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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.
But having spoken to the first of these already, I shall here pass it by; and shall speak a word or two to him that is coming, after back-sliding, to Jesus Christ for life.
Thy way, O thou sinner of a double dye, thy way is open to come to Jesus Christ: I mean, thee whose heart, after long back-sliding, doth think of turning to him again. Thy way, I say, is open to him, as is the way of the other sorts of Comers; as appears by what follows.
First, Because the Text makes no Exception against thee; it doth not say, And any him; But, a back-slider; any him, But him: The Text doth not thus object, but indifinitively openeth wide its Golden Arms, to every coming soul, without the least Exception. Therefore thou mayest come.
First, Because the Text makes no Exception against thee; it doth not say, And any him; But, a back-slider; any him, But him: The Text doth not thus object, but indifinitively openeth wide its Golden Arms, to every coming soul, without the least Exception. Therefore thou maist come.
Secondly, Nay, the Text is so far from excepting against thy coming, that it strongly suggesteth, that thou art one of the souls intended, O thou coming back-slider: Else, what need that Clause. have been so inserted, I will in no wise cast out: No, as who should say, though those that come now, are such as have formerly back-slidden. I will in