Matthew Poole and continuators on John 6:44

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.

That by drawing here, is not to be understood any coaction, or force upon the Will, is a thing on all hands out of Question; but whether by it be onely to be understood a rational drawing by Arguments (used in the Ministry of the Gospel) or a further powerful Influence upon the Soul, inclining it to be willing and obedient, that is the Question. The Patrons of a power in mans will to do what is Spiritually good and necessary in order to Eternal Life and Salvation, understand it of the former onely (of which the compelling, mentioned Luke 14.23. is to be understood, (for the Ministers of the Gospel have no other Power to compel); but in regard the drawing here mentioned is the Acts not of the Servants, but of the Master; not of the Ministers, but of the Father; it is more reasonably concluded that it here signifies a Divine Power put forth upon the Soul of man, by which it is made Obedient to the Heavenly Call, and willing to close with the offer of Christ in the Gospel; for tho no such thing can necessarily be concluded from the word draw, yet it is easily concluded from the Nature of the motion, in coming to Christ, which is the Souls motion to a sublime Spiritual Object, to which no Soul hath any power of it self; such is the darkness of the Humane Mind, the obstinacy of the Will, the depravation of the Affections, unless it be Illuminated and drawn by the Spirit of God. No Soul is able of it self to discern Spiritual things, so as to see that Goodness and Excellency that is in them, much less to move towards the participation of them.

Marginal references: Cant. 1.4. Ver. 65.