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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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Fourthly. The Father giving of him to save them; declares, that he hath a Sufficiency of Wisdom, to wage with all those Difficulties that would attend him in bringing of his Sons and Daughters unto Glory, 1 Cor. 1 30. He hath made him to us to be Wisdom; yea, he is called Wisdom it self, And God saith moreover, That he shall deal prudently, Isa. 52.13. And indeed, he that shall take upon him to be the Saviour of the People, had need to be wise, because their ⟨p. 20⟩Adversaries are subtle above any. Here they are to encounter with the Serpent, who for his Subtlety, outwitted our Father and Mother, when their Wisdom was at highest, Gen. 3. But if we talk of Wisdom, our Jesus is wise, Wiser than Solomon, Wiser than all Men, Wiser than all Angels; He is even the Wisdom of God. Christ the Wisdom of God, (Col. 1.1.) And hence it is He turneth Sins, Temptations, Persecutions, Falls, and all things for good unto his People, (Rom 8
Fourthly. The Father giving of him to save them; declares, that he hath a S•fficiency of Wisdom, to wage with all those D•ffic•lties that would attend him in bringing of his Sons and Daughters unto Glory, 1 Cor. 1 30. He hath made him to us to be Wisdom; yea, he is called Wisdom it self, And God saith moreover, That he shall deal prudently, Isa. 52.13. And indeed, he that shall take upon him to be the Saviour of the People, had need to be wise, because their ⟨p. 20⟩Adversaries are subtile above any. Here they are to encounter with the Serpent, who for his Subtilty, outwitted our Father and Mother, when their Wisdom was at highest,