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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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Thirdly, God forbids the mighty man's Glory in his Strength, & says positively, by strength shall no man prevail; and again Not by might, nor by power but my Spirit, saith the Lord▪ Jer. 9.23, 24. 1 Sam. 2.2. Zech 4, 6. 1 Cor 27 28.
Fourthly, Paul acknowledges, that Man, na• converted Man, of himself, has not a sufficiency of Power in himself, to think a good thought if not to do that which is least; for to think it less than to come, then no man by his own power can come to Jesus Christ, 2 Cor. 3.5.
Fifthly, Hence we are said to be made willing to come by the Power of God, to be rain'd from a state of Sin, to a state of Grace, by the Power of God; and to believe, that is, to even through the exceeding Workings of his mighty Power, Psal. 11.1 Col. 2.11. Eph. 1.18, 20 •ee also Job. 49.14.