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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 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.
Fifthly, All thy strange, passionate, sudden Rushings forward after Jesus Christ (Coming Sinner know what I mean) they also are thy ⟨p. 190⟩helps from God: Perhaps thou feelest at some times more than at others, strong Stirrings up of Heart to fly to Jesus Christ? now thou hast i• this time a •weet and st•ff g•le of the Spirit of God filling thy Sails with the fresh Gales of his good Spirit; and thou ridest at those times as upon the Wings of the Wind▪ being carried out beyond thy self, beyond the most of thy prayers, and also above all thy Fears and Temptations.
Sixthly, Coming Sinner, hast thou now and then had a Kiss of the sweet Lips of Jesus Christ? I mean, some blessed words dropping like a Honey-comb upon thy Soul to revive thee when thou art in the midst of thy Dumps.
Seventhly, Does not Jesus Christ sometimes give thee a glimpse of himself, though perhaps thou seest him not so long a time, as while you may tell Twenty.