The application of redemption

or if they be used in any other Order than that he hath ordained, these are disorderly perverted and abused, and made unserviceable to do their work, or attain their end. And yet when the power of all these is improved to affect the Will, and stir and provoke it, but not change it, it is never savingly brought home to God. So Moses, touching the Condition of the Israelites, Deut. 4. 34. Compared with ⟨p. 422⟩[…] ⟨p. 423⟩[…] ⟨p. 424⟩Deut. 29 4. Did ever God assay to take a people to himself with signs and wonders, and great temptations, and out of the heavens he made thee to hear his voice, that he might instruct thee: What then was wanting? He suited them with all miraculous expressions of his Love and Mercy; but this was […], To this day he hath not given thee a heart. And if he give you all Mercies beside, tried you with all Corrections, pursued with miraculous Expressions of his power and faithfulness, if yet he give […] a new heart, all that ever he shall give will never do you good. So the Prophet, when he was appointed and fitted in an especial manner, having his tongue touched with a Coal from the Altar, when he was furnished with gracious abilities from Christ to dispense the Word, yet all was to make their ears heavy, and their hearts fat, and their eyes blind, that they should not see, nor believe, nor be converted, Isa. 6. 7, 8. And therefore the Apostle when he had given the doom upon those back-sliders, he ads, We are persuaded better things of you, and things that accompany salvation, which these did not: […] 6. 9.

or if they be used in any other Order than that he hath ordained, these are disorderly perverted and abused, and made unserviceable to do their work, or attain their end. And yet when the power of al these is improved to affect the Will, and stir and provoke it, but not change it, it is never savingly brought home to God. So Moses, touching the Condition of the Israelites,