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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
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Not but that he indeed abhorred the Fact; but he would not Condemn the Woman for the Sin, because that was not his Office: He was not sent into the World, to condemn the World, but that the World through Him might be saved, Joh. 3. 17. Now, if Christ, though urged to it, would not Condemn the Guilty Woman, though she was far at present from coming to him; he would not that they should Once think, that he will cast them out, that in truth are coming to him: And him that cometh to me, I will in no wise cast out.
Thirdly, Christ plainly bids the Turning Sinner, Come; and forbids him to Entertain any such Thought, as that He will cast him out. Let the Wicked ⟨p. 246⟩forsake his Ways, and the Unrighteous Man his Thoughts; and let him Turn unto the Lord, and he will have Mercy upon him; and to our God, for he will abundantly Pardon, Isa. 55. 7.
The Lord, by bidding the Unrighteous forsake his Thoughts; doth in special forbid, as I have said, (to wit) those Thoughts, that hinder the Coming-Man in his Progress to Jesus Christ; His Unbelieving Thoughts.