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Come & welcome to Jesus Christ, or, A plain and profitable discourse upon the…
Come & welcome to Jesus Christ, or, A plain and profitable discourse upon the sixth of John, 37 vers showing the cause, truth and manner of the coming of a sinner to Jesus Christ, with his happy reception and blessed entertainment / written by J. Bunyan.Come & welcome to Jesus Christ, or, A plain and profitable discourse upon the sixth of John, 37 vers shewing the cause, truth and manner of the coming of a sinner to Jesus Christ, with his happy reception and blessed entertainment / written by J. Bunyan.
London: printed for B. Harris, 1678
Come, & Welcome, TO JESUS CHRIST. › Objection 4: Objection. 4.
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.
Answ. You know that I told you at first, that coming to Christ, is a moving of the heart, and affections towards him.
But, saith the Soul, my dullness, and indifferency in all holy Duties, demonstrate my heartlessness in coming: and to come, and not with the heart, signifies nothing at all.
But, saith the Soul, my dulness, and indifferency in all holy Duties, demonstrate my heartlesness in coming: and to come, and not with the heart, signifies nothing at all.
Answ. The moving of the heart after Christ, is not to be discerned (at all times) by thy sensible, affectionate performing of duties; but rather by those secret groanings, and complaints ⟨p. 56⟩which thy soul makes to God against that sloth that attends thee in Duties.
Secondly, But grant it to be even as thou sayest it is, that thou comest so slowly, &c. yet since Christ bids them come, that comes not at all; surely they may be accepted that come, though attended with those infirmities, which thou at present groanest under. He saith, And him that cometh: he saith not, if they come sensibly so fast: But, And him that cometh to me I will in no wise cast out. He saith also in the Eighth of the Proverbs, As for him that wanteth understanding; that is, an heart, for ofttimes the understanding is taken for the heart. Come, eat of my bread, and drink of the wine that I have Mingled.