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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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These are they that will come; indeed these are they that are invited to come. Come unto me all ye that labour, and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest, Mat. 11.28
Take two or three things to make this more plain; to wit, that coming to Christ floweth from a deep Sense of the absolute need that a Man hath of him as afore.
1. They shall come with weeping & with Supplication will I lead them; I will cause them to walk by the Rivers of Waters, in a ⟨p. 26⟩plain way, wherein they shall not stumble, Jer 31.9, Mind it! They come with weeping and Supplication; they come with Prayers & Tear• Now Prayers & Tears are the effects of •e •ig•• Sense of the Need of Mercy. Thus a sensele•• Sinner cannot come, he cannot pray, he canno• cry, he cannot come sensible of that he see not, nor feels. In those days, and at that time the Children of Israel shall come; they and th• Child of Judah together, going & weeping • they shall seek the Lord their God; they shall ask th• way to Zion, with their Faces thitherward, saying • Come, and let us join our selves to the Lord on a perpetual Covenant that shall not be forgotten, Jer 50.4.