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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.
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 Wo•ld, 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.
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 prophane 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 Wo•ld, 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.