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"John vi:45," The Primitive Baptist (1840)

AUTHOR:

Bazemore, Thomas J.

“AND THEY SHALL ALL BE TAUGHT of God. Every man therefore that hath heard and hath learned of the Father, cometh unto me.” The word taught, or teach, means to instruct. We should recollect, that mankind by nature are totally depraved; they have wandered far from the pathway of rectitude, and are prone to go wrong as the sparks are to fly upward. He has no will to go right, and has no more ability than will, in and of himself considered. Then it appears, that it is indispensably necessary that they should be taught, taught by the spirit of Almighty God that they are sinners, vile, wretched and undone sinners; ruined sinners, lost sinners, contaminated throughout; no soundness in them, their heart a fountain of corruption and desperately wicked, and left to themselves undone forever; (this the spirit teaches, by communicating life & light to the soul;) they are wandering in the waste howling wilderness of sin, like old Jacob, whom the Lord found going right away from him—he took him, he led him about, and instructed him, &c. The Lord has said, I will bring the blind by a way they have not known, and lead them in paths they have not trod. All this to the soul, he flies to the law of God but finds no refuge there; the law pronounces its curses on him from every hand. Then every man therefore that hath heard and learned of the Father, cometh to me, (Christ.) Yes, they come, & come with full purpose of heart too, and take shelter under his balmy wings, or in the cleft of the rock of ages, who is a hiding place from the wind, a covert from the tempest, as rivers of water in a dry place, as the shadow of a great rock in a weary land. The soul in Christ finds a reconciled God, who is to him the chief among ten thousand and altogether lovely.