The application of redemption

1 The Lord works only by Moral Persuasions; that is the alone way that he takes to draw, not offering any violence, for that they think is unnatural, and unreasonable. 2 The Will is still left indifferent, and in its own Liberty to Choose, or Refuse. 3 The Lord out of his wisdom and fore-knowledge, sees how to hit the heart in a right Vein, takes the sinner in a good mood, hits his humour, watches as it were his advantages, observes what will meet and suit his disposition, and then presseth it, and so […].

1 The Lord works only by Moral Perswasions; that is the alone way that he takes to draw, not offering any violence, for that they think is unnatural, and unreasonable. 2 The Will is still left indifferent, and in its own Liberty to Chuse, or Refuse. 3 The Lord out of his wisdom and fore-knowledge, sees how to hit the heart in a right Vein, takes the sinner in a good mood, hits his humor, watches as it were his advantages, observes what will meet and suit his disposition, and then presseth it, and so 〈…〉.

He that God at such a time, in such a manner, by such means presseth, as carry a congruous, a suitable, and answerable agreeableness to his disposition, he is converted. He that hath not such hints taken to hit his Disposition, he is not Converted. So that Two men sitting at the same Sermon, the Spirit equally […] both, the Wills of both being equally apt and able to receive the work of the Spirit, yet there is Congruity and suitableness in the one, and there the word speeds; not so in another, and there the word takes no place, […] prevails. Ask them what this Congruity and Agreeableness is? They […] they cannot tell. And thus they mud the water and raise the dust, that they may go away in the dark, that others may not see them, nor see where they go. And thus they labour to shift off the pressure of Reason, as Hares when they are pursued they fall to their Jumps and Doublings, but all in vain, for the […] of this Conceit is Confuted from the former Doctrine.

He that God at such a time, in such a manner, by such means presseth, as carry a congruous, a suitable, and answerable agreeableness to his disposition, he is converted. He that hath not such hints taken to hit his Disposition, he is not Converted. So that Two men sitting at the same Sermon, the Spirit equally both, the Wills of both being equally apt and able to receive the work of the Spirit, yet there is Congruity and suitableness in the one, and there the word speeds; not so in another, and there the word takes no place, prevails. Ask them what this Congruity and Agreeableness is? They they cannot tell. And thus they mud the water and raise the dust, that they may go away in the dark, that others may not see them, nor see where they go. And thus they labor to shift off the pressure of Reason, as Hares when they are pursued they fall to their Jumps and Doublings, but al in vain, for the of this Conceit is Confuted from the former Doctrine.