The application of redemption

First, The Experience of the Saints left upon Record in the Scriptures (which give witness […]) give in Evidence, and that undeniable that in truth the Dispensation of the Lord is quite […] to this Conceit: who is pleased herein to magnify the freedom, and power, and riches of Grace, that […] takes sinners at the worst, and over-powers the perverseness of their hearts, and that many times when they are come to the height, and that in the very heat ⟨p. 419⟩of their Rebellions, that they might indeed Confess it, and all the world see it: It is not the suitableness of our Disposition which God needs to take advantage by, but the Almighty and Al-sufficient efficacy of his Grace is such, That he doth what he Will, when our wills most oppose, and in reason there is least probability and possibility in the work of Causes to attain this effect. Thus the Israelites, Ezek. 16. 3, 4. when the Lord called them, and took them to himself, he professeth their navel was not cut, nor salted with salt, nor washed; but he saw them weltering in their blood, and that was a time of love which the Lord took, and said to them, Live. Isa. 43. 24, 25. When they wearied him with their wickedness, and made him to serve with their iniquities, then be said, I, even I for mine own names sake will blot out thine iniquities. It was the carriage of God to Abraham, and typed out in the Son of his Promise, when his body was dead, her womb was barren, then he gives them a Son: He brings and begins his Church out of the dust, and calls things that are not, as though they were.

First, The Experience of the Saints left upon Record in the Scriptures (which give witness 〈…〉) give in Evidence, and that undeniable that in truth the Dispensation of the Lord is quite 〈…〉 to this Conceit: who is pleased herein to magnifie the freedom, and power, and riches of Grace, that 〈…〉 takes sinners at the worst, and over-powers the perversness of their hearts, and that many times when they are come to the height, and that in the very heat ⟨p. 419⟩