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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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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.
For the grievousness of the Cry is a great thing with God; for if he will hear the Widow if she cries at all, how much if she cries most grievously? Exod. 22.22, 23.
It is not the number, but the true sense of the abominable Nature of Sin, that makes the cry for Pardon Lamentable. He, as I said, that has many Sins may not cry so loud in the Ears of God as he that has far fewer; he in our present sense, that is in his own Eyes the biggest Sinner, is he that soonest findeth Mercy.