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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.
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.
The Woman also that had been bowed down by Satan for Eighteen Years together, his Compassion putting him upon it, he loosed her tho' those that stood by snarled at him for so doing, Luke 13.11, 12, 13.
And why the Woman of Sarepta, and why Naaman the Syrian, rather than other Widows and Lepers in Israel, but because their Conditions were more deplorable (for that) they were most forlorn, and farthest from Help? Luke 4.25.27.