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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.
Here is Adam the destroyer of the World; he•e is Lot that lay with both his Daughters; here is Abraham that was sometimes an Idolater, and Jacob that was a Supplanter, and Reuben that lay with his Fathers Concubine, and Judah that lay •ith his Daughter-in-Law, and Levy and Simeon that wickedly slew the Sechemites; and Aaron that made an Idol to be Worshipped, and that proclaimed a Religious Feast unto it. Here is also Rahab the Harlot, and Bathsheba that bare a Bastard to David. Here is Solomon that great Backslider, and Manasseh that man of Blood, and a Witch. Time would fail to tell you of the Woman of Canaan's Daughter, of Mary Magdalen, of Matthew the Publican, and of Gideon and Sampson, and many thousands more.
Here is Adam the destroyer of the World; he•e is Lot that lay with both his Daughters; here is Abraham that was sometimes an Idolater, and Jacob that was a Supplanter, and Ruben that lay with his Fathers Concubine, and Judah that lay •ith his Daughter-in-Law, and Levy and Simeon that wickedly slew the Sechemites; and Aaron that made an Idol to be Worshipped, and that proclaimed a Religious Feast unto it. Here is also Rahab the Harlot, and Bathsheba that bare a B•stard to David. Here is Solomon that great Backslider, and Manasseh that man of Blood, and a Witch. Time would fail to tell you of the Woman of Canaans Daughter, of Mary Magdalen, of Matthew the Publican, and of Gideon and Sampson, and many thousands more.
Alas, alas! I say, what will these Sinners, do, that have, through their unbelief, eclipsed the glorious largeness of the mercy of God, and gave way to despair of Salvation because of the bigness of their sins.