...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 '...

...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...

...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...

...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,...

...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...

...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...

...this sacrifice. In April, 1774, on the Sunday before Easter, Mr. Simpson preached from John vi. 44, " No man can come unto me, except the Father which hath sent me, draw him." Explaining the draw, ings of the Father, he related his own experience, under the name...

...grace of God. So our Lord speaks in the sixth chapter of this gospel, in the forty-fourth verse, " 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." And, in another place, he says, " Ye will...

...contemplation of these truths, by considering — First, What is meant by the drawing spoken of in our text : " No man can come unto me, except the Father, which hath sent me, draw him ;" — and, secondly, Why this drawing is necessary. I. What is meant by the drawing spoken...

...he has adduced as being liable to misinterpretation. Your correspondent supposes that the passage,." No man can come unto me, except the Father which hath sent ma draw him," is to be rendered thus : '' No Jew would come to be the Lord's disciple, unless he were...