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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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7. It is that, above all other sins, that weakens our Prayers, one Faith, our Love, our Diligence, ⟨p. 174⟩our Hope and Expectations. It even taketh th• Heart away from God in Duty.
8. Lastly This sin, as I have said, even now i• appears in the Soul with so many sweet Pretences t• safety and security, that it is, as it were, Counsel sent from Heaven: bidding the Soul be wiser, wary considerate▪ well advised, and to make heed of to rash a venture upon Believing. Be sure first tha• God loves you: take hold of no Promise, un••• you are forced by God unto it: neither be you sur• of your Salvation doubt it still, though the Testimony of the Lord has often been confirmed i• you? Live not by Faith but by Sense; and when you can neither see no• feel, then fear and mistrust▪ then doubt and question all. This is the Devilish Counsel of Unbelief which is to covered over with specious Pretences▪ that the wisest Christian can hardly shake off these Reasonings.
8. La•tly This sin, as I have said, even now i• appears in the Soul with so many sweet Pretences t• safety and security, that it is, as it were, Counse• sent from Heaven: bidding the Soul be wiser, wary considerate well advised, and to make heed of to rash a venture upon Believing. Be sure first tha God loves you: take hold of no Promise, un you are forced by God unto it: neither be you sur of your Salvation doubt it still, though the Testimony of the Lord has often been confirmed i you? Live not by Faith but by Sense; and when you can neither see no feel, then fear and mistrust then doubt and question all. This is the Dvilish Counsel of Unbelief which is to covered over with specious Pretences that the wisest Christian can hardly shake off these Reasonings.