The Jerusalem Sinner Saved; or Good News for the Vilest of Men by John Bunyan 1689

Item, I saved Lot from the guilt and damnation that he had procured to
himself by his incest.
Item, I saved David from the vengeance that belonged to him for
committing of adultery and murder.
Here is also Solomon, Manasseh, Peter, Magdalen, and many others,
made mention of in this book. Yea, here are their names, their sins, and
their salvations recorded together, that you may read and know what a
Savior he is, and do him honor in the world. For why are these things
thus recorded, but to show to sinners what he can do, to the praise and
glory of his grace?
And it is observable, as I said before, we have but very little of the
salvation of little sinners mentioned in God’s book, because that would
not have answered the design, to wit, to bring glory and fame to the
name of the Son of God.
What should be the reason, think you, why Christ should so easily take
a denial of the great ones, that were the grandeur of the world, and
struggle so hard for hedge-creepers and highwaymen (as that parable,
Luke xiv., seems to import he doth), but to show forth the riches of the
glory of his grace to his praise? This I say, is one reason to be sure.
They that had their grounds, their yoke of oxen, and their marriage
joys, were invited to come; but they made their excuse, and that served
the turn. But when he comes to deal with the worst, he saith to his
servants, Go ye out and bring them in hither. “Go out quickly, and bring
in hither the poor, the maimed, the halt, and the blind.” And they did
so: and he said again, “Go out into the highways and hedges, and
compel them to come in, that my house may be filled;” Luke xiv. 18, 19,
23. These poor, lame, maimed, blind, hedge-creepers and highwaymen,
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