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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.
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, Gal. 1.12. He o• them all was the only raving Bedlam against the Saints: And being exceeding Mad says he against them, I Persecuted them even to strange Cities, Acts 26.11.
But to forbear to Illustrate till anon▪ One Reason why Christ Jesus shews 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, Gal. 1.12. He o• them all was the only raving Bedlam against the Saints: And being exceeding Mad says he against them, I Persecuted them even to strange Cities, Acts 26.11.