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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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Sixthly, Thy Fears that Christ will not receive thee, may arise from thine own Folly, in inventing yea, in the chalking out to God a way to bring thee Home to Jesus Christ. Some Souls that are coming to Jesus Christ are great Tormentors of themselves upon this account. They conclude, that if their coming to Jesus Christ is right, they must needs be brought home thus and thus. As to instance.
1. Says one, if God be bringing of me to Jesus Christ, then will he load me with the Guilt of Sin, •till he make me roar again.
2. If God be indeed bringing me home to Jesus Christ, then must I be assaulted with dreadful Temptations of the Devil.
3. If God be indeed a bringing me to Jesus ⟨p. 150⟩Christ then even when I come at •ll n•• I shall n wonderful Revelations of him.