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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.
And is it a wonder then, to see a Soul that is drowned with the sense of glory, and a sense of its own nothingness, to be confounded in it self, and to fear that the glory apprehended, is too great, too good, and too rich for such an one.
That thing, Heaven and Eternal Glory, is so great; and I that would have it, so small, so sorry a Creature, that the thoughts of obtaining, confounds me.
Thus, I say, doth the greatness of the things desired, quite dash and overthrow the mind of the desirer: O it is ⟨p. 214⟩too big, it is too big! It is too great a mercy.
Thus, I say, doth the greatness of the things desired, quite dash and overthrow the mind of the desirer: O it is ⟨p. 214⟩too bigg, it is too big! It is too great a mercy.
But coming sinner, let me reason with thee, Thou sayest it is too big, too great. Well, will things that are less, satisfy thy Soul? will a less thing than Heaven, than Glory, and Eternal life, answer thy desires? No, nothing less: yet I fear they are too big, and too good for me, ever to obtain. Well, as big, and as good as they are, God giveth them to such as thou; They are not too big for God to give. No, not too big to give freely: be content, let God give like Himself; he is that Eternal God, and he giveth like himself. When Kings give, they do not use to give as poor men do. Hence it is said, that Nabal made a feast in his house, Like the feast of a King: And again, All these things did Araunah, as a King, give unto David,