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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.
Fourthly, I will add yet another Encouragement, for the Man that is coming to Jesus Christ. Art thou coming? Art thou coming, indeed? Why?
1. Then this thy Coming, Is by Virtue of God's Call. Thou art Called; Calling goes before Coming: Coming is not of Works, but of him that Calleth. He went up into a Mountain, and called to him whom he would, and They came to him, Mark 3. 13.
1. Then this thy Coming, Is by Vertue of God's Call. Thou art Called; Calling goes before Coming: Coming is not of Works, but of him that Calleth. He went up into a Mountain, and called to him whom he would, and They came to him, Mark 3. 13.
Secondly, Art thou coming? This is also by Virtue of Illumination. God has made thee see; and therefore, thou art coming. So long as thou wast Darkness, thou lovedst Darkness; and couldst not abide to come, because thy Deeds were Evil: But, being now Illuminated, and made to see, what, and where thou art; and also, what, and where thy Saviour is: Now thou art coming to Jesus Christ. Blessed art thou Simon Bar-Jona! for Flesh and Blood hath at Revealed it unto thee (said Christ) but my Father which is in Heaven; Matth. 16. 15, 16.
Secondly, Art thou coming? This is also by Vertue of Illumination. God has made thee see; and therefore, thou art coming. So long as thou wast Darkness, thou lovedst Darkness; and couldst not abide to come, because thy Deeds were Evil: But, being now Illuminated, and made to see, what, and where thou art; and also, what, and where thy Saviour is: Now thou art coming to Jesus Christ. Blessed art thou Simon Bar-Jona! for Flesh and Blood hath at Revealed it unto thee (said Christ) but my Father which is in Heaven;