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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
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.
Secondly, When the Woman taken in Adultery, (even in the very Act) was brought before Jesus Christ: So he carried it, both by Words and Actions, that he evidently enough made it manifest, that Condemning, and Casting-out, were such Things; for the Doing of which, he came not into the World.
Secondly, When the Woman taken in Adultery, (even in the very Act) was brought before Jesus Christ: So he carryed it, both by Words and Actions, that he evidently enough made it manifest, that Condemning, and Casting-out, were such Things; for the Doing of which, he came not into the World.
Wherefore, when they had set her before him, and had laid to her charge her Heinous Fact, he stooped down, and with his Finger wrote upon the Ground, as though he heard them not. Now, What did he do by this his Carriage, ⟨p. 245⟩but testify plainly, That he was not for Receiving Accusations against poor Sinners, who-ever accused by? And observe; Though they continued asking, thinking at last to force him to Condemn her; yet then he so answered, as that he drove all Condemning Persons from her. And then he adds, for her Encouragement to come to him; Neither do I Condemn thee; go, and Sin no more, Joh. 8. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12.
Wherefore, when they had set her before him, and had laid to her charge her Heinous Fact, he stooped down, and with his Finger wrote upon the Ground, as though he heard them not. Now, What did he do by this his Cariage, ⟨p. 245⟩but testify plainly, That he was not for Receiving Accusations against poor Sinners, who-ever accused by? And observe; Though they continued asking, thinking at last to force him to Condemn her; yet then he so answered, as that he drove all Condemning Persons from her. And then he adds, for her Encouragement to come to him; Neither do I Condemn thee; go, and Sin no more,