Bunyan and Jerusalem

Daily Quote - John Bunyan

Written by Jean Cauvin

25 April 2009 13:58

In a word, Jerusalem was now become the shambles, the very slaughter-shop for saints ...wherein the prophets, Christ and his people were most horribly persecuted and murdered...This is the city and these are the people; this is their character and these are their sins. I will now show you what it is to preach the gospel to them: [to announce] repentance and remission of sins in Christ's Name.. to bid them to repent and believe the gospel [Luke 24:47; Mark 1:15]. Christ would have Jerusalem have the first offer of the gospel. Not because they had any more right than any of the nations of the world, [but to manifest] his mere grace... compassion... and mercy [to those] in the most deplorable condition of any people under the heavens. ---John Bunyan http://www.apuritanatheart.com/puritanism