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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.
That word, He told me all that ever I did, was a great Argument with them; for by that they gathered, That tho he knew her to be vile, yet he did not despise her, nor refuse to show how willing he was to communicate his Grace unto ⟨p. 44⟩her: And this fetched over, fi•st, her, then them.
That word, He told me all that ever I did, was a great Argument with them; for by that they gathered, That tho he knew her to be vile, yet he did not despise her, nor refuse to shew how willing he was to communicate his Grace unto ⟨p. 44⟩her: And this fetched over, fi•st, her, then them.
This woman, as I said, was a Samaritan-Sinner, a Sinner of the worst Complexion. For the Jews abhorred to have ought to do with them (verse 9.) wherefore none more fit than she to be made one of the Decoys of Heaven, to bring others of these Samaritan Wild-Fowls under the Net of t•e Grace of Christ. And she did the work to purpose. Many, and many more of the Samaritans believed on him, Verse 40, 41, 42. The Heart of man, tho set on Sin, will, when it comes once to a persuasion that God is willing to have Mercy upon us, incline to come to Jesus Christ for life; witness those turn-a-ways from God, that you also read of in Jeremiah; for after they had heard three or four times over, that God had Mercy for backsliders, they broke out and said, Behold, we come unto thee, for thou art the Lord our God. Or as those in Hosea did, For in thee the Fatherless find mercy. (Jer. 3.22. Hos. 14.1, 2, 3.)
This woman, as I said, was a Samaritan-Sinner, a Sinner of the worst Complexion. For the Jews abhorred to have ought to do with them (verse 9.) wherefore none more fit than she to be made one of the Decoys of Heaven, to bring others of these Samaritan Wild-Fowls under the Net of te Grace of Christ. And she did the work to purpose. Many, and many more of the Samaritans believed on him, Verse 40, 41, 42. The Heart of man, tho set on Sin, will, when it comes once to a perswasion that God is willing to have Mercy upon us, incline to come to Jesus Christ for life; witness those turn-a-ways from God, that you also read of in Jeremiah; for after they had heard three or four times over, that God had Mercy for backsliders, they broke out and said, Behold, we come unto thee, for thou art the Lord our God. Or as those in Hosea did, For in thee the Ftherless find mercy. (