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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.
They were, saith Paul, contrary to all Men: For they did not only shut up the Door of Life against themselves; but forbid that it should be opened to any else. Forbidding us, saith he, to preach to the Gentiles, that they might be saved, to fill up their Sin always, Mat. 23.35. Chap. 15 7, 8, 9. Mark 7.6, 7, 8. Matth. 3. to 9. John 8.33, 41. Matth. 27.18. Mark 3.30. Luke 2.65. Matth. 23.37. Luke 13.33, 34. Psal. 2.22, 23. Psal. 4.10. Matth. 27, 25. Ch. 20.11, to the 15.1 Thes. 2, 14 15 16.
This is the City, and these are the People, this is their Character, and these are their Sins. Nor can there be produced their parallel in all this World. Nay, what World, what People, what Nation, for Sin and Transgression, could, or can be compared to Jerusalem! Especially if you join to the matter of Fact, the Light they sinned against, and the Patience which they abused. Infinite was the Wickedness upon this Account which they committed.
This is the City, and these are the People, this is their Character, and these are their Sins. Nor can there be produced their parallel in all this World. Nay, what World, what People, what Nation, for Sin and Transgression, could, or can be compared to Jerusalem! Especially if you ioyn to the matter of Fact, the Light they sinned against, and the Patience which they abused. Infinite was the Wickedness upon this Account which they committed.