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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 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.
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 Burthen of their Sins.
The Despair of Devils, the Damned's Despair, and that Despair that a Man has of attaining of Life, because of his own Deficiency, are all reasonable. Why should not Devils & damned Souls Despair? Yea, why should not Man Despair of getting to Heaven by his own Abilities? I therefore ⟨p. 96⟩am concerned only with the Fourth sort of Despair, to wit, with the Despair of those that would be saved, but are too strongly born down with the Burden of their Sins.
The Despair of Devils, the Damned's Despair, and that Despair that a Man has of attaining of Life, because of his own Deficiency, are all reasonable. Why should not Devils & damned Souls Despair? Yea, why should not Man Despair of getting to Heaven by his own Abilities? I therefore ⟨p. 96⟩am concerned only with the Fourth sort of Dispair, to wit, with the Dispair of those that would be saved, but are too strongly born down with the Burden of their Sins.