It was also now become the very sink of Sin, the seat of Hypocrisy, & the Gulf where true Religion was drowned: Here also now reigned Presumption and groundless ⟨p. 4⟩Confidence in GOD, which is the bane of Souls. Amongst its Rulers, Doctors and Leaders, Envy, Malice, & Blasphemy vented it self against the Power of Godliness, in all places where it was espied: As also against the Promoters of it; yea their Lord and Maker could not escape them.
It was also now become the very sink of Sin, the seat of Hypocrisie, & the Gulf where true Religion was drowned: Here also now reigned Presumption and groundless ⟨p. 4⟩