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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.
Sampson, when he would pull down the Philistines Temple, took hold of the two main Pillars of it, and breaking them, down came the House. Christ came to destroy the works of the Devil, and to destroy by converting Grace, as well as by redeeming Blood. Now Sin swarms, and lieth by Legions and whole Armies, in the Souls of the biggest Sinners, as in Garrisons: Wherefore the way, the most direct way to destroy it is first to deal with such Sinners, by the Word of his Gospel, and by the Merits of his Passion.
Sampson, when he would pull down the Philistians Temple, took hold of the two main Pillars of it, and breaking them, down came the House. Christ came to destroy the works of the Devil, and to destroy by converting Grace, as well as by redeeming Blood. Now Sin swarms, and lieth by Legions and whole Armies, in the Souls of the biggest Sinners, as in Garrisons: Wherefore the way, the most direct way to destroy it is first to deal with such Sinners, by the Word of his Gospel, and by the Merits of his Passion.
For Example, tho' I shall give you but a homely one, Suppose a Family to be very Lousy, and one or two of the Family to be in chief the Breeders, the way, the quickest way to clear that Family, or at least to weaken the so swarming of those Vermin, is in the first place to sweeten the Skin, Head, and Clothes of chief Breeders. ⟨p. 43⟩And then, tho' all the Family should be apt to breed them, the Number of them and so the greatness of that Plague there will be the more impaired.
For Example, tho' I shall give you but a homely one, Suppose a Family to be very Lousie, and one or two of the Family to be in chief the Breeders, the way, the quickest way to clear that Family, or at least to weaken the so swarming of those Vermin, is in the first place to sweeten the Skin, Head, and Cloathes of chief Breeders. ⟨p. 43⟩And then, tho' all the Family should be apt to breed them, the Number of them and so the greatness of that Plague there will be the more impaired.