Bunyan's Come and Welcome

Here's a quote from John Bunyan's book with the wonderful title, 'Come and Welcome to Jesus Christ.' It's from the part where he talks about the meaning of the words "to me" in the verse which the whole book is based on, "All that the Father giveth me shall come to me, and him that cometh to me I will in no wise cast out." The person speaking is Jesus, and coming to him means of course the same as having saving faith.

[These words "to me" are] very warily put in, and serve for caution and encouragement: for caution, lest we take up, in our coming, anything short of Christ; and for encouragement, to those that shall, in their coming, come past all till they come to Jesus Christ. ...

The man therefore that comes aright, casts all things behind his back, and looketh at nor hath his expectations from aught, but the Son of God alone ...

[The one who truly] comes to Christ, is one that hath had deep considerations of his own sins, slighting thoughts of his own righteousness, and high thoughts of the blood and righteousness of our Lord Jesus Christ. Yea, he sees, as I have said, more virtue in the blood of Christ to save him, than there is in all his sins to damn him. He therefore setteth Christ before his eyes: there is nothing in heaven or earth he knows that can save his soul and secure him from the wrath of God, but Christ: that is, nothing but his personal righteousness and blood.

It's one of my longstanding dilemmas, the question of which I like better, The Pilgrim's Progress or The Holy War. Meanwhile Come and Welcome is another acquisition from Peter and Rachel Reynolds - not such a recent one by now, but I'm taking my time with it.