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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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All these Sentences are of the same in port with the Text; and the Alls and Manys. These They, &c in these their several Sayings of Christ, are the same with all the Given in the Text. All that the Father giveth.
So that (as I said before) the Word all, as also other Words, must not be taken in such sort as our foolish Fancies, or groundless. Opinions will prompt us to; but do admit of an Enlargement, or Restriction, according to the true Meaning and Intent of the Text. We must therefore diligently consult the meaning of the Text, by comparing it with other the Sayings of God; so shall we be better able to find out the Mind of the Lord in the Word which he hath given us to know it by.
As that the (Father) giveth.
By this word (Father) Christ describeth the Person giving; by which we may learn several useful things: 1. That the Lord God & Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, is concerned with the Son, in the Salvation of his People. True, his Acts, as to our Salvation, are diverse from those of the Son; he was not capable of doing that, or those things for us, as did the Son; he Died not, •e spilt not his Blood for our Redemption, as the Son; but yet he hath a Hand, a great Hand in our Salvation too. As Christ saith, The F there himself loveth you, and his love is manifest in choosing of us, in giving us to his Son; yea, and in giving his Son also to be a Ransom for us. Hence he is called, The Father of Mercies, and the God of all Comforts For here even the Father hath himself found out and made way for his Grace to come to us, th the Sides and the Heart's Blood of his well beloved Son,