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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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This Description of Coming to Christ, divideth it self into Two Heads.
First, That Coming to Christ, is a moving […] the Mind towards Him.
First, That Coming to Christ, is a moving 〈…〉 the Mind towards Him.
Secondly, That it is a moving of the Min• towards Him, from a sound Sense of the absolute want that a Man hath of Him for his Justification and Salvation.
To speak to the first, That is a moving o• the Mind towards him. This is evident, because Coming hither or thither, if it be voluntary, is by an Act of the Mind or Will; […] Coming to Christ is, through the inclining▪ the Will, Thy People shall be willing, Psal. 1• •. This willingness of heart is it which se the Mind a moving after, or towards Christ by the moving of her Bowels. My Belo put […] his Hand by the Hole of the Door, and […] Bowels were moved for him. Song 4 5. My Bo else; the Passion of my Mind and Affection which Passions of the Affections are expe by the yearning and sounding of the Bo else, the yearning or passionate working them, the sounding of them, or their making noise for me,