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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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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.
This is the way that some Sinners appoint • God. But perhaps he will not walk herein, yet he • b•ing the unto Jesus Christ. But now because t• come not in the way of their own chalking o• therefore they are at a loss. They look for a h•• uy lord and burden; but perhaps God gives th• a sight of their lost Condition and addeth • that heavy weight and burden. They look for• fearful Temptations of Satan but God sees t• yet they are not fit for them? Nor is the • come, that he should be honoured by them in • a Condition. They look for Great and Glorio•• Revelations of Christ, Grace, and Mercy. perhaps God only takes the Yoke from off the Jaws, and lays Meat before them. And now age they are at a Loss yet a coming to Christ: I dre (saith God) with the Cords of a Man, with th Bands of Love: I took the Yoke from of thei Jaws, and said Meat unto them,