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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.
'Twas Paul that must go to the Gentiles, because Paul was the most outrageous of all the Apostles in the time of his ⟨p. 50⟩Unregeneration: Yea, Peter must be he that after his horrible fall, was thought fittest when recovered ag• […] to comfort and strengthen his Brethren. See Luke 22.31, 32.
'Twas Paul that must go to the Gentiles, because Paul was the most outragious of all the Apostles in the time of his ⟨p. 50⟩Unregeneration: Yea, Peter must be he that after his horrible fall, was thought fittest when recovered ag• 〈…〉 to comfort and strengthen his Brethren. See Luke 22.31, 32.
Some must be Pillars in Gods House; and if they be Pillars of Cedar, they must stand whilst they are stout and sturdy Sticks in the Forrest, before they are cut down, and planted or placed there.
No Man when he buildeth his House, makes the principal parts thereof, of weak and feeble Timber: (For how could such bear up the rest?) but of great and able Wood. Christ Jesus also goeth this way to work, he makes of the biggest Sinners, Bearers and Supporters to the Rest. This then may serve for another Reason, why Christ Jesus gives out in Commandment, that Mercy should in the first place be offered to the biggest sinners, because such when converted, are usually the best help in Churches against Temptation, and fittest for the support of the feeble minded there.