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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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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, Psal. 45.14. 1 Cor. 1.
A Man giveth his Daughter to such a Man first in order to Marriage, and this respects the time past, and he giveth her again at the Day appointed in Marriage: And in this last Sense, perhaps the Text may have a meaning; That is, That all that the Father hath (before the World was) given to Jesus Christ, he giveth •hem them again to him, in the Day of their Espousals.
Things that are given among Men are oft-times, best at first, to wit, when they are new; and th• reason is▪ because all earthly Things wax o•d; but with Christ it is not so: This ⟨p. 14⟩Gift of the Father is not old nor deformed, and unpleasant in his Eyes; and therefore to him 'tis always new. When the Lord spake of giving the Land of Canaan to the Israelites, he saith not that he had give, or would give it them • but thus, The Lord thy God giveth thee this good Land, Deut. 9 6. Not but that he had given it to them while they were in the Loins of their Fathers, Hundreds of Years before. Yet he saith now, he giveth it to them: as if they were now also in the very Act of taking Possession, when as yet they were on the other side Jordan. What then should be the meaning? Why, I take it to be this: That the Land should be to them always as new, as new; as if they were taking Possession thereof but now. And so is the Gift of the Father mentioned in the Text, to the Son; it is always new, as if it were always new.