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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, 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, Gen. 43 30. 1 Kings 3 26. Isa 16 •
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,