N03023:259
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.
But I say what is this to him that would fain be saved by Christ? His Sins did as to Greatness, never yet reach to the Nature of the Sins, that the Sinners intended by the Text had made themselves guilty of: He that would be saved by Christ, has an honourable esteem of him? but they of Jerusalem preferred a murderer before him; but as for him they cried, away, away with him, 'tis not fit that he should live. Perhaps thou wilt object, That thy self hast a Thousand times preferred a stinking Lust before him: answer be it so, it is but what ⟨p. 87⟩is common to Men to do, nor doth the Lord Jesus make such a foolish Life a Barr to thee, to forbid thy coming to him, or a Bound to his Grace, that it might be kept from thee; but admits of thy Repentance, and offereth himself unto thee freely, as thou standest among the Jerusalem sinners.
Take therefore Encouragement, Man, Mercy is by the Text held forth to the biggest Sinners. Yea, put thy self into the Number of the first, by reckoning that thou mayst be one of the first, and mayst not be put off till the biggest Sinners are served: For the biggest Sinners are first invited; consequently, if they come they are like to be the first that shall be served: 'Twas so with Jerusalem: Jerusalem sinners were they that were first invited; and those of them that came first, (and there came three thousand of them, the first Day they were invited, how many came afterwards none can tell) they were first served.
Take therefore Incouragement, Man, Mercy is by the Text held forth to the biggest Sinners. Yea, put thy self into the Number of the first, by reckoning that thou mayst be one of the first, and mayst not be put off till the biggest Sinners are served: For the biggest Sinners are first invited; consequently, if they come they are like to be the first that shall be served: 'Twas so with Jerusalem: Jerusalem sinners were they that were first invited; and those of them that came first, (and there came three thousand of them, the first Day they were invited, how many came afterwards none can tell) they were first served.