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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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Sinners, did you but know what a blessed […] it is to come to Jesus Christ, and that […] • help and drawing of the Father, they do […] come to him, you would hang and burn […] a thousand Years, before you would • our Spirits as you do, against him that […] drawing to Jesus Christ, and also against God that draws him.
Sinners, did you but know what a blessed 〈…〉 it is to come to Jesus Christ, and that 〈…〉 • help and drawing of the Father, they do 〈…〉 come to him, you would hang and burn 〈…〉 a thousand Years, before you would • our Spirits as you do, against him that 〈…〉 drawing to Jesus Christ, and also against God that draws him.
[…] faithless Sinners, let us a little expostulate ⟨p. 124⟩the matter. What hath this Man done ag• thee that is coming to Jesus Christ? Why dost • make him the Object of thy Scorn? Doth his […] to Jesus Christ offend thee? Doth his forsaking Sins and Pleasures offend thee?
〈…〉 faithless Sinners, let us a little expostulate ⟨p. 124⟩the matter. What hath this Man done ag• thee that is coming to Jesus Christ? Why dost • make him the Object of thy Scorn? Doth his to Jesus Christ offend thee? Doth his forsaking Sins and Pleasures offend thee?