The application of redemption

Look we at the condition of the parties from whence also another reason of the dispensation of the Lord may be discovered, hereby the Lord stains the pride of all flesh, and confounds all the carnal confidence that men seem to place in the creature; for should either the wisdom of the wise, the pomp of the rich, the parts and pains and studies and dexterity of the prudent and learned, the honour and magnificence of the mighty, and the Monarchs of the world should have found the Profit of the means or received the prevailing power of the holy spirit in his ordinances for their saying good. Men would have eyed and honoured those excellencies, and doted upon them, hung all their hopes and confidence upon the presence and work of these; so that the conclusion out of carnal reason would have issued here, none but such should have had any good, none of all these that had these out ward […] should have wanted it, and so some would have been discouraged, that could not attain these, others would presume and be secure that did possess them, and the Lord have been deprived of that honour both of confidence and dependence that was due from all. That the Lord might lay all these excellencies in the dust and forever wean the hearts […] men from setting their hopes thereupon, he takes the weakest and the worst and those also when they are at the greatest Under of all baseness and wretchedness, they shall outstrip all those in whom there is this seeming worth, of all the surpassing eminency that the Earth can afford. Thus the Apostle disputes, 1 Cor. 1. 26. you see […] […], not many wise, not many mighty, not many noble, these are the three excellencies in the world. The […] abilities of wit and learning, the nobility of birth, the privilege of our place and state. The Lord […] […] whole course of carnal excellency, he chooseth the […] to confound the wise, the weak to confound ⟨p. 296⟩the mighty, base things, that are not, to bring to nought things & things that are, nothing, of any probability or possibility in an ordinary way, that might have attained any good, being wholly set, against it nothing of ingenuity or moderation or common […], but when they grow desperately wicked yet then the Lord doth good that no flesh may glory in his presence;

Look we at the condition of the parties from whence also another reason of the dispensation of the Lord may be discovered, hereby the Lord stains the pride of al flesh, and confounds all the carnal confidence that men seem to place in the creature; for should either the wisdom of the wise, the pomp of the rich, the parts and paines and studyes and dexterity of the prudent and learned, the honor and magnificence of the mighty, and the Monarchs of the world should have found the Profit of the means or received the prevailing power of the holy spirit in his ordinances for their saying good. Men would have eyed and honoured those excellencies, and doated upon them, hung al their hopes and confidence upon the presence and work of these; so that the conclusion out of carnal reason would have issued here, none but such should have had any good, none of al these that had these out ward should have wanted it, and so some would have been discouraged, that could not attain these, others would presume and be secure that did possess them, and the Lord have been deprived of that honor both of confidence and dependance that was due from al. That the Lord might lay al these excellencies in the dust and forever wean the hearts men from setting their hopes thereupon, he takes the weakest and the worst and those also when they are at the greatest Under of al baseness and wretchedness, they shal outstrip al those in whom there is this seeming worth, of al the surpassing eminency that the Earth can afford. Thus the Apostle disputes,