The Jerusalem Sinner Saved

JERUSALEM SINNER SAVED:

THE PHABISEE AND THE POBLICAN :

SHX TBINITT AND A CHRISTIAN: THE LAW AND A CHRISTIAN;

BT

JOHN JUNYAN:

TO wmca 18 AFPursxD, AN EXHORTATION TO PEACE AND UNITY.

MTITH LUrX OF BUNTAN BT THB BEY. JAMES HAMILTON,

CaVBOi. mMBMT IQOABa, iMmtm*

LONDON: THOMAS NELSON,

FATaBKOSTSB BOW.

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CONTENTS.

Pa«o

2. LiFB OP BUNTAlSr.

d Tlie Jerusalera Sinner Saved, ... .1

4. The Pharisee and the Puhlican, ... 93

6 The Trinity and a ChristiEin, . . . , 2i5

PREFACE.

The Ectitor has but little to prefix to this Tolume by way of adrertiseinent.

The works of Bdnyan are so well known, and so highly appre- ciated, as to render any commendation of them quite superfluous. Suffice it merely to state, that although his great fame is built on

his genius as the allegorist of the Christian character and life,

still, viewed more strictly as a Theologian, his works place him very high CTen among the Puritan Divines. In the works here printed, it is hoped that the reader will find justice done to his varied merits.

The utmost attention has been paid to secure complete ac- curacy in the text, by collating the best editions of his "Works : and everything has been done to render the present, in all other respects, a faultless volume.

LIFE OP BUKYAll

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After the pleaaant eketches of pene bo graieful ta Sonlbey^ ■nd Montgnmcry's ; after the eInborniB biograpliy of Mr PliiUp, whose researches have left few dedderata for any eubBquent devotee i uideed, after Biuiyau'fl own grnphio and chaTHCloriBtio narrative, the task on ivhieli we are now onlering 'a one which, aa we would have courted it the less, bo wo feel that we have peculiar &cilitiea for performing it. Our main object Is to give a siiniile and coherent accoant ef a tnost anDSuB] man — and then ne Bhould like to toro to sdidd instructive purpose the peculior- ilieB of his siogular history, and no leisa eingular works- Jos'! BuNTiN was bora at Elatow, near Bedford, in 1628. Hi« father was a brazier or tinker, and brought up his son aaacrafla- man of like occupation. There i£ no evidence for tlie gipsy origiii of the house of Buuyan ; and though cxtnimoly poor, John's &ther gave hia son such an education as poor men could then Obtaio for their cltildrea. Ho waa sent to school and tnught to lead and write.

There has been some ueedleaa contfoverfly regarding Bunjan's jMlly days. Soma have too readily taken fur granted tliat be rws in all respects a reprolwite ; and others— the chief of whom i|ll Dr Southey— have lalwuied to shew that there was littla ' m the lad which any would censure, save the rightfioua over- much. The truth is, that considering liis rank of life, his conduct was not flagitious ; for he never was a drunkard, k libertine, or a lover of songuinaiy sporle : and the profanity and eabbath-breakingand heart-atlieism wluih Rflerwardfl preyed on his awakened conscience, are nnhappily too frequent tu mike their perpetrator conspicuous. The thing which gave BuJx^ao.

mny notoriety in the iayn nf his ungodlmesB, and which made bim

sftenraids

) himself en

which be put iota all bia

□slcr of in

. He had B z^ for idle

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play, and an enthuMaflm in mischief, which were the peryeraa numifoBtationB of a forceful chantcter, and whicli may have well entitled him (o Soulhey's epithet — " a, blackguard." The reader need not go far to see young Bunyan. Perbapa there is near yonr dwolling on Elatow — a quiet hamlet of some fifty houses Bprinkled about in the picturesque confusion, and with the easy implitude of space, which gives as old English village its look of leisure and longevity. And it is now verging to the close of tlio Bnmmer'B day. The daws are taking sliort excureioDS fruia the steeple, and tamer fowls have gone home froio the darkening and dewy green. But old Bunyan's donkey is still browzing there, and yonder ia old Bunyan's self— tbo brawny trampor dispread on the settle, retailing to the more clownish residents tap-room wit and roadside news. However, it is young Bunyan you wish to see. Yonder he is, the noisiest of the party, playing pitch-and- toBS— that one with the shaggy eyebrows, whose entire soul is ascending in the twirling ponny_grim enough to he the blaek- smith'a apprentice, but his singed garments hanging round him with a lank and idle freedonk which scoms indentures ; his ener- getic movements and authoritative voinferations at once bespeak- ing the ragamuffin tingleader. The penny has come down with the wrong side nppermoati and the loud execration at once bewrays yonng Badmnn. You have only to remember t^at it is Sabtiath evening, and you witness a scene ofton enacted on Elstow green two hundred years ago.

The strong depraving element in Bunjan's character was «n- godHneit. He walked according to the course of this world, ful- filling the dedns of the flesh and of the mind ; and congcioua of his own rehelijon, he said unto God, " Depart from me, for 1 dc' aiic not the knowledge of thy ways." The only rcatraining in- fluence of which he then felt the power, was terror. His days were often gloomy through forebodings of the wrath to come ; and his nights were seared with visions, which the boistoroua divcrsiona and adventures of his waking-day could not always dispel- He would dream that the last day had come, and that the quaking earth, was opening its mouth to let bjm down to hell ; or ho would And B, who were dragging him powerless e terrors of the night, yet feeling that

hunseJl m tbe grasp ol swaj'. And morang ov<

he eonld not alianflcpn his fflos, in his deapoir of heaven his ansions lone/ ivauld suggest to him dl Bort^ of strange deeires. He irould wish tbat there had been do hell at all ; or that, if he must needs go thither, ha might be a. devil, '^ supposing tJiey were only turmetitors, aud I would rather he a tonneiitor than tor- mented myself."