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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.
Now where Pity and Compassion is, there is yearning of Bowels, and where there is that, there is a Readiness to help. And, I say again, the more Deplorable and Dreadful the Condition is, the more directly doth Bowels and Compassion turn themselves to such: And offer Help and Deliverance. All this flows from our first Scripture Proof, I came to call them that have Need, to call them first, while the rest look on, and Murmur.
How shall I give thee up Ephraim? Ephraim was a Revolter from God, a Man that had given himself up to Devilism: a Company of Men, the Ten Tribes that Worshipped Devils, while Judah kept with his God. But how should I give thee ⟨p. 24⟩up, Ephraim? How shall I deliver thee, Israel? How shall I make thee as Admah? How shall I set thee as Zeboim (and yet thou art worse than they,) nor has Samaria committed half thy sins, Ezek. 16.46 to 51. My Heart is turned within me, and my Repentings are kindled together, Hos. 11.8
But where do you find that ever the Lord did thus roll in his Bowels for, and after any Self righteous Man? No, no, they are the Publicans and Harlots, Idolaters and Jerusalem Sinners, for whom his Bowels thus yearn and tumble about within him, For, alas poor Worms, they have most Need of Mercy.
But where do you find that ever the Lord did thus rowl in his Bowels for, and after any Self righteous Man? No, no, they are the Publicans and Harlots, Idolaters and Jerusalem Sinners, for whom his Bowels thus yearn and tumble about within him, For, alas poor Worms, they have most Need of Mercy.