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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 6: Objection 6.
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. Indeed this age, is an age of errors, if ever there was an age of errors in the world; but yet the gift of the Father, laid claim to by the Son in the Text, must needs escape them, and in conclusion come to him. There are ⟨p. 87⟩a company of shall-comes in the Bible, that doth secure them. Not but that they may be assaulted by them; yea, and also for the time, entangled and detained by them from the Bishop of their Souls: but these Shall-comes, will break those Chains and Fetters, that those given to Christ are entangled in, and they shall-come, because he hath said they shall-come to him.
Answ. Indeed this age, is an age of errors, if ever there was an age of errors in the world; but yet the gift of the Father, laid claim to by the Son in the Text, must needs escape them, and in conclusion come to him. There are ⟨p. 87⟩a company of shall-comes in the Bible, that doth secure them. Not but that they may be assaulted by them; yea, and also for the time, intangled and detained by them from the Bishop of their Souls: but these Shall-comes, will break those Chains and Fetters, that those given to Christ are intangled in, and they shall-come, because he hath said they shall-come to him.
Indeed, errors are like that whore, of whom you read in the Proverbs, that sitteth in her seat on the High-places of the City, To call Passengers who go right on their way, (Pro. 9. 13, 14, 15, 16.) But the persons, as I said, that by the Father are given to the Son to save them, are at one time or other, secured by, Shall-come to me.
Indeed, errors are like that whore, of whom you read in the Proverbs, that sitteth in her seat on the High-places of the City, To call Passingers who go right on their way, (