The application of redemption

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, Rom. 9. 16. It is not in him that willeth, or in him that runneth, but in God that shows Mercy. Where all other helping Causes that may share in the Conversion and bringing home of the sinner, are wholly denied & cast out, though they were Means of special improvement, that if any thing might seem to further it, they might have been of peculiar use, and of a speeding nature. It was not a sleepy, careless, slighting of the attainment of any spiritual good, or a slothful attendance upon it, nor is it a kind of heartless, and spiritless Affection to it that are here rejected, nay though his will was there, and the strength of endeavour, yet both miss the mark; The Apostle is Plain and peremptory, Let him set Heart, and Feet, and Hand, and Head on work, he shall never do no good on it, it is not there. Its merely only in him that shows Mercy.

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, Rom. 9. 16. It is not in him that willeth, or in him that runneth, but in God that shews Mercy. Where al other helping Causes that may share in the Conversion and bringing home of the sinner, are wholly denied & cast out, though they were Means of special improvment, that if any thing might seem to further it, they might have been of peculiar use, and of a speeding nature. It was not a sleepy, careless, slighting of the attainment of any spiritual good, or a sloathful attendance upon it, nor is it a kind of heartless, and spiritless Affection to it that are here rejected, nay though his will was there, and the strength of endeavor, yet both miss the mark; The Apostle is Plain and peremptory, Let him set Heart, and Feet, and Hand, and Head on work, he shal never do no good on it, it is not there. Its meerly only in him that shews Mercy.

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