faid Chrift, that they that fee not, might fee. And if he faith, See ye Blind that have Eyes; Who shall hinder it? Eph. 5. 8. John 9. 39. Ifa. 39. 18. Chap, 43, 8.

This Promife therefore is, as I faid, a bigbellied Promife, having in the Bowels of it, all Things that hall occur to the compleat fulfilling of itfelf, They fhall come. But it is objected, that they are blind: Well, Shall-come is fill the fame, and continueth to fay, They shall come to me. Theres fore he faith again, I will bring the Blind by a Way that they know not, I will lead them in Paths that they know not. I will make Darkness light before them, and crooked Things Araight; thefe Things will I do unto them, and not forsake them,: Ifa. 42. 16.

Mark, I will bring them, though they be blind; I will bring them by a Way they know not; I will, I will; and therefore, they fall

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Objection 5.

But how if they have excreded many in Sin, and fo made themfelves far more abominable? They are the ring-leading Sinners in the Coun try, the Town, or Family.

Anfw. What then? Shall that hinder the Execution of Shall come? It is not Tranfgreffions, nor Sins, nor all their Tranfgreffion in all their Sins (if they by the Father are given to Chrift to fave them) that shall hinder this Promife, that it fhould not be fulfilled upon them. In those Days, and at that Time, faith the Lord, the Iniquities of Ifrael fhall be fought for, and there shall be none; and the Sins of Judah, and they shall not be found, Jer. 32. 30. Not that they had none (for they abounded in Tranfgreffion 2 Chron. 33. 9

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JESUS CHRIS7.55 Ezek. 16. 48.) but God would pardon, cover, hide, and put them away, by Virtue of his abfolute Promife, by which they are given to Chrift to fave them. And I will cleanse them from all their Iniquity, whereby they have finned against me; and I will pardon all their: Iniquity, whereby they have tranfgreffed against me. And it shall be to me for a Name of Joy, a Praife, and an Honour before all the Nations of the Earth, which shall bear of all the Good I do unto them; and they shall fear and tremble for all the Goodness and all the Prosperity that I procure in it, Jer. 33. 8. 9. pls vid c1 8. Cara

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Objection 6. matang sandali But how if they have not Faith and Repentance? How fhall they come then?

Anfw. Why, he that faith, They shall come, fhall he not make it good? If they shall come, they fhall come; and he that, hath, fuid, they fhall come, if Faith and Repentance be the Way to come, as indeed they are, then Faith and Repentance fhall be given to them; for hall-come must be fulfilled on them. Vad duck A*

Firft, Faith fhall be given them: I will also leave in the Mide of thee an afflicted and poor Pec-ple, and they fall trust in the Name of the Lord. There shall be a Root of Jeffe, and be mafl rife to Reign over the Gentiles, and in him all the Gentiles trust, Zeph. 3. 12. Rom. 15. 12.

Secondly, They shall have Repentance: He is exalted to give Repentance They hall come weeping, and feeking the Lord their God: And agam, with Weeping and Supplication will lead them, A&s 5. 30, 31. Jer. 31.9.

I told you before, that an abfolute Promise hath all conditional ones in the Belly of it, and alfo Provifion

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Proviñon to answer all thofe Qualifications that they propound to him that feeketh for their Benefit: And it must be fo; for if ball-come be an abfolute Promife, as indeed it is, then it must be fulfilled, upen every of thofe concerned therein. I fay, it must be fulfilled, if God can by Grace, and his abfolute Will, fulfil it. Befides, fince coming and believing is all one, (according to John 6. 35.) He that cometh to me fhall never bunger, and be that believesh in me shall never thirst.

Then, when he faith, they shall come, it is as much as to fay, they shall believe, and confequently repent to the Saving of the Soul. So then the prefent Want of Faith and Repentance; cannot make the Promife of God of none Effect: becaufe that this Promife hath in it to give, what others call for and expect. I will give them an Heart, I will give them my Spirit, I will give them Repentance, I will give them Faith. Mark thefe Words! If any Man be in Chrift, he is a new Creature. But how came he to be a new Creature, fince none can create but God? Why, God indeed doth make them new Creatures. Be bold, faith he, I make all Things new. And hence it follows, even after he had faid, they are new Creatures; And all Things are of God that is, all thefe new Creatures ftandeth in the feveral Operations, and fpecial Workings of the Spirit of Grace, who is God, 2 Cor. 5. 17, 18.

Objection 7.

But how fhall they escape all thofe dangerous and damnable Opinions, that like Rocks and Quickfands are in the Way in which they are going?

Anfw. Indeed this Age is an Age of Errors, if ever there was an Age of Errors in the World;

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but yet the Gift of the Father, laid claim to by the Son in the Text, muft Needs efcape them, and in Conclufion come to him. There are a Company of Shall-comes in the Bible that doth fecure them. Not but that they may be affaulted by them; yea, and alfo for the Time intangled and detained by them from the Bishop of their Souls; but thefe Shall-comes will break thofe Chains and Fetters, that thofe given to Christ are intangled in, and they shall comt, because he hath faid they hall come to him.

Indeed, Errors are like that Whore, of whom

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read in the Proverbs, that fitteth in her Seat in the high Places of the City, To call Passengers who go right on their Way, (Prov. 9. 13, 14, 15, 16.) But the Perfons, as I faid, that by the Fa ther are given to the Son to fave them, are fit one Time or other, fecured by fall-come to me.

And therefore, of fuch it is faid, God will guide them with his Eye, with his Counsel, by his Spirit, and that in the Way of Peace, by the Springs of Water, and into all Truth, Pal 32. 8. Pjal. 73. 24. John 16. 13. Luke 1.79. Ifa. 47. 10. So then he that hath fuch a Guide (and ail that the Father giveth to Chrift, fhall have it) he fhall escape thofe Dangers, he thall not err in the Way; yea, though he be a Fool, he shall not err therein, (Isa. 35.) for of every fuch an one it is faid, Thine Ears shall bear a Word behind thee, faying, This is the Way, walk in it, when ye turn to the right Hand, and when ye turn to the Left, Ifa. 30. 21.

There were Thieves and Robbers before Christ's coming, as there are also now, but faid he, The Sheep did not bear them.

And why did they not hear them, but becaufe they were under the Power of Shall come; that abfolute Promife, that had that Grace in itself to

bestow upon them, as could make them able rightly to dilinguifh of Voices, My Sheep bear my Voice. But how came they to hear it? Why, to them it is given to know and to hear, and that diftinguishingly, John 10.8, 16. Chap. 5. 25. Epl. 15. 14.

Farther, The very plain Sentence of the Text makes Provifion against all thefe Things; for, faith it, all that the Father giveth me, fhall cometome; that is, fhall not be ftopped, or be allured to take up any where Short of me, nor shall they turn afide, to abide with any befides me.

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To me.] By thefe Words there is further infinuated (though not expreffed) a double Caufe of their coming to him.

Firft, There is in Chrift a Fulnefs of All-fufficiency of that, even of all that which is needful to make us happy

Secondly, Those that indeed come to him, do therefore come to him that they may receive it at his Hand.

(For the firft of thefe, There is in Chrift a Fulnefs of All-fufficiency of all that, even of all that which is needful to make us happy.. Hence it is faid, For is pleafed the Father, that in bim fhoula all Fulnefs dwell. And again, Of his Fulness, all' swe have received, and Grace for Grace, Col. 1. 19. Joh. 1. 16. It is alfo faid of him, that his Riches are unfearchable. The unfearchable Riches of Christ, Eph. 3. 8. Hear what he faith of himfelf, Riches and Hquour are with me, even durable Riches and Righteousness: My Fruit is better than Gold, yea, than fine Gold, and my Revenue iban choice Silver: I lead in the Way of Righteousness, in the Midst of the Paths of Judgment, that I may

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