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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.
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, Prov. 8.
Nothing is more desirable than life, to him that hath in himself the Sentence of Condemnation; and here only is life to be found. This life, to wit, Eternal life▪ this life is in his Son. That is, in him that saith in the Text, All that the Father hath given Me shall come to Me, 1 Joh. 5. 10.
Thirdly, The person speaking in the Text, is he alone by whom poor sinners have Admittance with, and Acceptance to the Father, because of the Glory of his righteousness, by and in which he presenteth them amiable, and spotless in his sight; neither is there any way besides him, so to come to the Father; I am the way, says he, the truth, and the life; ⟨p. 92⟩no man cometh to the Father but by Me,