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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.
This raving Bedlam, that once was so, is he that now says. I laboured more than them all; more for Christ than them all.
But Paul, what moved thee thus to do? The Love of Christ, says he. It was not I ⟨p. 53⟩but the Grace of God that was with me. As who should say; O Grace! 'Twas such Grace to save me! 'Twas such Marvellous Grace for God to look down from Heaven upon me, and that secured me from the wrath to come, that I am captivated with the sense of the Riches of it. Hence I act, hence I labour; for how can I otherwise do, since God not only separated me from my Sins and Companions, but separated all the Powers of my Soul & Body to his Service? I am therefore prompted on by this exceeding Love to labour as I have done; yet not I, but the Grace of God with me.
But Paul, what moved thee thus to do? The Love of Christ, says he. It was not I ⟨p. 53⟩but the Grace of God that was with me. As who should say; O Grace! 'Twas such Grace to save me! 'Twas such Marvelous Grace for God to look down from Heaven upon me, and that secured me from the wrath to come, that I am captivated with the sense of the Riches of it. Hence I act, hence I labour; for how can I otherwise do, since God not only separated me from my Sins and Companions, but separated all the Powers of my Soul & Body to his Service? I am therefore prompted on by this exceeding Love to labour as I have done; yet not I, but the Grace of God with me.
Oh! I shall never forget his Love, not the Circumstance under which I was, when his Love laid hold upon me, I was going to Damascus with Letters from the High Priest to make Havoc of God's People there, as I had made Havoc of them in other places. These bloody Letters were not imposed upon me. I went to the High Priest and desired them of him,