Come and welcome to Jesus Christ. Or, A plain and profitable discourse on John…

Poor Creature! Thou criest, if I were temp••d, I could come faster, and with more Confidence to Jesus Christ; Thou sayest thou knowest •ot what. What says Job, Withdraw thy Hand •n me, and let n•t thy Dread make me afraid; •en call thou, and I will answer; or let me speak, ••d answer thou me, J•b 11.31 It is not the •ver ••avy Load of Sin, but the Discovery of Mer••; not the Roaring of the Devil, but the •awing of the Father, that makes a man come • Jesus Christ, I my self know all these things • True, sometimes (yea, most an end) they •t come to Jesus Christ, come the way that •m desirest; the Loading, Tempted Way; •t the Lord also leads some by the Waters of ⟨p. 152⟩Comfort. If I was to choose, when to go a •o• Journey; to wit, Whether I would go it in • Dead of Winter, or in the Pleasant Spri• (though it was a very profitable Journey; • that of coming to Christ is) I would choose • go through Fire and Water, before I would • the Benefit. But I say, if I choose the time, • would choose to go it in the pleasant Spring, •• cause the way would be more delightsome, Days longer and warmer, the Nights sho and no so cold. And it is observable, that th very Argument that thou usest, to weaken strength in the way, that very Argument Ch Jesus useth to encourage his beloved to come him: Arise (saith he) my Love, my fair One, come away; (Why) For lo, the Winter is past, Rain is over and gone, the Flowers appear or Earth, the time of the Singing of Birds is come, the Voice of the Turtle is heard in our land. Fig-tree putteth forth for green Fis, and the Vi with her tender Grapes, give a good smell: Arise Love, my fair One, and come away, Song 2.10.