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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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Secondly. Some that are coming to Jesus Christ •e too much affected with their own Graces, and •o little taken with Christ's Person, wherefore God • take them off from doting on their own Jewels, •o that they may look more to the Person, Undertaking, and Merits of his Son, plunges them into •e Ditch by Temptations and this I take to be •he meaning of Job If I wash me (said he) with •now Water, and make my self never so clean, yet •ilt thou plunge me in the Ditch and mine own Clothes shall abhor me, J•b 9 30. Job had been a little •oo much tampering with his own Graces, & seeing •is Excellencies a little too high, (as these Texts •ake manifest Job 33 8.9 10, 11) But by that the • Temptations were ended, you find him better • a•ight.
Secondly. Som• that are coming to Jesus Christ •e too much affected with their own Graces, and •o little taken with Christ's Person, wherefore God • take them off from doathing on their own Jewels, •o that they may look more to the Person, Un•ertaking, and Merits of his Son, plunges them into •e Ditch by Temptations and this I take to be •he meaning of Job If I wash me (said he) with now Water, and make my self never so clean, yet ilt thou plunge me in the Ditch and mine own Cloaths shall abhor me, Jb 9 30. Job had been a little oo much tampering with his own Graces, & seeing is Excellencies a little too high, (as these Texts ake manifest