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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. › The APPLICATION.
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.
Thirdly, Would Jesus Christ have Mercy offered in the first place to the biggest sinners, Then here is encouragement for you that think, for wicked hearts and lives, you have not your fellows in the World; yet to come to him.
Thirdly, Would J•sus Christ have Mercy offered in the first place to the biggest sinners, Then here is encourag•ment for you that think, for wicked hearts and lives, you have not your fellows in the World; yet to come to him.
There is a People that therefore fear lest they should be rejected of Jesus Christ, because of the greatness of their sins; when as you see here, such are sent to, sent to by Jesus Christ to come to him for Mercy; Begin at Jerusalem: Never did one thing answer another more fitly in this world, than this Text sitteth such kind of sinners. As Face answereth Face in a Glass, so this Text answereth the necessities of such sinners. What can a Man say more, but that he stands in the rank of the biggest sinners; ⟨p. 94⟩let him stretch himself whether he can, and think of himself to the utmost, he can but conclude himself to be one of the biggest Sinners: And what then? Why the Text meets him in the very Face, and saith, Christ offereth Mercy to the biggest Sinners, to the very Jerusalem Sinners. What more can be objected? Nay, he doth not only offer to such his Mercy, but to them 'tis commanded to be offered in the first place; Begin at Jerusalem. Preach Repentance and Remission of Sins among all Nations, beginning at Jerusalem. Is not here encouragement for those that think, for wicked Hearts and Lives, they have not their fellows in the World?
There is a People that therefore fear lest they should be rejected of Jesus Christ, because of the greatness of their sins; when as you see here, such are sent to, sent to by Jesus Christ to come to him for Mercy; Begin at Jerusalem: Never did one thing answer another more fitly in this world, than this Text sitteth such kind of sinners. As Face answereth Face in a Glass, so this Text answereth the necessities of such sinners. What can a Man say more, but that he stands in the rank of the biggest sinners;