Come & welcome to Jesus Christ, or, A plain and profitable discourse upon the…

Thus I might go on, to the end of things, and show you, that still this promise was provided to answer Objections; And doth answer them: But I say, what need it be, if they that are coming to Jesus Christ, are not sometimes, yea oft-times, heartily afraid, that Jesus Christ, will cast them out.

Thus I might go on, to the end of things, and shew you, that still this promise was provided to answer Objections; And doth answer them: But I say, what need it be, if they that are coming to Jesus Christ, are not sometimes, yea oft-times, heartily afraid, that Jesus Christ, will cast them out.

I will give you, now, two instances, that seem to imply the truth of this observation.

In the Nineth of Matthew, at the Second Verse, you read of a man, that was sick of the Palsy; and he was coming to Jesus Christ, being born upon a bed by his Friends: He also was coming himself, and that upon another account than any of his friends was aware of; even for the pardon of sins, and the Salvation of his Soul. Now so soon as ever he was come into the presence of Christ, Christ bids him ⟨p. 196⟩be of good cheer; it seems then, his heart was fainting, but what was the cause of this fainting, but the guilt, and burden of his sins; therefore he proceeds, Be of good cheer, thy sins are forgiven thee.

In the Nineth of Matthew, at the Second Verse, you read of a man, that was sick of the Palsie; and he was coming to Jesus Christ, being born upon a bed by his Friends: He also was coming himself, and that upon another account than any of his friends was aware of; even for the pardon of sins, and the Salvation of his Soul. Now so soon as ever he was come into the presence of Christ, Christ bids him