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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
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.
As it is said, She shall be brought unto the King, in raiment of needle work. That is, in the righteousness of Christ, for it is God that imputeth that to these that are saved, Psal. 45. 14. 1 Cor. 1.
A man giveth his daughter to such a man, first in order to marriage, and this respects the time past; and he giveth her again at the day appointed, in marriage. And in this last sense, perhaps, the Text may have a meaning: that is, that all that the Father hath before the world was, given to Jesus Christ, he giveth them again to him, in the day of their espousals. Or,
Thirdly, In that Christ saith [giveth] instead of hath given, he may do it to show, that this gift of the Father, to him, is now as new, as sweet, as pleasant and desirable, as if it had never bin given before.
Thirdly, In that Christ saith [giveth] instead of hath given, he may do it to shew, that this gift of the Father, to him, is now as new, as sweet, as pleasant and desirable, as if it had never bin given before.