...To all this must be added the poieerful drawings of the Spirit, by which the will comes to Christ. " No man can come unto me, except the Father which hath sent me draw him." John 6 : 44. When these things are felt on the soul, it hears Christ's voice, his powerful...

...own ways. Turn "gain to the Gospel of St. John, find the sixth chapter and the forty-fourth verse, "No man can come unto me, except the Father which hath sent me draw him." It is Christ who say3 these words. We cannot come unto him of ourselves ; and it is because we will not....

...easily have removed it. — Those other words of our Lord must not be omitted here, in which he says, No man can come unto me, except the Father, which hath sent me, drawhim^ ; And what this drawing of the Father means, he himself has explained by saying, No man...

...easily have removed it. — Those other words of our Lord nuist not be omitted here, in which he says, No man can come unto me, except the Father, which hath sent me, draw him^ ; And what this drawing of the Father means, he himself has explained by saying, No man...

...plainly and emphatically spoken by Jesus Christ? Our Saviour says, in language particularly direct, " No " man can come unto me, except the Father, which hath *< sent me, DRAW HIM." Faustus Regiensis, Wolzogenius, Brenius, Slichtingius, Sykes, Whitby, Clarke, and many...

...Christ, 1. By the Spirit on Cod's part, whereby he draws us and joins us' unto Christ, John vi. 44. No man can come unto me, except the Father which hath sent me draw him. 2. By faith on our part, whereby we come unto Christ, and lay hold upon him, John vi....

...the expression in the text, this will easily lend us to the sense of the other passages, v.,4-1, " No man can come unto me except the Father which hath sent me draw him." This cannot mean compel and force him, by irresistible opcrations; but draw him, by ralioual...

...him and his doctrine, consisted in an unregenerate heart. " Murmur not," said he, "among yourselves. No man can come unto me, except the Father, which hath sent me., draw him." And again, "If God were your Father, ye would love roe; for I proceeded forth and came...

...among yourselves," /'. e. do not raise vain cavils, and seek objections against me on such accounts. " No man can come unto me, except the Father which hath sent me, draw him." In which words he insinuates that they were not the persons they ought to be, though...

...declaration you had before heard from the mouth of Christ, and perhaps laboured to explain away : " No man can come unto me, except the Father which hath sent me, draw him.'-| Oh ! when shall we see the vanity and self-confidence of sinners mortified ? When...