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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.
Sinners, did you but know what a blessed thing it is, to come to Jesus Christ, and that by the help, and drawing of the Father, they do indeed come to him; You would Hang and Burn ⟨p. 179⟩in Hell, a Thousand years, before you would turn your spirit, as you do, against him that God is drawing to Jesus Christ, and also against the God that draws him.
But faithless Sinners, let us a little Expostulate the matter. What hath this man done against thee, that is coming to Jesus Christ? why dost thou make him the Object of thy scorn; doth his coming to Jesus Christ offend thee? Doth his pursuing of his own Salvation offend thee? Doth his forsaking of his sins, and pleasures offend thee?
Poor Coming man! Thou Sacrificest the abomination of the Egyptians before their eyes; and will they not stone thee? Exod. 8. 26.
But I say, why offended at this? is he ever the worse, for coming to Jesus Christ, or for his loving, and serving of Jesus Christ? Or is he ever the more a fool, for flying from that which will drown thee in Hell fire, and for seeking Eternal life? Besides, pray Sirs, consider it, this he doth, not of himself, but by the drawing of the Father. Come, let me tell thee in thine ear, thou that will not, come to him thy self, and him that would, thou hinderest.