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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
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Thus doing, his Souls hates; but the penitent, humble, broken-hearted Sinner, be his Transgressions red as Scarlet, red like Crimson, in number as the sand, tho' his Transgressions cry to Heaven against him for Vengeance, and seem there to cry louder than do his Prayers, or Tears, or Groans, for Mercy; yet he is safe. To this Man God will look, Isa. 1.18 ch. 66.2.
Seventhly, Would Jesus Christ have Mercy offered in the first place to the biggest Sinners? Then here is ground for those that as to practice have not been such, to come to him for Mercy.
Although' there is no Sin little of it self, because it is a Contradiction to the Nature and Majesty of God; yet we must admit of divers Numbers, and also of Aggravations, two Sins are not so many as three; nor are three that are done in Ignorance so big as one that is done against light, against Knowledge, and Conscience. Also there is the Child in Sin, and a Man in Sin; that has his Skin wrinkled for very ⟨p. 110⟩Age. And we must put a Difference betwixt these Sinners al•o: For can it be, that a Child of Seven, or ten, or sixteen Years old, should be such a Sinner; a Sinner so vile in Eye of the Law, as he is who has walked according to the course of this World, forty, fifty, sixty or seventy Years? Now the Youth, this stripling, tho' he is a Sinner, is but a little Sinner, when compared with such.
Altho' there is no Sin little of it self, because it is a Contradiction to the Nature and Majesty of God; yet we must admit of divers Numbers, and also of Aggravations, two Sins are not so many as three; nor are three that are done in Ignorance so big as one that is done against light, against Knowlege, and Conscience. Also there is the Child in Sin, and a Man in Sin; that has his Skin wrinkled for very