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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.
For after that Peter and the rest of the Apostles, had in their Exhortation persuaded these Wretches to believe that they had killed the Prince of Life, and after they had duly fallen under the guilt of their Murder, saying, Men and Brethren, what shall we do? He replies by an universal Tender to them all in general, considering them as Christ-killers. That if ⟨p. 14⟩they were sorry for what they had done, and would be Baptized for the Remission of their sins in his Name, they should receive the gift of the Holy Ghost, Acts 2.37, 38.
For after that Peter and the rest of the Apostles, had in their Exhortation perswaded these Wretches to believe that they had killed the Prince of Life, and after they had duly fallen under the guilt of their Murder, saying, Men and Brethren, what shall we do? He replies by an universal Tender to them all in general, considering them as Christ-killers. That if ⟨p. 14⟩they were sorry for what they had done, and would be Baptized for the Remission of their sins in his Name, they should receive the gift of the Holy Ghost, Acts 2.37, 38.
This he said to them all, though he knew that they were such sinners. Yea, he said it without the least stick, or stop, or pause of Spirit, as to whether he had best to say so or no. Nay, so far off was Peter from making an Objection against one of them, that by a particular Clause in his Exhortation, he endeavours, that not one of them may escape the Salvation offered. Repent, saith he, and be Baptized every one of you. I shut out never a one of you. For I am commanded by my Lord, to deal with you, as it were, one by one, by the Word of his Salvation. But why speaks he so particularly? Oh! there were reasons for it. The People with whom the Apostles were now to deal, as they were Murderers of our Lord, and to be charged in the general with his Blood, so they had their various and particular acts of Villainy in the guilt thereof, now lying upon their Consciences. And the guilt of these their various and particular acts of wickedness, could not perhaps, be reached to a removal thereof, but by this particular