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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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That they that are coming to Jesus Christ, •re oft-times heartily afraid that Jesus Christ •ill not receive them.
I told you that this Observation is implied in •he Text, and I gather it from the largeness & •••penness of the Promise, (I will in no wise cast •ut) For had there not been a proneness in us, to •ew casting out, Christ needed not to have, as it • were, way laid our fear, as he doth by this •reat and strange Expression, In no wise. And •im that cometh to me, I will in no wise cast out. There needed not, as I may say, such a Promise to be invented by the Wisdom of Heaven, •orded at such a ra•e, as it were on purpose to •ash in pieces at one blow all the Objections of •oming Sinners; if they were not prone to admit of such Objections to the discouraging of •heir own souls; for these words In no wise, •ut the throats of all Objections; & they were •ropp'd by the Lord Jesus for that very ••d▪ •nd to help the Faith that is mixed with unbelief.
I told you that this Observation is implied in •he Text, and I gather it from the largeness & penness of the Promise, (I will in no wise cast ut) For had there not been a proneness in us, to ew casting out, Christ needed not to have, as it were, way laid our fear, as he doth by this reat and strange Expression, In no wise. And im that cometh to me, I will in no wise cast out. There needed not, as I may say, such a Promise to be invented by the Wisdom of Heaven, orded at such a rae, as it were on purpose to ash in pieces at one blow all the Objections of oming Sinners; if they were not prone to admit of such Objections to the discouraging of heir own souls; for these words In no wise, ut the throats of all Objections; & they were ropp'd by the Lord Jesus for that very d nd to help the Faith that is mixed with nbelief.