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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.
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.
The offer then is to the biggest Sinner to the biggest Sinner first, and the Mercy is first obtained, by him that first confesseth himself to be such an one.
There are Men that strive at the Throne of Grace for Mercy by pleading the greatness of their Necessity. Now their Plea, as to the prevalency of it, lieth not in their counting up of the number, but in their sense of the greatness of their Sins, and in the Vehemency of their Cry for Pardon. And it is observable, that tho' the Birthright was Reubens, and for his Foolishness, given to the Sons of Joseph; yet Judah prevailed before his Brethren, and of him came the Messiah 1 Chron. 5.1, 3.
There are Men that strive at the Throne of Grace for Mercy by pleading the greatness of their Necessity. Now their Plea, as to the prevalency of it, lieth not in their counting up of the number, but in their sense of the greatness of their Sins, and in the Vehemency of their Cry for Pardon. And it is observable, that tho' the Birthright was Reubens, and for his Foolishness, given to the Sons of Joseph; yet Judah prevailed before his Brethren, and of him came the Messias 1 Chron. 5.1, 3.