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    supreme interest and chi « £ good . Whatever , therefore , such a matt is engaged to undertake , or dt > out of reverence and obedience to God , he may be properly said

    to be drawn tp it by him . Now no man can Come to Christ , or believe in hi « & * who is not influenced by fc sincere reverence for God , for Christ professes himself to be a teacher sent of God to

    reveal his will to the world s and demand the obedience of mankind ; and the proofs of his divine mission are the works which he professes God had given him to perform , and the prophecies wliifch God had before delivered

    concerning him . Now none but those who have a sincere reverence for God , and concern to dbta ' ifi his favour , will cither pay any 4-eg ^ rrf to the ijiesSage ^ ith wh teh ^ Chri ^ t , came into the World , —or the

    divine evidences that pro ; ve his mis * sion ; this Was in i&ct the case among the JeW ^ They only who truly feared Gtodatid desired to do his will , they only who reverence * ed the revelations which God Had

    already givepi of himself » &ttd yielded conviction to ' the proofs of Christ * j * divine iais&W&j which were drawn fmth the prjo ^ p ^ lreci ^ s i did or cauld * ¦ conro to t hiitov

    Wheifcas , the [> mjudjcecl a ^ d sen ,,--anal , who * \ 4 roJir : influenced by corrupt priwcipies \; mud Worldly views , aiad not by a governing * regard ' to < 3 dd , did nbt , r # or , in a moral sense , cbuid -con * e < to

    him : for they we > e Restitute ofthose divine principles of regard to God and hi- ; word or will thai should di < a \ v < liiQm * 6 Iwi ^ fhiat our Sa . vi ^ uir feei ? e ^ veaut dt&ty tog * by rational i / MtrifietMti Und mSral

    motive addressed to' the under Handings } and ? affectiom < xf jnoeriy 4

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    is plain from the words irnmedi * - * ateiy foJlowi ng * "It is written iat ; th 6 ^ raphets ( seels * liv-lS ) Aoadr they shall be all taught of Go ^ L Every man therefore that hath > heard and teamed of the F ^ therjg cotneth unto me /* You see ia ^ these . words , " heard and learned , ' * of

    he expressly fi ^ eth the sense beings drawn oi the Father , tb the moralT means of instruction , to hearing s and learning , i . e . from the reve - - Iat ion Vhicb God fcad alread y ^ given .

    Soyv . 65 , he says , Therefore I said unto you , No man can come unto me except it were given to him of my Father . " Here he plainly refers to what he had

    spoken in v . 44 * and consequently hisw sen ^ e' iti this place m ^ st fe ^ e *« € tty # he same as in that : the small variation in the phrase can iB ^ ke no" difference ' . In the one

    place , be : says ' » ' * Except the * Father draw him : " in the other , < fi Except it Wd ^ e given * unto him <> f hay Fatlief : * ' phrases which are of touch the same import : ^ for God hath giveft it unto men to come'to Christ , and to believe of

    in fain ? * by rrieah ^ that revei&- ' 1103 he h ^ d * in a ^ e - before ii A to ; tbem ^ 6 f his iMcWiohS of ' tettiihig iiin ^ , > and ; b ^ the 1 godd impression ^ he had made on their ftearts by r the instructions ant ! motives of liis

    word . M <* n s coming to Crrti ^ t and believing in hrfn may be prd - perly said" tb be the gift of the Farher tb tncro , as ^ it is the c 6 ri * sequence of thint revelation he had ' giveli to thcln , &&d the effect of

    tft-e * good * dis ? posi £ iom produced in their hearts- ^ by the iiJst ^ ucti ^ nsJ bi that reVeJatiora . T ^ h ^ s ^ I hope , what ^ ftith bee n skid is sufficient * to explain the ^ e hard and obsciure e ^^ essi ^ ris of diir 3 aviour if ^ i |[ jr

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    Observations on Jbhn ykiSf ^ wy the late &e * v W . Turner . 9 ?

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Feb. 2, 1808, page 97, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2389/page/41/