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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.
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 2 Kings 6.19 to 23.
But to forbear to Illustrate till anon▪ One Reason why Christ Jesus shows Mercy to Sinners is, that he might obtain thei• Love, that he may remove their base Affections, from base Objects, to himself▪ Now if he loves to be loved little, he loves to be loved much; but there is not any that are capable of loving much, save those that have much forgiven them; hence 'tis said of Paul, that he laboured more than them all, to wit, with a Labour of Love, because he had been by Sin more vile against Christ, than they all, 1 cor. 15. He it was that Persecuted the Church o• God, and wasted it,