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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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Fourthly. Thy Fear that Christ will not rece••• thee, may arise from a sense of the exceeding Me• of being saved. Sometimes Salvation is in the […] of him that desires so great, so huge: So wonde• a thing▪ that the very Thoughts of the Excelle•• of it, engenders unbelief about obtaining it, in • Heart of those that unfeignedly desire it. Serm•• it to you (saith David) a light thing to be the Kin• Son in Law 1 1 Sam 18.23 So the Thoughts of • Greatness and Glory of the Thing propounded, • Heaven, Eternal Life, Eternal Glory; to be • God and Christ, & Angels: These are great th•• things too good (saith the Soul that is little […] own Eyes.) Things too Rich (saith the Soul the • truly poor in spirit) for me.
Fourthly. Thy Fear that Christ will not rece••• thee, may arise from a sense of the exceeding Me• of being saved. Sometimes Salvation is in the 〈…〉 of him that desires so great, so huge: So wonde• a thing▪ that the very Thoughts of the Excelle•• of it, ingenders unbelief about obtaining it, in • Heart of those that unfeignedly desire it. Serm•• it to you (saith David) a light thing to be the Kin• Son in Law 1 1 Sam 18.23 So the Thoughts of • Greatness and Glory of the Thing propounded, • Heaven, Eternal Life, Eternal Glory; to be God and Christ, & Angels: These are great th things too good (saith the Soul that is little own Eyes.) Things too Rich (saith the Soul the truly poor in spirit) for me.