...the world that he gave his only begotten Son." It is with lovingkindness that God draws us to Christ; no man can come unto me, except the Father which hath sent me draw him." Love is the bond of the everlasting covenant ; " My lovingkindness I will not utterly...

...not the righteous" ness of God."1 P. DLVII. 1. 16. < }Ve note, &c.'2 " Murmur not " among yourselves, No man can come unto me, " except the Father, which hath sent me, draw him; " and I will raise him up at the last day. It is written " in the prophets; and they...

...will come off from it of his own accord, but clings to it, till almighty power makes him to fall off, John vi. 44. " No man can come unto me, except the Father which hath sent me draw him." And chap. v. 40. " Ye will not come to me, that ye might have life." The ingrafted branches...

...texts, which, probably, in their true meaning, do not at all contradict these things. Our Lord says: t to take the children's bread, and cast it to dogs. And s me draw him," John vi. 44. But those words do not import immediate impulses: the meaning is, ' no '...

...embrace the gospel. Jesus himself has declared it impossible while they continue in that state, saying, No man CAN come unto me, except the father which hath sent me . draw him, John vi. 44. The spirit of truth the world CANNOT receive, John xiv. 17. Why do ye not...

...him, is represented as the exercise of the sinner, while under the influence of a divine operation. "No man can come unto me, except the Father, which hath sent me, draw him." .Thus saints are represented as actually loving, repenting, believing, and coming to...

...easily have removed it. Those oilier words of our Lord must not he omaiilted here, in which he says, No man can come unto me, except the Father which hath sent me draw him [2] : and what this drawing of the Father means, he himself has explained hy saying, No...

...the Lord hath not given you an heart to perceive, and eyes to see, and ears to hear, unto this day." John vi. 44. " No man can come unto me, except the Father which hath sent me draw him." Page 343, note *. Exod. xxxi. 2. " See, I have called by name Bezaleel the son of Uri,...

...loved us.' — ' For who maketh thee to differ ; and what hast thou that thou didst not receive?' — No man can come unto me, except the Father which hath sent me draw him.' — ' The natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness unto him, neither...

...God were in every case the efficacious cause of true faith, as he himself hath expressly testified; ".No man can come unto me, " except the Father which hath sent me draw him, and " I will raise him up at the last day. It is written in the " prophets, and they shall...