N03023:194
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.
Wherefore his way is oft-times to step out of the way to Jericho, to Samaria, to ⟨p. 61⟩the Country of the Gadarenes, to the Coasts o• Tyre and Sidon, and also Mount Calvary, that he may lay hold of such kind of Sinners as will love him to liking, Luke 19.1, to 10. John 4.3, to 10. Mark 5.1, to 20. Matth. 15.21, to 28. Luke 23.33, to 43.
Wherefore his way is oft-times to step out of the way to Jericho, to Samaria, to ⟨p. 61⟩the Country of the Gaddarens, to the Coasts o• Tyre and Sidon, and also Mount Calvery, that he may lay hold of such kind of Sinners as will love him to liking, Luke 19.1, to 10. John 4.3, to 10. Mark 5.1, to 20. Matth. 15.21, to 28. Luke 23.33, to 43.
But thus much for the Sixth Reason, why Christ Jesus would have Mercy offered in the first place to the biggest Sinners, to wit, because such sinners when converted, are apt to love him most.