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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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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.
This Sin may be called, The White Devil, for it oftentimes in its mischievous doing in the Soul shows as it was an Angel of Light, yet it acteth like a Counsellor of Heaven. Therefore, a little to D•• course of this Disease.
This Sin may be called, The White Devil, for it oftentimes in its mischievous doing in the Soul shews as it was an Angel of Light, yet it acteth like a Counsellor of Heaven. Therefore, a little to D•• course of this Disease.