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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.
Observe then thy Rule, to make Judgment of the sufficiency of the blessed Merits of thy Saviour; if he had not been able to have reconciled the biggest Sinners to his Father by his Blood, he would not have sent to them: Have sent to them in the first place the Doctrine of Remission of Sins: for Remission of Sins is through Faith in his Blood: We are justified freely by the Grace of God, through the Redemption that is in the Blood of Christ. Upon the square as I may call it, of the worthiness of the Blood of Christ, Grace acts and offers Forgiveness of Sin to Men, Ephes. 1.7. chap 2 13.14. Colos. 1.20, 21, 22.
Observe then thy Rule, to make Judgment of the sufficiency of the blessed Merits of thy Saviour; if he had not been able to have reconciled the biggest Sinners to his Father by his Blood, he would not have sent to them: Have sent to them in the first place the Doctrine of Remission of Sins: for Remission of Sins is thro Faith in his Blood: We are justified freely by the Grace of God, thro the Redemption that is in the Blood of Christ. Upon the square as I may call it, of the worthiness of the Blood of Christ, Grace acts and offers Forgiveness of Sin to Men, Ephes. 1.7. chap 2 13.14. Colos. 1.20, 21, 22.
Hence therefore we must gather, That the Blood of Christ is of infinite Value, for that he offereth Mercy to the biggest of Sinners: Nay further, since he offereth Mercy in the first place to the biggest Sinners; considering also that this first act of his, is that which the World will take Notice of and expect it should be continued unto the end: Also it is a disparagement to a Man that seeks his own Glory in what he undertakes, to do that for a spurt which he cannot continue and hold out in. This is our Lord's own Argument, he began to build, saith he, but he was not able to finish,