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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.
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Secondly, He is full of Truth. Full of grace, and truth. Truth, that is, faithfulness in keeping promise, even this of the Text, (with all other) I will in no wise cast out. Hence it is said, that his words be true, and that he is the faithful God that keepeth covenant. And hence it is also that his promise is called Truth, Thou wilt fulfil thy truth unto Jacob, and thy mercy to Abraham, which thou hast sworn unto our Fathers, from the days of old. Therefore it is said again, that both himself, and words are Truth. I am the Truth, the Scriptures of Truth, thy Word is Truth, thy Law is the Truth, and my mouth, ⟨p. 286⟩aith he, shall speak truth, Joh. 14. 6. Dan. 10. 21. Joh. 17. 17. 2 Sam. 7. 28. Pro. 8. 7. Psal. 119. 142. Eccles. 12. 10. Isa. 25. 1. Mal. 2. 6. Acts 26. 25. 2 Tim. 2. 12, 13.
Secondly, He is full of Truth. Full of grace, and truth. Truth, that is, faithfulness in keeping promise, even this of the Text, (with all other) I will in no wise cast out. Hence it is said, that his words be true, and that he is the faithfull God that keepeth covenant. And hence it is also that his promise is called Truth, Thou wilt fulfill thy truth unto Jacob, and thy mercy to Abraham, which thou hast sworn unto our Fathers, from the days of old. Therefore it is said again, that both himself, and words are Truth. I am the Truth, the Scriptures of Truth, thy Word is Truth, thy Law is the Truth, and my mouth,