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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.
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.
And tho' Jesus Christ did both by Doctrine, Miracles, and Holiness of Life, seek to put a stop to their Villainies; yet they shut their Eyes, stop their Ears, and rested not, till (as was hinted before) they had driven him out of the World. Yea that they might, if possible, have extinguished his Name, and exploded his Doctrine out of the World; they against all Arguments, and in despite of heaven, its mighty Hand, and undeniable Proof of his Resurrection; did hire Soldiers to invent a lye, saying, his Disciples stole him away from the Grave; on purpose that Men might not count him ⟨p. 5⟩the Saviour of the World, nor trust in him for the Remission of Sins.
And tho' Jesus Christ did both by Doctrine, Miracles, and Holiness of Life, seek to put a stop to their Villanies; yet they shut their Eyes, stop their Ears, and rested not, till (as was hinted before) they had driven him out of the World. Yea that they might, if possible, have extinguished his Name, and exploded his Doctrine out of the World; they against all Arguments, and in despite of heaven, its mighty Hand, and undeniable Proof of his Resurrection; did hire Souldiers to invent a lye, saying, his Disciples stole him away from the Grave; on purpose that Men might not count him