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

The World understand not, nor believe that the walls of Jericho shall fall at the Sound of Rams Horns; but when God will Work, the means must be effectual. A word weakly spoken, spoken with difficulty, in Temptation, and in the midst of great contempt and scorn, works Wonders; If the Lord thy God will say so too.

The World understand not, nor believe that the walls of Jerico shall fall at the Sound of Rams Horns; but when God will Work, the means must be effectual. A word weakly spoken, spoken with difficulty, in Temptation, and in the midst of great contempt and scorn, works Wonders; If the Lord thy God will say so too.

Sixthly, Is it so? doth no Man come to Jesus Christ, by the Will, Wisdom, or Power of Man; but by the Gift, Promise, and Drawing of the Father: Then here is room for Christians to stand and admire, to stand and wonder, at the effectual working of Gods Providences, that he hath made use of, as means to ⟨p. 182⟩bring them to Jesus Christ.

For although Men are drawn to Christ by the Power of the Father: yet that Power putteth forth it self in the use of means; and that means, is Divers; sometimes this, sometimes that: for God is at liberty to work, by which, and when, and how he will; but let the means be what it will, and as Contemptible as may be; yet God that Commanded the Light to Shine out of Darkness, and that out of Weakness, can make Strong; can, nay, doth ofttimes make use of very unlikely means, to bring about the Conversion and Salvation of his People. Therefore, you that are come to Christ, (and that by unlikely means,) stay your selves, and wonder; and wondering, magnify all mighty Power, by the working of which, the Means hath bin made effectual to bring you to Jesus Christ.