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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.
Jesus Christ therefore knows what he doth, when he lays hold on the Hearts of sinners of the biggest size. He knows that such an one will love more than many, that have not sinned half their sins.
I will tell you a story that I have read of Martha and Mary; the name of the Book I have forgot, I mean of the book in which I found the Relation; but the Thing was thus.
Martha saith my Author was a very holy Woman, like Lazarus her Brother, but Mary was a loose & wanton Creature. Martha did seldom miss good sermons, and Lectures, when she could come at them in Jerusalem; but Mary would frequent the House of Sports, and ⟨p. 56⟩the Company of the Vilest of Men for lust. And tho' Martha had often desired that her Sister would go with her to hear her Preachers; yea, had often entreated her with Tears to do it, yet could she never prevail; for still Mary would make her excuse, or reject her with disdain, for her Zeal and Preciseness in Religion.
Martha saith my Author was a very holy Woman, like Lazarus her Brother, but Mary was a loose & wanton Creature. Martha did seldom miss good •ermons, and Lectures, when she could come at them in Jerusalem; but Mary would frequent the House of Sports, and ⟨p. 56⟩the Company of the Vilest of Men for lust. And tho' Martha had often desired that her Sister would go with her to hear her Preachers; yea, had often entreated her with Tears to do it, yet could she never prevail; for still Mary would make her excuse, or reject her with disdain, for her Zeal and Preciseness in Religion.