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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.
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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 • ⟨p. 179⟩are under Wrath; yet but few of them. All come to Jesus Christ; and the reason i•, because they do not see their Condition; who hath warned you to flee from the wrath to come, Mat 3.7. Until Men are warned, and also to receive the Warning, they will not come to Jesus Christ,.
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