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did not seem to them sufficient , because the purpose of God to save all who would believe on Christ could not be so indefinite in His own mind as was expressed by the words , " all those who would believe . If he believed on the Lord Jesus Christ , he would be saved , and if those at home would believe on the Lord Jesus Christ , they too would be saved . That is as follows : " God determined from eternity to save those who would believe upon Christ . They feared that all men would believe on him . Jacob Spidle , who was boosting Sidney , said Ness City should not be the county seat because it had no water and accused John Gardner of hauling water from Sunset Lake to fill the wells in Ness City so people would believe that Ness had an adequate supply . " Who , besides , would believe without performing the appropriate experiments , that when one of his eyes is closed there is a great gap , the so-called ' blind spot , ' not far from the middle of the field of the open eye , in which he sees nothing at all , but which he fills out with his imagination ? I Therefore what I said , " that Christ willed to appear to men at that time , and that His doctrine should be preached among them when He knew , and where He knew , that there were those who would believe on Him , " may also thus be said , " That Christ willed to appear to men at that time , and that His gospel should be preached among those , whom He knew , and where He knew , that there were those who had been elected in Himself before the foundation of the word . All believers , from the bruised reed to the tallest cedar , from the smoking flax on earth to the flaming lamp in heaven , from Thomas , that would not believe without seeing , to Abraham , who would believe without staggering , all are in a state of life ; and all , from the most beautiful moralist to the most venomous toad in nature 's field , from the young man in the gospel , who was not far from the kingdom of heaven , to Judas , who was in the very bottom of hell , all are in a state of death . Jerome : He sends him to the Priests , first , because of His humility that He may seem to defer to the Priests ; secondly , that when they saw the leper cleansed they might be saved , if they would believe on the Saviour , or if not that they might be without excuse ; and lastly , that He might not seem , as He was often charged , to be infringing the Law . Which book do you think they would believe as factual and which book would they believe to be mythology ? We also question whether a reasonable investor with full knowledge of such incentive programs would believe that the accountant could function with the independence and objectivity that is necessary for him or her to maintain , both in fact and in appearance . There , the unhappy Russian inmates tried to inform the guards that the man was not of Russian parentage , but no American MP would believe that he was not the offspring of some Russian expatriate . The calling routine would believe that the message had failed in its delivery , but the Submit would eventually succeed .