Come & welcome to Jesus Christ, or, A plain and profitable discourse upon the…

By these Words, our Lord Jesus doth set forth (yet more amply) the great ⟨p. 102⟩Goodness of his Nature towards the Coming Sinner. Before he said, They Shall come; and here he declareth, That with Heart and Affections he will receive them. But by the way, let me speak one Word or two, to the Conditionality of this Promise, with which now I have to do. And him that cometh to Me, I will not cast out: Where it is evident (may some say), That Christ's Receiving us to Mercy, depends upon our Coming; and so our Salvation by Christ is Conditional: If we Come, we shall be Received; if not, we shall not: for that is fully intimated by the Words. The Promise of Reception is only to him that Cometh: And him that cometh. I Answer; That the Coming in these Words mentioned, as a Condition of being Received to Life, is, that which is promised, yea, concluded to be effected in us by the Promise going before. In those latter Words, Coming to Christ is implicitly required of us; and in the Words before, that Grace is positively promised to us. It is, as if he should say; All that the Father giveth Me, shall come to Heaven; and him that cometh to Heaven, I will in no wise cast out ⟨p. 103⟩thence. We come to Christ, because it is said, We Shall come; because it is given to us to Come: So that, the Condition which is expressed by Christ in these later Words, is absolutely promised in the Words before. And indeed, the Coming here intended, is nothing else but the Effect of, Shall come to Me.

And him that cometh.]

To speak to these Words,