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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.
These therefore must have the Cream of the Gospel, namely, the first offer thereof in his Life-time: Yea, when he departed out of the World, he left this as part of his last Will with his Preachers, that they also should offer it first to Jerusalem. He had a mind, a careful mind, as it seems, to privilege the worst of Sinners with the first offer of Mercy, and to take from among them a People to be the first fruits unto God and to the Lamb.
These therefore must have the Cream of the Gospel, namely, the first offer thereof in his Life-time: Yea, when he departed out of the World, he left this as part of his last Will with his Preachers, that they also should offer it first to Jerusalem. He had a mind, a careful mind, as it seems, to priviledge the worst of Sinners with the first offer of Mercy, and to take from among them a People to be the first fruits unto God and to the Lamb.
The fifteenth of Luke also is famous for this, where the Lord Jesus takes more care, as appears there by three Parables, for the lost Sheep, lost Groat, and the Prodigal Son, than for the other Sheep, the other Pence, or for the Son that said he had never transgressed. Yea, he shows that there is Joy in Heaven, among the Angels of God, at the repentance of one Sinner, more than over Ninety and nine Just Persons, which need no repentance, Luke 15.
The fifteenth of Luke also is famous for this, where the Lord Jesus takes more care, as appears there by three Parables, for the lost Sheep, lost Groat, and the Prodigal Son, than for the other Sheep, the other Pence, or for the Son that said he had never transgressed. Yea, he shews that there is Joy in Heaven, among the Angels of God, at the repentance of one Sinner, more than over Ninety and nine Just Persons, which need no repentance, Luke 15.