The Jerusalem-sinner saved, or, Good news for the vilest of men being a help…

This therefore is another Reason, why Jesus would have mercy offered in the first place to the biggest sinners, because that is the best way, if they receive it, most to weaken the kingdom of Satan, and to keep it poor and low.

And do you not think now, that if God would but take hold of the hearts of some of the most notorious in your Town, in your Family, or Country, that this thing would be verified before your faces? It would, it would, to the Joy of you that are godly, to the making of Hell to sigh, to the great suppressing of Sin, the glory of Christ, and the joy of the Angels of God. And Ministers should therefore, that this Work might go on, take advantages to persuade with the biggest Sinners to come into Christ, according to my Text, and their Commissions: Beginning at Jerusalem.

And do you not think now, that if God would but take hold of the hearts of some of the most notorious in your Town, in your Family, or Countrey, that this thing would be verified before your faces? It would, it would, to the Joy of you that are godly, to the making of Hell to sigh, to the great suppressing of Sin, the glory of Christ, and the joy of the Angels of God. And Ministers should therefore, that this Work might go on, take advantages to perswade with the biggest Sinners to come into Christ, according to my Text, and their Commissions: Beginning at Jerusalem.

Fifthly, Jesus Christ would have mercy offered in the first place to the biggest sinners. Because such, when converted, are usually the best helps in the Church against temptations, and fittest for the support of the feeble minded there. Hence, usually, you have some such in the first plantation of Churches; or quickly upon it. Churches would do but sorrily, if Christ Jesus did not put such Converts among them; they are the Monuments and Mirrors of Mercy. The very sight of such a Sinner in God's House, yea, the very thought of him, where the sight of him