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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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These Observations lie all of them in • words, and are plentifully confirmed by • Scriptures of Truth; but I shall not at • time speak to them all, but shall pass by • first, second, third, fourth and sixth part, be • I design brevity, and partly because they • touched upon, in the Explicatory part o• Text. I shall therefore begin with the • Observation, and so make that the first i• der, in the following Discourse.
These Observations lie all of them in • words, and are plentifully confirmed by • Scriptures of Truth; but I shall not at • time speak to them all, but shall pass by • first, second, third, fourth and sixth part, be • I design brevity, and partly because they • touch'd upon, in the Explicatory part o• Text. I shall therefore begin with the • Observation, and so make that the first i• der, in the following Discourse.
First then, coming to Christ is not • Will, Wisdom or Power of Man, but • Gift, Promise, and drawing of the Father • Observation consisteth of two Parts.