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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. : In which is added, an answer to those grand objections that lie in the ways of them that would believe: for the comfort of those that fear they have sinned against the Holy Ghost / by John Bunyan of Bedford.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. : In which is added, an answer to those grand objections that lie in the ways of them that would believe: for the comfort of those that fear they have sinned against the Holy Ghost / by John Bunyan of Bedford.
Boston: printed for J. Edwards and H. Foster, 1733
Title page typeset from the transcription.
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.
Had not that good Samaritan more Compassion for that Man that fell among Thieves, (tho' that Fall was occasioned by his going from the place where they worshipped God, to Jericho, the cursed City) than we read he had for any other besides? His Wine was for him, his Oil was for him, his Beast for him, his Penny, his Care, and his Swaddling hands for him; for alas, poor Wretch, he had most Need, Luke 10.30 to 35.
Had not that good Samaritan more Compassion for that Man that fell among Thieves, (tho' that Fall was occasioned by his going from the place where they worshiped God, to Jericho, the cursed City) than we read he had for any other besides? His Wine was for him, his Oyl was for him, his Beast for him, his Penny, his Care, and his Swadling hands for him; for alas, poor Wretch, he had most Need, Luke 10.30 to 35.
Zacheus the Publican, the chief of the Publicans, one that had made himself the richer by wronging of others; the Lord at that time singleth him out from all the rest of his Brother Publicans, and that in the Face of many Pharisees, proclaimed in ⟨p. 25⟩the Audience of them all, That that Day Salvation was come to his House, Luke 19. 1 to 8.