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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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Fifthly, But again, he that comes to Christ flie• for his Life. Now there is no Man that fl• for his Life, that thinks he speeds fast enough on his Journey; no, could he, he would w•• lingly take a mile at a step O my slothful • heartless Soul• •ay'st thou, Oh that I had W• like a Dove, for then would I fly away, and be • rest! I would hasten my escape from the windy Si• and Tempest, Psalm 65, 6, 8
Fifthly, But again, he that comes to Christ flie• for his Life. Now there is no Man that fl• for his Life, that thinks he speeds fast enoug• on his Journey; no, could he, he would w•• lingly take a mile at a step O my slothful • heartless Soul• •ay'st thou, Oh that I had W• like a Dove, for then would I flie away, and be • rest! I would hasten my escape from the windy Si• and Tempest, Psalm 65, 6, 8
Poor coming Soul, thou art like the Man th• would ride full Gallop, whose Horse will har ly Trot; now the desire of his Mind is not be judged by the slw pace of the dul Jde b rides on, but by the Hitching, and Kicking, Spurring, as he sits on his Back. Thy Fesh is li this dull Jude, it will not gallop after Christ it will be backward, though thy Soul & Heaven i at Stake: But be of good Comfort, Christ judgeth not according to the fierceness of ou ward Motion,