A30160:196
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.
Shall not this lay Obligation upon me? Is not Love of the greatest force to oblige? Is it not strong as Death? Cruel as the Grave? and hotter than the Coals of Juniper? Hath it not a most vehement flame? Can the Waters quench it? Can the Floods drown it? I am under the force of it, and this is my continual cry, What shall I render to the Lord for all the Benefits which he has bestowed upon me?
Shall not this lay Obli•ation upon me? Is not Love of the greatest force to oblige? Is it not strong as Death? Cruel as the Grave? and hotter than the Coals of Juniper? Hath it not a most vehement flame? Can the Waters quench it? Can the Floods drown it? I am under the force of it, and this is my continual cry, What shall I render to the Lord for all the Benefits which he has bestow•d upon me?
Ay! Paul, this is something, thou speakest like a Man, like a man affected, and carried away with the love and gra•e of God. Now this sense, and this affection, and this labour, giveth to Christ the love that he looks for. But he might have converted twenty little sinners, and yet not found, for grace bestowed, •o •uch love in them all.
I wonder how far a man might go among the Converted Sinners of the smaller size, before one could find one that so much as look any thing this wayward. Where is he that is thus under pangs of love for the Grace bestowed upon him by Jesus Christ? Excepting only some few; you may walk to the Worlds end and find none. But, as I sail, some there are, and so there has been in every age of the Church, great sinners, that have had much forgiven them. And they love much upon this account.