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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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And him that (cometh to Me) the Man therefore that comes aright, casts all things behind his Back, and looked at (nor hath his Expectation from ought but) the Son of God alone, as David said, My Soul, wait thou only upon God, for my expectation is from him: He only is my Rock, and Salvation; He is my Defence, I shall not be moved, Psal. 92 5. His Eye is to Christ, his Heart is to Christ, and his Expectation is from him only. Therefore the Man that comes to Christ, is one that hath ⟨p. 96⟩had deep Considerations of his own […] slighting Thoughts of his own Righteous•••• and high Thoughts of the Blood and Right• ousness of Jesus Christ; yea, he sees, as I h•• said more Virtue in the Blood of Christ, to […] him, than there is in all his Sins to Damn h•• He therefore setteth Christ before his Ey• there is nothing in Heaven or Earth he kno• that can save his Soul, and secure him from […] Wrath of God, but Christ; that is, nothing […] his Personal Righteousness, and Blood.
And him that (cometh to Me) the Man therefore that comes aright, casts all things behind his Back, and looked at (nor hath his Expectation from ought but) the Son of God alone, as David said, My Soul, wait thou only upon God, for my expectation is from him: He only is my Rock, and Salvation; He is my Defence, I shall not be moved, Psal. 92 5. His Eye is to Christ, his Heart is to Christ, and his Expectation is from him only. Therefore the Man that comes to Christ, is one that hath ⟨p. 96⟩had deep Considerations of his own 〈…〉 slighting Thoughts of his own Righteous•••• and high Thoughts of the Blood and Right• ousness of Jesus Christ; yea, he sees, as I h said more Virtue in the Blood of Christ, to him, than there is in all his Sins to Damn h He therefore setteth Christ before his Ey there is nothing in Heaven or Earth he kno that can save his Soul, and secure him from Wrath of God, but Christ; that is, nothing his Personal Righteousness, and Blood.