The application of redemption

therefore there is not so much power in a conviction as to force attendance, and to drive the heart to obedience. Therefore as Paul said to Timothy, 1. Tim. 4. 15, 16. Meditate upon these things, and continue in them, or be in these things. So you must be in a Conviction, and continue under it if you would find it victorious, and then it will be so first or last, and will eat out all opposition, though with much ado. As it is with Aqua fortis if laid upon Iron, though it do not at once, and suddenly, yet secretly and insensibly it will eat the Iron in pieces. So it is with a Truth which God will make victorious, it will lie upon the Spirit of a man, and eat there, and work there, and break out effectually, it may be many years after, Job, 33. 16. this is called the sealing of […] Instruction; which is to add Authority and Sovereignty to it, as when the Edict was sealed by the entreaty of Haman, there was no opposing, no gainsaying of it.

therefore there is not so much power in a conviction as to force attendance, and to drive the heart to obedience. Therefore as Paul said to Timothy, 1. Tim. 4. 15, 16. Meditate upon these things, and continue in them, or be in these things. So you must be in a Conviction, and continue under it if you would find it victorious, and then it wil be so first or last, and wil eat out al opposition, though with much ado. As it is with Aqua fortis if laid upon Iron, though it do not at once, and suddenly, yet secretly and insensibly it wil eat the Iron in pieces. So it is with a Truth which God wil make victorious, it will lie upon the Spirit of a man, and eat there, and work there, and break out effectually, it may be many yeers after, Job, 33. 16. this is called the sealing of 〈…〉 Instruction; which is to add Authority and Soveraignty to it, as when the Edict was sealed by the intreaty of Haman, there was no opposing, no gainsaying of it.