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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.
There is further to be gathered from this word [Cometh,] these following particulars.
First, That Jesus Christ hath his Eye upon, and takes notice of the First Moving of the Heart of a Sinner after himself: Coming-Sinner, thou. canst not move with Desires after Christ, but he sees the Working of those Desires in thy Heart. All my Desires, said David, are before thee, and my Groanings are not hid from thee, Psal. 38. 9. This he spake, as he was coming (after he had back slidden) to the Lord Jesus Christ. 'Tis-said of the Prodigal, That while he was yet a great way off, his Father saw ⟨p. 122⟩him, had his Eye upon him, and upon the going out of his Heart after him, Luk. 15. 20.
First, That Jesus Christ hath his Eye upon, and takes notice of the First Moving of the Heart of a Sinner after himself: Coming-Sinner, thou. canst not move with Desires after Christ, but he sees the Working of those Desires in thy Heart. All my Desires, said David, are before thee, and my Groanings are not hid from thee, Psal. 38. 9. This he spake, as he was coming (after he had back sliden) to the Lord Jesus Christ. 'Tis-said of the Prodigal, That while he was yet a great way off, his Father saw ⟨p. 122⟩him, had his Eye upon him, and upon the going out of his Heart after him, Luk. 15. 20.