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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.
And it is observable, as I said before, we have but very little of the Salvation of little Sinners mentioned in God's Book, because that would not have answered the Design, to wit, to bring Glory and Fame to the Name of the Son of God.
What should be the Reason think you, why Christ should so easily take a denial of the great ones, that were the Grandeur of the World, and struggle so hard for Hedge-creepers and High Way Men, (as the Parable, Luke 14 seems to import he doth) but to show forth the riches of the Glory of his Grace, to his Praise? This I say, is one Reason to be sure,
What should be the Reason think you, why Christ should so easily take a denial of the great ones, that were the Grandeur of the World, and struggle so hard for Hedge-creepers and High Way Men, (as the Parable, Luke 14 seems to import he doth) but to shew forth the riches of the Glory of his Grace, to his Praise? This I say, is one Reason to be sure,
They that had their Grounds, their yoke of Oxen, and their Marriage Joys were invited to come; but they made their Excuse, and that served the turn, But when he comes to deal with the worst, he saith to his Servant, Go ye out and bring them in hither, Go out quickly and bring in hither the poor, the maimed, the halt and the blind: And they did so. And he said again, Go out into the high ways & hedges, and compel them to come in, that my ⟨p. 31⟩House may be filled, Luke 14.19, 23. These poor, lame, maimed, blind hedge-creepers, and high-way Men, must come in, must be forced in: These if saved, will make his Merits shine.