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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.
Alas? We are a Company of worn ou• Christians, our Moon is in the Wane, we are much more black than white, more dark than light: We shine but a little; Gr•ce in the most of us is decayed: But I say when they of these debauched ones that are to be saved, shal• be brought in; when these that look more l•ke Devils than Men, shall be converted to Christ (and I believe several of them will) then will Christ be ex•lted, Grace adored, the Word prized, Si•ns •aths better trodden, and Men in the pursuit of their own Salvation, to the Amazement of them that are left behind.
Alas? We are a Company of worn ou• Christians, our Moon is in the Wane, we are much more black than white, more dark than light: We shine but a little; Gr•ce in the most of us is decayed: But I say when they of these debauched ones that are to be saved, shal• be brought in; when these that look more l•ke Devils than Men, shall be converted to Christ (and I believe several of them will) then will Christ be ex•lted, Grace adored, the Word prized, Si•ns •aths better troden, and Men in the pursuit of their own Salvation, to the Amazement of them that are left behind.
Just before Christ came into the Flesh, the World was degenerated as it is now; the Generality of the Men in Jerusalem were become either high and famous for Hypocrisy, or filthy base in their Lives. The Devil also was broke loose in a hideous manner, and had taken Possession of many: Yea, I believe that there was never a Generation before nor since, that could produce so many possessed with Devils, Deformed, Lame, Blind, and infected with monstrous Diseases, as that Generation could: But what was the Reason thereof? I mean the Reason from God? Why one, (and we may sum up more in that Answer that Christ gave to his Disciples concerning him that was born blind) was that