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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
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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.
Answ. Art thou returning to God? If thou art returning, thou art the Man: Return ye back-sliding Children, and I will •teal your Back-sliding, Jer. 3.22.
Some as I said, that Revolt, are shot dead upon the Place; and for them, who can help them? But for them that cry out of their Wounds, 'tis a sign they are yet alive; and if they use the Means in time, doubtless they may be healed.
Christ Jesus has bags of Mercy that were never yet broken up or unsealed. Hence it is said, he has Goodness laid up; things reserved in Heaven for his. And if he breaks up one of these Bags, who can tell what he can do!
Christ Jesus has bags of Mercy that were never yet broken up or unsealed. Hence it is said, he has Goodness laied up; things reserved in Heaven for his. And if he breaks up one of these Bags, who can tell what he can do!
Hence his Love is said to be such as passeth Knowledge, and that his Riches are unsearchable. He has no body knows what; for no body knows who! He has by him in store for such as seem in the view of all Men, to be gone beyond Recovery. For this is the Text in plain, What Man or Angel could have thought the Jerusalem-sinners had not yet been on this side of Impossibility of enjoying Life and Mercy? Hadst thou seen their Actions and what horrible things they did to the Son of God? Yea, how stoutly they backed what they did, with Resolves and Endeavours to persevere, when they had killed his Person, against his Name and Doctrine: