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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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Nothing is more desirable than Life, to him that hath in himself the Sentence of Condemnation; and h•re only is Life to be found: This Life, to wit, Eternal Life, This Life is in the Son: that is, in Him that faith in the Text, All that the Father hath given me, shall come to me, 1 John v. 10.
Thirdly, The Person speaking in the Text. i• He alone, by whom poor Sinners have Admittance to, and Acceptance with the Father, because of the Glory of his Righteousness, by, and in which He presenteth them amiable and spotless in his sight, neither is there any way b• sides Him, so to come to the Father; I am […] ⟨p. 63⟩•y, (saith he,) the Truth and the Life; no Man ••eth to the Father, but by Me, John 14.6. All ••her ways to God are dead and damnable; the destroying Cherubims stand with flaming Swords, ••rn,ng every Way to keep all others from his presence▪ (Gen 3.34) I say all others, but them ••at come by Him.
Thirdly, The Person speaking in the Text. i• He alone, by whom poor Sinners have Admittance to, and Acceptance with the Father, because of the Glory of his Righteousness, by, and in which He presenteth them amiable and spotless in his sight, neither is there any way b• sides Him, so to come to the Father; I am 〈…〉