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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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Object. 5. But say• another, I fear I come t• lat•; I doubt I have staid too long, I am afra•• the Door is shut.
Answ Thou canst never come too late to Jesus Christ, if thou dost come. This is manifest by two Instances.
First, By the Man that came to him at th• Eleventh Hour. This Man was idle all the Day •ong: He had a whole Gospel day, to come in, and he played it all away save only the last Hour thereof; But at last at the Eleventh hour he came, and goes into the Vineyard to work along with the rest of the Labourers, that had •orn the Burden and Heat of the Day. Well, •ut how was he received of the Lord of the Vineyard; Why, when Pay-day came, he had even as much as the rest, yea, had his Money first. True, the others murmured at him; but what did the Lord Jesus answer them? Is thine •e Evil, because mine is good? I will give unto this […], even as unto thee, Mat. 20.
First, By the Man that came to him at th• E•eventh Hour. This Man was idle all the Day •ong: He had a whole Gospel day, to come in, and he play'd it all away save only the last Hour thereof; But at last at the Eleventh hour he came, and goes into the Vineyard to work along with the rest of the Labourers, that had orn the Burthen and Heat of the Day. Well, ut how was he received of the Lord of the Vineyard; Why, when Pay-day came, he had even as much as the rest, yea, had his Money first. True, the others murmured at him; but what did the Lord Jesus answer them? Is thine e Evil, because mine is good? I will give unto this , even as unto thee,