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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 say, Christ saw him sinking in his Mind, •ut how it would go with his most noble •rt; And therefore first he applies himself to •m on that account. For, though his Friends •d Faith enough as to the Cure of his Body, •t he himself had little enough, as to the cure •f his Soul. Therefore Christ takes him up as • Man falling down, saying, Son be of good cheer, •y sins be forgiven thee.
I say, Christ saw him sinking in his Mind, •ut how it would go with his most noble •rt; And therefore first he applies himself to •m on that account. For, though his Friends •d Faith enough as to the Cure of his Body, •t he himself had little enough, as to the cure •f his Soul. Therefore Christ takes him up as • Man falling down, saying, Son be of good chear, •y sins be forgiven thee.
That about the Prodigal, seems pertinent also • this matter, when he was come to himself, •e said, How many hired Servants of my Father have […] enough, and to spare, and I perish for Hunger? • will arise now, and go to my Father. Heartily spoken. But how did he perform his Promises; I think not so well as he promised to do: nd my ground for my thoughts is, because […] Father, so soon as he was come to him, fell upon his Neck, and kissed him; implying, methinks, as if the Pdigal by this time was dected in his mind; and therefore his Father ves him the most sudden and familiar Token f Reconciliation.