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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. With all my Heart, and Death the next Hour (if it were God's Will) rather than thus to Sin against him.
Well then, thy not liking of them, thy mourning for them, thy praying against them, & thy loathing thy self because of them, with thy sincere choosing of those Thoughts, for thy Delectation, that are Heavenly and Holy, clearly declares, that these things are not countenanced either with thy Will, Affections, Understanding, Judgement, or Conscience; and so, that thy Heart is not in them, but that rather they come immediately from the Devil, of arise from the ⟨p. 36⟩Body of Death that is in thy Flesh; of which thou oughtest thus to say, now then it's no more I that do it, but Sin that dwells in me Rom. 7.16, 17.
Well then, thy not liking of them, thy mourning for them, thy praying against them, & thy loathing thy self because of them, with thy sincere chusing of those Thoughts, for thy Delcetation, that are Heavenly and Holy, clearly declares, that these things are not countenanc'd either with thy Will, Affections, Understanding, Judgement, or Conscience; and so, that thy Heart is not in them, but that rather they come immediately from the Devil, of arise from the ⟨p. 36⟩Body of Death that is in thy Flesh; of which thou oughtest thus to say, now then it's no more I that do it, but Sin that dwells in me Rom. 7.16, 17.
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