N03023:458
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.
1. lt must be done against the manifest Tokens to prove the contrary; and thus the reprobate Jews committed it, when they saw the Works of God which put forth themselves in him, and called them the Works of the Devil and Beelzebub.
1. lt must be done against the manifest Tokens to prove the contrary; and thus the reprobate Jews committed it, when they saw the Works of God which put forth themselves in him, and called them the Works of the Devil and Belzebub.
2. It must be done against some shining Light of the Gospel upon them. And thus it was with Judas, and with those who after they were enlightened and had tasted and felt something of the Powers of the World to come, fell away […] the Faith of him, and put him to open shame […] Disgrace, Heb. 6.4, 5, 6.
2. It must be done against some shining Light of the Gospel upon them. And thus it was with Judas, and with those who after they were enlightened and had tasted and felt something of the Powers of the World to come, fell away 〈…〉 the Faith of him, and put him to ope• •hame 〈…〉 Disgrace, Heb. 6.4, 5, 6.
3. It must also be done aft • position to one's own open him. For if after they have Pollution of the World through' th ledge of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Chri they are again entangled therein and overcome; the latter end is worse with them than the Beginning; it had been better for them not to have known the Way of Righteousness, than after they have known it, to turn from the holy Commandment (which is the Word of Faith, delivered unto them.