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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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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.
Yea, a little Sinner, that comparatively is truly so, if he shall graciously give way to Conviction, and shall in God's light, diligently weigh the horrible Nature of his own Sins may yet sooner obtain Forgiveness for them at the hands of the heavenly Father, than he that has ten times his Sins, and so cause to cry ten times harder to God for his Mercy.
Yea, a little Sinner, that comparatively is truly so, if he shall graciously give way to Conviction, and shall in God's light, dilligently weigh the horrible Nature of his own Sins may yet sooner obtain Forgiveness for them at the hands of the heavenly Father, than he that has ten times his Sins, and so cause to cry ten times harder to God for his Mercy.