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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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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.
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 & dam••ble Wickedness once to imagine thus. Therefore, •esus Christ would not have him that cometh, once •hink that he will cast him out.
Fifthly If Jesus Christ should allow those that in••ed are coming to him, once to think that he will •ast them out, he must allow them to think, that he •ill be unfaithful to the Trust and Charge that his ••ther hath committed to him, which is to Save▪ & t to Lose any thing of that which he hath give im to save