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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 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! ⟨p. 100⟩Dispair 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! It is the Devil's Fellow, the Devil's Master; yea, the Chain with which he is captivated and held under darkness for ever. And to give way thereto in a Land, in a State and Time that flows with Milk and Honey, is an uncomely thing.
Despair! It is the Devil's Fellow, the Devil's Master; yea, the Chain with which he is captivated and held under darkne•s for ever. And to give way thereto in a Land, in a State and Time that flows with Milk and Honey, is an uncomely thing.