 | 1805 - 590 pages
...unbeliever, and a stranger to the covenants of promise. I felt the truth of these words of Christ, " No man can come unto me except the Father who hath sent me draw him." I saw that I could do nothing but lie at the feet of sovereign mercy and beg, as a poor soul ready... | |
 | David Bogue - 1806 - 354 pages
...be born again of the Spirit, he cannot see the kingdom of God." John iii. 5. And, in chap. vi. 44. " no man can come unto me, except the Father who hath sent me draw him." By the depravity of human nature this is become absolutely necessary : and God who made man at first... | |
 | Thomas Tregenna Biddulph - 1810 - 502 pages
...commandments," unless he be influenced by almighty grace. This our Lord positively asserts, (John vi. 44.) " No man can come unto me, " except the Father, who hath sent me, draw " him." When St. James, in obedience to the word of command, left his father and all that he had, to follow... | |
 | Samuel Whitman - 1814 - 390 pages
...that which proclaims salvation by mere grace. Christ said to the Jews, "Muraiur not among yourselves. No man can come unto me, except the Father who hath sent me, draw him."t We must be taught of God, we must hear and learn of the Father, or we cannot come to Christ.... | |
 | Nathaniel Lardner - 1815 - 616 pages
...vain to allege texts, which, probably, in their true meaning, do not at all contradict these things. Our Lord says: No man can come unto me, except the Father which hath sent me draw him," John vi. 44. But those words do not import immediate impulses: the meaning... | |
 | Jonathan Edwards - 1817 - 568 pages
...trembling; for it is God who worketh in you both to will and to do of his own good pleasure. No one ran come unto me except the Father who hath sent me draw him, that is, without divine influence; and whosoever coraeth unto me, I will in no wise cast out. Ye have... | |
 | John Pye Smith - 1818 - 512 pages
...faith and religious practice." Ernesti Institutio Interp. NT p. 11. t 2 Pet. ii. 12. VOL. I. H unto me. No man can come unto me, except the Father, who hath sent me, draw him. Without me, ye can do nothing. No man can call Jesus LORD, but by the Holy Spirit. The natural man... | |
 | Timothy Dwight - 1818 - 578 pages
...extent, explain many Scriptural passages, which relate to this subject. Wo man. saith our Saviour, can come unto me, except the Father, who hath sent me, draw him. The true meaning of this, he appears to DU to explain in a parallel declaration to the Jews : Ye will... | |
 | Jesse Appleton - 1822 - 452 pages
...universal necessity of divine power in producing it. The same unerring instructor said to the Jews, "No man can come unto me, except the Father, who hath sent me, draw him." Suppose, if you please, that our Saviour, in this declaration, meant nothing more, than this, that... | |
 | Jesse Appleton - 1822 - 448 pages
...universal necessity of divine power in producing it. The same unerring instructor said to the Jews, " No man can come unto me, except the Father, who hath sent me, draw him." Suppose, if you please, that our Saviour, in this declaration, meant nothing more, than this, that... | |
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No man can come unto me, except the father who hath sent me draw him. 
