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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.
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.
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 croud, 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.