N03023:209
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.
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.
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 resolv'd 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.
Eighthly, and lastly, Christ Jesus wil• have Mercy offered in the first place to th• biggest Sinners: For by that means the Impenitent that are left behind, will be a the Judgment, the more left without Excuse.
Eighthly, and lastly, Christ Jesus wil• have Mercy offer'd in the first place to th• biggest Sinners: For by that means the Impenitent that are left behind, will be a the Judgment, the more left withou• Excuse.