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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.
'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 ⟨p. 18⟩that the Word of God should first have been spoken to them, Acts 1.8. Ch. 13.46, 47.
Nor was this their preaching Unsuccessful among these People: But the Lord Jesus so wrought with the Word thus spoken, that Thousands of them came flocking to him for Mercy. Three Thousand of them closed with him at the first and afterwards Two Thousand more; for now they were in Number about Five Thousand; whereas before these Sermons were preached to these Murderers; the Number of the Disciples were not above an Hundred and Twenty,