The Entire Book: A Discourse Upon the Pharisee and the Publican
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A
Discourse Upon
T H E
Pharisee
A N D – T H E
Publican
Wherein several great and weighty things are handled:
as, the nature of prayer, and of obedience to the law,
with how it obliges Christians, and wherein it consists.
Wherein is also shewed, the equally deplorable condition of the Pharisee,
or hypocritical and self-righteous man; and of the Publican, or sinner that lives in sin,
and in open violation of the Divine laws. Together with the way and method of God’s
F R E E – G R A C E
in pardoning penitent sinners;
proving that He justifies them by imputing Christ’s
righteousness to them.
By J O H N.B U N Y A N, Author of "THE PILGRIM’S PROGRESS."
Edited by George Offor.
ADVERTISEMENT BY THE EDITOR.
This important treatise unvails, in few but telling words, the nature of prayer, about which mankind has made most awful mistakes. Multitudes conceive that the heart-searching God can be influenced and propitiated by eloquent words and forms of prayer; whilst the few, who are taught by the Holy Spirit, feel and know that the ardent desire, the aspirations, the fervent wishes of the mind, can alone be accepted by the Eternal; and even then only through the merits of the Redeemer.
The first edition appeared in 1635, and it soon became a very popular book. The use and application announced at the end do not appear to have been published, unless the author meant one of his later productions to answer that purpose. The twelfth edition has no date on the title page; to it is added Bunyan’s last Sermon, and his dying sayings,