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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.
Temptations serve the Christian, as the Shepherds dogs serveth the silly sheep, that is coming behind the flock; he runs upon it, pulls it down, worry it, wound it, and grievously bedabbleth it with dirt and wet in the lowest places of the Furrows of the field: And not leaving it, until it is half dead; nor then neither, except God rebuke.
Temptations serve the Christian, as the Shepheards dogs serveth the silly sheep, that is coming behind the flock; he runs upon it, pulls it down, worry it, wound it, and grievously bedabbleth it with dirt and wet in the lowest places of the Furrows of the field: And not leaving it, untill it is half dead; nor then neither, except God rebuke.
Here is now room for fears of being cast away. Now I see I am lost, says the sinner; This is not coming to Jesus Christ, says the sinner; such a desperate hard, and wretched heart as mine is, cannot be a gracious one, saith the sinner: And bid such an one be Better; he says, I cannot, no I cannot.
Here is now room for fears of being cast away. Now I see I am lost, sayes the sinner; This is not coming to Jesus Christ, sayes the sinner; such a desperate hard, and wretched heart as mine is, cannot be a gracious one, saith the sinner: And bid such an one be Better; he sayes, I cannot, no I cannot.
Quest. But what will you say to a Soul in this condition?