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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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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,