Come & welcome to Jesus Christ, or, A plain and profitable discourse upon the…

These things might be spoken to at large, as they are in this method presented to view; but I shall choose to speak to the words,

These things might be spoken to at large, as they are in this method presented to view; but I shall chuse to speak to the words,

1. By way of Explication. 2. By way of Observation.

First, By way of Explication. [All] that the Father giveth me. This word, ⟨p. 9⟩All, is often used in Scripture; and is to be taken more largely, or more strictly, even as the Truth, or argument for the sake of which it is made use of, will bare: wherefore, that we may the better understand the mind of Christ, in the use of it here, we must consider, that it is Limited, and Restrained, only to those that shall be Saved; to wit, to those that shall come to Christ; even to those that he will, in no wise cast out. Thus also the word All Israel, is sometimes to be taken (though sometimes it is taken for the whole Family of Jacob.) And so All Israel shall be saved, Rom. 11. By All Israel, here he intendeth, not All of Israel in the largest sense: For they are not All Israel which are of Israel; neither because they are the Seed of Abraham are they All Children, but in Isaac shall thy seed be called: That is, they which are the Children of the flesh; these are not the Children of God, but the Children of the promise are counted for the seed, Rom. 9. 6, 7, 8.

First, By way of Explication. [All] that the Father giveth me. This word,