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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.
When Christ was crucified and hanged up between the Earth and Heavens, there were two Thieves crucified with him; and behold, he lays hold of one of them, and will have him away with him to Glory. Was not this a strange act, and a display of unthought of Grace? Were there none but Thieves there, or were the rest of that Company out of his reach? Could he not think you, have stooped from the Cross to the Ground, and have laid hold on some honester Man if he would? Yes doubtless: Oh, but then he would not have displayed his Grace, nor so have pursued his own designs; namely to get himself a praise, and a Name: But how he has done it to purpose. For, who that shall read this Story, but must confess that the Son of God is full of Grace? For a proof of the riches thereof he left behind him when upon the Cross; he took the Thief away with him to Glory. Nor can this one act of his be buried: It will be talked of to the end of the World to his Praise, Men shall speak of the might of thy terrible Acts, and will declare thy Greatness: They shall abundantly utter the ⟨p. 32⟩Memory of thy great Goodness, and shall sing of thy Righteousness: They shall speak of the Glory of thy Kingdom, and talk of thy Power. To make known to the sons of Men, his mighty Acts, and the glorious Majesty of his Kingdom, Psal. 145.6, to 12.
When the Word of God came among the Conjurers and those Sooth-sayers tha• you read of, Acts 19. and had prevailed with some of them, of the Grace of Christ ▪ the Holy Ghost records it with a boast, for that it would redound to his Praise.