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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. You know that I told you at first, that coming to Christ is a moving of the Heart and Aff•ctions towards him.
But saith the Soul, my Dullness and Indifferency in all holy Duties, demonstrate my heartlessness in Coming; and to come, and not with the Heart, signifies nothing at all.
But saith the Soul, my Dulness and Indifferency in all holy Duties, demonstrate my heartlessness in Coming; and to come, and not with the Heart, signifies nothing at all.
Answ. The moving the Heart after Christ is not to be discerned (at all times) by the sensible affectionate Performance of Duties; but rather by those secret Groanings & Complaints which thy Soul makes to God against that Sloth that attends thee in Duties
Secondly, But grant it be even as thou sayest it •s, that thou comest so slowly, &c. yet since Christ bids them come that comes not at all, •urely they may be accepted that come, though ttended with those Infirmities, which thou at resent groanest under. He saith, And him that ometh: He saith not, if they come sensible, so st. But, and him that cometh to me, I will in no ise cast out. He saith also in the Eight of the proverbs, As for him that wanteth Understanding, that is, an Heart; for oftentimes the Understanding is taken for the Heart) Come eat of my read, and drink of the Wine that I have mingled.