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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.
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, Acts 9.1, 2. And yet he saved me! I was one of the chief Men, that had a hand in the Blood of his Martyr Stephen, yet he had Mercy on me; When I was at Damascus, I stunk so horribly like a Bloodsucker, that I became a Terror to all thereabout. Yea, Ananias (good Man) made intercession to my Lord against me, ⟨p. 54⟩yet he would have Mercy upon me? Yea, joined Mercy to Mercy, until he had made me a Monument of Grace. He made a Saint of me, and persuaded me that my Transgressions were forgiven 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 Havock of God's People there, as I had made Havock of them in other places. These bloody Letters were not imposed upon me. I went to the High Priest and desired them of him, Acts 9.1, 2. And yet he saved me! I was one of the chief Men, that had a hand in the Blood of his Martyr Stephen, yet he had Mercy on me; When I was at Damascus, I stunk so horribly like a Bloodsucker, that I became a Terror to all thereabout. Yea, Annanias (good Man) made intercession to my Lord against me, ⟨p. 54⟩yet he would have Mercy upon me? Yea, joyned Mercy to Mercy, until he had made me a Monument of Grace. He made a Saint of me, and perswaded me that my Transgressions were forgiven me.
When I began to Preach those that heard me were amazed; and said, Is not this he that destroyed them that called on this Name in Jerusalem, and came hither for that intent, that he might bring them bound to the High Priest? Hell doth know that I was a Sinner: The World also knows that I was a Sinner; a Sinner of the greatest size; but I obtained Mercy,