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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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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.
Judge thou, I say, therefore of the Goodness of the Heart of God and his Son, by this Text and by others of the same import; so shalt thou not dishonour the Grace of God, nor needlessly fright thy self, nor give away thy Faith, nor gratify the Devil, nor lose the Benefit of his Word; I speak now to weak Believers.
Judge thou, I say, therefore of the Goodness of the Heart of God and his Son, by this Text and by others of the same import; so shalt thou not dishonour the Grace of God, nor needlesly fright thy self, nor give away thy Faith, nor gratifie the Devil, nor lose the Benefit of his Word; I speak now to weak Believers.