The Jerusalem Sinner Saved; or Good News for the Vilest of Men by John Bunyan 1689

was the blood of a dog, an ass, or a swine, which always was, as to
sacrifices, rejected by the God of heaven, as unholy or unclean.
Now he who has no better esteem of Jesus Christ, and of his death and
blood, will not be persuaded to come to him for life, or to trust in him
for salvation.
3. But further, all this must be done against manifest tokens to prove
the contrary, or after the shining of gospel light upon the soul, or some
considerable profession of him as the Messiah, or that he was the
Savior of the world.
1. It must be done against manifest tokens to prove the contrary; and
thus the reprobate Jews committed it when they saw the works of God,
which put forth themselves in him, and called them the works of the
devil and Beelzebub.
2. It must be done against some shining light of the gospel upon them.
And thus it was with Judas, and with those who, after they were
enlightened, and had tasted, and had felt something of the powers of
the world to come, fell away from the faith of him, and put him to open
shame and disgrace; Heb. vi. 5, 6.
3. It must also be done after, and in opposition to one’s own open
profession of him. “For if after they have escaped the pollution of the
world, through the knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, they
are again entangled therein, and overcome, the latter end is worse with
them than the beginning; for it had been better for them not to have
known the way of righteousness, than after they have known it, to turn
from the holy commandment (which is the word of faith) delivered
unto them.”
4. All this must be done openly, before witnesses, in the face, sight, and
view of the world, by word and act. This is the sin that is unpardonable;
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