The application of redemption

That Dispensation of God which gives ability and¹ a Principle to the will for to work that act and dispensation must be before the ability of the will and act of it, and so cannot be caused by it. As if God put a soul into those dead dry bones in Ezek. 37. that they might live, this putting in of the […] whence comes life, is before, and so without the work of the soul, or life also; and not at all caused by either. But this Preparation and pulling away from sin, is to make way for a spiritual ability to be given to the will for to work, and therefore it is before the will and work, and either of them as any cause. So the Apostle John, 1 Joh. 5. 20. He hath given us a mind to know him and his Christ. Not only drawn out this act of Knowledge, but given a mind also to enable us hereunto. 2 Cor. 3. 5. We […] no sufficiency as of our selves to think a good thought, but all our sufficiency is of God: Not only the thinking, but the […] thereunto. Its he that gives a […] of flesh, and then causeth us to walk in his ways: Ezek. 36. 26, 27.

That Dispensation of God which gives ability and¹ a Principle to the will for to work that act and dispensation must be before the ability of the will and act of it, and so cannot be caused by it. As if God put a soul into those dead dry bones in Ezek. 37. that they might live, this putting in of the 〈…〉 whence comes life, is before, and so without the work of the soul, or life also; and not at al caused by either. But this Preparation and pulling away from sin, is to make way for a spiritual ability to be given to the will for to work, and therefore it is before the will and work, and either of them as any cause. So the Apostle