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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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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.
Fourthly, This Word (shall come) engageth Christ to communicate all manner of Grace to those thus given him, to make them effectually come to him, They shall come; that •s, not if they will, but if Grace, all Grace, •f Power, Wisdom, a new Heart, and the Holy Spirit, and all joining together, can make them come. I say this Word (shall come) being absolute hath no Dependence upon our own Will, or Power, or Goodness; But it en••geth for us, even God himself, Christ himself, the Spirit himself. When God had made ••at absolute Promise to Abraham that Sarah •hould have a Son, Abraham did not at all look •t any Qualifications in himself, because the promise looked at none; but as God had, by •he Promise absolutely promised him a Son, so […] considered now, not his own Body now •ead, nor yet the Barrenness of Sarah's Womb. •e staggered not at the Promise of God through unbelief, but was strong in Faith, giving Glory to •od, being fully persuaded, that what he had pro••sed, he was able to perform, Rom. 4. He had promised, and had promised absolutely Sarah