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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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Thirdly, It appeareth that he is Free, because he giveth without Twitting: He gives to all men Liberally, and upbraideth not; Jam. 1. 5. There are some, that will not deny to do the Poor a Pleasure, but they will mix their Mercies with so many Twits, that the Persons on whom they bestow ⟨p. 291⟩their Charity, shall find but little Sweetness in it. But Christ doth not do so, Coming-Sinner; He casteth all thine Iniquities behind his Back; Thy Sins and Iniquities he will remember no more: Isa. 38. 17. Heb 8. 12.
Thirdly, It appeareth that he is Free, because he giveth without Twitting: He gives to all men Liberally, and upbraideth not; Jam. 1. 5. There are some, that will not deny to do the Poor a Pleasure, but they will mix their Mercies with so many Twitts, that the Persons on whom they bestow ⟨p. 291⟩their Charity, shall find but little Sweetness in it. But Christ doth not do so, Coming-Sinner; He casteth all thine Iniquities behind his Back; Thy Sins and Iniquities he will remember no more: Isa. 38. 17. Heb 8. 12.
Fourthly, That Christ is Free, is manifest by the Complaints that he makes against them, that will not come to him for Mercy: I say, he complains, saying; O Jerusalem, Jerusalem! How often would I have gathered thy Children together, as a Hen gathereth her Chickens under her Wings, and ye would not? Matth. 23. 37. I say, he speaks it by way of Complaint. He saith also in another place; But thou hast not called upon me, O Jacob; but thou hast been weary of me, O Israel;