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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.
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.
Besides no Man shows himself willing to be saved that repenteth not of his Deeds, for he that goes on still in his Trespasses, declares that he is resolved to pursue his own Damnation further.
Besides no Man shews himself willing to be saved that repenteth not of his Deeds, for he that goes on still in his Trespasses, declares that he is resolv'd to pursue his own Damnation further.
Learn then to judge of the largeness of God's Heart, and the Heart of his Son Jesus Christ, by the Word, judge not thereof by feeling, nor by the Reports of thy Conscience; Conscience is oftentimes here befooled, and made to go quite besides the Word: 'Twas judging without the Word that made David say, I am cast off from God's Eyes, and shall perish one Day by ⟨p. 80⟩the Hand of Saul, Psal. 31.22. 1 Sam. 27 1.
The Word had told him another thing, namely, that he should be King in his stead. Our Text says also, that Jesus Christ bids Preachers, in their preaching Repentance and Remission of sins, begin first at Jerusalem: Thereby declaring most truly the infinite largeness of the merciful Heart of God and his Son, to the sinful Children of Men.