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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.
Nor did the Apostles overlook this Clause, when their Lord was gone into Heaven: They went first to them of Jerusalem, and preached Christ's Gospel to them. They abode also there for a season and time, and preached it to no ⟨p. 13⟩body else, for they had regard to the Commandment of their Lord.
And it is to be observed, namely, that the first Sermon which they preached after the Ascension of Christ, it was preached to the very worst of these Jerusalem-sin•ers; even to those that were the murderers of Jesus Christ, Acts 2.23. For these are part of the Sermon; Ye took him, and by wicked hands have Crucified and slain him. Yea, the next Sermon, and the next, and also the next to that, was preached to the self-same murderers, to the end they might be saved, Acts 3. 14, 15, 16. chap. 4, 10, 11. chap. 5, 30. chap. 7.52.
But we will return to the first Sermon that was preached to these Jerusalem-sinners, by which will be manifest more than great Grace, if it be duly considered.