N02531:45
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
Title page typeset from the transcription.
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
The Gift therefore in the Text must not be taken in the largest Sense, but even as the Words will bear, viz. For such a Gift as he accepteth, and promiseth to be an effectual means of Eternal Salvation to. All that the Father giveth Me, shall come to Me; and him that cometh to Me, I will in no wise cast out. Mark! They shall come that are in special given to Me; and they shall by no means be rejected; For this is the Substance of the Text.
Those therefore intended, as the Gift in the ⟨p. 9⟩Text, are those that are given by Covenant to the Son; those that in other places are called the Elect, the Chosen, and the Sheep, and the Children of the Promise, &c.
These be they that the Father hath given to Christ to keep them; those that Christ hath promised eternal Life unto; those to whom he hath given his Word, and that he will have with him in hi• Kingdom, to behold his Glory.
This is the Wall of the Father that hath sent me, that of those that he hath given me, I should lose nothing, but should raise it up at the last Day, and I give unto them eternal Life, and they shall never Perish; neither shall any man pluck them out of my Hand. My Father that gave them me, is greater than all; and no Man is able to pluck them out of my Fathers Hand. As thou hast given him power over all Flesh, that he should give eternal Life to as many as thou hast given him. Thine they were, and thou gavest them me, and they have kept thy Word: I Pray for them: I Pray not for the World, but for those that thou hast given me, for they are thine; and all mine are thine, and thine are mine; and I am Glorified in them.