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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.
Secondly, They shall be placed before him according to their condition; they that have come to him, in great Dignity, even at his right hand, For he will in no wise cast them out: but the rest shall be set at his left hand, the place of disgrace and shame; for they did not come to him for Life.
Distinguished also shall they be, by fit terms: Those that came to him, he calleth Sheep, but the rest are Frowish Goats. And he shall separate them one from another, as the Shepherd divideth the Sheep from the Goats; and the Sheep will he set on the right hand (next Heaven. Gate, for they came to him); but the Goats on his left, to go from him ⟨p. 158⟩into Hell, because they are not of his Sheep.
Thirdly, Then will Christ proceed to conviction of those that came not unto him, and will say, I was a stranger, and ye took me not in, or did not come unto me. Their excuse of themselves, he will slight as dirt, and proceed to their final Judgment. Now when these wretched rejectors of Christ shall thus be set before him in their sins, and convicted, this is the preparatory work upon which follows the manner of Executing the Act which will be done.
Thirdly, Then will Christ proceed to conviction of those that came not unto him, and will say, I was a stranger, and ye took me not in, or did not come unto me. Their excuse of themselves, he will slight as dirt, and proceed to their final Judgment. Now when these wretched rejectors of Christ shall thus be set before him in their sins, and convicted, this is the preparitory work upon which follows the manner of Executing the Act which will be done.