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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.
The Second Observation.
I come now to the Second Observation propounded to be spoken to; to wit,
I come now to the Second Observation propounded to be spoken to; to witt,
That they that are coming to Jesus Christ are oft-times heartily afraid, that Jesus Christ will not receive them.
I told you, that this Observation is implied in the Text, and I gather it from the largeness, and openness of the Promise [I will in no wise cast out]. For had there not been a proneness in us to fear Casting out, Christ needed not to have, as it were, waylaid our fear, as he doth, by this great and strange Expression, In no wise; [And him that Cometh to me, I will in no wise cast out.] There needed not, as I may say, such a Promise, be invented by the Wisdom of Heaven, Worded at such a Rate, as it were, on purpose to dash in pieces at one blow, all the Objections of Coming Sinners; if they were not prone to admit of such Objections, to the discouraging of their own Souls. For this Word, in no wise; ⟨p. 194⟩