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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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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.
Secondly, But grant it be even as thou say'st 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 ••overbs, As for him that wanteth Understanding, • that is, an Heart; for oftentimes the Under••anding is taken for the Heart) Come eat of my •read, and drink of the Wine that I have mingled.