N03023:363
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.
Wherefore it is said, Begin at Jerusalem, if the Jerusalem sinne• is not to have the Benefit of it? And if I am to have the Benefit of it? let me call it to Mind when Satan haunts me with the continual Remembrance of my sins, of my Jerusalem sins. Satan and my Conscience says, I am the biggest Sinner, Christ offereth Mercy in the first place to the biggest Sinners. Nor is the manner of the offer other, but such as suiteth with my kind. I am sorry for my Sin; yea, sorry at my Heart that ever sinful Thought did enter, or find the least Entertainment in my wicked Mind: And might I obtain my Wish, I would never more that my Heart should be a place for ought but the Grace, and Spirit, and Faith of the Lord Jesus.
I speak not this to lessen my Wickedness: I would not for all the World; but be placed by my own Conscience in the very front of the biggest Sinners, that I might be one of the first that were beckoned by the Gracious Hand of Jesus the Saviour to come to him for Mercy.
I speak not this to lessen my Wickedness: I would not for all the World; but be placed by my own Conscience in the very front of the biggest Sinners, that I might be one of the first that were beckned by the Gracious Hand of Jesus the Saviour to come to him for Mercy.
Well Sinner, thou now speakest like a Christian; but say thus in a strong Spirit in the hour of Temptation, and then thou wilt to thy Commendation and Comfort, quit thy self well.