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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.
O the Riches of the Grace of Christ! Oh the Riches of the Blood of Christ!
Thirdly, Would Jesus Christ have Mercy offered in the first place to the biggest Sinners, then here is Encouragement for you that think, for wicked Hearts and Lives, you have not your fellows in the World; yet to come to him.
There is a People that therefore fear, least they should be rejected of Jesus Christ, because of the greatness of their Sins; whenas you see here, such are sent to by Jesus Christ to come to him for Mercy; Begin at Jerusalem: Never did one thing answer another more fitly in this World, than this Text fitteth such kind of Sinners. As Face ⟨p. 84⟩answereth Face in a Glass, so this Text answereth the Necessities of such Sinners. What can a Man say more, but that he stands in rank of the biggest Sinners? Let him stretch himself whither he can, and think of himself to the utmost, he can but conclude himself to be one of the biggest Sinners: And what then? Why the Text meets him in the very Face, and saith, Christ offereth Mercy to the biggest Sinners; to the very Jerusalem-sinners. What more can be objected? Nay, he doth not only offer to such his Mercy, but to them 'tis commanded to be offered in the first place, Begin at Jerusalem. Preach Repentance and Remission of sins among all Nations, Beginning at Jerusalem. Is not here Encouragement for those that think, for wicked Hearts and Lives, they have not their Fellows in the World?
There is a People that therefore fear, least they should be rejected of Jesus Christ, because of the greatness of their Sins; whenas you see here, such are sent to by Jesus Christ to come to him for Mercy; Begin at Jerusalem: Never did one thing answer another more fitly in this World, than this Text fitteth such kind of Sinners. As Face