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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.
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
Thirdly, If Jesus Christ should allow the com••g Sinner once to think that he will cast him •et; then he must allow him to make a Question, whether he is willing to receive his Father's •ift? For the coming Sinner is his Father's Gift: •s also says the Text, but he testifieth. All that •e Father giveth him, shall come to him; & •m that cometh, he will in no wise cast out. • Therefore Jesus Christ would not have him, that • truth is coming to him, once to think that •e will cast him out.
Thirdly, If Jesus Christ should allow the com••g Sinner once to think that he will cast him •et; then he must allow him to make a Quest•on, wether he is willing to recieve his Father's •ift? For the coming Sinner is his Father's Gift: •s also says the Text, but he testifieth. All that •e Father giveth him, shall come to him; & •m that cometh, he will in no wise cast out. • Therefore Jesus Christ would not have him, that • truth is coming to him, once to think that •e will cast him out.
Fourthly, If Jesus Christ should allow them once to •ink (that indeed are coming to him) that he will st him out, he must allow them to think that he ill despise and reject the Drawing of the Father. r no man can come to him, but whom the Father Draweth. But it would be high Blasphemy & damnable Wickedness once to imagine thus. Therefore, Jesus Christ would not have him that cometh, once hink that he will cast him out.