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

The biggest sinner, when he is Converted and comes into the Church, say• to them all, by his very coming in, Behold me, all you that are Men and Wom•n of a low and timorous spirit; you whose hearts are narrow, for that you never had the advantage to know, because your sins are few, the largeness of the grace of God. Behold, I say, in me, the exceeding riches of his grace! I am a Pattern set forth before your faces, o• whom you may look and take hear• ▪ This, I say, the great sinner •an say, to the exceeding comfort of […] the rest.

The biggest sinner, when he is Converted and comes into the Church, say• to them all, by his very coming in, Behold me, all you that are Men and Wom•n of a low and timerous spirit; you whose hearts are narrow, for that you never had the advantage to know, because your sins are few, the largeness of the grace of God. Behold, I say, in me, the exceeding riches of his grace! I am a Pattern set forth before your faces, o• whom you may look and take hear• ▪ This, I say, the great sinner •an say, to the exceeding comfort of 〈…〉 the rest.

Wherefore, as I have hinted before, when God intends to stock a place with Saints, and to make that place excellently to flourish with the riches of his grace; he usually begins with the Conversion of some of the most notorious there abouts, and lays them as an Example to allure others, and to build up when they are converted.