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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.
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.
One would have thought, since the Jerusalem Sinners were the worst, and greatest Sinners, Christ's greatest Enemies, and those that not only despised his Person, Doctrine, & Miracles, but that a little before had had their Hands up to their Elbows in his Hearts Blood. That he should rather have said, Go into all the World, & preach Repentance and Remission of Sins among all Nations, and after that, the same to Jerusalem: Yea, it had been infinite Grace if he had said so: But what Grace is this? Or what Name shall we give it, when he Commands that this Repentance and Remission of Sins which is designed to be preached in all Nations, should first be offered to Jerusalem the worst of Sinners?