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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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COME and WELCOME TO JESUS CHRIST. › The Second Use: of Examination.
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
What say'st thou, Man? Hast thou left th• darling Sins, thy Sodomitish Pleasures, thy A• quaintance, and vain Companions, thy unla•f•• Gain, thy Idol Gods, thy Righteousness, & t• unlawful curious Arts behind thee? If any • these be with thee, & thou with them in thy Hea•• & Life, thou art not yet come to Jesus Christ.
What say'st thou, Man? Hast thou left th• d•rling Sins, thy Sodomitish Pleasu•s, thy A• quaintance, and vain Companions, thy unla•f•• Gain, thy Idol Gods, thy Righteousness, & t• unlawful curious Arts behind thee? If any • these be with thee, & thou with them in thy Hea•• & Life, thou art not yet come to Jesus Christ.
Secondly, Art thou come to Jesus Christ? P•• ••ee tell me what moved thee to come to Jes•• Christ? Men do not usually come or • to this or that Place, before we have a movi•• cause▪ or rather, • cause moving them thereto No more do they come to Jesus Christ, (I do say) before they have a cause, but before th cause moveth them to come; What say'st tho Hast thou a cause moving thee to come? To at present in a state of Condemnation, is ca sufficient for Men to come to Jesus Ch o Life; but that will not do, except the Ca move them; the which it will never until their eyes be opened, to see themselves hat Condition. For it is not in Man's be […] wrath, but his seeing it, that moveth […] come to Jesus Christ: Alas! All Men by