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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.
Secondly▪ There is that life in Christ, that is to be found no where else, Joh. 5. 40. Life as a principle in the Soul, by which it shall be acted and enabled to do that which through him is pleasing to God. He that believeth in, or cometh, to me, saith he, as the Scriptures have said, out of his belly shall flow Rivers of Living Water, Joh. 7. 38. Without this life a man is dead, whether he be bad, or whether he be good, that is good in his own, and other mens esteem. There is no true and Eternal life, but what is in the Me that speaketh in the Text.
There is also life for those, that come to him, to be had by faith in his flesh, and blood. He that eateth Me, even he shall live by Me, Joh. 6. 57.
And this is a life against that Death, that comes by the guilt of sin, and the curse of the Law, under which all men are, and forever must be, unless they eat the Me, that speaks in the Text. Whoso findeth Me, saith he, findeth life; deliverance from that everlasting death, and destruction, that without Me he shall be devoured by, Prov. 8.
And this is a life against that Death, that comes by the guilt of sin, and the curse of the Law, under which all men are, and forever must be, unlesse they eat the Me, that speaks in the Text. Whoso findeth Me, saith he, findeth life; deliverance from that everlasting death, and destruction, that without Me he shall be devoured by,