N03023:417
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.
3. Esau through' his Extravagancies, would needs go sell his Birth right, not fearing (as other confident Fools) but that yet ⟨p. 135⟩the Blessing would still be his, after which he lived many Years, but all of them under the Wrath of God, as was when time came, made appear to his Destruction; for when be would have inherited the Blessing, he was rejected, for he found no place of Repentance, tho' he sought it carefully with Tears, Heb. 12.14, 15, 16,
3. Esau thro' his Extravigancies, would needs go sell his Birth right, not fearing (as other confident Fools) but that yet ⟨p. 135⟩the Blessing would still be his, after which he liv'd many Years, but all of them under the Wrath of God, as was when time came, made appear to his Destruction; for when be would have inherited the B•essing, he was rejected, for he found no place of Repentance, tho' he sought it carefully with Tears, Heb. 12.14, 15, 16,
Many Instances might be given as to such Tokens of the Displeasure of God, against such as fool away, as the Wise Man has it, the Prize put into his Hand, Prov. 17.16.
Let these things therefore be a further Caution to those that fit under the glorious Sound of the Gospel, and hear of the Riches of the Grace of God in Christ to poor Sinners.