A30130:746
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
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This is yet further manifest by these Considerations:
First, Christ Jesus did forbid even them, that as yet, were not coming to him, Once to think him such an one: Do not think (said he) that I will accuse you to the Father, Joh. 5. 45.
These (as I said) were such, that as yet, were not coming to him: For he saith of them a little before; And ye will not come to me: For the Respect they had to the Honour of Men, kept them back. Yet, I say, Jesus Christ ⟨p. 244⟩gives them to understand, that though he might Justly reject them, yet he would not; but bids them not Once to think, that he would accuse them to the Father. Now, not to Accuse (with Christ), is to Plead for: For Christ in these things, stands not Neuter between the Father and Sinners. So then, If Jesus Christ would not have them think, that Yet will not come to him, that he will Accuse them; then he would not that they should think so, that in truth are coming to him. And him that cometh to me, I will in no wise cast out.