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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.
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.
After all their Abusings of wise Men, & Prophets, God sent unto them John Baptist, to reduce them, and then his Son to redeem them; but they would be neither reduced nor redeemed, but persecuted both to the Death. Nor did they as I sa••, stop here; the Holy Apostles they afterwards ⟨p. 6⟩persecuted also to Death, even so many as they could, the rest they drove from them unto the utmost Corners.
Secondly, I come now to show you what it was to preach the Gospel to them. It was, saith Luke, to preach to them Repentance and Remission of Sins in Christ's Name. Or as Mark has it, to bid them repent and believe the Gospel. Mark 1.15. Not that Repentance is a Cause of Remission, but a Sign of our hearty Reception thereof. Repentance is therefore here put to intimate, that no pretended Faith of the Gospel is good, that is not accompanied wih […] And this he doth or purpose, becau […] ould not have them deceive th […] For with what Faith can he expo […] mon of Sins in the name of Chri hat is not heartily sorry for them? O w shall a Man be able to give to others a sfactory Account of his unfeigned Subjection to the Gospel that yet abides in his Impenitency?