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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.
Th•se things, I say, shall then be confuted: He comes with Ten Thousand of his Saints to confute them, and to stop their Mouths from making Objections against their own eternal Damnation.
Here is Adam the destroyer of the world; here is Lot, that lay with both his Daughters; here is Abraham, that was sometimes an Idolator; and Jacob, that was a Supplanter; and Reuben, that lay with his Father's Concubine; and Judah, that lay with his Daughter-in Law; and Levi and Simeon, that wickedly show the Scehemites; and Aaron that made an Idol to be worshipped, and that proclaimed a Religious Feast unto it. Here is also Rahab the Harlot, and Bathsheba, that bare a Bastard unto David. Here is Solomon, that great backslider; and Manasseh, that Man of Blood; and others that time would fail to tell you of, as, the Woman of Canaan's Daughter, of Mary Magdalen, of Matthew the Publican, and of Gideon and Sampson, and many Thousands more.
Here is Adam the destroyer of the world; here is Lot, that lay with both his Daughters; here is Abraham, that was sometimes an Idolator; and Jacob, that was a Supplanter; and Reuben, that lay with his Father's Concubine; and Judah, that lay with his Daughter-in Law; and Levi and Simeon, that wickedly shew the Scehemites; and Aaron that made an Idol to be worshipped, and that proclam'd a Religious Feast unto it. Here is also Rahab the Harlot, and Bathsheba, that bare a Bastard unto David. Here is Solomon, that great backslider; and Manasseh, that Man of Blood; and others that time would fail to tell you of, as, the Woman of Canaan's Daughter, of Mary Magdalen, of Matthew the Publican, and of Gideon and Sampson, and many Thousands more.
Alas! alas, I say, what will these Sinners do, that have through' their Unbelief eclipsed the glorious largeness of the Mercy of God, and gave way to despair of Salvation, because of the bigness of their Sins!