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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.
Christ Jesus, as you may perceive, has, put himself under the term of a Physician, a Doctor for curing of Diseases: ⟨p. 30⟩And you know that Applause, and a Fame, is a thing that Physicians much desire. That is it that helps them to Patients, and that also that will help their Patients to commit themselves to their Skill for Cure, with the more confidence and repose of Spirit. And the best way for a Doctor or Physician to get themselves a Name, is in the first place to take in hand, and Cure some such as all others have given off for lost and dead. Physician• get neither Name nor Fame by pricking of Wheals or pi•king out Thistles, or by laying of Plasters to the scratch of a P•n. Every old Woman can do this. But if they will have a Name and a Fame, if they will have it quickly, they must, as I said, do some great and desperate Cures. Let them fetch one to Life that was Dead; let them recover one to his Wits, that was Mad; let them make one that was born Blind, to See; or let them give ripe Wits to a Fool; these are ro•able Cures; and he that can do th•s, and if he doth thus first, he shall have the Name and Fame he desires; he may lye a B•d till Noon.
Christ Jesus, as you may perceìve, has, put himself under the term of a Physician, a Doctor for curing of Diseases: ⟨p. 30⟩And you know that Applause, and a Fame, is a thing that Physicians much desire. That is it that helps them to Patients, and that also that will help their Patients to commit thems•lves to their Skill for Cure, with the more confidence and repose of Spirit. And the best way for a Doctor or Physician to get themselves a Name, is in the first place to take in hand, and Cure some such as all others have given off for lost and dead. Physician• get neither Name nor Fame by pricking of Wheals or pi•king out Thistles, or by laying of Plaisters to the scratch of a Pn. Every old Woman can do this. But if they will have a Name and a Fame, if they will have it quickly, they must, as I said, do some great and desperate Cures. Let them fetch one to Life that was Dead; let them recover one to his Wits, that was Mad; let them make one that was born Blind, to See; or let them give ripe Wits to a Fool; these are roable Cures; and he that can do ths, and if he doth thus first, he shall have the Name and Fame he desires; he may lye a Bd till Noon.