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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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The Text, you will find, is after much more Discourse with, & about this People; and it is uttered by the Lord Jesus, at the Conclusion of the whole; & intimateth, that since they were Professors in Patience only, & therefore such as his Soul could not delight in, as such, that he would content himself with a Remnant that his Father had bestowed upon him. As if he should say, I am not like to be honoured in your Salvation; but the Father hath bestowed upon me a People, & they shall come to me in Truth, & in them will I be satisfied. The Text before may be called Christ's Repose; in the fulfilling whereof he rested himself content, after much Labour, and many Sermons spent, as i• were in vain. As he saith by the Prophet, I have laboured in vain, I have spent my strength for n•ught, and in vain, Isa. 49.4.
The Text, you will find, is after much more Discourse with, & about this People; and it is uttered by the Lord Jesus, at the Conclusion of the whole; & intimateth, that since they were Professors in Patience only, & therefore such as his Soul could not delght in, as such, that he would content himself with a Remnant that his Father had bestowed upon him. As if he should say, I am not like to be honour'd in your Salvation; but the Father hath bestowed upon me a Peeple, & they shall come to me in Truth, & in them will I be satisfy'd. The Text before may be called Christ's Repose; in the fulfilling whereof he rested himself content, after much Labour, and many Sermons spent, as i• were in vain. As he saith by the Prophet, I have laboured in vain, I have spent my strength for n•ught, and in vain, Isa. 49.4.
But as he saith there, My Judgment is with the Lord, and my Work with my God: So in the Text he saith; All that the Father giveth me, shall come to me, and him that cometh to me, I will in no wise c out. By these Words therefore, the Lord Jes comforteth himself under the Consideration of the Dissimulation of some of his Followers. He also thus betook himself to rest under the Consideration of the little effect that his Ministry ad in Capernaum, Corazin & Bethsaida I thank once, O Father, said he, Lord of Heaven and Earth, because thou hast hid these things from the Wise are Prudent, and hast revealed them to Babes, even so, Father, for so it seemed good in thy fight.