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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 5: Objection 5.
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But (says another) I fear I come too late, I doubt I have stayed too long, I am afraid the Door is Shut.
But (sayes another) I fear I come too late, I doubt I have stayed too long, I am afraid the Door is Shut.
Answ. Thou canst never come too late to Jesus Christ, if Thou dost come. This is manifest, by two instances.
First, By the Man that came to him at the Eleventh Hour. This Man was Idle all the day long: He had a whole Gospel day to come in, and he played it all away, save only the last hour thereof. But at last, at the Eleventh Hour he came, and goes into the Vineyard to Work with the rest of the Labourers, that had born the Burden, and heat of the day. Well, but how was he received of the Lord of the Vineyard? Why, when pay - day came, he had even as much as the rest, yea had his money first. True, the others Murmured at him, but what did the Lord Jesus Answer them? Is thine Eye Evil because mine is Good? I will give to this last even as unto thee, Mat. 20.
First, By the Man that came to him at the Eleventh Hour. This Man was Idle all the day long: He had a whole Gospel day to come in, and he play'd it all away, save only the last hour thereof. But at last, at the Eleventh Hour he came, and goes into the Vineyard to Work with the rest of the Labourers, that had born the Burden, and heat of the day. Well, but how was he received of the Lord of the Vineyard? Why, when pay - day came, he had even as much as the rest, yea had his mony first. True, the others Murmured at him, but what did the Lord Jesus Answer them? Is thine Eye Evil because mine is Good? I will give to this last even as unto thee,