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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.
3. It must therefore follow that this Clause, Begin at Jerusalem, was put into ⟨image 17⟩this Commission of mere Grace and Compassion; Even from the overflowings of the Bowels of Mercy. For indeed they were the worst, and so in the most deplorable condition of any People under the Heavens.
3. It must therefore follow that this Cl•use, B•gin at Jerusalem, was put into ⟨image 17⟩this Commission of meer Grace and Compassion; Even from the overflowings of the Bowels of Mercy. For indeed they were the worst, and so in the most deplorable condition of any People under the Heavens.
Whatever therefore their relation was to Abraham, Isaac, or Jacob, however they formerly had been the People among whom God had placed his Name and Worship, they were now degenerated from God, more than the Nations were from their Idols, and were become guilty of the highest Sins which the People of the World were capable of committing. Nay, none can be capable of committing of such pardonable Sins as they committed against their God, when they slew his Son, and persecuted his Name and Word.
From these Words therefore thus explained, we gain this Observation;