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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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There is nothing more incident to Men that are awake in their Souls, than to have wrong Thoughts of God: Thoughts •hat are narrow, and that pinch and pen up his Mercy to scanty and beggarly conclusions, and ridged legal Conditions; supposing that it is rude and entrenching upon his Majesty to come ourselves, or to invite others, until we have scraped, and washed, •nd rubbed off so much of our Dirt from •s, as we think is convenient; to make •s somewhat orderly and handsome in his sight. Such never kn•w what these Words meant, […] •t Jerusalem, yea, such in •heir Hearts, have compared the Father •nd Son to ••••ardly Rich Men, whose ••ney comes from them like drops of •l••d. True, says such, God has Mercy ••t […] is •oth to part with it, you must ••ease him well i• you get any from him: ••e is not so free as many suppose, nor is ⟨p. 78⟩he so willing to save, as some pretended Gospellers imagine: But I ask such if the Father and Son be not unspeakably free to show Mercy, why was this Clause put into our Commission to preach the Gospel? Yea, why did he say, Begin at Jerusalem? For when Men through' the weakness of their Wits, have attempted to show other Reasons why they should have the first Proffer of Mercy, yet I can prove (by many undeniable Reasons) that they of Jerusalem (to whom the Apostles made first offer, according as they were commanded) were the biggest Sinners that ever brea•h'd upon the Face of the Earth (se• the unpardonable Sin aside) upon which my Doctrine stands like a Rock, That Jesus the Son of God would have Mercy in the first place offered to the biggest Sinners: And if this doth not show the Heart of the Father and the Son to be infinitely free in bestowing forgiveness of Sins, I confess my self mistaken.