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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.
But we will a little proceed. In the Third Chapter we find, that they who escaped Converting by the first Sermon, are called upon again, to accept of Grace and Forgiveness for their Murder committed upon this Son of God. You have killed; yea, you have denied the Holy one and the Just, and desired a Murderer to be granted unto you. And killed the Prince of Life. M•rk, He falls again upon the very Men that actually were, as you have it in the Chapters following, his very Betrayers and Murderers, Acts 3.14, 15. As being loth that they should escape the mercy of Forgiveness. And Exhorts them again to repent, that their sins might be blotted out, Ver. 19.20.
But we will a little proceed. In the Third C•apter we find, that they who escaped Converting by the first Sermon, are called upon again, to accept of Grace and Forgiveness for their Murder committed upon this Son of God. You have killed; yea, you have denyed the Holy one and the Just, and desired a Murderer to be granted unto you. And killed the Prince of Life. M•rk, He falls again upon the very Men that actually were, as you have it in the Chapters following, his very Betrayers and Murderers, Acts 3.14, 15. As being loth that they should escape the mercy of Forgiveness. And Exhorts them again to repent, that their sins might be blotted out, Ver. 19.20.
Again, in the Fourth Chapter, he charges them afresh with this Murder, Ver. 10. But withal tells them, Salvation is in no other. Then like a heavenly Decoy, he puts himself also among them, to draw them the better under ⟨p. 19⟩the Net of the Gospel; saying, There is none other Name under Heaven given among men, whereby we must be saved, Ver. 12.