Come and welcome to Jesus Christ. Or, A plain and profitable discourse on John…

Here therefore the Lord Jesus positively determineth, to put forth such a sufficiency of all Grace, as shall effectually perform his Promise▪ They shall come: that is, he will cause them to ⟨p. 21⟩come, by infusing of an effectual Blessing in to all the means that shall be used to that end. As was said to the evil Spirit, that was seen to persuade Ahab to go and fall a• Ramoth Gilead; Go, thou shalt persuade him, and prevail also? go forth, and do so, 1 Kings 22.22. So will Jesus Christ say, to the means than shall be used, for the bringing of those to him that the Father hath given him. I say, he will bless it effectually to this very end▪ it shall persuade them, and shall prevail also. Else, as I said, the Father's end would be frustrate: For the Father's Will is, that, of all that he hath given him, he should lose nothing, but should raise it up at the last Day, in order next unto himself, Christ the first Fruits, afterwards those that are his, at his Coming, (1 Cor. 15.) But this cannot be done, if there should fail to be a Work of Grace effectually wrought, though but in any one of them. But this shall not fail to be wrought in any one of them. But this shall not fail to be wrought in them, even in all that the Father hath given him to save. All that the Father hath given me shall come to me, &c. But to speak more distinctly to the Words, They shall come; Two things I should show you from these Words.

Here therefore the Lord Jesus positively determineth, to put forth such a sufficiency of all Grace, as shall effectually perform his Promise▪ They shall come: that is, he will cause them to ⟨p. 21⟩come, by infusing of an effectual Blessing in to all the means that shall be used to that end. As was said to the evil Spirit, that was seen to perswade Ahab to go and fall a• Ramoth G•lead; Go, thou shalt perswade him, and prevail also? go forth, and do so,