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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
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The APPLICATION.
The APLICATION.
First, Would Jesus Christ have Mercy offered in the first place to the biggest Sinners, Th•• this shows us how to make a right Judgment of the heart of Christ to Men. Indeed we have an Advantage to guess at the goodness of his heart, by many things as, by his taking our Nature upon him, his dying for us, his sending his Word and Ministers to us, and all that we might be saved: •ut this of beginning to offer Mercy to Jerusalem, is that which heightens all the rest, for this doth not only confirm to us, that Love was the cause of his dying for us, but it shows us yet more the depth of that Love: He might have died for us, and yet have extended the benefit of his Death to a few, as one might call them of the best conditioned Sinners, to those who (tho' they were weak, and so could not but Sin) yet made not a Trade of sinning; to th•se that sinned not lavishingly. There are in the World as one may call them, the moderate Sinners; the Sinners that mix Righteousness with •heir Pollutions; the Sinners, that tho' they be Sinners, do what on their part lies, (some that are blind would think so) that they might be saved. ⟨p. 77⟩I say, it had been Love, great Love, if he had died for none but such, and sent his Love to such: But that he should send out conditions of Peace to the biggest Sinners! yea, that they should be offered to them first of all! (for so he means when he says Begin at Jerusalem) This is wonderful, this shows his Heart to purpose, as also the heart of God his Father who sent him to do thus.