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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.
First, A Call to come, and he will receive them, Revel. 2. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 14, 15, 16, 20, 21, 22. Chap. 3. 1, 2, 3, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22. Wherefore, New Testament Backsliders have encouragement to come.
First, A Call to come, and he will receive them, Revel. 2. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 14, 15, 16, 20, 21, 22. Chap. 3. 1, 2, 3, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22. Wherefore, New Testament Backsliders have incouragement to come.
Secondly, A Declaration of readiness to receive them that Come, as here in the Text, and in many other places is plain: ⟨p. 135⟩Therefore, Set thee up these Marks, make thee these high heaps (of the golden Grace of the Gospel,) set thine heart towards the high-way, even the way that thou wentest (when thou didst backslide) turn again, O Virgin of Israel; turn again to these thy Cities, Jer. 31. 21.
And him that [Cometh.] He saith not, And him that talketh, that professeth, that maketh a show, a noise, or the like, but him that Cometh. Christ will take leave to judge, who, among the many that make a Noise, they be that indeed are coming to him. It is not him that saith he comes, nor him of whom others affirm that he comes; but him that Christ himself shall say doth Come; that is concerned in this Text. When the Woman that had the bloody Issue came to him for Cure, there were others as well as she, that made a great bustle about him, that touched, yea thronged him; Ah, but Christ could distinguish this woman from them all. And he looked round about upon them all, to see her that had done this thing, Mar. 25. 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32. He was not concerned with the thronging, or touchings of the rest; for theirs were but accidental, or, at best, void of that which made her