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Come and welcome to Jesus Christ. Or, A plain and profitable discourse on John…
Come and welcome to Jesus Christ. Or, A plain and profitable discourse on John VI. verse xxxvii. Showing, the cause, truth and manner of the coming of a sinner to Jesus Christ; with his happy reception, and blessed entertainment. / Written by John Bunyan, author of the Pilgrim's progress. ; [Two lines from Isaiah]Come and welcome to Jesus Christ. Or, A plain and profitable discourse on John VI. verse xxxvii. Shewing, the cause, truth and manner of the coming of a sinner to Jesus Christ; with his happy reception, and blessed entertainment. / Written by John Bunyan, author of the Pilgrim's progress. ; [Two lines from Isaiah]
Boston, : Reprinted, and are to be sold by Nicholas Boone at the Bible in Cornhill., 1728
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Thou then that art indeed the coming Sin•••, believest all this? True, perhaps thou dost • believe with that full Assurance, nor • thou leisure to take notice of thy Faith as •hese distinct Acts of it; but yet all this Faith […] him coming to Christ for Life. And the •th that thus worketh, is the Faith of the best • purest kind: Because this Man comes alone • Sinner, & as seeing that life is to be had on• in Jesus Christ.
Thou then that art indeed the coming Sin•••, believest all this? True, perhaps thou dost • believe with that full Assurance, nor • thou leisure to take notice of thy Faith as •hese distinct Acts of it; but yet all this Faith 〈…〉 him coming to Christ for Life. And the •th that thus worketh, is the Faith of the best • purest kind: Because this Man comes alone • Sinner, & as seeing that life is to be had on• in Jesus Christ.
Before I conclude my Answer to this Objection •e into thy Consideration these Two Things.