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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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COME and WELCOME TO JESUS CHRIST. › I come now to the Reasons of the Observation.
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I come now to the Reasons of the Observation.
1. IF Jesus Christ would allow thee Once • Think, that he will cast thee out; • must allow thee to think, that he will falsify • Word: For he hath said, I will in no wise • out. But Christ would not that thou should • account him as one, that will falsify his W• For he saith of himself, I am the Truth. Th••• fore he would not, that any that in Truth • coming to him, should once think that he • cast them out.
Secondly, If Jesus Christ should allow • ⟨p. 165⟩•ner that in Truth is coming to him Once to •nk, that he will cast him out; then he must •ow, and so countenance the first appearance • Unbelief; which he counteth his greatest Ene••, & against which he has bent even his Holy ••spel. Therefore Jesus Christ would not, that •ey that in Truth are coming to him should ce think, that he will cast them out: Sea t. 14.31.