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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.
Shall not this lay an Obligation upon me? Is it not Love of the greatest force to oblige? Is it not strong as Death: cruel as the Grave, and hotter than the Coals of Juniper? Hath it not a most vehement flame? Can the Waters quench it? Can the Floods drown it? I am under the force of it, and this is my continual cry; What shall I render unto the Lord for all th• Benefits which he has bestowed upon me? Ay! Paul, this is something thou speakest like a Man, like a Man […] ▪ and carried away with the Love and Grace of God. Now this sense, and this affection▪ and this Labour, giveth to Christ the love that he looks for. But he might have converted twenty little Sinners, and yet ⟨p. 55⟩not found, for Grace bestowed, so much love in them all.
Shall not this lay an Obligation upon me? Is it not Love of the greatest force to oblige? Is it not strong as Death: cruel as the Grave, and hotter than the Coals of Juniper? Hath it not a most vehement flame? Can the Waters quench it? Can the Floods drown it? I am under the force of it, and this is my continual cry; What shall I render unto the Lord for all th• Benefits which he has bestowed upon me? Ay! Paul, this is something thou speakest like a Man, like a Man 〈…〉 ▪ and carried away with the Love and Grace of God. Now this sense, and this affection▪ and this Labour, giveth to Christ the love that he looks for. But he might have converted twenty little Sinners, and yet ⟨p. 55⟩not found, for Grace bestowed, so much love in them all.
I wonder how far a Man might go among the Converted Sinners of the smaller size, before he could find one that so much as looks any thing this way ward. Where is he that is thus under Pangs of of Love for the Grace bestowed upon him by Jesus Christ? Excepting only some few you may walk to the Worlds end, and find none: But as I said; some there are, and so there has been in every Age of the Church, great Sinners, that have had much forgiven them. And they love much upon this account.