and hath special respect to the Father and the Son's as as alfo their joint management of the falva,. vation of the people. All that the Father giveth m?, fhall come to me; and him that cometh to me I will in no wife caft aut

The first part of the text (as is evident) ret fpecteth the Father and his gift; the other part, the Son and reception of that gift. sin

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Ficft, For the gift of the Father there is this to be confidered, to wit,

The gift itself; and that is the gift of certain perfons to the Son. The Father giveth, and that gift hall come: And him that cometh The gift then is of perfons; the Father giveth-perJons to Jefus Chrift.;

Secondly, Next you have the Son's reception of this gift, and that theweth itself in these partculars:

1. In his hearty acknowledgment of it to be a gift: The Father giveth mest.

2. In his taking notice, after a foleinn manner, of all and every part of the gift: All that the Father giveth me,.

3. In his refolution to bring them to himself: All that the Father giveth me, fhall. come to me..

4. And in his determining that not any thing fhall make him diflike them in their coming": And him that cometh to me, I will in no wife caft

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Thefe things might be spoken to at large, as they are in this method presented to view fhall choose to speak to the words,

1. By way of explication.

2. By way of obfervation.

First, by way of explication, ALL that the F ther giveth me. This word all, is often ufed in fcripture, and is to be taken more largely, or

more: flrictly, even as the truth or argument, for the fake of which it is made ufe of, will bear : Wherefore, that we may better underftand the mind of Chrift in the use of it there, we must confider, that it is limited and reftrained only to thofe that shall be faved, to wit, to thofe that shall come to Chirish; even. to those whom he will in no wife cafkout. Thus alfo the words all Ifrael, ure fometimes to be taken, (though fometimes it is taken for the whole family of Jacob). And so alli Ifrael fhall be faved, Rom. xi. By all Ifrael, here, he intendeth not of all Ifrael, in the largest fenfe; for they are not all Ifrael which are of Ifrael; neither because, they are the feed of Abraham, are they all children; but in Isaac fhall thy Jeed be called; (that is) They wlio are the children of the flesh; these are not the chilaren of God, but the children of the promise ure counted for their feed, Rom. ix. 6, 7, 81

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This word all, therefore, muft be limited, and enlarged, as the truth and argument for the fake of which it is ufed will bear; elfe we fhall abufe feriptures and readers, and ourselves, and all, And I. if I be lifted up from the earth, faith Chrift, will daw all men after me, John xii. 32. Can any one imagine, that by all, in this place, he thould mean all and every individual man in the world, and not rather that all that is confonant to the fcope of the place? And if, by being lifted up from the earth, he means, as he should feem, his being taken up into heaven; and if, by drawing all men after him, he means a drawing them into the place of glory; then must he mean by all men, those, and only those, that shall in truth be eternally faved from the wrath to come: For God hath concluded them all in unbelief, that he might have mercy upon all, Rom. xi. 32. Here again you have all and all, two alls; but yet a greater dif

parity between the all made mention of in ther first place, and that all made mention of in the fecondas: Thofe intended in this text are the Jews, even all of them, by the first all that you find in the words The fecond all doth alfo intend the fame people but yet only fo many of them as God will have mercy oupon. He hath concluded them að in unbelief; that he might have mercy upon all. The all alfo in the text, is likewife to be limited and restrained to be faved, and them only, But again,

The word giveth, or hath given, must be reftrained, after the fame manner, to the fame li mited number: All that the Father giveth me. Not all that are given, if you take the gift of the Father to the Son, in the largest fenfe; for in that. fenfe there are many given to him that fhall nevercome unto him; yea, many are given unto him, that he will caft out. I fhall the efore first shew you the truth of this, and then in what fenfe the gift in the text may be taken

Firf That all that are given to Chrift, take the gift of the Father to him, in the largest if you fenfe, cannot be intended in the text, is evident.

1. Because then all the men, yea, all the things. in the workly must be faved. All things, faith he, are delivered unto me by the Father, Matt. xi. 27: This, thok, no rational man in the world with conclude: Therefore, the gift intended in the text, must be restrained to fome, to a gift that is given by way of fpeciality by the Father to the Son.

2. It mustuot be taken for all, that in any feuse are given by the Father to him, because the Father hath given fome, yea, many te him, to be dafhed in pieces by him. Ask of me, faid the Father to him, and I will give thee the Heathen for thine inheritance, and the uttermoft parts of the

earth for thy poffeffion. But what must be done with them? mult he fave them all? No, Thou fhalt break them with a rod of iron; thou shalt dafh them in pieces like a potter's vessel, Pfalm ii. This method he ufeth not with them that he faveth by his grace, but with those that himself and faints fhall rule over in justice and feverity, Rev. ii. 26, 27; yet, as you fee, they are given to him; therefore the gift intended in the text muft be jeftrained to fome, to a gift that is given by way of Speciality by the Father to the Son.

In Pfalm xviii. he faith plainly, that fome are given to him that he might destroy them.-Thou haft gruen me the neck of mine enemies, that I might defroy them that hate me, verle 40.

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therefore cannot be of the number of those that are faid to be given in the text; for those, even a!! of them, fhall come to him, and he will in no wife caft them out,

3. Some are given to Chrift, that he by them might bring about fome of his high and deep deigns in the world. Thus Judas was given to Chrift, to wit, that by him, even as he was deter mined before, he might bring about his death, and fo the falvation of his elect by his blood. Yea, and Judas mult fo manage, this business, as that he mult lofe himself for ever in bringing it to país. Therefore the Lord Jefus, even in his lofing of Judas, applies himself to the judgment of his Fa ther, if he had not in that thing done that which was right, even in fuffering Judas fo to bring about his Master's death, as that he might by fo doing bring about his own eternal damnation also.

Thefe, faid he that thou gavest me have I kept, and none of them is left, but the fan of perdition, that the fripture might be fulfilled, John xvii. 12. Let us then grant that Judas was given to Chrift, but not as others are given to him, not

as thofe made mention of in the text; for then, he fhould not have failed to have been fo received by Chrift, and kept to eternal life. Indeed he was given to Chrift; but he was given to himto lose him, in the way that I have mentioned before; he was given to Chrift, that he by him might bring about his own death, as was before determined; and that in the overthrow of him: that did it. Yea, he must bring about his dying for us in the lofs of the inftrument that betrayed him, that he might even fulfil the fcripture in his deltruction, as well as in the falvation of the rest.. And none of them is loft but the fon of perdition,. that the feripture might be fulfilled..

The gift therefore in the text müll not be taken. in the largest fenfe, but even as the words will bear, to wit, for fuch a gift as he accepteth, and promifeth to be an effectual means of eternal falvation to. A that the Father giveth me fhall

Come to me; him that cometh to me I will in no wije caft out. Mark! They fhall come that are in special given to me; and they fhall by no means be rejected : For this is the fubftance of the text.

Thofe, therefore, intended as the gift in the text, are those that are given by covenant to the Som; thofe that in other places are called the elect, the chofen, the fleep, and the children of the promife, &c.

Thefe be they that the Father hath given to Chrift to keep them; thofe that Chrif hath promifed eternal life unto; thofe to whom he hath given his word, and that he will have with him in his kingdom to behold his glory.

This is the will of the Father that hath fent me, that of all that he hath given nie, I fhould lofe nothing, but fhould raise it up agam at the last day.. And I give unto them eternal life, and they shall