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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.
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Fourthly, Thy Fear that Christ will not Receive thee, may arise from a Sense of the exceeding Mercy of being Saved. Sometime Salvation is in the Eyes of him that desires it, so great, so huge, so wonderful a thing, that the very Thoughts of the Excellency of it, engenders Unbelief about obtaining it, in the Heart of those that unfeignedly desire it. Seemeth it to you (said David) a Light thing, to be a King's Son-in-Law, 1 Sam. 18. 23. So the Thoughts of the Greatness and Glory of the Thing propounded; as Heaven, Eternal Life, Eternal Glory, to be with God, and Christ, and Angels: These are great Things; Things too Good, (saith the Soul, that is little in his own Eyes:) Things too Rich, (saith the Soul, that is truly poor in Spirit) for me.
Fourthly, Thy Fear that Christ will not Receive thee, may arise from a Sense of the exceeding Mercy of being Saved. Sometime Salvation is in the Eyes of him that desires it, so great, so huge, so wonderful a thing, that the very Thoughts of the Excellency of it, ingenders Unbelief about obtaining it, in the Heart of those that unfeignedly desire it. Seemeth it to you (said David) a Light thing, to be a King's Son-in-Law, 1 Sam. 18. 23. So the Thoughts of the Greatness and Glory of the Thing propounded; as Heaven, Eternal Life, Eternal Glory, to be with God, and Christ, and Angels: These are great Things; Things too Good, (saith the Soul, that is little in his own Eyes:) Things too Rich, (saith the Soul, that is truly poor in Spirit) for me.
Besides, the Holy Ghost hath a way to greaten Heavenly things, to the understanding of the coming sinner; yea, and at the same time to greaten too the sin, and unworthiness of that sinner. Now the Soul staggeringly wonders, saying; What! to be made like Angels, like Christ! To live in Eternal bliss, joy and felicity! This is for ⟨p. 212⟩Angels, and for them that can walk like Angels.