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

Now this presumption, then, puts itself in the place of faith, when it
tampereth with the promise for life, while the soul is a stranger to
repentance. Wherefore you have in the text, to prevent doing thus, both
repentance and remission of sins to be offered to Jerusalem; not
remission without repentance: for all that repent not shall perish, let
them presume on grace and the promise while they will; Luke xiii. 1–3.
Presumption, then, is that which severeth faith and repentance,
concluding, that the soul shall be saved by grace, though the man was
never made sorry for his sins, nor the love of the heart turned
therefrom. This is to be self-willed, as Peter has it; and this is a
despising the word of the Lord, for that has put repentance and faith
together; Mark i. 15. And “because he hath despised the word of the
Lord, and hath broken his commandment, that soul shall utterly be cut
off: his iniquity shall be upon him.” Numb. xv. 31.
Let such therefore look to it, who yet are, and abide in their sins; for
such, if they hope, as they are, to be saved, presume upon the grace of
God. Wherefore presumption and not hearkening to God’s word are
put together; Deut. xvii. 12.
Again, Then men presume when they are resolved to abide in their sins,
and yet expect to be saved by God’s grace through Christ. This is as
much as to say, God liketh sin as well as I do, and careth not how men
live, if so be they lean upon his Son. Of this sort are they that build up
Zion with blood, and Jerusalem with iniquity; that judge for reward,
and teach for hire, and divine for money, and lean upon the Lord; Mic.
iii. 10, 11. This is doing things with an high hand against the Lord our
God, and a taking him, as it were, at the catch. This is, as we say among
men, to seek to put a trick upon God, as if he had not sufficiently
fortified his proposals of grace by his holy word, against all such kind
of fools as these. But look to it.
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