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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.
This he said to them all, tho' he knew that they were such Sinners: Yea, he said it without the least Stick, or Stop or Pause of Spirit, as to whether he had best to say so, or no. Nay, so far of was Peter from making an Objection against one of them, that by a particular Clause in his Exhortation, he endeavours that not one of them may escape the Salvation offered. Repent, saith he, and be Baptized every one of you. I shut out never a one of you. For I am commanded by my Lord to deal with you; as it were one by one, by the Word of his Salvation. But why speaks he so particularly? Oh! There were Reason for it: The People with whom the Apostles were now to deal, as they were Murderers of our Lord, and to be ⟨p. 13⟩charged in the general with his Blood, so they had their Various and Particular Acts of Villainy in the Guilt thereof, now lying upon their Consciences. And the Guilt of these their Various and Particular Acts of Wickedness, could not perhaps, be preached to a removal thereof, but by this particular Application. Repent every one of you; be Baptized every one of you in his Name for the Remission of Sins, and you shall every one of you, receive the Gift of the Holy Ghost.
This he said to them all, tho' he knew that they were such Sinners: Yea, he said it without the least Stick, or Stop or Pause of Spirit, as to whether he had best to say so, or no. Nay, so far of was Peter from making an Objection against one of them, that by a particular Clause in his Exhortation, he endeavours that not one of them may escape the Salvation offered. Repent, saith he, and be Baptized every one of you. I shut out never a one of you. For I am commanded by my Lord to deal with you; as it were one by one, by the Word of his Salvation. But why speaks he so particularly? Oh! There were Reason for it: The People with whom the Apostles were now to deal, as they were Murderers of our Lord, and to be ⟨p. 13⟩charged in the general with his Blood, so they had their Various and Particular Acts of Villiany in the Guilt thereof, now lying upon their Consciences. And the Guilt of these their Various and Particular Acts of Wickedness, could not perhaps, be preached to a removal thereof, but by this particular Application. Repent every one of you; be Baptized every one of you in his Name for the Remission of Sins, and you shall every one of you, receive the Gift of the Holy Ghost.