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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.
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.
But thus much for the Sixth Reason, why Christ Jesus would have Mercy offer'd in the first place to the biggest Sinners, to wit, because such sinners when converted, are apt to love him most.
The Jerusalem sinners, were they that out-stripped when they were conver•ed in some things, all the Churches of the Gentiles: They were of one Heart & one Soul, neither said any of them that ought •f the things that they possessed was their own▪ neither was there any among them that lacked; for as many as were possessors of Lands or Houses, sold them, and brought the Price of the things that were sold, and laid them down at the Apostles feet, &c. Acts 4 32 to 35. Now show me such another Pattern if you can. But why did these do thus? Oh they were Jerusalem-sinners. These were the Men that but a little before had killed the Prince of Life; and those to whom he did, that notwithstanding sent the first offer of Grace and Mercy, and the sense of this took them up betwixt Earth and the Heaven, and, carried them ⟨p. 62⟩on in such Methods as could never be trodden by any since. They talk of the Church of Rome, and set her in her Primitive State as a Pattern, and Mother of Churches; when the Truth is, they were the Jerusalem-Sinners, when Converts, that out-did all Churches that ever was.
The Jerusalem sinners, were they that out-strip'd when they were conver•ed in some things, all the Churches of the Gentiles: They were of one Heart & one Soul, neither said any of them that ought •f the things that they possessed was their own neither was there any among them that lacked; for as many as were possessors of Lands or Houses, sold them, and brought the Price of the things that were sold, and laid them down at the Apostles feet, &c.