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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.
Alas! Christ Jesus has but little thanks for the saving of the little Sinners. To whom little is forgiven, the same lovers little. He gets not Water for his Feet, by his saving of such Sinners. There are abundance of dry-eyed Christians in the World, and abundance of dry eyed. Duties too: Duties that never was wetted with the tears of Contrition and Repentance, nor ever sweetened wish ⟨p. 67⟩the great Sinners box of Ointment. And the reason is, such sinners have not great sins to be saved from; or if they have, they look upon them in the diminishing-glass of the Holy Law of God. But I rather believe that the Professors of our days want a due sense of what they are; for verily, for the generality of them, both before and since Conversion, they have been sinners of a lusty size: But if their Eyes be holden, if Convictions are not shown, if their knowledge of their sins is but like to the eye-sight in twilight, the Heart cannot be affected with that grace that has laid hold on the man, and so Christ Jesus sows much, and has little coming in.
Alas! Christ Jesus has but little thanks for the saving of the little Sinners. To whom lit•le is forgiven, the same lovers little. He gets not Water for his Feet, by his saving of such Sinners. There are abundance of dry-eyed Christians in the World, and abundance of dry eyed. Duties too: Duties that never was wetted with the tears of Contrition and Repentance, nor ever sweetned wish ⟨p. 67⟩the great Sinners box of Oyntment. And the reason is, such sinners have not great sins to be saved from; or if they have, they look upon them in the diminishing-glass of the Holy Law of God. But I rather believe that the Professors of our days want a due sense of what they are; for verily, for the generality of them, both before and since Conversion, they have been sinners of a lusty size: But if their Eyes be holden, if Convictions are not shown, if their knowledge of their sins is but like to the eye-sight in twilight, the Heart cannot be affected with that grace that has laid hold on the man, and so Christ Jesus sows much, and has little coming in.