Come & welcome to Jesus Christ, or, A plain and profitable discourse upon the…

Thirdly, Life is in Christ, that it might be sure to all the seed. Alas! the best of us, was life left in our hands, to be sure, we should forfeit it, over, and over, and over: or was it in any other hand, we should by our often backslidings, so offend him, that at last he would shut up his bowels in everlasting displeasure against us. But now it is in Christ, it is with one that can pity, pray for, pardon, yea multiply pardons: It is with one that can have Compassion upon us, when we are out of the way; with one that hath an heart to fetch us again, when we are gone astray; with one that can pardon without upbraiding. Blessed be God, that life is in Christ! For Now 'tis sure, to all the seed.

But Fourthly. This Doctrine of coming to Jesus Christ for life, informs us of the evil of Unbelief; that wicked thing, that is the only, or chief hindrance to the coming sinner. Doth the Text say, […]? Doth it say, And him that cometh, I will in no wise cast out? Then what an evil is that, that keepeth sinners ⟨p. 264⟩from coming to Jesus Christ? And that evil is unbelief. For by faith we come, by Unbelief we keep away. Therefore It is said to be that, by which a Soul is said to depart from God; because it was that, which at first caused the world to go off from him; and that also that keeps them from him to this day. And it doth it the more easily, because it doth it with a wile. This sin may be called, The White Devil; for it often-times in its Mischievous doings in the Soul, shows as if it was an Angel of Light. Yea, it Acteth like a Counsellor of Heaven: Therefore a little to discourse of this evil disease.

But Fourthly. This Doctrine of coming to Jesus Christ for life, informs us of the evil of Unbelief; that wicked thing, that is the only, or chief hindrance to the coming sinner. Doth the Text say, 〈…〉? Doth it say, And him that cometh, I will in no wise cast out? Then what an evil is that, that keepeth sinners ⟨p. 264⟩from coming to Jesus Christ? And that evil is unbelief. For by faith we come, by Unbelief we keep away. Therefore It is said to be that, by which a Soul is said to depart from God; because it was that, which at first caused the world to go off from him; and that also that keeps them from him to this day. And it doth it the more easily, because it doth it with a wile. This sin may be called, The White Devil; for it often-times in its Mischievous doings in the Soul, shews as if it was an Angel of Light. Yea, it Acteth like a Counsellor of Heaven: Therefore a little to discourse of this evil disease.