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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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Thirdly, Life is in Christ, that it might be su• to be the Seed. Alas! the best of us▪ was Life lef• in our hands▪ to be sure we should forfeit it, over and over, and over. Or, was it in any other hand we should by our often Backsliding so offend him▪ that at last he would shut up his Bowels in everlasting Displeasure against us. But now it is in Christ it is with one that can pity, pray for Pardon yea▪ multiply Pardons. It is with one that can have Compassion upon us, when we are out of the wa• ▪ with one that hath an heart to fetch us again when we are gone astray: with one that can Pardon without upbraiding. Blessed be God that Life is in Christ! For now 'tis sure to all the Seed.
But Fourthly. This Doctrine of coming to Jesus Christ for Life, informs us of the Evil of Unbelief, that wicked thing that is the only, or chief hindrance to the coming Sinner▪ Doth the Text say, Come? Doth it say, And him that cometh to me, I will in no wise cast out? Then what an Evil is that keepeth Sinners from coming to Jesus Christ? And that Evil is Unbelief. For by Faith we come. By Unbelief we keep away. Therefore it is said to be that, by which a Soul is said to depart from God, because it was that which at first caused the World to go off from him▪ and that also that keeps them from him to this day, And it doth it the more easily, because it doth it with a Wile.
But Fourthly. This Doctrine of coming to Jesus Christ for Life, informs us of the Evil of Unbelief, that wicked thing that is the only, or chief hindrance to the coming Sinner▪ Doth the Text say, Come? Doth it say, And him that cometh to me, I will in no wise cast out? Then what an Evil is that keepeth Sinners from coming to Jesus Christ? And that Evil is Unbelief. For by Faith we come. By Unbelief we keep away. Therefore it is said to be that, by which a Soul is said to depart from God, because it was that which at first caused the World to go off from him and that also that keeps them from him to this day, And it doth it the more eastly, because it doth it with a Wile.