The application of redemption

Whereas this must be observed carefully, and for ever maintained as the everlasting Truth of God, That the Lord gives a power spiritual to the work, which it had not before he Concurs with the act of that power when it is put forth, he gives him a being in the […] of Grace, before he leads out the act of that being. He first lets in an influence of a powerful impression upon the Faculty of the Will, before he Concurs with the Act […] Deed. He gives a ⟨p. 412⟩heart of flesh, and then causeth them to walk in his ways: As if one could put a Principle of life and motion into another, and then draw forth the act of that power to the performance of the work: As to draw a Boat, &c. This comparison will […] the truth of the work.

Whereas this must be observed carefully, and for ever maintained as the everlasting Truth of God, That the Lord gives a power spiritual to the work, which it had not before he Concurs with the act of that power when it is put forth, he gives him a being in the 〈…〉 of Grace, before he leads out the act of that being. He first lets in an influence of a powerful impression upon the Faculty of the Will, before he Concurs with the Act 〈…〉 Deed. He gives a ⟨p. 412⟩heart of flesh, and then causeth them to walk in his wayes: As if one could put a Principle of life and motion into another, and then draw forth the act of that power to the performance of the work: As to draw a Boat, &c. This comparison will 〈…〉 the truth of the work.

As it is with the Sons of the first Adam, in the¹ work of their Generation naturally, and the perverting and turning aside their souls from the Lord: So it is with the Sons of the second Adam in their spiritual Regeneration and Conversion. But in the […] the work is wrought in them without them; so it is said […] Adam, He begat a Son in his own image,