The application of redemption

The Lord Christ […] the understanding to bear §3that Almighty stroke of his Spirit, whereby he destroys the sovereign power of carnal reason, and […] it to receive ⟨p. 48⟩the prevailing impression of his spiritual light, which searcheth the secrets of sin in the soul. The Conclusion intimates a double work of the Spirit. 1. It destroys the sovereignty of carnal Reason. 2. It leaves in the room of that an impression of spiritual light; and in both these the understanding is merely passive, for so it's added, it's forced to bear the one, it's fitted to receive the other.

The Lord Christ 〈…〉 the understanding to bear §3that Almighty stroak of his Spirit, whereby he destroies the soveraign power of carnal reason, and 〈…〉 it to receive ⟨p. 48⟩the prevailing impression of his spiritual light, which searcheth the secrets of sin in the soul. The Conclusion intimates a double work of the Spirit. 1. It destroies the soveraignty of carnal Reason. 2. It leaves in the room of that an impression of spiritual light; and in both these the understanding is meerly passive, for so it's added, it's forced to bear the one, it's fitted to receive the other.

It destroys the over swaying Authority of Carnal §1Reason; It was Satan's Policy to turn the Understanding from the Lord, and attendance to the truth; […]. 3. Hath God said ye shall not eat? Oh question it not, fear it not, Ye shall be as Gods; and so she turning aside, and perverting the eye of reason to listen to the delusion suggested, her light was dimmed, and she justly over-born with the force of the falsehood presented, because she took off her mind from eyeing of the command, and turned it to attend the strength of that delusion, and was so acted by it, she conceived, though falsely, that it was good to get knowledge, when the tasting that fruit was the only means to lose all the knowledge she had; and from the abuse of her own mutability, her mind becomes perverted from light to darkness, from the way of truth which God had found out, unto the by-path found out of her own finding. Now the Lord Christ who comes to destroy and undo the works of the Devil, he begins where Satan ended, he turns from darkness, he takes down the Supremacy of that carnal Reason, by the which all the Sons of Adam in their natural and corrupt condition are constantly both ruled and carried in their whole course; and that's the Reason of the Apostles coupling those two together,