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

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.

And Him.] Let him be as red as Blood, let him be as red as Crimson: Some men are blood-Red sinners, Crimson sinners, Sinners of a double die; dipped, and dipped again before they come to Jesus Christ. Art thou that readest these Lines, such an one? speak out man, Art thou such an one? and art thou now coming to Jesus Christ for the Mercy of Justification, that thou mightest be made white in his Blood, and be covered with his Righteousness? Fear not; for as much as this thy coming betokeneth, ⟨p. 101⟩