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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.
Object. But I have not only a base Heart, but I have lived a debauched Life.
Object. But I have not only a base Heart, but I have lived a debouch'd Life.
Answ. Stand thou also among those that are called the biggest Sinners. And what then? Why the Text sweeps you all, you cannot object your selves beyond the Text: It has a particular Message to the biggest Sinners, I say it sweeps you all.
Object. But I am a Reprobate.
Obje•t. But I am a Reprobate.
Answ. Now thou talkest like a Fool, and meddlest with what thou understandest not: No Sin, but the Sin of final Impenitence, can Prove a Man a Reprobate. An-I am sure thou hast not arrived as yet unto that. Therefore thou understand'st not what thou sayest, and makest groundless▪ Conclusions against thy self. Say thou art a Sinner, and I will hold with thee. Say thou art a great Sinner, and I will say so too. Yea, say thou art one of the biggest Sinners, and spare not, for the Text yet is beyond thee; is yet betwixt Hell and thee, Begin at Jerusalem, has yet a smile upon thee: And thou talkest as if thou wast a Reprobate, and that the greatness of the Sins do prove thee so to be, when yet they of Jerusalem were not only such, whose Sins I dare say, were such both for bigness