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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.
Yea, God doth oft-times, even for this thing as it were, take our graces from us, and so leave us almost quite to our selves, and to the tempter, that we may learn not to love the Picture, more than the person of his Son. See how he dealt with them in the Sixteenth of Ezek, and the Second of Hosea.
Thirdly, Perhaps thou hast been given too much, to Judge thy brother, to condemn thy brother, because a poor tempted man: And God, to bring down the pride of thy heart, letteth the tempter loose upon thee, that thou also mayest feel thy self weak. For pride goeth before destruction, and an haughty spirit before a fall. Pro. 16. 18.
Fourthly, It may be thou hast dealt a little too roughly with those that God hath this way wounded; not considering thy self, lest thou also be tempted: and therefore God hath suffered it to come unto thee, Gal. 6. 1.
Fifthly, It may be thou wast given to slumber, and sleep, and therefore these Temptations were sent to awaken thee. You know that Peters Temptation came upon him, after his sleeping; then, instead of watching and praying; then he denied, and denied, and denied his Master,