Come and welcome to Jesus Christ. Or, A plain and profitable discourse on John…

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.

Secondly, It is a moving of the mind towards him, from a sound Sense of the absolute want that a Man hath of him for his Justification & ⟨p. 24⟩Salvation Indeed without this Sense of a lost Condition without him, there will be no moving of the mind towards him: A moving of their Mouth there may be; With their mouth they show much Love, Ezek 33.31. Such a People as this will come as the true People cometh; that is, in show and outward Appearance; and they will sit before God's Ministers, as his People sit before them; and they will hear his Words too, but they will not do them; that is, will not come inwardly with their Minds; For with their Mouth they show much Love, but their Heart (or Mind) goeth after their Covetousness. Now all this is, because they want an effectual sense of the Misery of their State by Nature; for not till they have that, will they in their Mind move oftener to him. Therefore thus it is said concerning the true Comers. At that Day the Trumpet shall be blown, and they shall come that were ready to perish in the land of Assyria, and the out-casts of the land of Egypt, and shall worship the Lord in his holy Mountain at Jerusalem,