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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.
And now to come to this Clause, Beginning at Jerusalem: That is, that Christ would have Jerusalem have the first offer of the Gospel.
1. This cannot be so commanded, because they had now any more right of themselves thereto than had any of the Nations of the World; for their Sins had divested them of all self-deservings.
2. Nor yet, because they stood upon the advance ground with the worst of the Sinners of the Nations. Nay, rather the Sinners of the Nations had the advance-ground of them. For Jerusalem was long, before she had added this Iniquity to her sin, worse than the very Nations that God cast out before the Children of Israel, 2 Chron. 33.
2. Nor yet, because they stood upon the advance ground with the worst of the Sinners of the Nations. Nay, rather the Sinners of the Nations had the advanc•-ground of them. For Jerusalem was long, before she had added this Iniquity to her sin, worse than the very Nations that God cast out before the Children of Israel, 2 Chron. 33.