An expository comment, doctrinal, controversial, and practical upon the whole first chapter to the…An expository comment, doctrinal, controversal, and practical upon the whole first chapter to the…

Secondly, Hereby likewise God showeth, That he doth not need any. It's not because he wants such, that he converts them, for if so, then only great men and learned men would be converted.

Secondly, Hereby likewise God sheweth, That he doth not need any. It's not because he wants such, that he converts them, for if so, then only great men and learned men would be converted.

Lastly, It might be, that none of any rank should despair; and therefore the command is 2 Tim. 2. That we should pray for all, because God would have all to be saved; that is of all sorts, whether Kings, or Governors, who were then most unlikely, because the greatest enemies to Christs Kingdom.

Lastly, It might be, that none of any rank should despair; and therefore the command is 2 Tim. 2. That we should pray for all, because God would have all to be saved; that is of all sorts, whether Kings, or Governours, who were then most unlikely, because the greatest enemies to Christs Kingdome.

Use 1. Doth not God keep then to one way in respect of the persons and manner of conversion? Then this should teach every godly man, Not to make his conversion a measure of others; unless they have been humbled and wrought upon in such a measure, and with such kind of temptations, we are apt to judge harshly of them. Now although every one that is regenerated is brought to see himself lost and undone, and thereby to believe in a Saviour, yet the measure of sorrow, and degree of humiliation may be in one, more than in another.