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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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First, T••• all things are given to Christ, if o• take the Gift of the Father to him in the •rgest sense, cannot be intended in the Text, • evident.
1. Because then all the Men, yea, all the things in the World must be saved All things, Faith he, are delivered unto me by the Father, Mat. 11.17. This I think, no rational Man in the World will conclude. Therefore the Gif••• •ended in the T••s, must be restrained •o some to a Gift that's given by way of speciality by the Father to the Son.
2. It must not be taken for all that, in any sense, are given by the Father to him; because ⟨p. 7⟩the Father hath given some, yea, many to him to be dashed in pieces by him. Ask of me said the Father to him, and I will give thee the Heathen for thine Inheritance, and the uttermost parts of the Earth for thy Possession. But what must be done with them? Must he save them all? No, Thou shalt break them with a rod of Iron; thou shalt dash them in pieces like a Potter's Vessel, Psal. 2. This Method he useth not with them that he saveth by his Grace, but with those that Himself and Saints shall rule over in Justice & Severity, Rev 2.26, 27. Yet, as you see, they are given to him. Therefore the Gift intended in the Text, must be restrained to some; to a Gift that is given by way of specialty by the Father to the Son.