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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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There is therefore, Heart attracting G•• the Lord Jesus Christ, which when dis• subjects th• Heart to the Word, and ma• come to Him.
'Tis said of Abraham, that when he dwel• Mesopotamia, the God of Glory appeared • ⟨p. 67⟩[…], (Acts 7.2) saying, Get thee out of thy entry. And what then? Why, away he •t from his House and Friends, & all the ••rld could not stay him. Now as the Psal. • says, Who is the King of Glory? He •••wers, The Lord mighty in Battle. And […] was that but He that spoiled Principalities • Powers, when he did hang on the Tree, •mphing over them thereon? And who was […], but Jesus Christ, even the Person speaking •he Text, Therefore he saith of Abraham, He • his Day; Yea saith he to the Je••s, your Fa•••• Abraham rejoiced to see my day, and he saw it, • was glad, Psal. 24 8 Col 2 14 Ja. •.8 J•h 8 56. indeed the carnal man says (at least) in his rt, Isa 53 2. there is no form or comeliness Christ; and when we shall see him, there is Beauty that we should desire him: But he ; this he speaks, as having never seen him, they that stand in his Word, by the hep of holy Spirit, they will tell you other things. we, say they, all with open face, beholding a Glass, the Glory of the Lord, are chant in the same Image, from glory to glory, . 3 18 They see glory in his Person, glory is Undertakings, glory in the Merit or his od, and glory in the Perfection of his Righusness; yea, heart affecting, heart sweetening, heart changing glory