The application of redemption

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This may suffice for the Proof of the Point: See the 〈…〉 of it laid open in 〈…〉 Particulars.

He presseth in upon men by the prevailing work of §1his Grace in his Ordinances, before they look after him or their own welfare, prevents their imaginations and desires. When […] snorting in their sins, sit down securely, well apaid with their careless and corrupt condition: the things of Grace, and Christ, and Mercy, are not so much as in their thoughts or dream; the Lord beyond their expectation, lets in the discovery of himself, and […] manifestation of the work of his Spirit, before they be aware of it. Jos. 24. 2. compared with Acts, 7. 2. Thus it was in the calling of Abraham, when the Lord brought him to himself, and made him the Father of the Faithful, when Terah and he were drowned in Idolatry, without God, without Christ, and without Hope, never heard of any such thing as life in a Saviour by Faith, never hearkened after it, but worshipping the Idols of the Heathen. The God of Glory, says Stephen, appeared to our Father Abraham, when he […] in Mesopotamia, before he dwelt in Charran; when he dwelt in the midst of Idolaters, and never had the least thought or apprehension of the Covenant of Grace; the Lord then appeared to him, and bad him come out from thy country and kindred, and from thy fathers […], and so from their Idolatrous Practices. God finds men before they seek him, he makes known himself before they enquire after him; Isai. […]. 1. I am […] of them that asked not after me, I am found of them that sought me not; I said, behold me, behold me, to a Nation that was […] called by my Name. How often have we heard it, and known it in our own Country; the Lord hath sent a Minister to see the Country, and visit his