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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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Answ Why shall-come can raise them froth this Death. The Hour is coming, and now is, th• the Dead shall hear the Voice of the Son of God; • they that hear shall live. Thus therefore is th• Impediment by Shall-come removed out of t• way? They shall hear, they shall live.
Answ Why shall-come can raise them frot• this Death. The Hour is coming, and now is, th• the Dead shall hear the Voice of the Son of God; • they that hear shall live. Thus therefore is th• Impediment by Shall-come removed out of t• way? They shall hear, they shall live.
Obj. 2. But they are Satan's Captives; he to them Captives at his Will, and he is stronger t• they: How can they come?
Ans, Why, Shall come hath also provided • help for this. Satan hath bound that Daugh• of Abraham so, that she could by no means […] up her se•f; but yet Shall come sit her fo• both in Body and Soul. Christ will have th• turned from the Power of Satan unto God. • what must it be, if they turn themselves, o something to merit of him to turn them? he will do it freely, of his own good Will. A Man, whose Soul is possessed with the Devil, turned whithersoever the Governor listeth taken Captive by him, notwithstanding its? tural Powers, at his Will; but what will do? Will he hold him when Shall-come forth it self, (will he then let him) for com to Jesus Christ? No, that cannot be; his Po is but the Power of a Fallen Angel, but S come is the Word of God; therefore Shall co must be fulfilled, and the Gates of Hell not prevail against it.