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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.
'Tis true, after they began to kill again, and when nothing but killing would serve their turn; then they that were scattered abroad, went every where preaching the Word. Yet even some of them to hankered after the Conversion of the Jews, that they preached the Gospel only to them. Also the Apostles still made their abode at Jerusalem, in hopes that they might yet let down their Net for another draught of these Jerusalem-sinners. Neither did Paul and Barnabas, who were the Ministers of God to the ⟨p. 20⟩Gentiles, but offer the Gospel in the first place to those of them that for their wickedness were scattered like Vagabonds among the Nations. Yea, and when they rendered Rebellion and Blasphemy for their Service and Love; they replied, It was necessary that the Word of God should first have been spoken to them, Acts 1.8. chap. 13.46, 47.
'Tis true, after they began to kill again, and when nothing but killing would serve their turn; then they that were scattered abroad, went every where preaching the Word. Yet even some of them to hankered after the Conversion of the Jews, that they preached the Gospel only to them. Also the Apostles still made their abode at Jerusalem, in hopes that they might yet let down their Net for another draught of these Jerusalem-sinners. Neither did Paul and Barnabas, who were the Ministers of God to the ⟨p. 20⟩Gentiles, but offer the Gospel in the first place to those of them that for their wickedness were scattered like Vagabonds among the Nations. Yea, and when they rendred Rebellion and Blasphemy for their Service and Love; they replied, It was necessary that the Word of God should first have been spoken to them, Acts 1.8. chap. 13.46, 47.
Nor was this their Preaching unsuccessful among these People: But the Lord Jesus so wrought with the Word thus spoken, that thousands of them came flocking to him for Mercy. Three thousand of them closed with him at the first; and afterwards two thousand more; for now they were in number about five thousand; whereas before Sermons was preached to these Murderers, the number of the Disciples were not above a hundred and twenty,