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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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First, We call that an absolute Promise that is made without any Condition: or m• fully, thus; that is an absolute Promise • God, or of Christ, which maketh over • this or that Man any saving spiritual I sing, without a Condition to be done on part, for the obtaining thereof. And this have in hand is such an one. Let the • Master of Arts on Earth show me, if he • any Condition in this Text, depending • any Qualification in us, which is not • same Promise concluded, shall be by • Lord Jesus effected in us.
First, We call that an absolute Promi• that is made without any Condition: or m• fully, thus; that is an absolute Promise • God, or of Christ, which maketh over • this or that Man any saving spiritual I sing, without a Condition to be done on part, for the obtaining thereof. And this have in hand is such an one. Let the • Master of Arts on Earth shew me, if he • any Condition in this Text, depending • any Qualification in us, which is not • same Promise concluded, shall be by • Lord Jesus effected in us.
Secondly, An absolute Promise therefore as we say, without if, or and; that is requireth nothing of us that it self might accomplished. It saith not, They shall, [if] will; but, They shall: not, They shall, if use the means; but, They shall. You