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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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In Psal 18 He saith plainly, that some are given to him, that he might destroy them; Thou hast given me the Necks of mine Enemies, that I might destroy them that hate me, ver. 40. These therefore cannot be of the Number of those that are said to be given in the Text; for those, even all of them, shall come to him, and he will in no wise cast them out.
3. Some are given to Christ, that he by them might bring about some of his high and deep Designs in the World. Thus Judas was given to Christ, viz That by him, even as he was determined before, he might bring about his Death, & so the Salvation of his Elect by his Blood. Yea, and Judas must so manage this Business, as that he may lose himself for ever in bringing it so to pass: Therefore the Lord Jesus, even in his losing of Judas, applies himself to the Judgment of his Father, if he had not in that thing done that which was right, even ⟨p. 8⟩in ••••ring Judas so to bring about his Masters D••ch, as that he might by so doing bring about his own eternal Damnation.
Those said he, that thou gavest me have I kept, and none of them is lost but the Son of Perdition, that the Scripture might be fulfilled, John 17.12. Let us then grant that Judas was given to Christ, but not as others are given to him; nor of those made mention of in the Text; for then he should have failed to have been so received by Christ, and kept to eternal Life. Indeed he was given to Christ, but he was given to him to lose him in the way that I have mentioned before; he was given to Christ, that he by him might bring about his own death, as was before determined, & that in the overthrow of him that did it. Yea, he must bring about his own Death, as was before determined; and that in the overthrow of him that did it: Yea, he must bring about his Dying for us, in the loss of the Instrument that betrayed him; that he might even fulfil the Scripture in his Destruction, as well as in the Salvation of the rest. And none of them is lost, but the Son of Perdition that the Scripture might be fulfilled.