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

This is the way that some Sinners appoint for God: But, perhaps, he will not walk therein; yet will he bring them to Jesus Christ: But now, because they come not the Way of their own Chalking out, therefore they are at a loss. They look for Heavy Load and Burden; but, perhaps, God gives them a Sight of their lost Condition, and addeth not that heavy Weight and Burden. They look for fearful Temptations of Satan; but God sees, that yet they are not fit for them: Nor is the Time come, that he should be Honoured by them in such à Condition. They look for great and glorious Revelations, of Christ, Grace and Mercy: But perhaps, God only takes the Yoke from off their Jaws, and lays Meat before them. And now again, they are at a loss, yet a-coming to Jesus Christ: I drew them (saith God) with the Cords of a Man, with the Bands of Love: I took the Yoke from off their Jaws, and laid Meat unto them, Hos. 11. 4.

Now, I say, if God brings thee to Christ, and not by the Way that thou hast appointed, then thou art at a loss; and for thy being at a loss, Thou mayst ⟨p. 224⟩thank thy self. God hath more ways than thou knowest of, to bring a Sinner to Jesus Christ: But he will not give thee before-hand an Account, by which of them he will bring thee to Christ; Isa. 40. 13. Job 33. 13.

Now, I say, if God brings thee to Christ, and not by the Way that thou hast appointed, then thou art at a loss; and for thy being at a loss, Thou mayst ⟨p. 224⟩thank thy self. God hath more ways than thou knowst of, to bring a Sinner to Jesus Christ: But he will not give thee before-hand an Account, by which of them he will bring thee to Christ;