The Sinner's Need
Men that are at the point to die have more need of the physician than they that are now and then troubled with a heart-fainting qualm (Mark 2:15-17). The publicans and sinners were in the
mouth of death… therefore the Lord Jesus receives them first, offers them mercy first.
This man has most need, he is furthest from God, nearest to hell, and so one that has the most need of… mercy.
Mercy arises from compassion… from a feeling of the condition of those in misery (Isa. 63:9; James 5:11)… Mercy seems to be out of its proper channel when it deals with self-righteous men; but it runs with a full stream when it extends itself to the biggest sinner.
—John Bunyan "The Jerusalem Sinner Saved"
Filed under A Puritan at Heart, Daily Quote, John Bunyan by on Mar 3rd, 2010. 
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