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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.
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.
The World, when they hear the doctrine that I have asserted and handled in this little Book, to wit, That Jesus Christ would have Mercy offered in the first place to the biggest Sinners; will be apt, because themselves are Unbelievers, to think that this is a Doctrine that leads to Looseness, and that gives Liberty to the Flesh; but if you that believe love your Brethren, and your Neighbours truly, and as you should, you will put to Silence the Ignorance of such foolish Men, and stop their Mouths from speaking Evil of you.
The World, when they hear the doctrine that I have asserted and handled in this little Book, to wit, That Jesus Christ would have Mercy offered in the first place to the biggest Sinners; will be apt, because themselves are Unbelievers, to think that this is a Doctrine that leads to Loosness, and that gives Liberty to the Flesh; but if you that believe love your Brethren, and your Neighbours truly, and as you should, you will put to Silence the Ignorance of such foolish Men, and stop their Mouths from speaking Evil of you.
And I say, Let the love of Christ constrain to this: Who deserveth our Heart, our Mouth, our Life, our Goods so much as Jesus Christ who has bought us to himself by his Blood, to this very end, that we should be a peculiar People Zealous of good Works?
There is nothing more seemly in the World, then to see a Christian walk as becomes the Gospel; nor any thing more unbecoming a reasonable Creature, than to hear a Man say, I believe in Christ, and yet see in his Life Debauchery and Profaneness: Such Men should be counted the basest of Men: Such Men should be counted ⟨p. 131⟩•y all, unworthy of the name of a Christian, and should be shunned by every good Man, as such who are the very Plague of Profession.