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

Poor Creature! Thou criest, If I were Tempted, I could come faster, and with more Confidence to Jesus Christ: Thou sayest thou knowest not what. What says Job? With-draw thy Hand from me, and let not thy Dread make me afraid: Then call thou, and I will answer; or let me speak, and answer thou me, Job 13. 21. It is not the overheavy Load of Sin, but the Discovery of Mercy; not the Roaring of the Devil, but the Drawing of the Father, that makes a Man come to Jesus ⟨p. 226⟩Christ: I my self know all these Things.

Poor Creature! Thou criest, If I were Tempted, I could come faster, and with more Confidence to Jesus Christ: Thou sayest thou knowst not what. What sayes Job? With-draw thy Hand from me, and let not thy Dread make me afraid: Then call thou, and I will answer; or let me speak, and answer thou me, Job 13. 21. It is not the overheavy Load of Sin, but the Discovery of Mercy; not the Roaring of the Devil, but the Drawing of the Father, that makes a Man come to Jesus ⟨p. 226⟩Christ: I my self know all these Things.

True, sometimes, yea, most an end▪ they that come to Jesus Christ, come the Way that thou desirest; the Loaden, Tempted Way: But the Lord also leads some by the Waters of Comfort. If I was to choose, when to go a long Journey; to wit, Whether I would go it in the Dead of Winter, or in the Pleasant Spring, (though if it was a very profitable Journey, (as that of coming to Christ is) I would choose to go it through Fire and Water, before I would lose the Benefit) I would choose to go it in the Pleasant Spring; because the Way would be more Delightsome, the Days longer and Warmer, the Nights shorter, and not so Cold. And it is observable, that that very Argument that thou usest to weaken thy Strength in the Way, that very Argument Christ Jesus useth to encourage his Beloved to come to him: Arise (saith he) my Love, my Fair One, and come away; (Why?) For lo, the Winter is past, the Rain is over and gone, the Flowers appear in the Earth, the time of the Singing of Birds is come, and the Voice of the Turtle is heard in our Land. The Fig-Tree