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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.
But I have no experience of God's love; God has given me no Comfort, or ground of hope, tho' I have waited upon him for it many a day.
Thou hast experience of God's Love, for that he has opened thine Eyes to see thy Sins; and for that he has given thee Desires to be saved by Jesus Christ. For by thy sense of Sin thou art made to see thy Poverty of Spirit, and that has laid thee under a sure Ground to hope that Heaven shall be thine hereafter.
Also thy Desires to be saved by Christ, has put thee under another Promise, so there is two to hold thee up in hope; tho' thy present burden be never so heavy, Mat. 5.3, 6. As for what thou sayest as to God's Silence to thee, perhaps he has spoken to to thee once or twice already, but thou hast not perceived it, J•b 33.14, 15.
However thou hast Christ crucified, set forth before thine Eyes in the Bible, and an Invitation to come unto him, tho' thou be a Jerusalem-sinner tho' thou be a biggest Sinner; and so no ground to despair. What if God will be silent to thee, is that ground of Despair? Not at all, so long as there is a Promise in the Bible that God will in no wise cast away the coming Sinner, and so long as he invites the Jerusalem-sinner, to come unto him,