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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.
The Woman also that had been bound down by Satan for eighteen years together, his compassions putting him upon it, he loosed her, though those that stood by snarled at him for so doing, Luk. 13.11, 12, 13.
And why the Woman of Sarepta, and why Naaman the Syrian, rather than Widows and Lepers in Israel; but because their conditions were more deplorable, (for that) they were most forlorn, and farthest from help, Luk. 4.25, 27.
But I say, why all these, thus named? why have we not a Catalogue of some Holy men that were so in their own eyes, and in the judgment of the World? Alas! if at any time any of them are mentioned, how seemingly coldly doth the Record of Scripture present them to us? Nicodemus, a Night-Professor, and Simon the Pharisee, with his Fifty Pence; and their great ignorance of the methods of Grace, we have now and then touched upon.
Mercy seems to be out of his proper Chanel, when it deals with Self-righteous men; but then it runs with a full stream when it extends it self to the biggest sinners. As God's mercy is not regulated by Man's goodness, nor obtained