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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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Answ. Where doth Christ Jesus require s• Qualification of those that are coming to • for Life? Come thou for Life, and tr•• not thy Head with such Objections against • self; and let Christ and God alone to Gl•• ⟨p. 33⟩themselves in the Salvation of such a Worm as thou art. The Father saith to the Son, Thou art my Son, O Israel, in whom I will be glorified. God pronounceth Life to Sinners, as the Argument to prevail with them to come to him for life; and Christ says plainly, I am come that ye might have Life, John 12.10. He hath no need of thy Designs, though thou hast need of his Eternal Life. Pardon of Sin, & Deliverance from Wrath to come, Christ propounds to thee, these be the things that thou hast need of: Besides God will be gracious & merciful to Worthless, Undeserving Wretches; Come then as such an one, and lay no stumbling blocks in the Way to him, but come to him for Life, and live John 5.24. Ch. 3.36. Mat. 1.21. Pro 8.36, 37 • Thes. 11. John 11.25.26.
When the G•a•er said, Sits, what must I do to •e saved? Paul did not so much as once ask him •hat is your End in this Question? Do you design the Glory of God, in the Salvation of your •oul? He had more wit: He knew that such questions as these, would have been but as Fools ables, instead of a sufficient Slve to so weigh a Question as this. Wherefore since this poor Wretch lacked Salvation by Jesus Christ, I mean […] saved from Hell & Death, which he knew now) was due to him for the Sins that he d committed; Paul bids him like a poor conemned Sinner as he was, to proceed still in is way of Self-seeking. Believe on the Lord Jesus rist, and thou shalt be saved,