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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.
Seventhly, They that are coming to Jesus Christ, are oft-times heartily afraid that he will not receive them.
Eighthly, Jesus Christ would not have them, that in Truth are Coming to him, once think, that he will cast them out.
Eightly, Jesus Christ would not have them, that in Truth are Coming to him, once think, that he will cast them out.
These Observations, lie, all of them in the Words, and are plentifully confirmed by the Scriptures of Truth; but I shall not at this time speak to them all, but shall pass by the first, second, third, fourth, and sixth; partly because, I design brevity, and partly because they are touched upon, in the Explicatory part of the Text. I shall therefore begin with the Fifth Observation, and so make that the first in order, in the following discourse.
First, Then, Coming to Christ, is not by the will, wisdom, or power of Man, but by the gift, promise, and drawing of the Father. This Observation standeth of two parts.