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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.
Answ. First, How! but little encouragement from the Text, when it saith, I will in no wise cast out? What more could have been said? what is here omitted that might have been inserted, to make the promise more full and free? Nay, take all the promises in the Bible, all the freest promises, with all the variety of expressions of what nature or extent soever, and they can but amount to the expressions of this very promise; I will in no wise cast out: I will for nothing, by no means, upon no account, however ⟨p. 132⟩they have sinned, however they have back-slidden, however they have provoked, cast out the coming sinner. But,
Answ. First, How! but little incouragement from the Text, when it saith, I will in no wise cast out? What more could have been said? what is here omitted that might have been inserted, to make the promise more full and free? Nay, take all the promises in the Bible, all the freest promises, with all the variety of expressions of what nature or extent soever, and they can but amount to the expressions of this very promise; I will in no wise cast out: I will for nothing, by no means, upon no account, however ⟨p. 132⟩they have sinned, however they have back-sliden, however they have provoked, cast out the coming sinner. But,
Secondly, Thou sayest, where doth Jesus Christ in all the words of the New-Testament, speak to a returning backslider with words of Grace and Peace? that is, under the name of a backslider.
Secondly, Thou sayst, where doth Jesus Christ in all the words of the New-Testament, speak to a returning backslider with words of Grace and Peace? that is, under the name of a backslider.