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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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Coming Sinner, God can give his heavenly Canaan, and the Glory of it to thee: yea none ever had them, but as a Gift, a free Gift. He has given us his Son, How shall he not them, with him freely give us all things?
It was not the worthiness of Abraham, Moses, or David, or Peter, or Paul, but the Mercy of God that made them Inheritors of Heaven. If God thinks thee worthy, ••dge not thy self unworthy, bu• take it, and be thankful. And it is a good sign ⟨p. 146⟩he intends to give thee, if he has drawn out t•• heart to ask. O Lord, thou hast heard the desi•• of the humble, thou wilt prepare their hearts, th• wilt incline thine Ear, Psal. 10.17.
When God is said to incline his Ear, it implies • Intention to bestow the Mercy desired. Take • therefore, thy Wisdom will be to receive, not sti•• ing at thy own unworthiness. It is said, He raise• up the Poor out of the Dust, and lifteth up the Be• gar out of the Dunghill, to set them among Prin•• and to make them inherit the Throne of Glo•• Again, he raiseth up the poor out of the Dust. lifteth some Needy out of the Dunghill that he set him with Princes, even with the Princes of People. Sam 4 28.