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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.
I know also that there is some, that from this very Doctrine, say, Let us do Evil that Good may come, and that turn the Grace of our God into Lasciviousness. But! speak not to these: These will neither be ruled by Grace nor Reason; Grace would Teach them, if they knew it, to deny Ungodly Courses; and so would Reason to; if it could truly sense the Love of God, 1 Tim. 1.13, 14. Rom 11.2.
I know also that there is some, that from this very Doctrine, say, Let us do Evil that Good may come, and that turn the Grace of our God into Laciviousness. But! speak not to these: These will neither be ruled by Grace nor Reason; Grace would Teach them, if they knew it, to deny Ungodly Courses; and so would Reason to; if it could truly sense the Love of God, 1 Tim. 1.13, 14. Rom 11.2.
Doth it look like what hath any Consistence with Reason or Mercy, for a Man to abuse his Friend? Because Christ died for Men I shall therefore spit in his Face? ⟨p. 52⟩The Bread and Water that was given by Elisha to his Enemies, that came into the Land of Israel to take him, had so much influence upon their minds, tho Heathens that they returned to their homes without hurting him: Yea, it kept them from coming again, for a long time into the Coasts of Israel 2 Kings 6.19 to 23.
Doth it look like what hath any Consistence with Reason or Mercy, for a Man to abuse his Friend? Because Christ died for Men I shall therefore spit in his Face? ⟨p. 52⟩The Bread and Water that was given by Eilsha to his Enemies, that came into the Land of Israel to take him, had so much influence upon their minds, tho Heathens that they return'd to their homes without hurting him: Yea, it kept them from coming again, for a long time into the Coasts of Israel