Author Description

Simeon Ashe (d. 1662) was a puritan minister of the Gospel and a member of the Westminster Assembly. Samuel Rutherford described him as, "gracious and zealous."God's power and saving hand is the only means to turn a fallen sinner from darkness to the Light of Christ. This was the basic and fundamental teaching about salvation that Jesus Christ taught. God demonstrates through the entire Bible that the only means by which men may be saved is through the regenerating power of the Spirit of God changing their heart, and making them new creature in Christ, because of Christ, and for Christ's glory. Simeon Ashe proves this from the text of John 6:44, "No man can come unto me except the Father which hath sent me draw him, and I will raise him up at the last day." He covers six doctrines out of this text, stemming from a divine affection, "no man can come to me except the Father which has sent me draw him." And a precious promise, "and I will raise him up at the last day."He precisely confirms this by six important doctrines and then demonstrates how drawing sinners to Christ occurs through conviction and conversion, and shows that this one text alone demolishes the Arminian idea that man's will is free to come to God at any time. Instead, following Christ's words, he teaches that in the point of man's free will and power, people come to Christ at God's sovereign pleasure.Ashe teaches not only is there solid, incontrovertible biblical evidence for a sinful man to be drawn to Christ by the efficient power of the Lord's regenerating Spirit (Christ's specific teaching on the matter), but that there are a host of biblical arguments which persuade gratitude from the Christian for such drawing.