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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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The word (All) therefore, must be limited enlarged, as the Truth & Argument, for the sak• of which it is used, will bear; else we shall abuse Scriptures, and Readers, & our Selves, and All. And I, if I be lifted up from the Earth, sai• Christ, will draw All Men after Me. John 12.3• Can any Man imagine that by all, in this place he should mean all and every individual Ma• in the World; and that not rather that all i• consonant to the scope of the Place? And if b• being lift up from the Earth, he means as it should seem his being taken up into Heaven; & if, by drawing all Men after Him, he meant a drawing them into that Place of Glory: then must be mean by all Men, those & only those that shall in Truth be eternally Saved from the Wrath to come: For God hath concluded them all in Unbelief, that he might have Mercy upon all, […] 11.52. Hence again you have all and all, two alls; but yet a great disparity between the […] ⟨p. 6⟩made mention of in the first place, and that all made mention of in the second. Those intended in this Text are the Jews, even all of them, by the S••• (all) that you find in the Words. The second all doth also intend the same People; but yet only so many of them as God will have Mercy upon. He hath concluded them all in Unbelief, that he might have Mercy upon all. The all also in the Text is likewise to be limited and restrained to the Saved, and to them only. But again.
The word (All) therefore, must be limited enlarged, as the Truth & Argument, for the sak• of which it is used, will bear; else we shall abuse Scriptures, and Readers, & our Selves, and All. And I, if I be lifted up from the Earth, sai• Christ, will draw All Men after Me. John 12.3• Can any Man imagine that by all, in this place he should mean all and every individual Ma in the World; and that not rather that all i consonant to the scope of the Place? And if b being lift up from the Earth, he means as it should seem his being taken up into Heaven; & if, by drawing all Men after Him, he meant a drawing them into that Place of Glory: then must be mean by all Men, those & only those that shall in Truth be eternally Saved from the Wrath to come: For God hath concluded them all in Unbelief, that he might have Mercy upon all, 11.52. Hence again you have all and all, two alls; but yet a great desparity between the