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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
water_n	will_n	willing_a	word_n	50	3	5.0090	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A30130	Come & welcome to Jesus Christ, or, A plain and profitable discourse upon the sixth of John, 37 vers shewing the cause, truth and manner of the coming of a sinner to Jesus Christ, with his happy reception and blessed entertainment / written by J. Bunyan.	Bunyan, John, 1628-1688.	1678 (1678)	Wing B5495; ESTC R30257	120,042	303

Fathers end would be frustrate For the Fathers will is that of all that he hath given him he should lose nothing but should raise it up at the last day in order next unto himself Christ the first-fruits afterwards those that are his at his Coming 1 Cor. 15 But this cannot be done if there should fail to be a work of grace effectually wrought though but in any one of them But this shall not fail to be wrought in them even in all that the Father hath given him to save All that the Father hath given me shall come to me c. But to speak more distinctly to the words They shall come Two things I would shew you from these words First What it is come to Christ. Secondly What force there is in this promise to make them come to him First I would shew you first what it is to come to Christ This word come must be understood spiritually not carnally for many came to him carnally or bodily that had no saving advantage by him multitudes did thus come unto him in the days of his flesh yea innumerable companies There is also at this day a Formal customary Coming to his Ordinances and ways of Worship which availeth not any thing I shall not now medle for they are not intended in the Text. The Coming then intended in the Text is to be understood of the Coming of the 〈◊〉 unto him even the moving of the heart towards him I say the moving of the heart towards him from a sound Sense of the absolute want that a man hath of him for his Justification and Salvation This Description of Coming to Christ divideth it self into two heads First That coming to Christ is a moving of the mind towards him Secondly That it is a moving of the mind towards him from a Sound Sense of the absolute want that a man hath of him for his Justification and Salvation To speak to the first That it is a moving of the mind towards him This is evident because coming hither or thither if it be voluntary is by an act of the will so coming to Christ is through the inclining of the will Thy people shall be willing Psal. 110. 3. This willingness of heart is it which sets the mind a moving after or towards him The Church expresseth this moving of her mind towards Christ by the moving of her bowels My beloved put in his hand by the hole of the door and my Bowels were moved for him Song 5. 4. My bowels the passions of my mind and affections which passions of the affections are expressed by the yerning and sounding of the bowels The yerning or passionate working of them the Sounding of them or their making an Noise for him Gen. 43. 30. 1 King 3. 26. Isa. 16. 11. This then is the coming to Christ even a moving towards him with the minde And it shall come to pass that every thing that liveth which moveth whithersoever the water shall come shall live Ezek. 47. 9. The water in this Text is the Grace of God in the Doctrine of it the living things are the Children of men to whom this Grace of God by the Gospel is preached now saith he Every living thing which moveth whithersoever the waters shall come shall live Now see how this word moveth is Expounded by Christ himself in the Book of the Revelations The Spirit and the Bride say come And let him that heareth say come And let him that is athirst come And whosever will that is willing let him take the water of life freely Revel 22. 17. So that to move in thy mind and will after Christ is to be coming to him There are many poor souls that are coming to Christ that yet cannot tell how to believe it because they think that coming to him is some strang and wonderfull thing and indeed so it is but I mean they overlook the inclination of their will the moving of their mind and the sounding of their bowels after him and count these none of this strang and wonderful thing when indeed it is a work of greatest wonder in this world to see a man who was sometimes dead in sin possessed of the devil an enemy to Christ and to all things spiritually good I say to see this man moving with his minde after the Lord Jesus Christ is one of the highest wonders in the world Secondly It is a moving of the minde towards him from a Sound Sense of the absolute want that a man hath of him for his Justification and Salvation Indeed without this Sense of a lost condition without him there will be no moving of the mind towards him a moving of their mouth there may be with their mouth they shew much love Ezek. 32. Such a people as this will come as the true people cometh that is in shew and outward appearance and they will sit before Gods Ministers as his people Sit before them and they will hear his words too but they will not do them that is will not come inwardly with their mindes for with their mouth they shew much love but their heart or minde goeth after their Covetousness Now all this is because they want an effectual sense of the misery of their state by nature for not till they have that will they in their minde move after him Therefore thus it is said Concerning the true Commers At that day the great Trumpet shall be blown and They shall come which were ready to perish in the Land of Assyria and the out-casts of the land of Egypt and shall worship the Lord in his Holy Mountaine at Jerusalem Isa. 27. 13. They are then you see the out casts and those that are ready to perish that indeed have their mindes Effectually moved to come to Jesus Christ. This sense of things was that which made the three thousand come that made Saul come that made the Jaylor come and that indeed makes all others come that come Effectually Acts 2. Chap. 8 and 16. Of the true coming to Christ the three Leapers were a famous Semblance of whom you read in 2 King 7. 3 c. The famine in those days was sore in the Land there was no bread for the people and as for that Sustinence that was which was Asses Flesh and Doves Dung that was only in Samaria of these the Leapers had no share for they were thrust without the City Well now they sat in the Gate of the City and hunger was as I may say making his last Meal of them and being therefore half dead already what do they think of doing why first they display the dismal colours of death before each others faces and then resolve what to do saying If we say we will go into the City then the famine is in the City and we shall die there if we sit sti here we die also now therefore 〈◊〉 and let us fall into the Host of the Syrians if they save us alive we shall live if they