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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 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 P•digal by this time was de••cted in his mind; and therefore his Father •ves him the most sudden and familiar Token •f Reconciliation.
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 •poken. But how did he perform his Promi••s; 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 •pon his Neck, and kissed him; implying, me•hinks, as if the P•digal by this time was de••cted in his mind; and therefore his Father •ves him the most sudden and familiar Token •f Reconciliation.