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The Jerusalem-sinner saved, or, Good news for the vilest of men being a help…
The Jerusalem-sinner saved, or, Good news for the vilest of men being a help for despairing souls, showing that Jesus Christ would have mercy in the first place offered to the biggest sinners / by John Bunyan.The Jerusalem-sinner saved, or, Good news for the vilest of men being a help for despairing souls, shewing that Jesus Christ would have mercy in the first place offered to the biggest sinners / by John Bunyan.
London : Printed and are to be sold by George Larkin, 1689
GOOD NEWS For the Vilest of Men. OR, A Help for Despairing Souls.
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
But a little further, to show you the true nature of this Reason, to wit, That Jesus Christ would have mercy offered in the first place to the biggest sinners.
But a little further, to shew you the true nature of this Reason, to wit, That Jesus Christ would have mercy offer'd in the first place to the biggest sinners.
First, Mercy ariseth from Bowels and Compassion, from Pity, and from a feeling of the Condition of those in misery, In his Love, and in his Pity, he saveth us, And again, The Lord is pitiful, very pitiful, and of great mercy, Isa. 63.9. Jam, 5.11.
First, Mercy ariseth from Bowels and Compassion, from Pity, and from a feeling of the Condition of those in misery, In his Love, and in his Pity, he saveth us, And again, The Lord is p•tiful, very petiful, and of great mercy, Isa. 63.9. Jam, 5.11.
Now where Pity and Compassion is, there is yearning of Bowels; and where there is that, there is a readiness to help. And, I say again, The more deplorable and dreadful the Condition is, the more directly doth Bowels and Compassion turn themselves to such, and offer help and deliverance. All this flows from our first Scripture proof, I came to call them that have need; to call them first, while the rest look on, and murmur.