 | John Flavel - Presbyterian Church - 1770 - 518 pages
...brings with him to finncrs. 0 ! what monfters, what beafts, hath fin turned its fubjefrs into ! " You will not come to me, that ye may have life," John v. 40. Sin hath (tabbed the finner to the heart, the wounds are all mortal, eternal death is in his face... | |
 | John Flavel - 1799 - 626 pages
...he brings with him tp_firmers. OT what monfters, what beafts hath fin turned its fubjects into ! You will not come to me, that ye may have life," John v. 40. Sin hath ftabbed the firmer to the heart, the wounds are all mortal, eternal death is in his face... | |
 | Andrew Fuller - Faith - 1805 - 258 pages
...one. To suppose, therefore, that the phrase, No man CAN come to me, is meant to describe the former ; and, YE WILL NOT come to me that ye may have life, the latter; is to suppose that our Saviour taught what is self, contradictory. Some have supposed that... | |
 | Ezekiel Hopkins (bp. of Derry.) - 1809 - 578 pages
...cannots" but their " will nots," not their inipotency but their obstinacy, that destroys them : Ye will not come to me, that ye may have life: John v. 40. Ye will not ! Doth not Christ himself tell us, that no man can come to him, except the Father draw... | |
 | Andrew Fuller - Baptists - 1820 - 440 pages
...one. To suppose, therefore, that the phrase, No man CAW come to me, is meant to describe the former ; and, Ye WILL NOT come to me, that ye may have life, the latter ; is to suppose, that our Saviour taught what is self-contradictory. Some have supposed,... | |
 | Andrew Fuller - 1820 - 442 pages
...one. To suppose, therefore, that the phrase, JVo man CAW come to me, is meant to describe the former ; and, Ye WILL NOT come to me, that ye may have life, the latter ; is to suppose, that our Saviour taught what is self-contradictory. Some have supposed,... | |
 | Elias Hicks - Society of Friends - 1825 - 376 pages
...' Search the scriptures, for in them ye think to have eternal life, and they are they which testify of me, and ye will not come to me, that ye may have life' — John v. 39, 40. The scriptures are to be searched, for the testimony which they give of Christ ; and when that testimony... | |
 | James Warren Doyle - Catholic emancipation - 1825 - 384 pages
...search the Scriptures, in which ye think ye have eternal life, and they are they which give testimony of me, and ye will not come to me, that ye may have life." This is also the voice of the Church to her strayed and obstinate children, whom she seeks to gather... | |
 | Ralph Wardlaw - 1830 - 350 pages
...and believing, are used as terms substantially synonymous :—In the former passage, Jesus says—" And ye will not come to me, that ye may have life :—I am come in my Father's name, and ye receive me not;— if another shall come in his own name,... | |
 | Richard Baxter - Theology - 1830 - 588 pages
...obedience is certainly a voluntary thing? I think " coming to Christ" is believing ; and he saith, " Ye will not come to me that ye may have life." (John v. 40.) It is the willingly ignorant that Peter condemneth. (2 Pet. iii. 5.) Christ saith to the unbelieving... | |
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Ye search the scriptures, because ye think that in them ye have eternal life ; and these are they which bear witness of me ; and ye will not come to me, that ye may have life. 
