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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.
2. Is there in thy more retired Condition, Arguings, Strugglings, and Strivings with thy Spirit, to persuade thee off the Vanity of what vain Things thou lovest, and to win ⟨p. 137⟩thee in thy Soul, to a Choice of Christ Jesus, and his heavenly things? Take heed and Rebel not, for the Day of God's Grace and Patience will not be past with thee, till he saith, His Spirit shall not strive no more with thee: For then the Woe comes, when he shall depart from them, and when he says to the means of Grace, Let them alone, Hos. 4.17. Chap. 9.12.
2. Is there in thy more retired Condition, Arguings, Struglings, and Strivings with thy Spirit, to perswade thee off the Vanity of what vain Things thou lovest, and to win ⟨p. 137⟩thee in thy Soul, to a Choice of Christ Jesus, and his heavenly things? Take heed and Rebel not, for the Day of God's Grace and Patience will not be past with thee, till he saith, His Spirit shall not strive no more with thee: For then the Woe comes, when he shall depart from them, and when he says to the means of Grace, Let them alone, Hos. 4.17. Chap. 9.12.
3. Art thou troubled in the Night Seasons with Dreams about thy State, and that thou art in Danger of being lost? Hast thou Heart-shaking Apprehensions when dead Sleeps fall upon thee; of Hell, Death and Judgment to come? These are Signs that God has not wholly left thee, or cast the behind his Back for ever. For God speaks once, yea twice, yet Man perceives it not, in a Dream, in a Vision of the Night, when deep Sleep falls upon Man in slumbering upon the Bed; when he openeth the Ears of Men, and sealeth their Instruction, that he may withdraw Man from his Purpose, (his sinful Purposes) and hide Pride from Man,