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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.
And this might suffice for Answer to any coming Soul, that fears he has sinned the Sin against the Holy Ghost.
2. But again, he that has sinned, the Sin against the Holy Ghost, cannot com• has no Heart to come, can by no me• • •e made willing to come to Jesus C• • ⟨p. 145⟩Life; for that he has received such a• Opinion of him, and of his things, as deters and holds him back.
1. He counteth this blessed Person, this Son of God, a Magician a Conjurer • Witch; or one that did, when he was • •he World, what he did by the Power and Spirit of the Devil, Mat. 9 35. Mat. 12 24, 25, &c. Mat. 22. to 30. Now he that hath this Opinion of this Jesus, cannot be willing to cast himself at his Foot for Life, or to come to him as the only Way to God and to Salvation. And hence 'tis said again, that such an one puts him to open Shame, and treadeth him under Foot; that is, by contemning, reproaching, vilifying, and despising of him as if he were the vilest one, o the greatest Cheat in the World: An has therefore, as his Esteem of him, ed him accursed; crucified him to hi self, or counted him one hanged, as on of the worst Malefactors,