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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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'Tis […] as I said, at first setting out, he […] heartily, as sometimes Sinners also do in ⟨p. 136⟩their beginning to come to Jesus Christ: • might not he, yea, in all probability he • (between the first S•ep he took, and the last▪ which he accomplished that Journey) many Thought, both this way and that, as whet• his Father would receive him or no? As th• I said, I would go to my Father; But how, • when I come at him he should ask me, Whe• have all this while been? What must I say th• Also if he ask me what is become of the Portion Goods that he gave me? What shall I say then, if • ask me, who have been my Companions? What sha•• say then; if he also should ask me, what hath been • Preferment •n all the time if my absence from hi• What shall I say th••; Yea, and •f he ask, why • came home no s•oner? What shall I say then? Th• I say, might he reason with himself; & be•• conscious to himself, that he could give bu• bad Answer to any of these Interrogatories, • marvel if he stood in need first of all, of a […] from his Father's Lips. For had he answere• the first in Truth, he must say, I have been • Haunter of Taverns, and Ale houses: and f my Portion, I spent it in Riotous Living; […] companions were Whores and Drabs: As fo my Preferment, the highest was, that I became a Hg Herd; & as for my not coming home till now, Could I have made shift to stay abro any longer, I had not lain at thy Feet for mercy now.