N03023:265
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.
David knew what he did by all this, •e knew that his making the worst of his Case, was the way to speedy Help: And that a feigning and dissembling the Matter ⟨p. 90⟩with God, was the next way to a demur, as to his Forgiveness.
David knew what he did by all this, •e knew that his making the worst of his Case, was the way to speedy Help: And that a feigning and disembling the Matter ⟨p. 90⟩with God, was the next way to a demurr, as to his Forgiveness.
I have one thing more to offer for thy Encouragement who deemest thy self one of the biggest Sinners: And that is, thou art as it were called say thy Name, in the first place to come in for Mercy. Thou Man of Jerusalem, hearken to thy Call: Men do so in Courts of Judicature, and presently cry out, Here Sir; and then they shoulder, and crowd, and say, pray give way, I am called into the Court. Why, this is thy Case; thou great, thou Jerusalem-sinner be of good Cheer, he calleth thee, Mark 10.46 to 49. Why sittest thou still; arise, why standest thou still? Come Man, thy Call shall give thee Authority to come, Begin at Jerusalem, is thy Call and Authority to come: Wherefore up and shoulder it Man; say, Stand away Devil, Christ calls me; Stand away Unbelief, Christ calls me; Stand away, all ye my discouraging Apprehensions, for my Saviour calls me to him to receive of his Mercy. Men will do thus, as I said, in Courts below; and why shouldst not thou approach thus to the Court above? The Jerusalem-sinner is first in Thought, first in Commission, first in the record of Names, and therefore should give Attendance wi•h Expectation, that he is first to receive Mercy of God.