The unbelievers preparing for Christ. By T.HThe vnbeleevers preparing for Christ. By T.H

now unless Paul would have denied his own work which God by his grace had showed him, he must yield unto her, and come in, and therefore the text saith, that she constrained him, that is, she did by arguments and reasons propounded unto him, persuade him to grant her request: so in the 22 of Matt. it is said that the King when he had made a great feast, and those that were bidden would not come, he bids his servants go out into the high ways, and compel men to come in; there is nothing meant there but this moral, outward drawing by strength of arguments, when by arguments propounded, we draw and persuade men, to do that we would have them perform: but this is not meant here in the text, and I prove it thus, because it is not the purpose of our Saviour Christ in the text, for Christ having taught a spiritual and an heavenly Sermon, the Pharisees murmured and said, Is not this Jesus the son of Joseph, whose father and mother we know, how is it then that he saith, he came down from heaven? Jesus when he perceived their murmuring, said unto them, Why murmur you among your selves? and that he might prevent the offence that the feeble ones might take at the example of the Pharisees, he saith unto them, No man can come unto me, except my father draweth him, as though he had said, be not you troubled, and perplexed, because these great scholars do not believe my doctrine, and embrace it, it is not in them willing, but in me drawing; do not you think ill of my ⟨p. 23⟩doctrine of salvation, because your wise men and your brave men, will not believe it; for I tell you, though these have had arguments propounded, to persuade them to this, yet they cannot embrace my doctrine and believe, unless my father draweth them; they have had their hearts convinced and their mouths stopped, but yet all this will not do, unless my father draweth them. Secondly, this kind of caution, except my father draweth him, no man come unto me, is implied, that if my father doth draw him, he will come; and the Papists themselves confess this, that a man may have this moral drawing arguments, persuading, and reasons alluring to come unto God, and receive mercy from him, and yet he may not come; but they that have this drawing meant in the text, they will undoubtedly come;

now unlesse Paul would have denyed his owne work which God by his grace had shewed him, he must yeeld unto her, and come in, and therefore the text saith, that shee constrayned him, that is, shee did by arguments and reasons propounded unto him, perswade him to grant her request: so in the 22 of Matt. it is sayd that the King when he had made a great feast, and those that were bidden would not come, he bids his servants go out into the high wayes, and compell men to come in; there is nothing meant there but this morall, outward drawing by strength of arguments, when by arguments propounded, we draw and perswade men, to do that we would have them performe: but this is not meant here in the text, and I prove it thus, because it is not the purpose of our Saviour Christ in the text, for Christ having taught a spirituall and an heavenly Sermon, the Pharisees murmured and said, Is not this Iesus the sonne of Ioseph, whose father and mother we know, how is it then that he saith, he came down from heaven? Iesus when he perceived their murmuring, said unto them, Why murmur you among your selves? and that he might prevent the offence that the feeble ones might take at the example of the Pharisees, he saith unto them, No man can come unto me, except my father draweth him, as though he had said, be not you troubled, and perplexed, because these great scollers do not beleeve my doctrine, and embrace it, it is not in them willing, but in mee drawing; do not you think ill of my