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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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2. By way of Observation.
First, By way of Explication; (All) that the Father giveth me. This Word All is often used in Scripture, and is to be taken more largely, or more strictly, even as the Truth or Argument, for the sake of which it is made use for, will bear: Wherefore, that we may the better ⟨p. 5⟩understand the mind of Christ in the use of i• here, we must consider, that it is limited & restrained only to those that shall be saved, to wit, to those that shall come to Christ, even to those whom he will in no wise cast out. Thus also th• Words All Israel is sometimes to be taken; (tho' sometimes it is taken for the whole Family of Jacob) And so All Israel shall be saved. Rom. 11. By All Israel here he intendeth not All of Israel in the largest sense; for they are not All Isra•• which are of Israel, neither because they are […] the Seed of Abraham, are they all Children; B• in Isaac shall thy Seed be called; that is, they wh•• are the Children of the Flesh, these are not th• Children of God, but the Children of the Promise are counted for the Seed. Rom. 9 6, 7,
First, By way of Explication; (All) that the Father giveth me. This Word All is often used in Scripture, and is to be taken more largely, or more strictly, even as the Truth or Argument, for the sake of which it is made use for, will bear: Wherefore, that we may the better ⟨p. 5⟩understand the mind of Christ in the use of i here, we must consider, that it is limited & restrained only to those that shall be saved, to wit, to those that shall come to Christ, even to thos whom he will in no wise cast out. Thus also th Words All Israel is sometimes to be taken; (tho' sometimes it is taken for the whole Family of Jacob) And so All Israel shall be saved.