Mercy For the Greatest Sinners
"God who is rich in mercy…. loved us even when we were dead in our sins [and] quickened us together with Christ." Why did he do all this? "That in ages to come he might show the exceeding riches of his grace, in his kindness towards us in Christ Jesus" (Eph 2:4-7). So he allures others and their children to come to him and partake of the same grace through Jesus Christ.
As the Jerusalem sinners were of the highest sort among the Jews, so these Ephesian sinners were of the highest sort among the Gentiles (Eph 2:1-3; 2:11, 12)…. When God saves one great sinner, it is to encourage another great sinner to come to him for mercy.
—John Bunyan "The Jerusalem Sinner Saved"
Filed under A Puritan at Heart, Daily Quote, John Bunyan by on Feb 5th, 2010. 
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