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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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He saith not, and him that is come, but • that cometh.
To speak to these Words, 1. In General. 2 More Particularly.
In General: They suggest unto us […] Four things:
In General: They suggest unto us 〈…〉 Four things:
First, Th•• Jesus Christ doth build up•• that since the Father gave his People to • […] be enabled to come unto him. • […] cometh: As who should say, I […] ••nce they are given to Me, they sh•• ⟨p. 71⟩enabled to come unto Me. He saith not, if they come, or I suppose they will come; but, and him that cometh. By these words therefore he shows us that he addresseth himself to the receiving of them whom the Father gave to hims to save them: I say, He addresseth himself or prepareth himself to receive them: By which, as I said, He concludeth or buddeth upon it, that they shall indeed come to Him. He looketh that the Father should bring them nto his Bosom, and so stands ready to embrace them