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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.
Nor was this the first time that the Grace which was in the Heart of Christ, thus showed it self to the World. For while he was yet alive, even while He was yet in Jerusalem, and perceived, even among those Jerusalem Sinners, which was the most vile amongst them, he still in his preaching did signify that he had a Desire that the worst of these worst should in the first place come unto him. The which he showeth, where he saith to the better sort of them. The Publicans & Harlots enter into the Kingdom of God before you, Mat. 21.13. Al•• when he compared ⟨p. 10⟩Jerusalem with the Sinners of the Nation he then Commands that the Jerusalem Sinners should have the Gospel at present confined to them. Go not, saith he, into the way of the Gentiles▪ and into any of the Cities of the Samaritans enter ye not: But go rather to the lost Sheep of the House of Israel Mat. 10.5, 6. Chap. 23.37. But go rather to them, for they were in the most fearful plight.
Nor was this the first time that the Grace which was in the Heart of Christ, thus shewed it self to the World. For while he was yet alive, even while He was yet in Jerusalem, and perceived, even among those Jerusalem Sinners, which was the most vile amongst them, he still in his preaching did signifie that he had a Desire that the worst of these worst should in the first place come unto him. The which he sheweth, where he saith to the better sort of them. The Publicans & Harlots enter into the Kingdom of God before you, Mat. 21.13. Al•• when he compared ⟨p. 10⟩Jerusalem with the Sinners of the Nation he then Commands that the Jerusalem Sinners should have the Gospel at present confined to them. Go not, saith he, into the way of the Gentiles▪ and into any of the Cities of the Samaritans enter ye not: But go rather to the lost Sheep of the House of Israel