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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.
Now I say, if there be room for the first sort, for those of the biggest size; If there be a Door wide enough for a Giant to go in at, there is certainly room for a Dwarf. If Christ Jesus has Grace enough to save great Sinners, he has surely Grace enough to save little ones. If he can forgive, five hundred Pence, for certain he can forgive fifty, Luke 7.41, 42.
But you said before that the little Sinners must stand by, until the great ones have received their Grace, and that's discouraging!
I answer, There are two sorts of little Sinners, such as are so, and such as feign themselves so; they are those that feign themselves so, that I intended there, and not those that are indeed comparatively so. Such as feign themselves so, may wait long enough before they obtain Forgiveness.
But again, a Sinner may be comparatively a little Sinner, and sensibly a great one. ⟨p. 111⟩There is then two sorts of greatness in Sin; greatness by reason of Number, greatness by reason of throughness of Conviction of the horrible Nature of Sin. In this last Sense, he that has but one Sin, if such a one could be found, may in his own Eyes find himself the biggest Sinner in the World. Let this Man, or this Child therefore put himself among the great Sinners, and plead with God as great Sinners do, and expect to be saved with the great Sinners; as soon and as heartily as they.