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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.
Repent and be Baptized every one of you, in the Name of Jesus Christ for the Remission of Sins. And ye shall receive the Gift of the Holy Ghost. O! what a Blessed every one of you, is here! How willing was Peter and his Lord Jesus by his Ministry, to catch these Murderers with the Word of the Gospel, that they might be made Monuments of the Grace of GOD! How unwilling, I say was he, that any of these should escape the Hand of Mercy! Yea, what an amazing Wonder is it, to think that above all the World, and above every body in it, These should have the first offer of Mercy, beginning at Jerusalem.
Repent and be Baptized every one of you, in the Name of Jesus Christ for the Remission of Sins. And ye shall receive the Gift of the Holy Ghost. O! what a Blessed every one of you, is here! How willing was Peter and his Lord Jesus by his Ministry, to catch these Murderers with the Word of the Gospel, that they might be made Monuments of the Grace of GOD! How unwilling, I say was he, that any of these should escape the Hand of Mercy! Yea, what an amazing Wonder is it, to think that above all the World, and above every body in it, These should have the first offer of Mercy, begining at Jerusalem.
But was there not something of Moment in this Clause of the Commission? Did not Peter think you see a great deal in it, that he should thus begin with these Men, and thus offer, so particular, this Grace to each particular Man of them?
But, as I told you, This is not all, these Jerusalem Sinners must have this offer again and again? Every one of them must be offered it over and over. CHRIST would not take the first Rejection for a Denial; nor their second Repulse for a Denial: But he will have Grace offered once, and twice, and thrice to these Jerusalem Sinners. Is not this amazing Grace, CHRIST will not be put off? These are the Sinners that are Sinners indeed. They are Sinners of the biggest sort, consequently such as CHRIST can, if they Convert and be saved, best serve his Ends and Designs upon, of which more anon.