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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.
The water, in this Text, is the Grace of God, in the Doctrine of it: the living things, are the Children of men to whom this Grace of God, by the Gospel is preached: now saith he, Every living thing which moveth whithersoever the waters shall come, shall live. Now see how this word moveth is Expounded by Christ himself in the Book of the Revelations: The Spirit and the Bride say, come. And let him that heareth, say, come. And let him that is athirst, come. And whosever will, that is willing, let him take the water of life freely, Revel. 22. 17.
So that, to move in thy mind and will after Christ, is to be coming to him. There are many poor souls that are coming to Christ, that yet cannot tell how to believe it; because they think, that coming to him, is some strange and wonderful thing: and indeed so it is; but I mean, they overlook the inclination of their will; the moving of their mind, and the sounding of their bowels after him: and count these none of this strange and wonderful thing: when indeed it is a work of greatest wonder in this world, to see a man who was sometimes dead in sin, possessed of the devil, an enemy ⟨p. 36⟩to Christ, and to all things spiritually good. I say, to see this man moving with his mind after the Lord Jesus Christ, is one of the highest wonders in the world.
So that, to move in thy mind and will after Christ, is to be coming to him. There are many poor souls that are coming to Christ, that yet cannot tell how to believe it; because they think, that coming to him, is some strang and wonderfull thing: and indeed so it is; but I mean, they overlook the inclination of their will; the moving of their mind, and the sounding of their bowels after him: and count these none of this strang and wonderful thing: when indeed it is a work of greatest wonder in this world, to see a man who was sometimes dead in sin, possessed of the devil, an enemy ⟨p. 36⟩to Christ, and to all things spiritually good. I say, to see this man moving with his minde after the Lord Jesus Christ, is one of the highest wonders in the world.