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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.
The Observation you know is this, Jesu• Christ would have Mercy offered in th• first place to the biggest Sinners, to the Jerusalem Sinners: Preach Repentance & Remission of Sins in my Name among a• Nations, beginning at Jerusalem.
The Reasons of the Point are,
First, Because the biggest Sinners hav• most need thereof. He that has most need Reason says, should be helped first: • mean, when a helping Hand is offered, • now it is. For the Gospel of the Grace of God is sent to help the World, Ac• 16.9. But the biggest Sinner has mo•• need. Therefore in Reason, when Merc• is sent down from Heaven to Men, th• worst of Men should have the first Off•• ⟨p. 21⟩of it: Begin at Jerusalem: This is the Reason which the Lord Christ himself renders, why in his Life time he left the best, and turned him to the worst; why he sat so loose from the Righteous and stuck so close to the Wicked, The whole saith he, have no need of the Physician, but the sick, I came not to call the Righteous, but sinners to repentance, Mark 2.15, 16, 17.