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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
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Fourthly, The fathers giving of them to him to save them, declares to us that he hath a Sufficiency of wisdom to wage with all those difficulties that would attend him in his bringing of his Sons and Daughters unto glory; He hath made him to us to be Wisdom, yea he is called Wisdom it self; and God saith moreover, that he shall deal prudently. And indeed, he that shall take upon him to be the Saviour of the people, had need be Wise, because their adversaries are subtle above any. Here they have to encounter with the Serpent, who for his Subtlety out-witted our Father and Mother when their wisdom was at highest (Gen. 3.) But if we talk of Wisdom, our Jesus is wise, wiser than Solomon, wiser than all men, wiser than all the Angels; he is even the Wisdom of God. Christ the Wisdom of God (1 Col. 1.) And hence it is, that he turneth sin, temptation, persecutions, falls, and all things, for ⟨p. 31⟩good unto this people, (Rom. 8.)
Fourthly, The fathers giving of them to him to save them, declares to us that he hath a Sufficiency of wisdom to wage with all those difficulties that would attend him in his bringing of his Sons and Daughters unto glory; He hath made him to us to be Wisdom, yea he is called Wisdom it self; and God saith moreover, that he shall deal prudently. And indeed, he that shall take upon him to be the Saviour of the people, had need be Wise, because their adversaries are subtile above any. Here they have to incounter with the Serpent, who for his Subtilty out-witted our Father and Mother when their wisdome was at highest (Gen. 3.) But if we talk of Wisdom, our Jesus is wise, wiser than Solomon, wiser than all men, wiser than all the Angels; he is even the Wisdom of God. Christ the Wisdom of God (1 Col. 1.) And hence it is, that he turneth sin, temptation, persecutions, falls, and all things, for ⟨p. 31⟩good unto this people, (