The application of redemption

Three Reasons why there must be such a Preparation.

First let the Testimony of the Scriptures be heard which will evince it; and Secondly the force of Argument which will conclude it undeniable.

The Scriptures are pregnant which speak to this point, I shall insist mainly upon three.

John, 5. 44. When our Saviour had in the foregoing verses discovered the unteachable stiffness of the ⟨p. 154⟩hard hearted and rebellious Jews, that though they had the Preaching of John the Baptist who was a shining and a burning light to point out our Saviour to them; they saw the works of our Saviour daily before their eyes that might convince them; yea, […] the Scriptures the Records of the counsels of God, which might show them the way to life in Christ and persuade their hearts to embrace it; yet our Saviour upbraids their rebellion to their faces, Ye will not come to me that you might have life, verse 40. But the question might grow what might be the cause of this incorrigible perverseness of their spirits, for if another came in his own name they would hear him, but though he came in his Fathers name they would not receive him. verse 43. He answers therefore in vers. 44. How can ye believe which receive honour one of another, but seek not the honour that comes from God only? Where these Two things are plain.