Excerpt from The Jerusalem Sinner Saved: Come and Welcome to Jesus Christ: Christ a Complete Saviour; Also, the Author"s Last Sermon

In presenting to the public another volume of Bunyan"s Practical Works, it is thought proper to indicate briefly its general design as a whole, and the peculiar characteristics of the several treatises here associated together, to aid in accomplishing that design.

The present volume is designed immediately to follow the volume of his Awakening Works, just issued from the press of our Publication Society; and is therefore made up of pieces of an opposite tendency; that is, of such as are addressed to awakened sinners, and directly adapted to invite and encourage them to come to Christ for salvation. Within this specific design, however, it will be found that a very wide range of cases and characters is embraced by the keenly observant, sympathizing and comprehensive mind of the Author. Besides the favorite work, "The Jerusalem Sinner Saved," it includes the two excellent pieces entitled "Come and Welcome to Jesus Christ," and "Christ a Complete Saviour." The Author"s Last Sermon, on the New Birth, is added, as in its doctrinal connection, a fitting close to this volume of Bunyan"s Inviting Works.

Robert Philip, in his "Life and Times of Bunyan," has devoted a whole chapter to the first treatise in this volume - "The Jerusalem Sinner Saved." It was first issued from the press, it seems, early in 1688, six months before the Author"s death; but this gives us no clue to the time of its composition, which must have been years before.

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