The application of redemption

That this Exciting or Preventing Grace of God,§1 it is not any Habit, or gracious Disposition imprinted upon the Soul, whereby it was in power or possibility to act or not to act, as it seems good and suits best with its own purpose. For Example sake, In those Actions wherein men are Causes by Counsel, they have […] and power to put forth such an action, or with-hold the doing of it as they see fit. A man hath a power to go hither or thither, to speak these or those words, yet he may sit still, and stop his motion, he may be mute, and silence his words. But as we heard before, It is the motion or actual impression of the work of the Spirit, so that God is not purposing and decreeing within himself, but putting his purpose into a powerful Execution, and so comes under such words to be deciphered, as Drawing, Teaching, Turning; all which show an actual Expression of Gods power and pleasure.

That this Exciting or Preventing Grace of God,§1 it is not any Habit, or gracious Disposition imprinted upon the Soul, wherby it was in power or possibility to act or not to act, as it seems good and suits best with its own purpose. For Example sake, In those Actions wherein men are Causes by Counsel, they have 〈…〉 and power to put forth such an action, or with-hold the doing of it as they see fit. A man hath a power to go hither or thither, to speak these or those words, yet he may sit still, and stop his motion, he may be mute, and silence his words. But as we heard before, It is the motion or actual impression of the work of the Spirit, so that God is not purposing and decreeing within himself, but putting his purpose into a powerful Execution, and so comes under such words to be deciphered, as Drawing, Teaching, Turning; al which shew an actual Expression of Gods power and pleasure.

Sufficiency of any Cause or Causes is to be attended,§2 either absolutely in regard of the End at which they look, and then that is absolutely sufficient which can attain his End without any other; if any hinderances it can remove, if any wants it can supply, if any thing to be done, it can procure it, accomplish it;