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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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Secondly, What force there is in this Promise, to make them come to him.
First, I would show you what it is to come to Christ. This word Come, must be understood Spiritually, not Carnally; for many came to him Carnally, or Bodily, that had no saving Advantage by him: Multitudes did thus come unto him in the days of his flesh, yea, innumerable ⟨p. 22⟩Companies. There is also at this day a formal Customary coming to his Ordinances, and ways of Worship, which availeth not any thing; but with them I shall not now meddle; for they are net intended in the Text. The Coming then intended in the Text, is to be understood of the Coming of the Mind to him, even the moving of the Heart towards him, I say, the moving of the Heart towards him, from a sound sense of the absolute want that a Man hath of Him for his Justification and Salvation.
First, I would shew you what it is to come to Christ. This word Come, must be understood Spiritually, not Carnally; for many came to him Carnally, or Bodily, that had no saving Advantage by him: Multitudes did thus come unto him in the days of his flesh, yea, innumerable ⟨p. 22⟩Companies. There is also at this day a formal Customary coming to his Ordinances, and ways of Worship, which availeth not any thing; but with them I shall not now meddle; for they are net intended in the Text. The Coming then intended in the Text, is to be understood of the Coming of the Mind to him, even the moving of the Heart towards him, I say, the moving of the Heart towards him, from a sound sense of the absolute want that a Man hath of Him for his Justification and Salvation.
This Description of Coming to Christ, divideth it self into Two Heads.