The Jerusalem Sinner Saved
by John Bunyan
Bunyan's last book presses home the truth of Luke 24:47 that the gospel was to be preached 'beginning at Jerusalem,' the city that had just crucified Christ. His argument is that Jesus offers mercy first and most freely to the very greatest of sinners, so that no despairing soul has any ground to think itself beyond the reach of grace.
Based on The Jerusalem Sinner Saved; or, Good News for the Vilest of Men (1688), by John Bunyan
Puritan quotes
Quotes by John Bunyan
“I have been vile myself, but have obtained mercy; and I would have my companions in sin partake of mercy too; and therefore I have writ this little book.”
“Jesus Christ would have mercy offered in the first place to the biggest sinners.”
“He that is down needs fear no fall. He that is low, no pride; He that is humble, ever shall have God to be his Guide.”
“Conversion is not the smooth, easy-going process some men seem to think it; otherwise man's heart would never have been compared to fallow ground and God's Word to a plough.”
“The truths that I know best I have learned on my knees. I never know a thing well, till it is burned into my heart by prayer.”
“You can do more than pray after you have prayed, but you cannot do more than pray until you have prayed. Pray often, for prayer is a shield to the soul, a sacrifice to God, and a scourge to Satan.”
“In times of affliction we commonly meet with the sweetest experiences of the love of God.”
“Afflictions make the heart more deep, more experimental, more knowing and profound, and so, more able to hold, to contain, and beat more.”
“Prayer will make a man cease from sin, or sin will entice a man to cease from prayer.”
“Prayer is a sincere, sensible, affectionate pouring out of the soul to God, through Christ, in the strength and assistance of the Spirit, for such things as God has promised.”
