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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.
(Glorified God) How is that? Why they praised him, and took Courage to believe the more in the Mercy of God, for that he had Mercy on such a great Sinner as he, they glorified God (in me) They wondered that Grace should be so rich, a• to take hold of such a Wretch as I was; and for my sake believed in Christ the more.
There are two things that great Sinners are acquainted with, when they come to divulge to the Saints, that are a great relief to their Faith.
1. The Contests that they usually have with the Devil at their parting with him.
2. Their Knowledge of his Secrets in his Workings.
For the first, the biggest Sinners have usually great contest with the Devil at their parting; and this is an help to Satan: For ordinary Saints find afterwards what the vile ones find at first; but when at the opening of Hearts, the one finds himself to be as the other the one is a Comfort to the other. The lesser fort of Sinners find but little of this, till after they have been