The application of redemption

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; 1 Cor. 12. 9. My Grace is sufficient for thee. And thus some Causes may be sufficient for the accomplishment of one Effect, which are not for another. Those Common strokes of the Spirit in ⟨p. 430⟩Illumination, and Conviction, and Moral […], in propounding Arguments to the hearts, […] pressing on mightily by Evidence of Reason, are sufficient to make people beyond […]. Joh. 15. […]. If I had not come and spoken to them, they had […] no sin; but now they have no Cloak for their […] Ezek. 3. 11. Whether they […] hear, or whether they will for bear, yet this they shall know there […] been a Prophet amongst them. Its sufficient to Condemn them, if not to Convert them. But these […] not sufficient to […] the work of Conversion, for there is more power required to that: There is not only an enlightening of the understanding, but […] opening of the heart; […]. 3. 11. […] Baptize […] water, but there is one that comes […], he […] […] with the Holy Ghost and Fire.

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; 1 Cor. 12. 9. My Grace is sufficient for thee. And thuse some Causes may be sufficient for the accomplishment of one Effect, which are not for another. Those Common stroaks of the Spirit in ⟨p. 430⟩