The application of redemption

For though Adam being in a mutable condition, might slide away from the Government of God as well as submit, yet after he had withdrawn himself from under the Covenant and Wisdom of God in the Law given him, it was just with God to deliver him up to the authority of his inventions, and there to stake him down, that nothing but the Sovereignty of Christ who had satisfied for this his folly and carnal reasoning should be able to restore him from the power of them. This makes me construe the meaning of those words of Paul so, as that which best gives in evidence of the dependence, […]. 4. 21, 22. If ye have heard, and been taught, as the Truth is in Jesus, then put off the old man, &c. The Truth as it is in the Bible only, or dispensed in any Ordinance, or as it was in the Covenant of the First Adam, will never do it; but as it is in the hand of Jesus, the Head of the Second Covenant when he comes to […] a holy seed, and call home his Sons to himself, he will then make the old man fall. And this the Lord Jesus forceth the Understanding to submit unto, and this is easily yielded on all hands; for it's commonly confessed by Philosophers and Divines that there is a constraining force in the undeniable evidence of Argument […] on by the Spirit, that the Judgment is necessitated ⟨p. 50⟩to fall under, and yet hereby no liberty is prejudiced, for that is in the will. Thus Pauls Commission runs Acts, 26. 18. To open their Eyes, to turn them from darkness to light, from the power of Satan to God. What is the opening of the eyes distinct from that which follows? it may be […] that common enlightening in the History, Matter, and Truth of the Scripture wherein the understanding must in reason be informed, and themselves also yield a full assent, and so far be persuaded of the Truth and Goodness of the Doctrine of the Gospel; for it's opposite to all the Rules of Reason and Providence, that persons should step from profaneness in the depth of it, unto the height of Christian Piety and Holiness, but there must be a passing through the common Truths that are in the way and rode to come to that end. First, a man must know there was a Christ, and who he was, and what he did, and wherein that Redemption of his is recorded in the Scriptures, and of what value and infallibility they be.

For though Adam being in a mutable condition, might slide away from the Government of God as well as submit, yet after he had withdrawn himself from under the Covenant and Wisdom of God in the Law given him, it was just with God to deliver him up to the authority of his inventions, and there to stake him down, that nothing but the Soveraignty of Christ who had satisfied for this his folly and carnal reasoning should be able to restore him from the power of them. This makes me construe the meaning of those words of Paul so, as that which best gives in evidence of the dependance, . 4. 21, 22. If ye have heard, and been taught, as the Truth is in Jesus, then put off the old man, &c. The Truth as it is in the Bible only, or dispensed in any Ordinance, or as it was in the Covenant of the First Adam, will never do it; but as it is in the hand of Jesus, the Head of the Second Covenant when he comes to a holy seed, and call home his Sons to himself, he will then make the old man fall. And this the Lord Jesus forceth the Understanding to submit unto, and this is easily yielded on all hands; for it's commonly confessed by Phylosophers and Divines that there is a constraining force in the undeniable evidence of Argument on by the Spirit, that the Judgment is necessitated