The Jerusalem-sinner saved, or, Good news for the vilest of men being a help…

This is the City, and these are the People: This is their Character, and th•se are their Sins. Nor can there be produced their parallel in all this World. Nay, what World! what People! what Nation, for Sin, and Transgression, could, or can be compared to Jerusalem! Especially if you join to the matter of fact, the Light they sinned against, and the Patience which they abused. Infinite was the Wickedness upon this account which they committed.

This is the City, and these are the People: This is their Character, and th•se are their Sins. Nor can there be produced their parallel in all this World. Nay, what World! what People! what Nation, for Sin, and Transgression, could, or can be comp•red to Jerusalem! Especially if you joyn to the matter of fact, the Light they sinned against, and the Patience which they abused. Infinite was the Wickedness upon this account which they committed.

After all their abusings of wise Men, and Prophets, God sent unto them John Baptist, to reduce them, and then his Son to redeem them; but they would be neither reduced nor redeemed, but persecuted both to the Death. Nor did they, as I said, stop here; the Holy Apostles they afterwards persecuted also to Death, even so many as they could, the rest •he drove from them unto the utmost Corners.

Secondly, I come now to show you what it was to preach the Gospel to them. It was, saith Luke, to preach to them Repentance and remission of Sins in ⟨p. 7⟩Christs Name. Or as Mark has it, to bid them repent and believe the Gospel,