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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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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.
But this needed not, of either Men […] Power or Will to come; or so much as ••• ciously to think of being willing to co•• (of themselves) to Jesus Christ.
But this needed not, of either Men 〈…〉 Power or Will to come; or so much as ••• ciously to think of being willing to co•• (of themselves) to Jesus Christ.