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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.
2. Nor yet, because they stood upon the advance Ground with the worst of the Sinners of the Nations, Nay, rather the Sinners of the Nations, had the advance Ground of them: For Jerusalem was long before she had added this Iniquity to her Sin, worse than the very Nations that God cast out before the Children of Israel, 2 Chron 33.
3. It must therefore follow that the clause begun at Jerusalem was put into this Commission ⟨p. 8⟩of mere Grace and Compassion: Even from the overflowing of the Bowels of Mercy: For indeed they were the worst, and so in the most deplorable Condition of any People under the Heaven.
3. It must therefore follow that the clause begun at Jerusalem was put into this Commission ⟨p. 8⟩of meer Grace and Compassion: Even from the overflowing of the Bowels of Mercy: For indeed they were the worst, and so in the most deplorable Condition of any People under the Heaven.
Whatever therefore their Relation was to Abraham, Isaac, or Jacob, however they formerly had been the People among whom God had placed his Name and Worship; they were now degenerated from God more than the Nations were from their Idols, and were become Guilty of the highest Sins which the People of the World were capable of committing. Nay none can be capable of committing of such unpardonable Sins they committed against their God, when they slew his Son, and persecuted his Name and Word.