N03023:365
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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Well Sinner, thou now speakest like a Christian; but say thus in a strong Spirit in the hour of Temptation, and then thou wilt to thy Commendation and Comfort, quit thy self well.
This improving of Christ in dark Hours, is the Life, through' the hardest part of our Christianity. We should neither stop at Darkness, nor at the raging of our Lusts; but go in a way of venturing and casting the whole of our Affair for the next World, at the Foot of Jesus Christ. This is the way to make Darkness Light, and also to allay the raging of our Corruption.
This improving of Christ in dark Hours, is the Life, thro' the hardest part of our Christianity. We should neither stop at Darkness, nor at the raging of our Lusts; but go in a way of venturing and casting the whole of our Affair for the next World, at the Foot of Jesus Ch•ist. This is the way to make Darkness Light, and also to allay the raging of our Corruption.
The first time the Passover was eaten, was in the Night; and when Israel took Courage to go forward, tho' the Sea stood in their way like a devouring Gulf, and the Host of the Egyptians followed them at the Heels; yet the Sea gives place, and their Enemies were as still as a Stone till they were gone over, Exod. 12.8. Chap. 14 13, 14, 21.22. Chap. 15.16.