| Robert Hall - 1815 - 260 pagina’s
...embrace the gospel. Jesus himself has declared it impossible while they continue in that state, saying, No man CAN come unto me, except the father which hath sent me . draw him, John vi. 44. The spirit of truth the world CANNOT receive, John xiv. 17. Why do ye not... | |
| Nathaniel Lardner - 1815 - 616 pagina’s
...texts, which, probably, in their true meaning, do not at all contradict these things. Our Lord says: t to take the children's bread, and cast it to dogs. And s me draw him," John vi. 44. But those words do not import immediate impulses: the meaning is, ' no '... | |
| Nathanael Emmons - 1815 - 422 pagina’s
...him, is represented as the exercise of the sinner, while under the influence of a divine operation. "No man can come unto me, except the Father, which hath sent me, draw him." .Thus saints are represented as actually loving, repenting, believing, and coming to... | |
| Philip Doddridge - 1815 - 342 pagina’s
...easily have removed it. Those oilier words of our Lord must not he omaiilted here, in which he says, No man can come unto me, except the Father which hath sent me draw him [2] : and what this drawing of the Father means, he himself has explained hy saying, No... | |
| Reginald Heber - 1816 - 612 pagina’s
...not given you an heart to perceive, and eyes to see, and ears to hear, unto this day." John vi. 44. " No man can come unto me, except the Father which hath sent me draw him." Page 343, note *. Exod. xxxi. 2. " See, I have called by name Bezaleel the son of Uri,... | |
| Richard Baxter - 1817 - 510 pagina’s
...loved us.' — ' For who maketh thee to differ ; and what hast thou that thou didst not receive?' — No man can come unto me, except the Father which hath sent me draw him.' — ' The natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness... | |
| Thomas Scott - 1817 - 530 pagina’s
...God were in every case the efficacious cause of true faith, as he himself hath expressly testified; ".No man can come unto me, " except the Father which hath sent me draw him, and " I will raise him up at the last day. It is written in the " prophets, and they shall... | |
| Hester Ann Rogers - 1818 - 302 pagina’s
...this sacrifice. In April, 1774, on the Sunday before Easter, Mr. Simpson preached from John vi. 44, " No man can come unto me, except the Father which hath sent me, draw him." Explaining the draw, ings of the Father, he related his own experience, under the name... | |
| Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet - 1818 - 266 pagina’s
...contemplation of these truths, by considering — First, What is meant by the drawing spoken of in our text : " No man can come unto me, except the Father, which hath sent me, draw him ;" — and, secondly, Why this drawing is necessary. I. What is meant by the drawing spoken... | |
| George Burder - 1818 - 332 pagina’s
...grace of God. So our Lord speaks in the sixth chapter of this gospel, in the forty-fourth verse, " No man can come unto me, except the Father, which hath sent me, draw him ; and I will raise him up at the last day." And, in another place, he says, " Ye will... | |
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