But it’s very encouraging to the awakened and deeply convinced Sinner. Such an One may think and justly too, tho’ I have been the chief of Sinners, as vile a Miscreant as Manasseh, as foul a Debauchee as Mary Magdalene, once possessed with seven Devils, as virulent an Opposer and Persecutor of those zealously engaged to build up the Kingdom of Christ in it’s Power and Purity as ever Saul (afterwards called Paul) was while a Pharisee; and even worse than any or all these: Yet if the Grace of God to Sinners be merely sovereign and arbitrary, it may be I may obtain Mercy thro’ Christ: For it is a faithful Saying and worthy of all Acceptation, that Jesus Christ came into the World to save Sinners, of whom (saith the Apostle) I am chief. 1. Tim. 1. 15.

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