LITTLE BOOKS BY JOHN BUNYAN.

This Series of "Little Books" will comprise the principal Practical, Doctrinal, and Experimental Treatises of the Author and some of his Allegorical Writings. Each volume will be complete in itself, and will contain one Treatise or more, according to length. And while the separate volumes will be found convenient for private use, and well adapted for presentation, the complete Series will form a very neat and elegant "Bunyan Library.”

A DISCOURSE

UPON THE

PHARISEE AND THE PUBLICAN.

BY JOHN BUNYAN.

'Two men went up into the temple to pray; the one a Pharisee, and
the other a Publican.'-Luke xviii. 10.

EDITED BY GEORGE OFFOR.

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LONDON:

BLACKIE & SON, PATERNOSTER BUILDINGS, E.C.;

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CONTENTS.

A DISCOURSE UPON THE PHARISEE AND THE PUB-

LICAN; wherein is handled these great and weighty things;

the nature of prayer; of obedience to the law; how far it

obliges Christians, and wherein it consists.

The discourse on Luke xviii. 10-13; the reason of the par-

able, like that of the unjust judge, was to this end, that men
ought always to pray; we must,

FIRST, CONSIDER THE PERSONS IN THE TEXT-Two; both sin-

ners; one a Pharisee, the other a Publican; both went up to

the temple to pray; picked men; a Pharisee, in esteem; a

Publican, counted vile; he was a Jew and a notorious sinner;

the Pharisee was a Jew, and notorious as a saint; the condi-

tions they were in shown by their prayers, .

THE PHARISEE'S PRAYER-1. What he is not.-2. What he is;

negative and positive holiness required; both imperfect; his

manner of delivery, .

His righteousness rejected; he asks justice and not mercy;

he asks for what he thinks God oweth him; the hypocrite pre-

tends for mercy, but means for merit,

The Pharisee seeth no need of mercy; what a fool's paradise;

his whole righteousness, sinful, .

The godly are afraid of their own righteousness; the Pharisee

ignorant that he must be made righteous before he can work

righteousness, .

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What is a Christian's righteousness to justification and

sanctification,

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They were sinners, and are made righteous, .

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THE PUBLICAN'S PRAYER-He crawls into the temple; his words

are heavier than the earth; his confession the highest wis-

dom,

Several things needful to right confession; a hard duty; seven

reasons for it,

His imploring of mercy; he falleth under the sentence; his

gestures, afar off, leaving room for his advocate to come be-

tween; looking down; smiting his breast, a token of sorrow

and abhorrence; a quarrel with his heart,

.

THE CONCLUSION-1. A praying man outstrips a non praying

one, as a star does a clod; but all praying men know not God.

-2. He who pleads his own good deeds is in a miserable

state.-3. High flaunting language is not prayer.-4. Outward

reforms do not justify.-5. The self-abhorring sinner's prayers

prevail,

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