John Calvin (1509–1564) on God Begging in the Gospel Offers

That, then, is how we are by nature, until God begins to work in us. It is no small thing to contend with God, to spit in the face of his Son and to charge full tilt at him like frenzied beasts. Consider for a moment how he chooses to approach us. He pleads with us—with us who have offended him, who are his enemies, who deserve to be struck down and destroyed! Yet he begs and urges us to be reconciled to him, and assures us that he, for his part, is ready. Thus Paul writes in his second letter to the Corinthians: ‘We come as ambassadors in Jesus’ name, beseeching you to be reconciled to God.’ Why, then, do we despise the gift he offers? Why are we so full of venom and fury that we reject it and insult God, as if we deliberately sought to do battle with him? One way or another, experience shows that Jesus Christ is truly a mark which is spoken against. How many, in fact, are there, who receive the gospel with a quiet and gracious spirit? Everyone seems bent on extinguishing it or on treading it underfoot.

John Calvin, Songs of the Nativity: Selected Sermons on Luke 1 & 2, trans. Robert White (Banner of Truth, 2008), 196–97.

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All of the men within the broadly Augustinian tradition who use the metaphor of God begging that I have documented so far are the following:

Augustine (Early Church Father), Isaac Ambrose (Puritan), Thomas Brooks (Puritan), Daniel Burgess (Puritan), Jeremiah Burroughs (Westminster divine), Richard Baxter (Puritan), John Calvin (Reformer), Joseph Caryl (Westminster divine), Thomas Case (Puritan), Stephen Charnock (Puritan), John Collinges (Puritan), John Flavel (Puritan), Theophilus Gale (Puritan), William Gearing (Puritan), Andrew Gray (Puritan), William Gurnall (Puritan), Robert Harris (Westminster divine), Nathaniel Heywoood (Puritan), Thomas Larkham (Puritan), Hugh Latimer (Early English Reformer), Thomas Lye (Puritan), Thomas Manton (Puritan), John Murcot (Puritan), George Newton (Puritan), John Oldfield (Puritan), Anthony Palmer (Puritan), Edward Reynolds (Westminster divine), John Richardson (Puritan), Samuel Rutherford (Westminster divine), John Shower (Puritan), Richard Sibbes (Puritan), Sydrach Simpson (Westminster divine), William Strong (Westminster divine), George Swinnock (Puritan), Willem Teellinck (Puritan), John Trapp (Puritan), Ralph Venning (Puritan), Nathaniel Vincent (Puritan), Thomas Watson (Puritan), Daniel Williams (Puritan), Samuel Willard, Benjamin Wadsworth, George Whitefield, Jonathan Edwards, Solomon Stoddard, Samuel Davies, Ralph Erskine, Charles Spurgeon, Thomas Chalmers, Walter Chantry, Erroll Hulse, John MacArthur, Steve Lawson, Paul Washer, and Fred Zaspel.