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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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•y these Words, our Lord Jesus doth see •h yet more amply, his great Goodness of • Nature towards the coming Sinner. Be• he said, They shall come; and he declares • with Heart and Affections he will re•e them. But by the way, let me sp•ak • Word or two to the seeming Condition • of this Promise, wi•h which I have • to do. [And h•m tha• cometh •o me, I •an no wise cast out] Where it […] evident, •y some say) that Christ's receiving us ••orcy depends upon our coming, and so ⟨p. 70⟩our Salvation by Christ is conditional. If • come, we shall be received; if not, we sh••• not; so that is fully intimated by the word• The Promise of Reception is only to hi• that cometh. And him that cometh I answer that the Coming in these words mentioned, • a condition of being received to life, is t• which is promised, yea, concluded to be •• fected in us by the Promise going before In those latter Words, coming to Christ, • implicitly required of us; and in the Wor• before, that Grace that can make them co is positively promised to us [All that Father giveth me, shall come to me, and that cometh to me, I will in no wise cast out] He we come to Christ, because it is said, We […] come; because it is given us to come So the Condition which is expressed by Chri these latter Words, is absolutely promised the Words before. And indeed, the co here intended, is nothing else but the effect Shall come to me. They shall cme, and I not cast them out.