Lastly, the sufficiency of exciting Grace may be §4attended Two ways. Either, 1 In respect of the outward Dispensation of the Means, which the LORD […] appointed, and by which his Grace and Spirit is conveyed. Or, 2dly. There is also the internal operation of the holy Ghost wherein only the sufficiency of saving Calling is accomplished. Now many thousand thousands, there be that never Communicated in any of these either the external, or […]: […] in the external; when the special privileges under the Law were paled in, and appropriated to the Nation of the Jews, You alone have I known of all the Nations of the world, Amos 3. 2. To them belong the Adoption, and the Glory and the Covenant, and the giving of the Law, and the service of God, and the Promises, Rom. 9. 4. He hath not dealt so with other Nations, neither have the Heathen the knowledge of his ways, Psal. 147. 20. They who never heard of […], nor Grace, nor Sin, nor Conversion, nor Salvation, ⟨p. 435⟩[…] have not sufficiency of outward Means whereby […] might be Converted, Acts, 17. 30. The times […] that ignorance, he over-looked: He regarded […] the Gentiles; but now he commands all men to […] and repent; as if he should say, Before he […] not so much as Call the Gentiles to the […] of the things of Grace. And for the inward […], how many thousands have not the Common […] of the Spirit which tend to Conviction, and […] Persuasion, of whom that of the Prophet is […], To whom is the Arm of the Lord revealed? […]. 53. 1. Multitudes there be, to whom the word is […] of death. 2 Cor. 2. 16. In whom the God of […] world hath blinded their eyes. 2 Cor. 4. 4. That […] might not see the Glory of God; who seeing see […] yet perceive not, hearing they hear and yet […] not, their ears are made heavy and their […] fat, that they should not be converted. The whole Nation of the Jews now Curse the Lord Jesus […] their Synagogues, and therefore have no drawing […] the Lord Jesus. And so much for the First Use of Instruction.
Lastly, the sufficiency of exciting Grace may be §4attended Two wayes. Either, 1 In respect of the outward Dispensation of the Means, which the LORD 〈…〉 appointed, and by which his Grace and Spirit is conveyed. Or, 2dly. There is also the internal operation of the holy Ghost wherin only the sufficiency of saving Calling is accomplished. Now many thousand thousands, there be that never Communicated in any of these either the external, or 〈…〉: 〈…〉 in the external; when the special priviledges under the Law were paled in, and appropriated to the Nation of the Jews, You alone have I known of all the Nations of the world, Amos 3. 2. To them belong the Adoption, and the Glory and the Covenant, and the giving of the Law, and the service of God, and the Promises, Rom. 9. 4. He hath not dealt so with other Nations, neither have the Heathen the knowledge of his wayes, Psal. 147. 20. They who never heard of 〈…〉, nor Grace, nor Sin, nor Conversion, nor Salvation, ⟨p. 435⟩〈…〉 have not sufficiency of outward Means whereby 〈…〉 might be Converted, Acts, 17. 30. The times 〈…〉 that ignorance, he over-looked: He regarded 〈…〉 the Gentiles; but now he commands all men to 〈…〉 and repent; as if he should say, Before he 〈…〉 not so much as Call the Gentiles to the 〈…〉 of the things of Grace. And for the inward 〈…〉, how many thousands have not the Common 〈…〉 of the Spirit which tend to Conviction, and 〈…〉 Perswasion, of whom that of the Prophet is 〈…〉, To whom is the Arm of the Lord revealed? 〈…〉. 53. 1. Multitudes there be, to whom the word is of death.
