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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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This Word (giveth) is out of Christ's Ordinary Dialect; and seemeth to intimate at the first sound, as if the Father's Gift to the Son was not an Act that is past, but one that is present and continuing; when indeed this Gift was bestowed upon Christ, when the Covenant, the eternal Covenant was made between them before all Worlds. Wherefore in those other places, when this Gift is mentioned, it is still spoken of as an Act that is pass: As, All that he hath given me? To as many as thou hast given me: Thou gavest them me, and these which thou hast given me. Therefore of necessity this must be the first and chief sense of the T•xt. I mean of this (giveth) otherwise the Doctrine of Election, & of the eternal Covenant which was made between the Father and the Son (in which Covenant this Gift of the Father is most certainly comprised) will be shaken, or at leastwise questionable by erroneous and wicked Men: For they may say, That the Father gave not all those to Christ that shall be saved before the World was made; or that this Act of giving is an Act of Continuation.
This Word (giveth) is out of Christ's Ordinary Dialect; and seemeth to intimate at the first sound, as if the Father's Gift to the Son was not an Act that is past, but one that is present and continuing; when indeed this Gift was bestowed upon Christ, when the Covenant, the eternal Covenant was made between them before all Worlds. Wherefore in those other places, when this Gift is mentioned, it is still spoken of as an Act that is pass: As, All that he hath given me? To as many as thou hast given me: Thou gavest them me, and these which thou hast given me. Therefore of necessity this must be the first and chief sense of the T•xt. I mean of this (giveth) otherwise the Doctrine of Election, & of the eternal Covenant which was made between the Father and the Son (in which Covenant this Gift of the Father is most certainly comprized) will be sh•ken, or at leastwise questionable by erroneous and wicked Men: For they may say, That the Father gave not all those to Christ that shall be saved before the World was made; or that this Act of giving is an Act of Continuation.