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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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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.
I should now come to the Proof of • second part of the Observation, but that • occasionally done already, in the Explicat•• Part of the Text, to which I refer the R•• der; for I shall here only give thee a T• or two more to the same Purpose, and • come to the Use and Application.
First, It is expressly said, No, man can come • me, except the Father which has sent me draw […] In this Text there is not only insi•ua•e• that in Man is want of Power, but a so W• to come to Jesus Christ; they must be draw • they come not, if they be not drawn. A observe it is not Man, no nor all the A gels in Heaven that can draw one Sinner Jesus Christ. No man cometh to me, except Father which has sent me draw him, Joh. 44.