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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.
One would a-thought, since the J• rusalem-sinners were the worst, and greatest Sinners, Christ's greatest enemies, and those that not only despised his Person, Doctrine, and Miracles, but that a little before had had their hands up to the elbows in his Heart-blood, That he should rather have said, Go into all the World, and preach Repentance and Remission of Sins among all Nations; and after that, offer the same to Jerusalem. Yea, it had been infinite Grace, if he had said so. But what Grace is this? Or what Name shall we give it, when he commands that this Repentance and Remission of Sins, which is designed to be preached in all Nations, should first be offered to Jerusalem, in the first place to the worst of Sinners:
One would a-thought, since the J• rusalem-sinners were the worst, and greatest Sinners, Christ's greatest enemies, and those that not only despised his Person, Doctrine, and Miracles, but that a little before had had their hands up to the elbows in his Heart-bloud, That he should rather have said, Go into all the World, and preach Repentance and Remission of Sins among all Nations; and af•er that, offer the same to Jerusalem. Yea, it had been infinite Grace, if he had said so. But what Grace is this? Or what Name shall we give it, when he commands that this Repentance and Remission of Sins, which is designed to be preached in all Nations, should first be offered to Jerusalem, in the first place to the worst of Sinners:
Nor was this the first time that the Grace which was in the Heart of Christ, thus showed it self to the World. For while he was yet alive, even while he was yet in Jerusalem, and perceived even among ⟨image 18⟩these Jerusalem-sinners, which was the most vile amongst them; he still in his preaching did signify that he had a desire that the worst of these worst should in the first place come unto him. The which he showeth where he saith to the better sort of them, The Publicans and Harlots enter into the Kingdom of God before you,