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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.
For the Physician, by curing of the most desperate at the first, doth not only get himself a Name; but begets Encouragement in the minds of other diseased Folk, to come to him for Help: Hence you read of our Lord, that after through' his tender Mercy, he had cured many of great Diseases, his Fame was spread abroad: They brought unto him all sick People that were taken with divers Diseases and Torments; and those that were possessed with Devils, and those that had the Palsy, and he healed them; and there followed him a great multitude of People from Galilee and Decapolis and Jerusalem, and Judea, and from beyond Jordan, Mat. 4 24, 25.
For the Physician, by curing of the most desperate at the first, doth not only get himself a Name; but begets Encouragement in the minds of other diseased Folk, to come to him for Help: Hence you read of our Lord, that after thro' his tender Mercy, he had cured many of great Diseases, his Fame was spread abroad: They brought unto him all sick People that were taken with divers Diseases and Torments; and those that were possessed with Devils, and those that had the Palsy, and he healed them; and there followed him a great multitude of People from Galilee and Decapolis and Jerusalem, and Judea, and from beyond Jordan, Mat. 4 24, 25.
See here, He first by working gets himself a Fame, a Name, and Renown; and now Men take Encouragement, and bring from all quarters their Diseased to him, being helped by what they had heard, to believe that their Diseases should be healed.
Now, as he did with those outward Cures, so he does in the proffers of his Grace and Mercy; he proffers that in the first Place to the biggest Sinners, that others may take Heart to come to be saved. I will give you a Scripture or two, I mean to show you that Christ by commanding that his Mercy should in the first place be offered to the biggest of Sinners, has a Design thereby to encourage and provoke others to come also to him for Mercy.