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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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I will give you now two Instances, that seem to imply the Truth of this Observation.
In the Ninth of Matthew at the second Verse, you Read of a Man that was sick of the Palsy; and he was coming to Jesus Christ, being borne upon a Bed by his F•iends. He also was coming himself, and that upon another Account than any of his Friends were aware of even for the Pardon of sins, and the Salvation of his Soul. Now, so soon as even he was come into the Presence of Christ▪ Christ bids him be of good Cheer. It seems then his Heart was ••inting: But what was the cause of hi• ⟨p. 135⟩••inting? Not his bodily Infirmity, for the •re of which his Friends did bring him to ••rist, but the Guilt and Burden of his sins; • the pardon of which, himself did come to •n; therefore he proceeds Be of good Cheer, thy • be forgiven thee.
In the Ninth of Matthew at the second Verse, you Read of a Man that was sick of the Palsie; and he was coming to Jesus Christ, being borne upon a Bed by his F•iends. He also was coming himself, and that upon another Account than any of his Friends were aware of even for the Pardon of sins, and the Salvation of his Soul. Now, so soon as even he was come into the Presence of Christ▪ Christ bids him be of good Cheer. It seems then his Heart was ••inting: But what was the cause of hi•