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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 did the Apostles overlook this Clause, when their Lord was gone into Heaven: They went first to them of Jerusalem, & Preached Christ's Gospel to them. They abode also there for a Season, and preached it to no body else, for they had regard to the Commandments of their Lord.
And it is to be observed, namely, that the first Sermon which they preached, was to the very worst of these Jerusalem Sinners; even to those that were the Murderers of Jesus Christ, Acts 2.23. For these are part of the Sermon: Ye took him and by wicked Hands have Crucified and slain him. Yea, the three next Sermons was preached to the self-same Murderers, to the end they might be saved, Acts 3.14.
But we will return to the first Sermon that was preached to those Jerusalem Sinners, by which will be manifest more than great Grace, if it be duly considered.
For after that Peter and the rest of the Apostles, had in their Exhortation persuaded these Wretches to believe that they had killed the Prince of Life. And after they had duly fallen under the guilt of their Murder, saying, Men and Brethren what shall we do? He replies by an universal Tender to them all in general, considering them as Christ's killers, That if they were sorry for what they had done, and would be Baptized for the Remission of their Sins in his Name, they should receive the Gift of the Holy Ghost,