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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.
'Tis enough to make Angels blush, saith Satan, to see so vile a one knock at Heaven gates• or Mercy, and wilt tho• be so abominable bold to do it? Thus Satan dealt with me, says the great Sinner when at first I came to Jesus Christ. An• ⟨p. 53⟩what did you reply, saith the Tempted? Why, I granted the whole Charge to be true, says the other. And what, did you despair? or how? No (saith he) I said, I am Magdalene, I am Zicheus, I am the Thief, I am the Harlot, I am the Publican, I am the Prodigal, and one of Christ's Murderers: Yea, worse than any of these, and yet God was so far off from rejecting of me, (as I found afterwards) that there was music and dancing in his House for me, and for Joy that I was come home unto him. Oh blessed be God for Grace, (says the other) for then I hope there is favour for me. Yea, as I told you, such a one is a continual Spectacle in the Church, for every one by, to behold God's grace, and wonder!
'Tis enough to make Angels blush, saith Satan, to see so vile a one knoc• at Heaven gates• or Mercy, and wilt tho• be so abominable bold to do it? Thus Satan dealt with me, says the great Sinner when at first I came to Jesus Christ. An• ⟨p. 53⟩what did you reply, saith the Tempted? Why, I granted the whole Charge to be true, says the other. And what, did you d•spair? or how? No (saith he) I said, I am Magdalene, I am Zicheus, I am the Thief, I am the Harlot, I am the Publican, I am the Prodigal, and one of Christ's Murderers: Yea, worse than any of these, and yet God was so far off from rejecting of me, (as I found afterwards) that there was musick and dancing in his House for me, and for Joy that I was come home unto him. Oh blessed be God for Grace, (says the other) for then I hope there is favour for me. Yea, as I told you, such a one is a continual Spectacle in the Church, for every one by, to behold God's grace, and wonder!