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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 know there is ground to fear that the iniquity of this Generation will be pursued with heavy Judgments; but that will not •inder what we have supposed, that God •ook him a glorious Church out of the bloody Jerusalem; yea out of the chief of ⟨p. 68⟩the Sinners there, and left the rest to be taken and spoiled, and sold Thirty for a Penny, in the Nations where they were Captives. The Gospel working gloriously in a place, to the seizing upon many of the Ring-leading sinners thereof promising no security to the rest, but ra•her threateneth them with the heaviest and smartest Judgment; as in the Instance now given, we have a full Demonstration; but in defending, the Lord will defend his People; and in saving, he will save his Inheritance.
I know there is ground to fear that the •niquity of this Generation will be pursued with heavy Judgments; but that will not •inder what we have supposed, that God •ook him a glorious Church out of the •loody Jerusalem; yea out of the chief of ⟨p. 68⟩the Sinners there, and left the rest to be taken and spoiled, and sold Thirty for a Penny, in the Nations where they were Captives. The Gospel working gloriously in a place, to the seizing upon many of the Ring-leading sinners thereof promising no security to the rest, but ra•her threatneth them with the heaviest and smartest Judgment; as in the Instance now given, we have a full Demonstration; but in defending, the Lord will defend his People; and in saving, he will save his Inheritance.
Nor does this speak any great Comfort to a decayed and back a sliding sort of Christians; for the next time God rides for with his Gospel, he will leave such Christians behind him. But I say Christ is resolved to set up his Light in the World yea, he is delighted to see his Grace shine, and therefore he commands that his Gospel should to that end, be offered in the first place to the biggest Sinners; for by great Sins it shineth most: therefore h saith, Begin at Jerusalem.