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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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Fourthly, Absolute Promises must be fulfil• Conditional may, or may not be fulfilled. ⟨p. 50⟩The Absolute o•e m••t be fulfilled, because of the Faithfulness of God; the othe• may not, because of the Unfaithfulness • Men.
Fourthly, Absolute Promises must be fulfil• Conditional may, or may not be fulfilled. ⟨p. 50⟩The Absolute o•e m••t be fulfi••ed, because of the Faithfulnes• of God; the othe• may not, because of the Un•aithfulness • Men.
Fifthly, Absolute Promises have therefore sufficiency in themselves, to bring about the own Fulfillings; the Conditional have not • The Absolute Promise is therefore a big-belly Promise, because i• hath in it self a Fullness all desired things for us; and will when • time of that Promise is come, yield to us M• tal•, that which will verily save us; yea, & m• tis capable of answering the Demands of Promise that is Conditional Wherefore thou there be a real, yea, an eternal Differences these things (wih others) betwixt the Con tional & Absolute Promise; yet again in o Respects, there is a blessed Harmony betw them; as may be seen in these Particulars.