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

To come therefore to a word of Application.

First, That faith, and doubting, may at the same time have their residence in the same soul. O Thou of little faith, wherefore didst thou doubt? Mat. 14. 31. He saith not, O! Thou of No faith; but O! Thou of Little faith. Because he had a little faith in the midest of his many doubts. The same is true, even of many that are coming to Jesus Christ: They come, and fear they come, and doubt. When they look upon the promise, or, a word of encouragement by faith, then they come; but when they look upon themselves, or the difficulties that lie before them, then they doubt. Bid me Come, said Peter: Come, said Christ. So he went down out of the Ship to go to Jesus, but his hap was to go to him upon the water; There was the Trial. ⟨p. 239⟩So it is with the poor desiring Soul. Bid me Come, says the sinner: Come, says Christ, and I will in no wise cast thee out. So he Comes, but his hap is to come upon the water, upon drowning difficulties; if therefore the wind of Temptations blow, the waves of doubts and fears will presently arise, and this coming sinner will begin to sink, if he has but little faith.