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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
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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.
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:
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 shew how willing he was to communicate his Grace unto her: And this fetched over, first her, then them:
This Woman, as I said, was a Samaritan-sinner, a Sinner of the worst Complexion: For the Jews abhorred to have ought to do with them (verse 9.) wherefore none more fit than she to be made one of the Decoys of Heaven, to bring others of these Samaritan Wild-fowls under the Net of the Grace of Christ; and she did the work to purpose, and many more of the Samaritans believed on him, Verse 40, 41, 42. The Heart of Man, tho' set on Sin, when it comes to a Persuasion that ⟨p. 40⟩God is willing to have Mercy upon us, inclines to come to Jesus Christ for Life; witness these turn-aways from God, that you also read in Jeremiah; for after they heard three or four times over, that God had Mercy for Back-sliders, they broke out and said, Behold we come unto thee for thou art the Lord our God. Or as those in Hosea, For in the Fatherless find Mercy, Jer. 3.22. Hos. 14.1, 2, 3.
This Woman, as I said, was a Samaritan-sinner, a Sinner of the worst Complexion: For the Jews abhorred to have ought to do with them (verse 9.) wherefore none more fit than she to be made one of the Decoys of Heaven, to bring others of these Samaritan Wild-fowls under the Net of the Grace of Christ; and she did the work to purpose, and many more of the Samaritans believed on him, Verse 40, 41, 42. The Heart of Man, tho' set on Sin, when it comes to a Perswasion that