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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. › The Third Use; a Use of Encouragement.
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.
What shall I say to thee? thou comest to a full Christ, thou canst not want any thing, for Soul or body, for this World, or that to come, but it is to be had, in, or by Jesus Christ,
As it is said of the Land, that the Danites went to possess, So, and with much more truth, it may be said of Christ: He is such an one, with whom there is no want of any good thing that is in Heaven or earth.
As it is said of the Land, that the Dannits went to possess, So, and with much more truth, it may be said of Christ: He is such an one, with whom there is no want of any good thing that is in Heaven or earth.
A Full Christ, is thy Christ.
First, He is full of Grace. Grace is sometimes taken for love, and take it so here. He is full of love; never any loved like Jesus Christ. Jonathans love went beyond the love of Women; but the love of Christ passes knowledge. It is beyond the love of all the Earth, of all Creatures, even of Men and Angels. His love prevailed with him to lay aside his Glory, to leave the Heavenly place, to cloth himself with flesh, to be born in a Stable, to be laid in a Manger, to live a poor life in the World, to take upon him our sicknesses, infirmities, sins, curse, Death, and the Wrath that was due to man. And all this he did, for a base, undeserving, unthankful people: yea, for a people that