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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. › To come therefore to a word of Application.
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Secondly, Is it so? That they that are coming to Jesus Christ, are oft-times heartily afraid, that Jesus Christ will not receive ⟨p. 240⟩them: Then this shows us a reason of that Dejection, and those castings down, that very often we perceive to be in them, that are coming to Jesus Christ: Why, it is because they are afraid that Jesus Christ will not receive them. The poor World, they Mock us, because, we are a dejected people; I mean, because we are sometimes so: But they do not know the cause of our Dejections. Could we be persuaded, even then, when we are Dejected, that Jesus Christ, would indeed receive us: It would put more gladness into our hearts, than in the time in which their Corn, and Wine, and Oil increases, Psal. 4. 6, 7. But,
Secondly, Is it so? That they that are coming to Jesus Christ, are oft-times heartily afraid, that Jesus Christ will not receive ⟨p. 240⟩them: Then this shews us a reason of that Dejection, and those castings down, that very often we perceive to be in them, that are coming to Jesus Christ: Why, it is because they are afraid that Jesus Christ will not receive them. The poor World, they Mock us, because, we are a dejected people; I mean, because we are sometimes so: But they do not know the cause of our Dejections. Could we be perswaded, even then, when we are Dejected, that Jesus Christ, would indeed receive us: It would put more gladness into our hearts, than in the time in which their Corn, and Wine, and Oyl increases, Psal. 4. 6, 7. But,
Thirdly, Is it so? That they that are coming to Jesus Christ, are oft-times heartily afraid that he will not receive them. Then this shows, that they that are coming to Jesus Christ, are an awakened, sensible, considering people. For, fear cometh from sense, and consideration of things. They are sensible of sin, sensible of the Curse due thereto; They are also sensible of the Glorious Majesty of God, and of what a blessed, blessed thing it is, to be received of Jesus Christ: The glory of Heaven, and evil of sin,