The application of redemption

Hence t […] the second work of Humiliation is required, […] God plucks away all his props, and […] him wholly of what he hath or seemeth to have. For pride (unto which Humiliation is opposite) is but the rankness of praise, and praise is a fruit of a cause by counsel, that hath power to do or not to do this or that, as he sees […] Humiliation is the utter nothingness of the soul, that we have no power, it's not in our choice to dispose of our selves, not yet to dispose of that which another gives, nor yet safe to repine at his dispose: In a word, as in a Scion before it be ingrafted into another stock, it must be cut off from the old, and pared, and then implanted. In Contrition we are cut off; in Humiliation pared, and so sit to be implanted into Christ by Faith.

Hence t 〈…〉 the second work of Humiliation is required, 〈…〉 God plucks away all his props, and 〈…〉 him wholly of what he hath or seemeth to have. For pride (unto which Humiliation is opposite) is but the rankness of praise, and praise is a fruit of a cause by counsel, that hath power to do or not to do this or that, as he sees 〈…〉 Humiliation is the utter nothingness of the soul, that we have no power, it's not in our choyce to dispose of our selves, not yet to dispose of that which another gives, nor yet safe to repine at his dispose: In a word, as in a Scion before it be ingrafted into another stock, it must be cut osf srom the old, and pared, and then implanted. In Contrition we are cut off; in Humiliation pared, and so sit to be implanted into Christ by Faith.

In regard of God, without this disposition his Word¹ will not, nay cannot take any place in us, or prevail with §2us for our good: Counsels, and Commands, and Comforts, or whatever Dispensations, they fall as water upon a Rock, when administered to a hard heart, they enter not,