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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, That though the Act of Giving among ⟨p. 13⟩Men doth admit of the Time past, or the Time to come, and is to be spoken of with Reference to such Time; yet with God it is not so. Things past, or things to come, are always present with God, & with his Son Jesus Christ: He calleth things that are not, (that is to us) as though they were. And again, Known unto God are all his Works from the Foundation of the World. All things to God are present, and so the Gift of the Father to the Son, although to us, as is manifest by the Word, it is an Act that is past, Rom. 4.17. Acts 15.10.
Secondly, Christ may express himself thus, to show that the Father hath not only given him this Portion in the Lump, before the World was; but that those he had so given, he will give him again, that he will bring them to him at the time of their Conversion; for the Father bringeth them to Christ, John 6.44.
Secondly, Christ may express himself thus, to shew that the Father hath not only given him this Portion in the Lump, before the World was; but that those he had so given, he will give him again, that he will bring them to him at the time of their Conversion; for the Father bringeth them to Christ, John 6.44.
As it is said, She shall be brought unto the King in Raiment of Needle-work; that is, in the Righteousness of Christ; For it is God that imputeth that to those that are saved,