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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.
GOOD NEWS For the Vilest of Men: OR A Help for Despairing SOULS.
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 was also now become the very sink of Sin, the seat of Hypocrisy, & the Gulf where true Religion was drowned: Here also now reigned Presumption and groundless ⟨p. 4⟩Confidence in GOD, which is the bane of Souls. Amongst its Rulers, Doctors and Leaders, Envy, Malice, & Blasphemy vented it self against the Power of Godliness, in all places where it was espied: As also against the Promoters of it; yea their Lord and Maker could not escape them.
It was also now become the very sink of Sin, the seat of Hypocrisie, & the Gulf where true Religion was drowned: Here also now reigned Presumption and groundless ⟨p. 4⟩Confidence in GOD, which is the bane of Souls. Amongst its Rulers, Doctors and Leaders, Envy, Malice, & Blasphemy vented it self against the Power of Godliness, in all places where it was espied: As also against the Promoters of it; yea their Lord and Maker could not escape them.
In a word, Jerusalem was now become the Shambles, the very Slaughter-shop for Saints. This was the place wherein the Prophets, Christ, and his People, were most horribly persecuted and murdered. Yea, so hardened at this time was Jerusalem in her Sins, that she feared not to commit the biggest, and to bind her self by Wish, under the Guilt and damning Evil of it; saying, when she had murdered the Son of God, His blood be upon us and our Children.
In a word, Jerusalem was now become the Shambles, the very Slaughter-shop for Saints. This was the place wherein the Prophets, Christ, and his People, were most horribly persecuted and murdered. Yea, so hardned at this time was Jerusalem in her Sins, that she feared not to commit the biggest, and to bind her self by Wish, under the Guilt and damning Evil of it; saying, when she had murdered the Son of God, His blood be upon us and our Children.