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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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The Water in this Text, is the Grace of God in the Doctrine of it; the living things are the children of Men, to whom the Grace of God, by the Gospel is preached. Now, saith he, every living thing which moveth whithersoever the Waters shall come, shall live. And see how this Word (moveth) is expounded by Christ himself, in the Book of the Revelations; the Spirit and the Bride say, Come, and let him that heareth say come, and let him that is athirst, Come; and whosoever will, that is willing let him take the Water of Life freely, R• 22.17.
So that to move in thy Mind and Will after Christ, is to be coming to him. There are many poor Souls that are coming to Christ, that yet cannot tell how to believe it, because they think that coming to him is some strange and wonderful thing, and indeed so it is. But I mean, they overlook the Inclination of these Will, the moving of their Mind, & the sounding of these Bowels after him; & count these none of this strange & wonderful thing; when indeed it is a work of greatest wonder in this World, to see a Man who was sometimes dead in Sin, possessed of the Devil, an Enemy to Christ, and to all things spiritually good: I say, to see this Man moving with his mind after the Lord Jesus Christ, is one of the highest Wonders in the World.
So that to move in thy Mind and Will after Christ, is to be coming to him. There are many poor Souls that are coming to Christ, that yet cannot tell how to believe it, because they think that coming to him is some strange and wonderful thing, and indeed so it is. But I mean, they overlook the Inclination of these Will, the moving of their Mind, & the sounding of these Bowels after him; & count these none of this strange & wonderful thing; when indeed it is a work of greatest wonder in this World, to see a Man who was sometimes dead in Sin, poss•ssed of the Devil, an Enemy to Christ, and to all things spiritually good: I say, to see this Man moving with his mind after the Lord Jesus Christ, is one of the highest Wonders in the World.