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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.
Eleventhly, Would Jesus Christ have Mercy offered in the first place to the biggest Sinners? Then let God's Ministers tell them so. There is an Incidence in us, I know not how it doth come about, when we are Converted, to contemn them that are left behind. Poor fools as we are, we forget that we our selves were so. Tit. 3.2, 3.
But would it not become us better, since we have tasted that the Lord is gracious, to carry it towards them so, that we may give them Convincing ground to believe, that we have found that Mercy which also sets open the Door for them to come and partake with us.
Ministers, I say, should do thus, both by their Doctrine, and in all other respects.
Austerity doth not become us, neither in Doctrine nor in Conversation: We our selves live by Grace; Let us give as we receive, and labour to persuade our fellow-sinners which God has left behind ⟨p. 431⟩us, to follow after that they may partake with us of Grace. We are saved by Grace, let us live like them that are gracious. Let all our things (to the World) be done in Charity towards them, Pity them, Pray for them, be familiar with them for their good. Let us lay aside our foolish, worldly, carnal grandeur; Let us not walk the Streets, and have such behaviours as signify we are scarce for touching of the poor ones that are left behind, no not with a pair of Tongs. It becomes not Ministers thus to do.