N03023:431
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. 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, Job 33.14, 15, 16, 17.
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 slumbring 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, Job 33.14, 15, 16, 17.
All this while God has not left the Sinners, nor is come to the end of his Patience towards him, but stands at least with the Door of Grace a jar in his Hand, as being loth as yet to bolt it against him.
4. Art thou followed with Affliction, and dost thou hear God's angry Voice in