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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.
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.
There is nothing more seemly in the World, then to see a Christian walk as becomes the Gospel; nor any thing more unbecoming a reasonable Creature, than to hear a Man say, I believe in Christ, and yet see in his Life Debauchery and Profaneness: Such Men should be counted the basest of Men: Such Men should be counted ⟨p. 131⟩•y all, unworthy of the name of a Christian, and should be shunned by every good Man, as such who are the very Plague of Profession.
There is nothing more seemly in the World, then to see a Christian walk as becomes the Gospel; nor any thing more unbecoming a reasonable Creature, than to hear a Man say, I believe in Christ, and yet see in his Life Debauchery and Profaneness: Such Men should be counted the basest of Men: Such Men should be counted ⟨p. 131⟩•y all, unworthy of the name of a Chris•ian, and should be shunned by every good Man, as such who are the very Plague of Profession.
For so it is written, we should carry it towards them: Whoso has a form of Godliness, and denies the Power thereof, from such we must turn away.
For so it is written, we should carry it towards them: Whoso has a form of Godliness, and denys the Power thereof, from such we must turn away.
It has oft-times come into my Mind to ask by what Means it is, that the Gospel Profession should be so haunted with loose and carnal Gospellers? And I could never arrive to better Satisfaction in the matter than this: Such Men are made Professors by the Devil, and so by him put among the rest of the Godly. A certain Man had a fruitless Fig-tree planted in his Vineyard; but by whom was it planted there? Even him that sowed the Tares, his own Children among the Wheat,