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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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1. He that cometh not to him, is like to go farther from him. So every Sin is a step farther from Jesus Christ, Hosea 11.
2. As he is in Darkness, so is he like to go on i• it. For Christ is the Light of the World, and b• that comes not to him, walketh in Darkness John 18.82.
3. He is like to be removed at last, as far from God, and Christ, and Heaven, and all Felicity, • an infinite God can move him, Mat. 12.41.
But Secondly, This Doctrine of coming to Chri•• informeth us, Where poor destitute Sinners ma• find Life for their Souls, and that is in Christ. Th Life is in his Son; he that hath the Son hath Li And again, Whoso findeth me, findeth Life, a shall obtain favour of the Lord,