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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.
5. Art thou crossed, disappointed, and waylaid, and overthrown in all thy foolish▪ Ways and Doings? This is a sign God has not quite left thee, but that he still waits upon thee to turn thee. Consider I say, has he made a Hedge and a Wall to stop thee? Has he crossed thee in all thou puttest thy Hand unto? Take it as a Call to turn to him, for by his thus doing he shows he has a Mind to give thee a better Portion. For usually when God gives up Men and resolves to let them alone in the broad Way, he gives them Rope, and lets them have their Desires in all hurtful Things, Hos. 2.6 to 14. Psal. 73.4 to 12. Rom. 12.9.
5. Art thou crossed, disappointed, and waylaid, and overthrown in all thy foolish▪ Ways and Doings? This is a sign God has not quite left thee, but that he still waits upon thee to turn thee. Consider I say, has he made a Hedge and a Wall to stop thee? Has he crossed thee in all thou puttest thy Hand unto? Take it as a Call to turn to him, for by his thus doing he shews he has a Mind to give thee a better Portion. For usually when God gives up Men and resolves to let them alone in the broad Way, he gives them Rope, and lets them have their Desires in all hurtful Things, Hos. 2.6 to 14. Psal. 73.4 to 12. Rom. 12.9.
Therefore take heed to this also, that thou strive not against this Hand of God▪ but ⟨p. 139⟩