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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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Hezekiah was a good Man, yet when he lay Sick (for ought I know) he had somewhat too good an Opinion of his Heart, and for ought I know also, the Lord might upon his Recovery, leave him to a Temptation, that he might better know all that was in his Heart. Compare, Isa. 38.1. Chron. 32 31.
Alas▪ We are sinful out of measure, but see it not to the full, until an Hour of Temptation comes, but when it comes it doth as the Painter doth, it draweth out our Heart to the Life. Yet the sight of what we are, should not keep us from coming to Jesus Christ.
There are two Ways by which God sets a Man into a sight of the Naughtiness of his Heart, one is, by the light of the Word and Spirit of God: & the other is, by the Temptations of the Devil. But by the first, we see our Naughtiness one way, and by the second, another. By the light of the Word, and Spirit of God, thou hast a sight of thy naughtiness, and by the Light of the Sun thou hast a sight of the ⟨p. 156⟩Spots and Defilements that are in thy House an• Raiment, which Light gives thee to see a Necessi•• of Cleansing, but maketh not the Blemishes • spread more abominably. But when Satan com• when he tempts he puts life end rage into our Si• and turns them, as it were, into so many Dev•• within us. Now, like Prisoners, they attempt • break through' the Prison of our Body, they will a tempt to get out at our Eyes, Mouth Ears, a ways to the scandal of the Gospel, and Reproach Religion; to the darkening of our Evidences, damning of our Souls.