N02531:952
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
Title page typeset from the transcription.
COME and WELCOME TO JESUS CHRIST. › The Third Use▪ A Use of Encouragement.
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.
4. I will add yet another Encouragement for the Man that is coming to Jesus Christ: Art thou a coming? Art thou coming indeed? Why?
1. Then this thy coming is, by Vir•ne of God's Call, thou art called: calling goes before coming: Coming is not of Work, but •f •im that Calleth. He went up into a Mountain & called to him whom he would, and they c•me to him Mark 3.13.
2. Art thou coming, This is by Virtue of •• mination: God has made thee […] and therefore thou art coming▪ Sol••ng as them was• […] Darkness, thou lovedst Darkness, and could not abide ⟨p. 189⟩to come because thy deeds are evil: But now being Illuminated & made to see what & where thou art: & also, what and where thy Saviour is, now thou art coming to Jesus Christ. Blessed art thou Simon Ba•jona: for Flesh and Blood hath not revealed it (saith Christ) but my Father which is in Heaven. Mat. 1• 15, 16.