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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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Answ. First, Do you not know that they • coming to Jesus Christ? Then they may • coming to Him for ought you know? •d why will you be worse than the Brute, • speak evil of the things you know not? •hat? are ye made to be taken and destoy• Must ye utterly perish in your Corrup•••ns? 2 Pet 2.1.
Secondly, Do you not know them? Let •m alone then. If you cannot speak good • them, speak not bad. Refrain from these •n, and let them alone▪ for if this Counsel, or •s Work, be of Men, it will come to nought; […] if it be of God, ye cannot overthrow it, lest •ly ye be found even to fight against God, Acts • 38, 39.
Secondly, Do you not know them? Let •m alone then. If you cannot speak good • them, speak not bad. Refrain from these •n, and let them alone▪ for if this Counsel, or •s Work, be of Men, it will come to nought; 〈…〉 if it be of God, ye cannot overthrow it, lest •ly ye be found even to fight against God, Acts • 38, 39.