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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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Remember your Lord, he was familiar with Publicans and Sinners to a Proverb. Behold a gluttonous Man, and a Wine-•ibber; a Friend of Publicans and Sinners, Mat. 11.19. The first part concerning his gluttonous eating and drinking, to be sure was an horrible slander; but for the other, ⟨p. 128⟩nothing was ever spoken truer of him by the World. Now why should we lay Hands cross on this Text, that is, choose good Victuals and love the sweet Wine better than the Salvation of the poor Publican? Why not familiar with Sinners, provided we hate their Spots and Blemishes, and seek that they may be healed of them.
Remember your Lord, he was familiar with Publicans and Sinners to a Proverb. Behold a gluttonous Man, and a Wine-•ibber; a Friend of Publicans and Sinners, Mat. 11.19. The first part concerning his •luttonous eating and drinking, to be sure was an horrible slander; but for the other, ⟨p. 128⟩nothing was ever spoken truer of him by the World. Now why should we lay Hands cross on this Text, that is, choose good Victuals and love the sweet Wine better than the Salvation of the poor Publican? Why not familiar with Sinners, provided we hate their Spots and Blemishes, and seek that they may be healed of them.
Why not Fellowly with our Carnal Neighbours, if we take occasion to do so, that we may drop and be yet distilling some good Doctrine upon their Souls? Why not go to the poor Man's House, and give him a Penny, and a Scripture to think upon? Why not send for the poor to fetch away at least the Fragments of thy Table, that the Bowels of thy Fellow sinner may be refreshed as well as thine.