N03023:193
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.
Alas! Christ Jesus has but little Thanks for the saving of little Sinners. To whom little is forgiven, the same loveth little. He gets no Water for his Feet by his saving of dry eyed Christians in the World, and abundance of dry eyed Duties too; Duties that never were weted with the Tears of contrition and repentance, nor ever sweetened with the great sinners Box of Ointment. And the Reason is, such Sinners have no great Sins to be saved from; o• if they have, they look upon them in the diminishing Glass of the holy Law of God. But I rather believe that the Professors of our Days weep a due sense of what they are; for verily, for the generality of them, both before and since Conversion, they have been sinners of a lusty size: But i• their Eyes be holden, if Convictions ar• not shown, if the knowledge of their sin• is but like to the Eye-sight in twilight, the Hear• cannot be affected with that Grace that has laid hold on the Man, and so Christ Jesus sows much, and has little coming in.
Alas! Christ Jesus has but little Thanks for the saving of little Sinners. To whom little is forgiven, the same loveth little. He gets no Water for his Feet by his saving of dry eyed Christians in the World, and abundance of dry eyed Duties too; Duties that never were weted with the Tears of contrition and repentance, nor ever sweetned with the great sinners Box of Ointment. And the Reason is, such Sinners have no great Sins to be saved from; o• if they have, they look upon them in the diminishing Glass of the holy Law of God. But I rather believe that the Professors of our Days weep a due sense of what they are; for verily, for the generality of them, both before and since Conversion, they have been sinners of a lusty size: But i• their Eyes be holden, if Convictions ar• not shown, if the knowledge of their sin• is but like to the Eye-sight in twilight, the Hear• cannot be affected with that Grace that has laid hold on the Man, and so Christ Jesus sows much, and has little coming in.