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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.
Sinner, take the Invitation; thou art called upon to come to Christ: Nor art thou called upon, but by order from the Son of God, tho' thou should'st happen to be one of the biggest Sinners: For he has bid us offer Mercy, as to all the World in general, so in the first place, to the Sinners of Jerusalem; or to the biggest Sinners.
Fifthly, Would Jesus Christ have Mercy offered in the first place to the biggest Sinners? Then this shows how unreasonable a thing it is, for Men to despair of Mercy. For those that presume, I shall say something to them afterwards.
Fifthly, Would Jesus Christ have Mercy offered in the first place to the biggest Sinners? Then this shews how unreasonable a thing it is, for Men to despair of Mercy. For those that presume, I shall say something to them afterwards.
I now speak to them that Despair.
There are four sorts of Despair, there is the Despair of Devils; There is the Despair of Souls in Hell. There is the Despair that is grounded upon Mens Deficiency; And there is the Despair that they are perplexed with that are willing to be saved, but are too strongly born down with the Burden of their Sins.