indrawingpoor'inners unto hicSon. 49 theywouldnor coulddo no other but murmurand repine: for all others , infeeeng they didfee andnot under/land, for their foolifh heart was blinded anddarkenedwith iml eniten- cy of heart ; therefore .frith he, no man can come to me extent the Father which bath lint me draw him. Firft, here is difcovered by way ofNegation and Excluf.- ors, the impoßìbtlaty of man (asquan) to come to Chrift : no man, &c. Secondly, here is laid down thepower, wayand means by which man comes on to Chrift, and that is in and by the drawing of theFather : when theF ATHE B. drams, :man cannot but come; andwhen the Father draws not, man can- not comeunto Chrift. No man can come tome except the Fa- ther which bath fènt me draw him, and Iwill raife him up at the lafb day (as ifhe fhould fay) if he be not drawn and rai- fedup by me,he can never come, and I never raifè nor draw till the Taft day, till mans day, manspower, wifdom,firength, holinefs, all that is in or ofman, is at an end,and that he is loft, drfrefed, and undone. Then at that laft day I will raife him up, Iwill come in and flay no longer ; for whilemans day, (that is, mans life, wifdom, and firength lafts) there is nothingbut refiftance, blindneffe, fightings, and opfofitions. Firft, no man can come , that is, In his natural, blind, dead, and loft condi ion, wherein he is as a dead bone, there is no life at all inhim, whereinhe is ftark blinde and fees not the things that concern his peace, therefore he bath no wi 1, norpower, nor mind tocome unto me : UNTO M E, whoam theSaviour of the world, the truth, righteoufneffe, and SanEification it felfe ; to come unto me, that is, to ME indeed ; for menhad power enough to come to Chrifts bo- dily appearance whilehe was on the earth, but this is not the comming to him : to conic in conceit,nction, opinion, or in a verbal or litteral way, according to the Hiftory and rela- tion of him. But to come toChrift, is, to come in the life' ofChrift, in thepower ofGod,to come tinto him in the eter- nall power, that HE may onely teach them, lead them, and guide them, and be their onely Matter. that they may know no Mafter, no Father, 40 Teacher, no Leader, nor no firength H be- Ezek. 37. Luk. 19. 42. i
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