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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. › I come now to the Reasons of the Observation.
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Thirdly, If Jesus Christ should allow the Coming-Sinner, Once to think, that he will cast him out; then he must allow him to make a Question, Whether he is willing to Receive his Father's Gift? For the Coming-Sinner is his Father's Gift; as also says the Text: But he testifieth, All that the Father giveth him, shall come to him; and him that cometh, he will in no wise cast out. Therefore, Jesus Christ would not have him, that in Truth is coming to him, Once to think, that he will cast him out.
Thirdly, If Jesus Christ should allow the Coming-Sinner, Once to think, that he will cast him out; then he must allow him to make a Question, Whether he is willing to Receive his Father's Gift? For the Coming-Sinner is his Father's Gift; as also sayes the Text: But he testifeth, All that the Father giveth him, shall come to him; and him that cometh, he will in no wise cast out. Therefore, Jesus Christ would not have him, that in Truth is coming to him, Once to think, that he will cast him out.
Fourthly, If Jesus Christ should allow them Once to think (that indeed are coming to him) that he will cast him out; he must allow them to think, that he will despise and reject the Drawing of his Father: For No Man can come to him, but whom the Father draweth: But it would be high Blasphemy, and damnable Wickedness, Once to imagine thus. Therefore, Jesus Christ would not have him that cometh, Once think, that he will cast him out.
Fifthly, If Jesus Christ should allow those, that indeed are coming to him, Once to think, that he will cast them out; He must allow them to think, ⟨p. 251⟩that he will be Unfaithful to the Trust, and Charge, that his Father hath committed to him; which is to Save, and not to Lose, any thing of that which he hath given him to Save;