Sunday, July 13, 2008

Not the Will of Man But the Gift of God

Bunyan's 8 observations on John 6:37:

1. That God the Father, and Christ his Son, are two distinct persons in the Godhead.
2. That by them, not excluding the Holy Ghost, is contrived and determined the salvation of fallen mankind.
3. The Father's role is giving; the Son's role is receiving.
4. That every one that the Father hath given to Christ, according to the mind of God in the text, shall certainly come to him.
5. That coming to Jesus Christ is therefore not by the will, wisdom, or power of man; but by the gift, promise, and drawing of the Father.
6. That Jesus Christ will be careful to receive, and will not in any wise reject those that come, or are coming to him.
7. They that are coming to Jesus Christ are ofttimes heartily afraid that he will not recieve them.
8. Jesus Christ would not have them that in truth are coming to him once think that he will cast them out.

Come and Welcome to Jesus Christ, Works, p. 274.

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