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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.
And I say, as I said before in whom is it so like to shine, as in the Souls of great Sinners?
When the Jewish Pharisees dallied with the Gospel, Christ threatened to take it from them, and give it to the barbarous Heathens and Idolaters. Why so? For they saith he, will bring forth the Fruits thereof in their Season. Therefore I say ⟨p. 65⟩unto you, The Kingdom of God shall be taken from you, and given to a Nation bringing forth the Fruits thereof, Mat. 21.41, 43.
When the Jewish Pharisees dallied with the Gospel, Ch•ist threatned to take it from them, and give it to the barbarous Heathens and Idolaters. Why so? For they saith he, will bring forth the Fruits thereof in their Season. Therefore I say ⟨p. 65⟩unto you, The Kingdom of God shall be taken from you, and given to a Nation bringing forth the Fruits thereof, Mat. 21.41, 43.
I have often marvelled at your Youth, and said in my Heart what should be the Reason that they should be so generally at this Day debauched as they are! For they are now profane to Amazement, and sometimes I have thought one thing and sometimes another: That is, why God should suffer it to be so. And at last I have thought of this: How if the God whose ways are past finding out, should suffer it to be so now, that he might make some of them the more glorious Saints hereafter. I know Sin is of the Devil, but it cannot work in the World without permission: And if it happens to be as I have thought, it will not be the first time that God the Lord has caught Satan in his own Design. For my part I believe that the time is at Hand, that we shall see better Saints in the Wold, than has been seen in it this many a Day. And this Vileness which does at present so much swallow up our Youth, is one cause of my thinking so. For out of them, or from among them, when God sets to his Hand as of old, you shall see what penitent ones, what trembling ones, and what Admirers of Grace will be found to profess the Gospel to the Glory of God by Christ.