John 4:16. He saith unto her, Go, call thy husband, and come hither. The promise Jesus has given is one of satisfaction, a promise, therefore, which cannot be understood or fulfilled till the want has been clearly apprehended and felt. These sudden words are designed to produce this effect He who ever ‘discerned what was in the man' with whom He spoke, well knew what answer His words would call forth. Her past life and her present state proclaimed guilt and disappointment, carnality and wretchedness; all this she must recognise and feel before His gift can be hers.

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