N03023:405
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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Was it not, think you, the Devil that stirred up the Damsel that you read of in Acts 16. to cry out, These are the Servants of the most high God that show unto us the way of Salvation; Yes, it was as is evident, ⟨p. 132⟩for Paul was grieved to hear it. But why did the Devil stir up her to cry so? But because that was the way to blemish the Gospel, to make the World think that it came from the same hand as did her Sooth-saying and Witchery, v. 16, 17, 18. Holiness O Lord, becomes thy House for ever.
Was it not, think you, the Devil that stirred up the Damsel that you read of in Acts 16. to cry out, These are the Servants of the most high God that shew unto us the way of Salvation; Yes, it was as is evident, ⟨p. 132⟩for Paul was grieved to hear it. But why did the Devil stir up her to cry so? But because that was the way to blemish the Gospel, to make the World think that it came from the same hand as did her Sooth-saying and Witchery, v. 16, 17, 18. Holiness O Lord, becomes thy House for ever.
Let therefore, whoever they be that profess the Name of Christ, take heed that that scandal not profession which they make of him, since he has so graciously offered us, as we are Sinners of the biggest size, in the first place his Grace to save us.
Having thus far spoken of the Riches of the Grace of Christ, and of the the Freeness of his Heart to embrace the Jerusalem-sinners, it may not be amiss to give you yet as a Caution, an Intimation of one thing, namely, That this Grace and Freeness of the Heart is limited to Time and Day, the which whoso overstandeth, shall Perish notwithstanding.