The application of redemption

Succour them also by all other Means. […] §2thou according to thy power and place, to […] them under the means of Grace; As they said one […] another, Isa. 2. 3. Come let us go up to the house […] the Lord, he will teach us of his ways. And as […] good man Cornelius, when Peter was to come […] Preach the Gospel to him, Acts, 10. 24. he Calls […] his friends and kindred together that the Lord […] work upon them; and says he, We are all here ready to hear what the Lord hath commanded thee. This especially belongs to all such as have power and ⟨p. 447⟩authority over others, as Magistrates may compel the Subjects, the Master may compel his Servants, and the Father his Children to use the Means (for they can go no farther than a moral violence) and to be under those Ordinances which they in their own Consciences are convinced of to be the Means of Conversion and Salvation: And look as they did when our Saviour Christ came to any place, they brought the blind and the deaf, and dumb, and those that were possessed of Devils, and laid them down before him, and entreated him to Cure them; Mar. 2. 4. So if thou hast a stubborn Servant, or a Rebellious Child, all the Means thou hast used can do no good upon him, bring him before the Lord in the use of the Ordinances, lay him down before him, and tell him what his Case is, what a blind mind, and what a hard heart he hath, and how he is possessed with a Devil, of pride, and self-willedness, and resistance against God, and Grace; and say, It is with thee alone, O Lord, to work upon him; Thus we should use all the Means we can to draw others to Jesus Christ.

Succour them also by all other Means. 〈…〉 §2thou according to thy power and place, to 〈…〉 them under the means of Grace; As they said one 〈…〉 another,