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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.
See here a Design, God lets out his Mercy to Ephesus on Design, even to show to the Ages to come, the exceeding Riches of his Grave in his Kindness to them through' ⟨p. 35⟩Christ Jesus; and why to show by these the exceeding Riches of his Grace to the Ages to come through' Christ Jesus? But to allure them and their Children also to come to him, and to partake of the same Grace through' Christ Jesus.
See here a Design, God lets out his Mercy to Ephesus on Design, even to shew to the Ages to come, the exceeding Riches of his Grave in his Kindness to them thro' ⟨p. 35⟩Christ Jesus; and why to shew by these the exceeding Riches of his Grace to the Ages to come thro' Christ Jesus? But to allure them and their Children also to come to him, and to partake of the same Grace thro' Christ Jesus.
But what was Paul and the Ephesian-sinners? (of Paul we will speak anon.) These Ephesian sinners, They were Men dead in Sins, Men that walked according to the Dictates and Motions of the Devil, Worshippers of Diana, that effeminate Goddess; Men far off from God, Aliens and Stranger to all good Things, such as were far off from that as I said, and consequently in a most deplorable Condition; as the Jerusalem sinners, &c Condition; as the Jerusalem sinners were of the highest Sort among the Jews, so these Ephesian sinners were of the highest sort among the Ephesians, Gentiles (Eph. 2.1, 2, 3. Acts 19.35.2.11.31.)