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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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First Is it so? Is coming to Jesus Chri•• not by the Will, Wisdom, or Power of […] but by the Gift, Promise, and drawing of […] Father? Then they are to blame that […] ⟨p. 121⟩[…] the Will, Wisdom, and power of Man, ••ngs sufficient to bring Men to Christ.
First Is it so? Is coming to Jesus Chri•• not by the Will, Wisdom, or Power of 〈…〉 but by the Gift, Promise, and drawing of 〈…〉 Father? Then they are to blame that 〈…〉 ⟨p. 121⟩〈…〉 the Will, Wisdom, and power of Man, ••ngs sufficient to bring Men to Christ.
There are some Men who think they may •ot be contradicted when they plead for the Will, Wisdom, and Power of Man in Reference to the things that are of the Kingdom •f Christ: But I will say to such a man, he •ever yet came to understand that himself is •hat the Scripture teacheth concerning him: Neither did he ever know, what coming to Christ is, by the Teaching Gift, and drawing of the Father. He is such a one that hath set up God's Enemy in Opposition to him, and that continueth in such Acts of Defiance; and what his End without a New Birth will be, the Scriptures teach also: But we will pass this.
There are some Men who think they may •ot be contradicted when they plead for the Will, Wisdom, and Power of Man in Refeence to the things that are of the Kingdom f Christ: But I will say to such a man, he ever yet came to understand that himself is hat the Scripture teacheth concerning him: Neither did he ever know, what coming to Christ is, by the Teaching Gift, and drawing of the Father. He is such a one that hath set up God's Enemy in Opposition to him, and that continueth in such Acts of Defiance; and what his End without a New Birth will be, the Scriptures teach also: But we will pass this.