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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.
Why Christ Jesus forgiveth Sins for a Name, and so begets of himself a good Report in the Hearts of the Children of Men: And therefore in Reason must be willing, as also he did command that his Mercy should be offered first to the biggest sinners.
I will forgive their Sins, Iniquities, and Transgressions, says he, and it shall turn to me for a Name of Joy, and a Praise, and an Honour, before all the Nations of the Earth, Jer. 33.8, 9.
And hence it is that at his first appearing, he took upon him to do such mighty Works; He got a Fame thereby Mat 4 23.
When Christ had cast the Legion of Devils out of the Man of whom you read, Mark 5. He bid him go home to his Friends and tell it; Go home, saith he, to thy Friends, and tell them how great things God has done for thee; and has had Compassion on thee, Mark 5.19. Christ Jesus seeks a Name, and desireth a Fame in the World, and, therefore, the better to obtain that, he commands that Mercy should first be proffered to the biggest Sinners; because by the saving of one of them he makes all Men marvel. As 'tis said of the Man last mentioned, whom Christ cured toward the beginning of his Ministry: And he departed, says the Text, and began to publish in Decapolis how great things Jesus had done for him, and all Men did marvel, Ver. 20.