The Jerusalem Sinner Saved; or Good News for the Vilest Men, John Bunyan [book reader for pc txt] 📗

her people in theworld. Hence the tribes went up to Jerusalem to worship; there wasGod's house, God's high-priest, God's sacrifices accepted, and God'seye, and God's heart perpetually; Psalm lxxvi. 1, 2; Psalm cxxii.; 1Kings ix. 3. But,

Thirdly, We are to consider Jerusalem also in her decays; for as sheis so considered, she is the proper object of our text, as will befurther showed by and by.

Jerusalem, as I told you, was the place and seat of God's worship,but now decayed, degenerated, and apostatized. The word, the rule ofworship, was rejected of them, and in its place they had put and setup their own traditions; they had rejected also the most weightyordinances, and put in the room thereof their own little things,Matt. xv.; Mark vii. Jerusalem was therefore now greatlybacksliding, and become the place where truth and true religion weremuch defaced.

It was also now become the very sink of sin and seat of hypocrisy,and gulf where true religion was drowned. Here also now reignedp