The Jerusalem-sinner saved: or, Good news for the vilest of men, being a help…

The Comparison then, of little & great sinners, is to go for good sense among Men: But to plead the fewness of thy sins, or the comparative harmlessness of their quality before God, argueth no sound Knowledge of the Nature of thy sin, and so no true sense of the Nature or Need of Mercy.

Little sinner, when therefore thou goest to God, tho' thou knowest in thy Conscience, that thou as to acts are no Thief, no Murderer, no Whore, no Liar, no false •wearer, or the like; and in Reason must understand, that then thou art not so profanely Vile as others; yet when thou goest to God for Mercy, know no Mans sins but thine own, make mention of no Mans sins but thine own. Also labour not to lessen thy own, but magnify and greaten them by all just Circumstances, and be as if there was never a sinner in the World but thy self. Also cry out as if thou wast the only undone Man, and that is the way to obtain God's Mercy.

Little sinner, when therefore thou goest to God, tho' thou knowest in thy Conscience, that thou as to acts are no Thief, no Murderer, no Whore, no Liar, no false •wearer, or the like; and in Reason must understand, that then thou art not so profanely Vile as others; yet when thou goest to God for Mercy, know no Mans sins but thine own, make mention of no Mans sins but thine own. Also labour not to lessen thy own, but magnifie and greaten them by all just Circumstances, and be as if there was never a sinner in the World but thy self. Also cry out as if thou wast the only undone Man, and that is the way to obtain God's Mercy.

It was one of the comeliest Lights in the World, to see a little sinner commenting upon the greatness of his sins; and multiplying them to himself; till he makes them in his own Eyes bigger and bigger than he seeth any other Mans sins to be in the World; and as base a thing it is to see a Man do otherwise, and as basely will come on't