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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.
Christ Jesus, as you may perceive, has put himself under the term of a Physician, a Doctor for curing of Diseases: And you know that Applause and a Fame, is a thing that Physicians much desire. That is it that helps them to Patients, and that also that will help their Patients to commit ⟨p. 27⟩themselves to their Skill for Cure, with the more confidence and repose of Spirit; and the way for a Doctor or Physician to get themselves a Name, is in the first place to take in hand, and cure some such as all others have given off for lost and dead: Physicians get neither Name nor Fame, by picking of Weeds or picking out Thistles, or by laying of Plasters to the scratch of a Pin: Every old Woman can do this: But if they will have a Name and a Fame, if they will have it quickly they must, as I said, do some great and desperate Cures: Let them fetch one to Life that was dead, let them recover one to his Wits that was Mad, let them make one that was born Blind to see, or let them give ripe Wits to a Fool; these are notable Cures, and he that can do thus, and if he doth thus first, he shall have the Name and Fame he desires, he may lie a Bed till Noon.
Christ Jesus, as you may perceive, has put himself under the term of a Physician, a Doctor for curing of Diseases: And you know that Applause and a Fame, is a thing that Physicians much desire. That is it that helps them to Patients, and that also that will help their Patients to commit ⟨p. 27⟩themselves to their Skill for Cure, with the more confidence and repose of Spirit; and the way for a Doctor or Physician to get themselves a Name, is in the first place to take in hand, and cure some such as all others have given off for lost and dead: Physicians get neither Name nor Fame, by picking of Weeds or picking out Thisties, or by laying of Plaisters to the scratch of a Pin: Every old Woman can do this: But if they will have a Name and a Fame, if they will have it quickly they must, as I said, do some great and desperate Cures: Let them fetch one to Life that was dead, let them recover one to his Wits that was Mad, let them make one that was born Blind to see, or let them give ripe Wits to a Fool; these are notable Cures, and he that can do thus, and if he doth thus first, he shall have the Name and Fame he desires, he may lie a Bed till Noon.