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

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.

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; somtimes this, somtimes 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, magnifie all mighty Power, by the working of which, the Means hath bin made effectual to bring you to Jesus Christ.

What was the providence, that God made use of, as a Means either more remote, or more near, to bring thee to Jesus Christ? Was it the Removing of thy Habitation, the change of thy Condition, the Loss of Relations, Estate, or the like? was it thy casting of thine Eye upon some good Book, thy ⟨p. 183⟩hearing of thy Neighbours talk of Heavenly Things, the beholding of Gods Judgments, as executed upon others, or thine own Deliverance from them; or thy being strangely cast under the Ministry of some Godly Man? O take notice of such providence, or providences! They were sent and managed by mighty Power, to do thee good. God himself, I say, hath Joined himself unto this Chariot: Yea, and so blessed it, that it failed not to accomplish the thing for which he sent it.