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A89274	Mercies for man. Prepared in, and by Christ, even for such as neither know them, nor him. Discovered, that they might know, and enjoy them. Or a discourse of the interest there is for all men in, and by Christ in the end, and usefulmesse of the beleevers peculiar priviledges and service. In which is also some information about that service to which the grace of God, that bringeth salvation to all men, instructeth, and obligeth the beleever for the good of them all, according to capacity, and opportunity given him. Likewise some directions for, and concerning Christian magistrates. In the opening some instructions arising from the Apostles exhortation to Timothy, 1 Tim. 2.1, 2. Delivered in November 1653. at the Munday meetings at Black-Friers: and because what then was spoken, met with some publick opposition, this is now published for further satisfaction. Written by Thomas Moor, Junior.	Moore, Thomas, Junior.	1654 (1654)	Wing M2605; Thomason E744_1; ESTC R207022	135,708	156

vers No man can come unless the Father draw or it be given him of my Father vers 6 5. is a ground of the admonition v. 43. Murmur not among your selves signifying that his Father was now in his ministration drawing them with special and powerful cords leading them to repentance and therefore he admonisheth not still to break his bonds by murmuring because without them they could not come and it might be much feared God would restrain his Spirit from striving any longer if such special influences of him in such special means were rejected Therefore even now more earnestly and heartily to receive while the Father was giving to them as he affirms the Father was then giving to them or did then give them the true bread though they did not accept or feed on it vers 32. And thus it fully agrees with that John 12. 35 36. Yet a little while is the Light with you walk while ye have the light lest darkness come and then ye cannot walk and that Jam. 1. 18 19 20 c. Of his own good will or willingly begat he us through the word of truth which is preached to every man Col. 1. 27 28 29. wherefore let every man be swift to hear slow to speak slow to wrath or murmuring against that Word of truth seeing it's Gods Arm sent to save him and like to this that Phil. 2. 12 13. It is God that worketh in you both to will and to do c. Do all things without murmuring and disputings that ye may not fail of the efficacies of his grace in you as Heb. 12. 15 16. And indeed the grace of God bringeth salvation to all men in all the several appearances and streamings forth thereof in his mercies chastisements providences though more fully and plainly in the records and plain Declaration of the Gospel and especially as now come forth yet even in his works of creation and providence which by vertue of the redemption wrought in Christ men do behold and have a comfortable enjoyment of even where they do not enjoy the other more plain Declarations of Jesus Christ the choice means yet therein and to them in and with those means they have Jesus Christ by his Spirit is witnessing the goodness of God to their spirits so that God is not without a witness in those mercies they enjoy Acts 14. 17. yea the word or testimony of Gods goodness as preached in them is not afar off but nigh them in their heart in their mouth that it might be seen and acknowledged and it is leading perswading and drawing their hearts to repeatance in the acknowledgement of the truth that which may be known of God in those discoveries of him vouchsafed is manifest in them and that is Gospel or good news of goodness and propitiousness in God yea so as through a Saviour this is preached in every creature though that Saviour is not distinctly revealed as in the Scriptures Acts 17. 24 27. Rom. 1. 19 21. Colos 1. 23. Neither doth God require of them any Repentance Faith or Acknowledgement of him but according to the capacities and manifestations given them and is very favourable and full of forbrearance though all men generally fail and come short of that and is yet waiting to be gracious to them in continuing the mediums of calling and while he is doing so stretching out his hand all the day long and if God see it good for them or any of them to give them some more distinct revelation and discovery of the person and work of Christ as he hath also promised that in turning in his reproofs he will still further pour out his Spirit and make known his words and however I say what discovery or revelation of Christ soever he sees good and needful for any of them though they have not the Scriptures the outward means thereto he can teach the same things without them yea where by his providence they are not vouchsafed his Spirit is so conversant and in such maner with the books of creation and providence as to teach and lead to that use of them which by the Scriptures he teaches us to make of them as it hath been seen in the cases of such as have been deaf and dumb God hath taught them the same things concerning Christ and his goodness through him by those things which they saw and had to do with which others have learned through discourse and in use of those Organs they wanted and if they had wanted the other also he could have taught the same things without that too for he speaks to the heart and gives wisdom to the inward parts none teacheth like him and though he ever make use of outward mediums where and according to what he vouchsafes yet he is bound to none of them and is also especially tender towards such as enjoy least of them being by his providence deprived in requiring less of them and no more then according to what he gives and by his providence in keeping strong temptations and stumbling-blocks from before them and out of their way and in dealing with them according to their need and wants whence exhorting us to be like him he directs particularly in this Thou shalt not curse the deaf nor put a stumbling-block before the blinde Levit. 19. 1 14. but especially open thy mouth for them c. Prov. 31. 8 9 yea expresly they have all heard and that so as by sent Preachers and that so as that they might believe and to that end see Rom. 10. 15 18. After he hath told us that they cannot believe without sent Preachers among them making this conclusion Faith cometh by hearing and hearing even capacity to hear by or with the word according to the preaching thereof vouchsafed then he propound the question I say then Have they not all heard and answers generally Yes they have and particularly to those that have not obeyed yet they have heard and that by means of sent Preachers too which by the next verse alluding to Psal 19. the works of creation and providence are whose line is gone out into all the world and their words to the ends of the earth and by them he saith All have heard and then distinctly speaks of Israels having more special means of knowledge Jesus Christ then is the true light that enlightneth every man that cometh into the world he is to all by vertue of his ransome a Testimony in due time the Light of the world c. See for further understanding and usefulness of this the first instruction propounded by way of usefulness of the first proposition and particularly the explication of those two Scriptures compared Isa 49. 8. 2 Cor. 6. 2. I shall not here otherwise in large to usefulness having been already more large then I intended in this demonstration or opening of the ground of praying with thanksgiving for all in these three heads That Christ by the gracious will and appointment of God gave himself

meeknesse instructing the ignorant and such as oppose themselves If God peradventure at any time may give them repentance c. They are set in the world to this end to be the salt of the earth the light of the world Mat. 5. 13 14. Instruments by bearing witnesse of Christ of reproving the world of Sin of Righteousnesse and of Judgement c. Joh. 15. 26. with Chap. 16 8 9 10. And of making manifest the savour of his knowledge in every place A company of spiritual Priests to serve about holy things for the good of others A chosen generation that they should shew forth the praises of him that hath called them even among the Gentiles and that both by word and work that they may glorifie God c. 1 Pet. 2. 3 4 9. 12. with Mat. 5. 16. Servants they are of the house but in their service and warfare sent out of the house into the field of the world Prov. 9. 1 2 3 4. Cant. 7. 11. Unto a generation of men that are crooked Amongst whom they live to shine as lights holding forth the word of life Phil. 2. 15 16. The Children of the Kingdome are seed sowne in the field of the world where amongst them and like unto them will be alwayes tares until the end of this world Matth. 13. 38 39. yet they are preserved from the evill to the end they might bring forth fruit to God and that there might be none barren among them This consideration may be useful First to informe of the great love of God to the world to All men which is herein exceedingly commended for as God sent not his Sonne so neither doth he send the Gospel and Servan●s and Spirit of his Son into the world to condemn the world but that the world through him might be saved This is the Condemnation that when light is come into the world men love darknesse God doth not cover hatred with lying lips pretending love he is not such as many men are who hiding the Vision of all from the people honour him with their lips but their heart is far removed from him Isa 29. 11. 13. nor is he as they would render him to men such a one as themselves Psal 50. 20 21. That hath burning lips pretending love and offering grace and yet a wicked heart That while he hateth yet dissembleth with his lips and layeth up his deceit within him That while he speaks faire yet may not be beleeved because mean while he hath the perfection of abominations in his heart against the men to whom he so speaks fair This he abhors as greatest folly and wickednesse in others Prov. 10. 18. and 26. 23 24 25 26. He doth not thus graciously call and proclame his provision prepared and with arguments of that nature send his servants to them all and invite them to be reconciled And yet all this but in pretence of love and for their good but it is really so We may well argue with that good woman Judg. 13. 23. If God had intended to slay us he would not have found out and accepted such a sacrifice for us nor would he have sent his Messengers to shew us and tell us such things as these I say we may well thus argue seeing God himselfe argues and positively affirmes on his Word and Oath the truth and cordialnesse of his love to man-ward from the latter of these onely namely his sending his Messengers to call and warne them which indeed also shews the truth of the former the provision prepared and way opened for them all to turne to him the declaration of which is the summe of their message received of him 1 Joh. 1. 1-5 2 Cor. 5. 14 15. which if it were not so he would not have told them see Ezek. 33. 7. 10 11. God having set Ezekiel as a Watchman and other Watchmen to hear the word at his mouth and to warne the people He did thus reason against their unbeleefe and murmuring whereas they said Though he by his Watchmen called and warned them yet he did not therein lift up the yoak of thraldome on their Jawes as hee saith he doth while he sets meat before them Hos 11. 4. but left them necessarily under the power and bondage of their iniquities under which they were naturally so that when he called they could not heare and turne and how should they then live To this God answers and argues it from his having set Watchmen among them Therfore say unto them As I live saith the Lord I have no pleasure in the death of the wicked of such wicked men as doe dye Ezek. 18. 31. he hath now no pleasure none at all after any consideration neither secret nor revealed in their death but that they should turn and live though afterward when the day of his grace and patience is at an end towards them his heart will stand otherwise affected towards them though no change in him their condition being wholly changed they being become perfectly one of the Seed of the Serpent wholly rejected of God Then he will laugh at their calamity and mock when their fear cometh But now he is slow to anger and his very forbearance is salvation and shews that he is not willing that any should perish but that all should come to repentance and be saved 2 Pet. 3. 9. 16. And that appears as we have noted by his Declaration of himselfe and heart towards them in sending his servants and using other means to proclaim his goodnesse to them and call and lead them to repentance Rom. 2. 4. For I the Lord saith he speak righteousnesse and declare things that are right and therefore have not spoken in secret or covertly as one that would not that all should understand me or take me at my word nor have willed my servants to use hidden things of dishonesty But as 2 Cor. 4. 1 2. So here I have not said in vaine to the house of Israel seek ye me Therefore seeing I also call to all the ends of the earth look to me and be ye saved for I am a just God and Saviour Isa 45. 19-22 As one that hath no pleasure in your destruction I have sent to call you and because I know you have no strength in your selves as of your selves but are naturally dead in trespasses and sinnes Therefore all the day long while I have been calling you to behold me I stretched out my hand to a rebellious people Isa 65. 1 2. He spake in his Spirit by the hand of the former Prophets Zach. 7. 11 12. 1 Pet. 3. 19 20. Wherefore then when I called was there none to answer have I no power c. Isa 50. 2. Turn you Turn you why will ye dye While God by Jesus Christ in any means but especially in the declarations and invitations of his Gospel is calling to any of us This is indeed a time of finding with him and so urged as a motive to perswade us to seek him

36. Act. 14. 17. Rom. 2. 4. These considerations of what the prayers are and in what manner all prayers are to be made for all men may afford us some direction in our prayers to pray as we ought which the holy Spirit teacheth as he doth all other things by opening the Testimony of Jesus and shewing the things of him Rom. 8. 26. with Joh. 16. 13 14. As therein he presents us with good ground and foundation of Prayer as we shall after shew so thereby he instructeth us what to pray for and in what manner for all men and how to pray as we ought for every man in teaching us to pray according to his will as declared in that declaration of his name in his Son for such things as the Father hath appointed him to give unto men by vertue of his Sacrifice and Mediation to each according to his need and capacity and so as according to the wisdome of God may be for his good and so we are here directed not to pray for those peculiar blessings which men become capable and meet subjects to partake of onely in beleeving and comming to Christ as Col. 1. 9-13 1 Pet. 2. 3 4. such as sanctifying and furniture to and blessing in the ministration of the Gospel and the like for any that is yet in the state fellowship and way of the world and so of it yet to pray for these things for all Saints that the world may be the better for them as to the best good Job 17. 9-21 23. neither may we pray for Gods prospering any man in his evill way or for special National protections ownings and salvations to be afforded to any people or Nation openly set in opposition to him or to any people that are called by his name and especially if for his names sake called upon them But we are to suffer the grace of God to teach and lead us as it certainly will to pray against their evill works and inventions and so against them as abiding in the said wayes and for special protections ownings and salvations to be afforded to that people or Nation upon whom his name is called or that do more rightly worship and acknowledge him and that for his names sake and both these intentionally for the good not only of those people for whom the prayers are directly made but of their enemies also and so of all men Our Saviours Admonition and Instruction to his Disciples when upon some peoples unthankfulnesse and not receiving him they would have prayed for fire to come down from heaven and consume them as Elias did may here seasonably be considered by us Ye know not what manner of spirit ye are of for the Son of man came not to destroy mens lives but to save them Luke 9. 55 56. And therefore also Though we are not nor is it according to his will to pray for forgivenesse peace and joy in a full and proper sense to be given to any man abiding in his evill way or in his natural state and condition yet we may and are taught by his grace to pray for such pardon forbearance and renewing of goodnesse to be conferred on them and in due time as may give them opportunity and have tendency and efficacy in it to lead them to repentance That so they may receive forgivenesse of sins and inheritance with those that are sanctified by saith that is in Christ And so the end of all prayers for all men is that they might be saved We come next to consider Fourthly What are those thanksgivings joyned with prayers to be made for all men This the Scripture plentifully sets before us That al manner of right prayer is joyned with Thanksgiving Phil. 4. 6. In every thing by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known to God So Psal 50. 14 15. and 95. 2. Come into his presence with Thanksgiving offer sacrifice of Thanksgiving and call upon him Yea all men are invited so to do Now what this Thanksgiving is that is so inseparably joyned with all right praying we shall also finde in those Scriptures that speak to this matter that it is such a commemoration and thankful acknowledgement of and blessing God for his great love and mercy testified in what he hath already done for us as in which Gods goodnesse is only commended and glorified and not ours with it as in that of the Pharisee God I thank thee that I am not c. Luk. 18. 11. and that so as in the minding and consideration thereof we have incouragement presented to expect and pray in faith for those further streamings forth of mercy and good things according to our needs and capacity which through the knowledge of his name we are lead to desire and ask accordingly to his wil. So our Savior teacheth us in that doctrine of Prayer Mat. 6. 9. to acknowledge and commemorate the honor and praise due to his name for what he hath done in and by his Son in the forefront of all the Petitions we ask of him that therein we may glorifie him and yeeld him the praise of his grace who also for his names sake meeteth with him that rejoyceth in acknowledging it Though to us belong nothing but shame that therein also we may be minded of that which may inlarge and draw out our hearts with encouragement in God though abasement in our selves further to pray according to his will And so the holy Spirit for the helping of our infirmities teaching us how to pray as we ought as he takes of the things of Jesus and sheweth as is shewed before so therein he glorifies him in and according to the Gospel minding us what cause of Thanksgiving we have to God continually by and in the name of Jesus Christ and how that serves for our instruction and encouragement further to pray see examples and instructions to this And first in those Thanksgivings that are joyned with Prayers made for all Saints and for such peculiar blessings to be conferred on them as of which they only are capable subjects though in respect of their end and tendencie these are also for all men as afore is shewed In all these Thanksgivings there is not only an acknowledgement of that true in Christ for men as the bottom cause of all thanksgivings and of the great love goodnesse of God to manward as manifested therein but with this there is alwayes an acknowledgement and commemoration of Gods great goodnesse in those special streamings forth of the issues and ver●ues of that Redemption and grace of God in Christ to manward which they have met with and through his grace have had efficacie in them to the saving them and making them meet to partake of the inheritance of the Saints in those peculiar blessings desired and prayed for for them See our Saviours Prayer Joh. 17. 7 8. Now they have known saith he that all things what soever thou hast given me are of

glory become a Prince and a Saviour All is committed into his hands to preserve to us a posterity in the earth and to save our lives together to the comfortable enjoyment of his mercies by a great deliverance yea this will be to them a testimony of Gods goodness through the Redemption when they come to be capable of considering it and such as may be so discerned by them and useful to them if they put not from them the instructions of the grace of God as it was to David Psal 71. 6. Thou art he that hast preserved or holden me up from the womb as well as taken me of my Mothers Bowels my praise shall be continually of thee Whence we are exhorted in youth and its the first and main thing we should mind our children of as they are capable To remember our Creator to call to minde his goodness in creating and so in preserving us hitherto that through his goodness in his Son may be so comfortably and profitably remembred by us but as they come to capacity to know any thing and act accordingly though the grace of God that brings solvation to all men instruct and require of them to close with it according to the means and capacities afforded yet they are all generally going astray naturally and not regarding to understand or know the way of peace but closing their eyes against the light and corrupting themselves more and more notwithstanding which such is the love of God to manward He would not that any should perish but come to repentance and be saved he heartily desires they should according to the instructions and reproofs of his goodness turn from their dumb Idols and evil wayes unto the living God and as a testimony of it having opened in and by his Son such a large and effectual door to this purpose and that at so costly a rate he also gives his Son in the issues and streamings forth of the vertue of his sacrifice a continual witness or testimony to them while it is in due time And so concerning such we say Jesus Christ is by vertue of his sacrifice and mediation still preserving this natural life while he pleases to continue it unto the comfortable enjoyment of his mercies and renewing gracious means and opportunities to them That they might repent and seek after God who is not far off from every one of them but neer them in the gracious operations of his hands and in his good affection and desire of their good by them for therefore in by or through him we live and move and have our being Acts 17. 24 27. And so by him they are preseved from so much of the destruction and confusion of minde and of the pains and torments on the body that is the proper wages of our sin that they are unless in some rare examples in whom God also requires not more or otherwise then according to what he hath sown or furnished with capable subjects of beholding and considering the mercies of God and understanding and making such use of them as may tend to the comfortable being of the natural life and so of conversing with and attending to those outward mediums in which Gods Spirit is conversant and working to lead them to repentance of which more anon And indeed all those mercies and accommodations of the natural life are made such mediums and to that purpose is he also by vertue of the same sacrifice and mediation continuing and renewing in his providences as he sees good his mercies in Creatures Scriptures or both and ordering also favourable chastisements in which he debates with them in measure and changing his providences about them that they may not settle on their l●es All these things worketh God oft times with man to bring back his soul from the pit to be enlightened with the light of the living Job 33. 29 30. to give them space and opportunity to repent And herein is Jesus Christ a great and continual Witness of Gods goodness and propitiousness towards them and of the truth of the Redemption in him declared in the Gospel as is foreshewed in the second Reason propounded for demonstration of the truth of his having redeemed us from the curse of the Law being made a curse for us 2. Jesus Christ is also a Testimony and so he and the Father in him testified to men in due time in sending forth the supernatural light and power of his good Spirit in and with all these outward means to bring the light of the knowledge of his goodness to their hearts and therein open their ears and give capacity by his words and in his calling that men might hear and answer for though the former be done the natural life preserved the outward mediums afforded and man a capable subject of beholding injoying and attending to those mediums without distraction yet is he not simply hereby or by any power in him as naturally of him capable of finding out the knowledge of the things of God in Christ or closing with them as declared and witnessed in those mediums the world by wisdom found not out God in the wisdom of God the carnal minde is enmity to God it is not subject to the Law of God neither indeed can it be so that they that are in the flesh all have flesh in them but they that are in it wholly given up to it swayed and guided by the teaching or operation of the wisdom affections or lusts of the flesh they cannot please God we have no sufficiency in our selves as of our selves not so much as to think any thing as we ought But our sufficiency is of God and so of God as not of our selves not by a meer natural blessing or stirring up and strengthening any thing that is naturally of us though those natural faculties and powers may be well imployed as far as renewed by grace but then they must be renewed and acted by such light and power of the grace of God given and heeded as though certainly administred in and through outward mediums yet is supernatural to us 1 Cor. 1. 21. 2. t●t Rom. 8. 6 7 8. 2 Co 3. 5. so that the natural man as a natural man by any thing natural in him receiveth not the things of God There is therefore requisite such a maner of putting forth of light and exercise of the power of Gods Spirit in the natural faculties of the Soul or Spirit of man to make it capable of comprehending perceiving or closing with the things of God in Christ as is to man supernatural he being naturally in and of himself as uncapable of hearing the voyce of the Son of God in the Gospel as those that are in the graves are in and of themselves uncapable of hearing and complying with that voyce of the Son of God by which they shall be raised and therefore those deaths are compared the one to the other John 5. 25 28. though these are capable as before shewed of

attending to those means in which the supernatural light and force of the Spirit of God is put forth and exercised for bringing the voyce of the Son of God nigh to them and opening their ears and giving capacity to hear it and quickening by it answerable to which the other have no such capacity And therefore the voyce of the Son of God shall come forth to that immediately however then it is requisite that in or through those outward mediums there be such a maner of coming forth and operation of the Spirit of God as is answerable to that by which Jesus Christ was raised from the dead and the dead shall be raised 't is the same Spirit by which he moved and acted and walked up and down in his life in the flesh or in the dayes of his weakness and mortality and so the same Spirit by which men are taught and strengthened to their natural motions actions or imployments in things tending to the good or comfortable being of the natural life but not in the same maner put forth or exercised but as we may say In a natural or ordinary way by blessing natural faculties and abilities in and according to a natural improvement in such maner as the nature of man by that which God hath already furnished it withall is capable of receiving and complying with But for this though that light and power of the Spirit is to ●e put forth into and exercised in the dark heart and dead faculties of the soul that they may be renewed and strengthened by it yet it must be such as brings with it its light strength and capacity for the receiving it such as hath in it a supernatural force or maner of operation for opening the deaf ears and the blinde eyes c. Isai 42. 18. 7. and 49. 9. that they may see and receive what it discovereth There being no such capacity before or naturally in the subject to which it comes Therefore the A postle desiring for the believing Ephesians That they might through the knowledge of him more abundantly experiment the exceeding greatness of his mighty power or arm that is in the Gospel that it might more have its prevalency with them as it is put forth through that knowledge of him for the special saving of them that believe Rom. 1. 16 17. he compares it to the maner of the working of his mighty power which he wrought in Christ Jesus when he raised him from the dead Eph. 1. 17 19 20. Now this is that which we have here further to say on Gods behalf ascribing righteousness to our maker That according to mans need by reason of his natural weakness and depravedness God is certainly liberally giving to all men without upbraiding any such gifts as may conduce to their getting wisdom in the knowledge of him and so being reconciled to him for he gives nothing but good and perfect givings not onely out of a cordial heart and affection but such as would produce what they come for and insinuate themselves by their own light and force and make the subject capable of receiving and complying with them and this is given us as a general ground for any man to ask wisdom of God Jam. 1. 5 17. and that without wrath or doubting and not to murmur or rebel against him in his Gospel or the instruction thereof in which his arm is thus stretched out so Psal 68. 18 19. Thou hast ascended on high and led captivity captive and received gifts in the Man for men even for the rebellious that they might dwell with the Lord. And from thence it follows Blessed be the Lord that dayly loadeth us c. Yea to shew this truth in expressions suitable to those in which we have demonstrated the nature of mans weakness and necessity see 1 Pet. 3. 18 19 20. By that Spirit by which Jesus Christ was raised from the dead or by such maner of the putting forth of the light and power of that Spirit he went and preached not to their ears onely but to their Spirits which are now in prison for their disobedience to his Spirit then when the long-sufferings of God waited on them in the ministration of Noah and so his Spirit was then and before striving with them in all the means vouchsafed them and that all the day long and in due time whence that my Spirit shall not alwaies strive with man yea after he spake in his Spirit in the light evidence power of it by the hands of his servants the Prophets and that so to their hearts as that in rejecting or refusing to hear them they were said to harden their hearts against his softning and melting operations Zech. 7. 9 11 12. yea all the day long while in those means he used he was calling them to behold him he also therein in and with his words stretched out his hands his power or Spirit unto a rebellious people that yet were not overcome thereby Isa 65. 1 2. He did lift up the yoke of thraldom while he set meat before them though they would take no notice of his healing them he was in all ages in the world though the world would not know him the light shineth in darkness though the darkness comprehend it not he came unto his own though they received him not so when the voice of the Son of God came forth in the Gospel it was his promise The dead should hear it and that so as hearing in hearing or according to the capacity given they should live Joh. 1. 3. 10. and 5. 25. And therefore God gives up men in his just Judgement to blindness That hearing they should hear and not understand c. because they made it first their voluntary sin in hearing not to hear but closing their eyes stopping their ears shunning the light when it came because their deeds were reproved by it and lest they should be converted from them Mat. 13. 11 13 15. John 3. 19. They received not the love of the truth that they might be saved 2 Thess 2. 10 11. Hosea 11. 27. Ezek. 24. 11 13 'T is true no man can come to Jesus Christ except the Father which hath sent him draw them John 6. 44. which signifies the necessity of using or putting forth some such power in and with those Arguments he useth to perswade as is to the man supernatural and 't is as true that the Father was then drawing and had before drawn those very persons vers 35 36. He that cometh to me shall never hunger he that believeth on me shall never thirst but I said unto you That ye also have seen and believe not which comparing it with the former verse where believing is the explication of coming is as much as if he had said You have been drawn and come not as those Hosea 11. 2 7. but did break his bands by murmuring among themselves as Psal 2. 3 5. so here compare vers 43. and 44. The doctrine in 44.