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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.
In the fifth Chapter you find them Railing at him, because he continued Preaching among them Salvation in the Name of Jesus; but he tells them, that that very Jesus whom they had slain and hanged on a Tree, him GOD had raised up and exalted to be Prince, and a Saviour, to give Repentance to Israel, and Forgiveness of Sins, ver. 29, 30, 31. Still insinuating, that tho' they had killed him and to this Day rejected him, yet his Business was to bestow upon them Repentance and Forgiveness of Sins.
'Tis true, after they had began to kill again, & when nothing but killing would serve their turn then they that were scattered abroad, went every where preaching the Word. Yet even some of them so hankered after the Conversion of the Jews, that they preached the Gospel only to them. Also the Apostles still made their Abode at Jerusalem in hopes that they might let down their Net for another Draught of these Jerusalem Sinners. Neither did Paul and Barnabas, who were the Ministers of GOD to the Gentiles but offer the Gospel in the first place to those of them that for their Wickedness were scattered like Vagabonds among the Nations: Yea, and when they rendered Rebellion and Blasphemy for their Service and Love; they Replied, It was Necessary ⟨p. 18⟩that the Word of God should first have been spoken to them, Acts 1.8. Ch. 13.46, 47.
'Tis true, after they had began to kill again, & when nothing but killing would serve their turn then they that were scattered abroad, went every where preaching the Word. Yet even some of them so hankered after the Conversion of the Jews, that they preached the Gospel only to them. Also the Apostles still made their Abode at Jerusalem in hopes that they might let down their Net for another Draught of these Jerusalem Sinners. Neither did Paul and Barnabas, who were the Ministers of GOD to the Gentiles but offer the Gospel in the first place to those of them that for their Wickedness were scattered like Vagabonds among the Nations: Yea, and when they rendred Rebellion and Blasphemy for their Service and Love; they Replied, It was Necessary