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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.
Nor will Christ Jesus miss of his Design it proffering of Mercy in the first place to the biggest Sinners. You know what work the Lord by laying hold of the Woman of Samaria, made among the People there: They knew that she was a Town-Sinner, an Adulteress, Yea, one that after the most audacious manner lived in Uncleanness ⟨p. 39⟩with a Man that was not her Husband. But when she from a turn upon her Heart, went into the City and said to her Neighbours, Come: Oh how, how they came, how they flocked out of the City to Jesus Christ! Then they went out of the City, and came to him, and many of the Samaritans, (People perhaps as bad as her self) believed on him, for the saying of the Woman, which testified, saying, He told we all that ever I did, (John 4.39.)
Nor will Christ Jesus miss of his Design it profering of Mercy in the first place to the biggest Sinners. You know what work the Lord by laying hold of the Woman of Samaria, made among the People there: They knew that she was a Town-Sinner, an Adulteress, Yea, one that after the most audacious manner lived in Uncleanness ⟨p. 39⟩with a Man that was not her Husband. But when she from a turn upon her Heart, went into the City and said to her Neighbours, Come: Oh how, how they came, how they flocked out of the City to Jesus Christ! Then they went out of the City, and came to him, and many of the Samaritans, (People perhaps as bad as her self) believed on him, for the saying of the Woman, which testified, saying, He told we all that ever I did, (John 4.39.)
That word, He told me all that ever I did, was a great Argument with them; for by that they gathered, That that tho' he knew her to be vile, yet he did not Despise her, nor refuse to show how willing he was to communicate his Grace unto her: And this fetched over, first her, then them: