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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.
GOOD NEWS For the Vilest of Men: OR A Help for Despairing SOULS.
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.
1. With respect the descent of her People. Or,
2. With respect to her Preference an• Exaltation. Or,
3. With respect to her present State • to her Decays.
First, As to her Descent: She was from Abraham, from the Sons of Jacob, a People that God singled out from the rest o• ⟨p. 3⟩the Nations to set his Love upon them.
Secondly, As to her Preference or Exaltation, she was the place of God's Worship, and that which had in and with her the special Tokens and Signs of God's Favour and Presence, above any other People in the World. Hence the Tribes went up to Jerusalem to worship, there was God's House; God's High Priest, God's Sacrifices accepted, and God's Eye, and God's Heart perpetually,