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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.
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.
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 shew 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.
God, saith Paul, who is rich in Mercy, for his great Love wherewith he loved us, even when we were dead in our Sins, hath quickened us together with Christ (by Grace ye are saved) and hath raised us up together, and made us sit together in heavenly places in Christ Jesus. But why did he do all this? That in the Ages to come, he might show the exceeding Riches of his Grace, in his Kindness towards us, through' Christ Jesus, Ephes. 2 4, 5, 6, 7.
God, saith Paul, who is rich in Mercy, for his great Love wherewith he loved us, even when we were dead in our Sins, hath quickned us together with Christ (by Grace ye are saved) and hath raised us up together, and made us sit together in heavenly places in Christ Jesus. But why did he do all this? That in the Ages to come, he might shew the exceeding Riches of his Grace, in his Kindness towards us, thro' Christ Jesus, Ephes. 2 4, 5, 6, 7.