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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.
To speak to the first, That it is a moving of the mind towards him. This is evident, because coming hither or thither, if it be voluntary, is by an act of the will; so coming to Christ, is through the inclining of the will. Thy people shall be willing, Psal. 110. 3. This willingness of heart, is it, which sets the mind a moving after, or towards him. The Church expresseth this moving of her mind towards Christ, by the moving of her bowels: My beloved put in his hand by the hole of the door, and my Bowels were moved for him Song. 5. 4. My bowels; the passions of my mind and affections; which passions of the affections, are expressed by the yearning, and sounding of the bowels. The yearning or passionate working of them, the Sounding of them, or their making an Noise for him, Gen. 43. 30. 1 King 3. 26. Isa. 16. 11.
To speak to the first, That it is a moving of the mind towards him. This is evident, because coming hither or thither, if it be voluntary, is by an act of the will; so coming to Christ, is through the inclining of the will. Thy people shall be willing, Psal. 110. 3. This willingness of heart, is it, which sets the mind a moving after, or towards him. The Church expresseth this moving of her mind towards Christ, by the moving of her bowels: My beloved put in his hand by the hole of the door, and my Bowels were moved for him Song. 5. 4. My bowels; the passions of my mind and affections; which passions of the affections, are expressed by the yerning, and sounding of the bowels. The yerning or passionate working of them, the Sounding of them, or their making an Noise for him, Gen. 43. 30. 1 King 3. 26. Isa. 16. 11.