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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.
And do you not think now, that if God would but take hold of the Hearts of some of the most notorious in your Town, in your Family, or Country, that this thing would be verified before your Faces? It would, it would, to the Joy of you that are godly, to the making of Hell to sigh, to the great suppressing of Sin, the Glory of Christ, and the Joy of the Angels of God. And Ministers should therefore, that this work might go on, take Advantages to persuade with the biggest Sinners to come unto Christ according to my Text, and their Commissions: Beginning at Jerusalem
And do you not think now, that if God would but take hold of the Hearts of some of the most notorious in your Town, in your Family, or Country, that this thing would be verified before your Faces? It would, it would, to the Joy of you that are godly, to the making of Hell to sigh, to the great suppressing of Sin, the Glory of Christ, and the Joy of the Angels of God. And Ministers should therefore, that this work might go on, take Advantages to perswade with the biggest Sinners to come unto Christ according to my Text, and their Commissions: Beginning at Jerusalem
Fifthly, Jesus Christ would have Mercy offered in the first place to the biggest Sinners. Because such when converted, are usually the best Helps in the Church against Temptations, and fittest for the Support of the feeble minded there. Hence usually you have some such in the first Plantation of Churches; or quickly upon it. Churches would do but sorrily if Christ Jesus did not put such Converts among them, they are the Monuments and Mirrors of Mercy. The very sight of such a Sinner in God's House, yea, the very thought of him, where the sight of him cannot be had, is oft-times greatly for the help of the Faith of the Feeble.
When the Churches (saith Paul) that were in Judea, heard this concerning me, that he which persecuted them in time past now preached the Faith which once he destroyed, They glorified God in me,