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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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Secondly, This coming to Christ, it is called • Running to him; as flying to him; a flying […] him from the Wrath to come. By all which Terms, is set forth the sense of the Man th•• comes, to wit, That he is affected with the sense of his Sins, and the Death due thereto; that he is sensible that the avenger of Blood pursue• him, and that therefore he is cut off, if he makes not speed to the Son of God for Life Mat. 3.7. Psal. 143 9 Flying is the last Work o• a Man in Danger, all that are in danger, do not ••y; no, not all that see themselves in danger; flying is the last work of a man in danger; all that hear of danger will not fly. Men will consider, if there be no other way to escape before they fly. Therefore, as I said, flying is the last thing. When all Refuge fails, & a Man is made to see that there is nothing left him […] Sin, Death and Damnation, unless he flies […] Christ for Life, then he flies, & not till them
Secondly, This coming to Christ, it is called • Running to him; as flying to him; a flying 〈…〉 him from the Wrath to come. By all whic• Terms, is set forth the sense of the Man th•• comes, to wit, That he is affected with the sens• of his Sins, and the Death due thereto; that he is sensible that the avenger of Blood pursue• him, and that therefore he is cut off, if he makes not speed to the Son of God for Life Mat. 3.7. Psal. 143 9 Flying is the last Work o• a Man in Danger, all that are in danger, do not ••y; no, not all that see themselves in danger; flying is the last work of a man in danger; all that hear of danger will not fly. Men will consider, if there be no other way to escape before they fly. Therefore, as I said, flying is the last thing. When all Refuge fails, & a Man is made to see that there is nothing left him Sin, Death and Damnation, unless he flies Christ for Life, then he flies, & not till them