A treatise of delighting in God from Psal. xxxvij. 4. Delight thy self also…

Yet how few (though we must suppose many convinced) did heartily believe in him? more (abundantly) did upon a less-advantageous-external revelation after his ascension; And the reason is plainly told us, The Spirit was not yet given, ¹because that Jesus was not yet glorified. And how expressly have we it from his own mouth *,² (after he had interpreted coming to him by believing on him) No man can come unto me,³, except the Father that hath sent me draw him. And afterwards having said,⁴ It is the Spirit that quickeneth; he adds, But there are some of you, that believe not, ⁵(so that no mans professed assent, though as forward a professor as Judas was, there referred to, will in strict account entitle him a Believer, if it be not produced by the quickening influence of the Spirit). And then repeats,⁶ Therefore I said unto you, that no man can come unto me, except it were given him of my Father. And what provocation the Father had to with-hold that quickening Spirit, so generally, from that people, any one may see that reads their story. Upon which, by the recess of that Spirit, they are hardened to as great a Miracle as formerly their Egyptian oppressors were many ages before (there being indeed no greater Miracle as was said of old, than that men should not believe upon the sight of so many Miracles). And this ⟨p. 38⟩dreadful dereliction, and consequent obduration we see is referred to primitive Justice as a vindictive dispensation. But though he had done so many Miracles before them, ⁷yet they believed not on him.⁸ That the saying of Isaiah the Prophet might be fulfilled which he spake,