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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.
He knew that the Conversion of Sinners would be a work highly pleasing to God, as being that which he had designed before he made Mountain or Hill: Wherefore he comes, and he saith, Save me, O Lord; if thou wilt but save me, I will fall in with thy design. I will help to bring what Sinners to thee I can. And Lord, I am willing to be made a Preacher my self, for that I have been a horrible Sinner; wherefore, if thou shalt forgive my great Transgressions, I sh•ll be a fit man to tell of thy wondrous Grace to others. Yea, Lord, I dare promise, that if thou wilt have mercy upon me, it shall tend to the glory of thy Grace, and also to the increase of thy Kingdom; for I will tell it, and Sinners will hear on'•. And there is nothing so suiteth with the ⟨p. 43⟩hearing Sinner, as Mercy: and to be informed that God is willing to bestow it upon him. I will teach Transgressors thy ways, and Sinners sh•ll be Converted unto thee.
He knew that the Conversion of Sinners would be a work highly pleasing to God, as being that which he had designed before he made Mountain or Hill: Wherefore he comes, and he saith, Save me, O Lord; if thou wilt but save me, I will fall in with thy design. I will help to bring what Sinners to thee I can. And Lord, I am willing to be made a Preacher my self, for that I have been a horri•le Sinner; wherefore, if thou sh•lt forgive my great Transgressions, I sh•ll be a fit man to tell of thy wonderous Grace to others. Yea, Lord, I dare promise, that if thou wilt have mercy upon me, it shall tend to the glory of thy Grace, and also to the increase of thy Kingdom; for I will tell it, and Sinners will hear on'•. And there is nothing so suiteth with the ⟨p. 43⟩hearing Sinner, as Mercy: and to be inform'd that God is willing to bestow it upon him. I will teach Transgressors thy ways, and Sinners sh•ll be Converted unto thee.