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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.
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Fourthly, Nay further, the Lord hath considered, that the shame of thy sin hath stopped thy mouth, and made thee almost a prayer-less man; and therefore he saith unto thee, Take with you words, and turn unto the Lord, and say unto him, take away all iniquity and receive us graciously: See his grace! that himself should put words of encouragement into the heart of a back-slider: As he saith in another place, I taught Ephraim to go, taking him by the Arms. This is teaching him to go indeed, to put words into his mouth, to hold him ⟨p. 131⟩up by the Arms, by the Chin, as we say, Hos. 14. 1, 2, 3, 4. Chap. 11. 3.
Fourthly, Nay further, the Lord hath considered, that the shame of thy sin hath stopped thy mouth, and made thee almost a prayer-less man; and therefore he saith unto thee, Take with you words, and turn unto the Lord, and say unto him, take away all iniquity and receive us graciously: See his grace! that himself should put words of incouragement into the heart of a back-slider: As he saith in another place, I taught Ephraim to go, taking him by the Arms. This is teaching him to go indeed, to put words into his mouth, to hold him ⟨p. 131⟩up by the Arms, by the Chin, as we say, Hos. 14. 1, 2, 3, 4. Chap. 11. 3.
From what hath been said I conclude, even as I said before, that the Him in the Text, And him that cometh, includeth both these sorts of Sinners, and therefore both should freely come.