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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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These Words (to me) are also to be well •eded: For by them; as he secureth those ••r come to him, so also he shows himself • concerned with those that in their coming • short to turn aside to others: For you […] know that every one that comes, comes […] to Jesus Christ. Some that come, come ⟨p. 94⟩to Moses and to his Law, and then take up•• Life; with these Christ is not concerned; […] with these, this Promise hath nothing to as • Christ is become of none effect unto you • Whoso of you are justified by the Law, ye ar• fallen from Grace, Gal. 5 3 4. Again, some tha• came, came no farther than the Gospel Ordinances, and there stay; they came not through them to Christ: With these neither is He concerned; nor will the Lord! Lord! avail the• them any thing in the great and dismal D•• A Man may come to, and also go from t•• Place and Ordinances of Worship, and yet […] be remembered by Christ. So I saw the Wic• ed buried, (says Solomon) who had come […] gone from the Place of the Holy, & they wi•• forgotten in the City, where they had so d••. • This is also vanity, Eccl 8.10.
These Words (to me) are also to be well •eded: For by them; as he secureth those ••r come to him, so also he shews himself • concerned with those that in their coming short to turn aside to others: For you know that every one that comes, comes to Jesus Christ. Some that come, come