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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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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; Joh. 6. 36. But the Father hath given him a Charge, to save the Coming-Sinner: Therefore, it cannot be, that he should allow, that such an one should Once think, that he will cast him out.
Sixthly, If Jesus Christ should allow, that they should Once think, that are coming to him, that he will cast them out: Then he must allow them to think, that he will be unfaithful to his Office of Priest-hood: For, as by the first part of it, he paid Price for, and Ransomed Souls; so by the Second Part thereof, he continually maketh Intercession to God for them that come, Heb. 7. 25. But he cannot allow us to question his Faithful Execution of his Priest-hood: Therefore, he cannot allow us Once to think, that the Coming-Sinner shall be cast out.