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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.
For what will sting like this, I have through' mine own foolish, narrow, unworthy, under-valuing Thoughts of the Love and Ability of Christ to save me, brought my self to everlasting Ruin; 'tis true, I was a horrible Sinner, not one in a Hundred did live so vile a Life as I, but this should not have kept me from closing with. Jesus ⟨p. 74⟩Christ: I see now that there are abundance in Glory that once was as bad as I have been, but they were saved by Faith, and I am damned by Unbelief.
For what will sting like this, I have thro' mine own foolish, narrow, unworthy, under-valuing Thoughts of the Love and Ability of Christ to save me, brought my self to everlasting Ruin; 'tis true, I was a horrible Sinner, not one in a Hundred did live so vile a Life as I, but this should not have kept me from closing with. Jesus ⟨p. 74⟩Christ: I see now that there are abundance in Glory that once was as bad as I have been, but they were saved by Faith, and I am damned by Unbelief.
Wretch that I am! why did not I give Glory to the redeeming Blood of Jesu• ? Why did I judge of his Ability to save me by the Line of my shallow Reason, and the Voice of a Guilty Conscience? Why betook not I my self to the holy Word of God? Why did not I read and pray, that I might understand, since now I perceive that God said then, He giveth liberally to them that pray, and upbraideth not, Jam. 1.5.
'Tis rational to think that by such Cogitations as these, the unbelieving World will be torn to pieces before the Judgment of Christ: Especially those that have lived where they did or might have heard the Gospel of the Grace of God. Oh that saying, It shall be more tolerable for Sodom at the Judgment than for them, will be better understood; see