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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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Sarah shall have a Son: But how if Sarah be p• Age? Why still the Promise continues to • Sarah shall have a Son. But how if Sarah • Barren? Why still the Promise says, Sarah • have a Son But Abraham's Body is now de• why the Promise is still the •am• ▪ Sarah • have a Son. Thus you see what Virtue ther• an absolute Promise: It carrieth enough • its own Bowels to accomplish the thing proc•• sed, whether there be means or no to effect • Wherefore this Promise in the Text being • absolute Promise, by Virtue of it, not by • •n• of our selves, or by our own Induceme•• ⟨p. 47⟩do we come to Jesus Christ, for so are the Words of the Text; All that the Father giveth Me, shall come to Me.
Therefore is every sincere Come• to Jesus Christ called also the Child of the Promises. Now my Brethren, as Isaac was, so are we the Children of the Promise, Gal. 4.28. That is, we are the Children that God hath promised to Jesus Christ, and given to him; yea, the Children that Jesus Christ hath promised shall come to him. All that the Father giveth me shall come.