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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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This Man is in the Wilderness among Wild ••asts; here he sees a Rear, there a Lyon, yonder • Leopard, a Wolf, a Dragon; Devils of all sorts, doubts of all sorts; Fears of all sorts: haunt ••d molest his Soul. Here he sees Smoke, yea feels •re and Brimstone scattered upon his secret pla•; he hears the sound of an horrible Tempest▪ • O! my Friends, even the Lord Jesus, that ⟨p. 154⟩knew all things, even he saw no Pleasure i• Temptations, nor did he desire to be with them Wherefore one Text saith, he was led; and another, he was driven of the Spirit into the Wilderness, to be Tempted of the Devil, Mat. 4.•
This Man is in the Wilderness among Wild ••asts; here he sees a Rear, there a Lyon, yonder • Leopard, a Wolf, a Dragon; Devils of all sorts, •oubts of all sorts; Fears of all sorts: haunt ••d molest his Soul. Here he sees Smoke, yea feels •re and Brimstone scatter'd upon his secret pla•; he hears the sound of an horrible Tempest▪ • O! my Friends, even the Lord Jesus, that ⟨p. 154⟩knew all things, even he saw no Pleasure i• Temptations, nor did he desire to be with them Wherefore one Text saith, he was led; and another, he was driven of the Spirit into the Wilderness, to be Tempted of the Devil,