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

no man comes unto me, except the father which hath sent me draweth him, and therefore whosoever the father doth draw, he shall come, and certainly will come, and therefore this drawing, that is meant here, is not a moral drawing by outward persuasions: thus much for the clearing of this point, namely that a moral and external drawing is not to be understood in the text. This will not serve the turn, there is more in it than so, we must therefore search further, into the nature of this word drawing; and God is said to draw a poor sinner unto himself, in the second place, when he is not only pleased to enlighten a mans mind, and offer arguments to his understanding, and lay truths ⟨p. 24⟩and propound promises unto him, for this will not do it, this is only an outward drawing; but when the Lord is pleased to put a new power into the soul of a sinner, and with all, to carry the will to the object propounded, that it may embrace it; when God is pleased, not only to offer good things to the soul, but to enable the soul to lay hold upon the things offered, not only to offer Christ and salvation, but to work effectually upon the heart, and make it able to give entertainment to Christ, then the Lord is said to draw a sinner unto himself, from sin and corruption; and this is termed an internal kind of drawing, and this is meant here in the text, it is not only the propounding of arguments, to move and pluck the soul, but the Lord doth by his effectual power, draw the soul from sin, and bring it unto himself. And therefore observe two things, touching this internal drawing, namely, that there is a separation first wrought, between sin and the soul, the union that is between sin and the soul, is broken. Secondly, that when the soul is once severed, and broken off from sin, then it comes to a right set, to a right frame and disposition towards God, and then it goeth no further, but here it stoppeth; and this is that which I call plucking and drawing of a poor sinner from his corruptions to God, in both which actions the will of the creature is wrought upon, plucked from sin and set towards God, and of it self it doth not move at all. I express it thus, look as it ⟨p. 25⟩is with the wheel of a clock, or the wheel of a Jack that is turned aside, and by some contrary poise set the wrong way.

no man comes unto mee, except the father which hath sent mee draweth him, and therefore whosoever the father doth draw, he shall come, and certainly will come, and therefore this drawing, that is meant here, is not a morall drawing by outward perswasions: thus much for the clearing of this poynt, namely that a morall and externall drawing is not to be understood in the text. This will not serve the turne, there is more in it than so, we must therefore search further, into the nature of this word drawing; and God is said to draw a poore sinner unto himselfe, in the second place, when he is not only pleased to enlighten a mans mind, and offer arguments to his understanding, and lay truths