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CXLV expository sermons upon the whole 17th chapter of the Gospel according to St.…
CXLV expository sermons upon the whole 17th chapter of the Gospel according to St. John, or, Christs prayer before his passion explicated, and both practically and polemically improved by Anthony Burgess ...
London: printed by Abraham Miller for Thomas Underhill, 1656
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1Fourthly, Those whom the Father giveth to Christ, that they may know this mercy by the effects of it, shall assuredly one time or other find this glorious work upon them, that they shall come to Christ. Though their temptations be never so great, their oppositions never so many, Though of all men in the world you would think such were the farthest off from Christ, yet Joh. 6. They shall come to him, God will so wonderfully change their hearts, mollify and soften them, he will so overcome and conquer all contrary resolutions, that of unwilling they shall be made willing; Oh that is a commanding expression, He shall come unto me, and lest we doubt of it, again it is said, None can come unto me unless my Father draw him; So the Father will draw him to Christ, that is, he will certainly and surely so overpower his heart, that he will not, he cannot withstand any longer the motions of grace upon his soul.
1Fourthly, Those whom the Father giveth to Christ, that they may know this mercy by the effects of it, shall assuredly one time or other finde this glorious work upon them, that they shall come to Christ. Though their temptations be never so great, their oppositions never so many, Though of all men in the world you would think such were the farthest off from Christ, yet Joh. 6. They shall come to him, God will so wonderfully change their hearts, mollifie and soften them, he will so overcome and conquer all contrary resolutions, that of unwilling they shall be made willing; Oh that is a commanding expression, He shall come unto me, and lest we doubt of it, again it is said, None can come unto me unlosse my Father draw him; So the Father will draw him to Christ, that is, he will certainly and surely so overpower his heart, that he will not, he cannot withstand any longer the motions of grace upon his soul.
- 14. All that the Father gives to Christ shall come to Christ