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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 him.] There are divers sorts of Persons, that the Father hath given to Jesus Christ: They are not all of one Rank, of one Quality. Some are High, some Low; some are Wise, some Fools; some are more Civil, and Complying with the Law; some more Profane, and averse to Him, and his Gospel. Now, since those that are given to him, are in some sense so divers; and again, since he yet saith, And Him that cometh, &c. He by that doth give us to understand, that he is not, as Men, for picking and choosing, to take a Best, and leave a Worst; but he is for Him, that the Father hath given him; and that cometh to him. He will not alter nor change it; a Good for a Bad, or a Bad for a Good, Levit. 27. 9, 10.
There is many a sad Wretch given by the Father to Jesus Christ; but not one of them all is despised, or slighted by him.
It is said of those that the Father hath given to Christ, That they have done worse than the Heathen; That they were Murderers, Thieves, Drunkards, Unclean Persons, and what not? But he has Received them, Washed them, and Saved them. A fit Emblem of this Sort, is that wretched Instance mentioned in the Sixteenth of Ezekiel, that was cast out in a Stinking Condition, to the loathing of its Person in the day that it was Born: A Creature in such a wretched Condition, that no Eye pitied, to do any of the Things there mentioned unto it, or to have Compassion upon it: No Eye, but his that speaketh in the Text.
It is said of those that the Father hath given to Christ, That they have done worse than the Heathen; That they were Murderers, Thieves, Drunkards, Unclean Persons, and what not? But he has Received them, Washed them, and Saved them. A fit Emblem of this Sort, is that wretched Instance mentioned in the Sixteenth of Ezekiel, that was cast out in a Stincking Condition, to the loathing of its Person in the day that it was Born: A Creature in such a wretched Condition, that no Eye pittied, to do any of the Things there mentioned unto it, or to have Compassion upon it: No Eye, but his that speaketh in the Text.