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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.
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.
God's word hath two edges, it can c• back-stroke and fore-stroke. If it doth the ⟨p. 69⟩no good, it will do thee hurt: 'Tis the savour of Life unto Life, to those that will receive it, but of Death unto Death, to them that refuse it, 2 Cor. 2.15, 16. But this is not all, the tender of Grace to the biggest Sinners in the first place, will not only leave the rest or those that refuse it, in a deplorable Condition; but will also stop their Mouths, and cut off all Pretence to excuse at that Day. If I had not come and spoken unto them, saith Christ, they had not had Sin; but now they have no •l•ke for their Sin, for their Sin of persevering Impenitence, John 15.22.