The application of redemption

Hence it follows by force of undeniable Consequence,¹ that this work of Attraction (and so of preventing Grace) proceeds from God as the only Cause thereof, and depends wholly upon his […] pleasure, and that he works in us without us: We being destitute of all Ability which might help thereunto.

Hence it follows by force of undeniable Consequence,¹ that this work of Attraction (and so of preventing Grace) proceeds from God as the only Cause thereof, and depends wholly upon his 〈…〉 pleasure, and that he works in us without us: We being destitute of al Ability which might help thereunto.

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That which is done by a Holy kind of Violence against the natural inclination of the heart, that must needs be done upon us, but not by us; we have no hand in that work, and so it is here as hath been proved. Let me ad Two or Three Reasons more besides the Evidence of the Rule from whence it is immediately deduced.

Here that Weapon comes first to hand which¹ some of the Ancients have so often used in this Cause, and its the Canon of the Apostle, and that Staple Principle that cannot be gain-said,