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

Secondly, It is a moving of the mind towards him, from a sound Sense of the absolute want that a Man hath of him for his Justification & ⟨p. 24⟩Salvation Indeed without this Sense of a lost Condition without him, there will be no moving of the mind towards him: A moving of their Mouth there may be; With their mouth they show much Love, Ezek 33.31. Such a People as this will come as the true People cometh; that is, in show and outward Appearance; and they will sit before God's Ministers, as his People sit before them; and they will hear his Words too, but they will not do them; that is, will not come inwardly with their Minds; For with their Mouth they show much Love, but their Heart (or Mind) goeth after their Covetousness. Now all this is, because they want an effectual sense of the Misery of their State by Nature; for not till they have that, will they in their Mind move oftener to him. Therefore thus it is said concerning the true Comers. At that Day the Trumpet shall be blown, and they shall come that were ready to perish in the land of Assyria, and the out-casts of the land of Egypt, and shall worship the Lord in his holy Mountain at Jerusalem, Isa. 17.13. They are then, as you see, the Outcasts, as those that are ready to perish: that have their Minds effectually moved to come to Jesus Christ. This sense of things was that which made the Three Thousand come; that made Saul come; that made the Gobbler come; and that indeed makes all others come, that come effectually, Acts 21.8.16.

Secondly, It is a moving of the mind towards him, from a sound Sense of the absolute want that a Man hath of him for his Justification & ⟨p. 24⟩Salvation Indeed without this Sense of a lost Condition without him, there will be no moving of the mind towards him: A moving of their Mouth there may be; With their mouth they shew much Love, Ezek 33.31. Such a People as this will come as the true People cometh; that is, in shew and outward Appearance; and they will sit before God's Ministers, as his People sit before them; and they will hear his Words too, but they will not do them; that is, will not come inwardly with their Minds; For with their Mouth they shew much Love, but their Heart (or Mind) goeth after their Covetousness. Now all this is, because they want an effectual sense of the Misery of their State by Nature; for not till they have that, will they in their Mind move oftner to him. Therefore thus it is said concerning the true Comers. At that Day the Trumpet shall be blown, and they shall come that were ready to perish in the land of Assyria, and the out-casts of the land of Egypt, and shall worship the Lord in his holy Mountain at Jerusalem,