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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.
Despair! When we have a God of Mercy, and a redeeming Christ Alive! For shame forbear: Let them Despair that dwell where there is no God, and that are confined to those Chambers of Death, which can be reached by no Redemption.
Despair! When we have a God of Mercy, and a redeeming Christ Alive! For •hame forbear: Let them Despair that dwell where there is no God, and that are confined to those Chambers of Death, which can be reached by no Redemption.
A living Man despair! When he is chi• for Murmuring and Complaining? Lam. 3.30. Oh▪ so long as we are where Promises swarm, where Mercy is proclaimed, where Grace reigns, and where Jerusalem-sinners are privileged with the first Offer of Mercy, it is a base thing to despair.
Despair undervalues the Promises, undervalues the Invitation, undervalues the proffer of Grace. Despair undervalues the Ability of God the Father, & the redeeming Blood of Christ his Son. Oh unreasonable Despair! ⟨p. 100⟩Despair makes Man God's Judge; tis a Controller of the Promise, a Contradicte• of Christ in his large offer of Mercy, and one that undertakes to make Unbelief the great manager of our Reason and Judgment, in determining about what God can and will do for sinners.
Despair undervalues the Promises, undervalues the Invitation, undervalues the proffer of Grace. Despair undervalues the Ability of God the Father, & the redeeming Blood of Christ his Son. Oh unreasonable Despair!