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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.
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; Isa. 40. 13. Job 33. 13.
Sometimes, he hath his Way in the Whirlwind; but sometimes the Lord is not there, Nah. 13. 1 King. 19. 11.
If God will deal more gently with thee, than with others of his Children, grudge not at it: Refuse not the Waters that go softly, lest he bring upon thee the Waters of the Rivers, strong and many; even these two smoking Fire-brands, the Devil, and Guilt of Sin;