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Rh of this, that such an offer is made to you, as is worthy of all acceptation: but, O Sirs, ſince the judgment may be informed and gained, while yet the heart is not engaged; therefore, tho' faith come by hearing what a worthy Lamb is offered to you, yet bare hearing will not do without the heart drawing power of the Spirit which is before the throne: and therefore, this being the pure cryſtal river, that proceeds out of the throne of God and of the Lamb, Rev. xxii. 32. that this river of the drawing influences of the Spirit may run down among you, I will put the best rope in your hand that I know for bringing down this bleſſing; it is even the Lamb's own ſweet promiſe, John xii. 32 And I, if I be lifted up from the earth, will draw all men unto me. Where obſerve, 1. The perſons concerned.' 2. The promiſe. And, 3. The condition of it.

[1.] The persons concerned, all men. There is an all among ſinful men, that Chriſt the ſecond Adam hath to draw to him; theſe were given of the Father to him, and they ſhall come, John vi. 37. Yea, theſe he must bring to him, John x. 16. He muſt draw them, and they ſhall hear his voice. But, leſt any ſhould hereupon ſay, perhaps I am not among the number of the ſecond Adam's all, that he is to draw; perhaps I am excluded by the ſecret counſel, or hidden decree of God from all eternity. Therefore, I tell you what may ſatisfy you fully upon this point, that the Lamb, that now is in the midſt of his Father's throne, was in the midſt of his father's counſels from all eternity; the Lamb was at that council-table: therefore, let not the thoughts of the eternal decree be terrible and dreadful to you; for the Lamb was upon the concert, and therefore nothing paſt at that council to the prejudice of any poor ſinner, that