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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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Fifthly, Coming to Christ is attended with an honest and sincere forsaking all for him. If any Man cometh unto me, and hateth not his Father, •nd Mother, and Wife, and Children, and Brethren, and Sisters, yea, and his own Life also, he cannot •e my Disciple; and whosoever▪ doth not bear his Cross, and come after me, cannot be my Disciple, Luke 14 26, 27.
By these and the like Expressions else where, Christ describeth the true Comer, or the Man •hat indeed is coming to him: He is one that •hat casteth off all, he hateth all things that would stand in his Way to hinder his coming to Jesus Christ. There▪ are a great many pretended •omers to Jesus Christ in the World; & they •re much like to that Man that you read of in Mat. 21.30. that said to this Father bidding, I go Sir, and went not. I say there are a great many such Comers to Jesus Christ; they say when Christ calls by his Gospel, I come Sir; but ⟨p. 28⟩still they abide by their Pleasure and carnal Delights They come not at all, only they give him a courtly Compliment; but he takes notice of it, and well not let it pass for more than a Lie. He said, I go Sir, and went not; He Dissembled and Lied. Take heed of this you tha• flatter your selves with your own Deceivings▪ Words will not do with Jesus Christ: Coming is coming, and nothing else will go for Coming with him.