indrawingpoorjnners unto his Son. 5 E rernal fpirit in u ; lfe the word is but a dry tree & a dead let ter.The experience of the Spoufe in Cant. t.4. witneífeth the fame ; drawme andwe will run after thee ; her experience had known, that the drawings and leadings of thole cords and bands of love ( that are never to be broken in Jefus Chrift) thedrawings of thefe bands of love only made her willing to go after that Husband, Father and God of Loving-kindnefs and ntercy;otherwife man never cones, nor is ever drawn but onely by theft cords ofhis love. Again the fame is witnef- fed in jer. 3 i, 3.there he tel.Is you, becaufe he had loved them, therefore wi.h loving-kndnefs had he drawn them : And in lofea ai. q.. he declares he had drawn them with the Cords of a man, wittthe bandsof love ; the foule finds it is onely the power of the Father, the love of the Father that bathdrawn him out ofmany waters : as the Pfalmifc witneffes, for David had found it fo , that he had deliveredhisfoul out of the mire and horrible pit.There is nothingbttt the eternal power ofGod that is able todraw a foul out of that deep and mierry pit in which it lies : the drawing of the Father, the power of the Father onlydraws menunto Chrift; otherwife they will not, nor cannot come. That this is fo, Divine truth witneffes, and the experience ofall Saints, that men will not, cannot do, atrl or work, nor come in unto Chrift without this draw- ing. irft, becaufe Jefus Chrift is not known and underftood in thepretioufnejs, excellency and value ofhim to the loft,blind, and carnal heart ofman ; for man in this condition knows not the worth, fweetnefs and excellency of him ; therefore man comes not unto Chrift, as David witneffes ; He looked down tofee if anyof foes of men wouldPeek after Cod, but they are all gone out ofthe way ; there is none thath doth good, no not one : fo I fay, man comes not to Jefus Chrift, becaufe he is ignorant of that life, glory, righteoufnefs, and immortality that is laid up in him ; therefore the Apof le renders it as the reafon why the Princes of theworld (Princes of/earning, and Princes in zeal and religion) kild him ; why, becaufe (faith he) none of the Princes of this world knew him; for had they known him, they would not have 5rucified the Lord of H 2 life. Jer.3t. 3. Hof, ti.4 Pfal. 69. Ibid.. 40.2
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