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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.
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.
From these Words therefore, thus explained, we gain this Observation,
That Jesus Christ would have Mercy offered in the first place to the biggest Sinners.
That Jesus Christ would have Mercy offer'd in the first place to the biggest Sinners.
That these Jerusalem Sinners were the biggest that ever were in the World, I think none will deny, that believes that Christ was the best Man that ever was in the World, and also was their Lord God. And that they were to have the first offer of his Grace, the Text is as clear as the Sun; for it saith, Begin at Jerusalem. Preach, saith he, Repentance & Remission of Sins, in the first place to the Jerusalem Sinners.