Fourthly, This word [shall-come] engageth Christ to Communicate all manner of Grace to those thus given him, to make them effectually to come to him. They shall come; that is, not if they will, but if grace, all grace, if power, wisdom, a new heart and the holy spirit, and all Joining together, can make them come. I say, this word [shall-come] being absolute, hath no dependence upon our will, or power, or goodness; but it engageth for us even God himself, Christ himself, the Spirit himself. When God had made that Absolute promise to Abraham, that Sarah should have a Son, Abraham did not at all look at any qualification in himself, because the promise looked at none, but as God had by the promise absolutely promised him a Son; so he considered not his own body now dead, nor yet the barrenness of Sarah's Womb. He staggered not at the promise of God through unbelief, but was strong in faith, giving ⟨p. 71⟩glory to God, being fully persuaded that what He had promised, He was able to perform, Rom. 4. He had promised, and had promised absolutely, Sarah shall have a Son. Therefore Abraham looks that He, to wit, God must fulfil the condition of it. Neither is this Expectation of Abraham, disapproved by the Holy Ghost, but accounted good and laudable, it being that by which he gave Glory to God. The Father also hath given to Christ, a certain number of Souls for him to save, and he himself hath said, They shall come to him. Let the Church of God then live in a Joyful Expectation of the utmost accomplishment of this promise, for assuredly it shall be fulfilled, and not one thousandth part of a Tittle thereof shall fail.
Fourthly, This word [shall-come] engageth Christ to Communicate all manner of Grace to those thus given him, to make them effectually to come to him. They shall come; that is, not if they will, but if grace, all grace, if power, wisdom, a new heart and the holy spirit, and all Joyning together, can make them come. I say, this word [shall-come] being absolute, hath no dependance upon our will, or power, or goodness; but it ingageth for us even God himself, Christ himself, the Spirit himself. When God had made that Absolute promise to Abraham, that Sarah should have a Son, Abraham did not at all look at any qualification in himself, because the promise looked at none, but as God had by the promise absolutely promised him a Son; so he considered not his own body now dead, nor yet the barrenness of Sarah's Womb. He staggered not at the promise of God through unbelief, but was strong in faith, giving ⟨p. 71⟩glory to God, being fully perswaded that what He had promised, He was able to perform, Rom. 4. He had promised, and had promised absolutely, Sarah shall have a Son. Therefore Abraham looks that He, to wit, God must fulfill the condition of it. Neither is this Expectation of Abraham, disapproved by the Holy Ghost, but accounted good and laudable, it being that by which he gave Glory to God. The Father also hath given to Christ, a certain number of Souls for him to save, and he himself hath said, They shall come to him. Let the Church of God then live in a Joyful Expectation of the utmost accomplishment of this promise, for assuredly it shall be fulfilled, and not one thousandth part of a Tittle thereof shall fail.
