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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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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, Col. 1.12. The Father therefore is to be remembered and adored, as one having a chief Hand in the Salvation of Sinners: we ought to give Thanks to the Father, who ⟨p. 11⟩hath made us meet to be Partakers of the Inheritance of the Saints in Light; for the Father sent the Son to be the Saviour of the World, 1 John 4.14. Col. 1.2. As also we see in the Text, the Father giveth the Sinner to save him.
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 ther himself loveth you, and his love is manifest in chusing 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,