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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.
1 How it appears that he hath power to save. 2 How it appears that he hath power to cast out.
That he hath power to save, appears by that which follows.
First, To speak only of him as he is Mediator: He was Authorized to this blessed work by his Father before the World began. Hence the Apostle saith, He hath chosen us in him, before the Foundation of the World; that is, chosen us in him to be Saved by him, as Ephesians the first makes manifest. Hence it is again, that we are said to be Blessed in him before the Foundation of the World, with all those things that effectually will produce our Salvation. Read the same Chapter, with 2 Tim. 1. 9.
Secondly, He was promised to our first Parents, that he should in the fullness of time, bruise the Serpents Head; and as Paul expounds it, redeem them that were under the law: hence since that time, he hath bin reckoned as slain for our Sins, by which means all the Fathers under the first Testament were secured from the wrath to come; hence he is called, The Lamb slain from the