The application of redemption

[…] sometimes the Philistines dealt with the Ark when it came into the field, they thus spake one to another there was never such a thing heard of as this, these are the Gods that destroyed the Egyptians in the red. Sea, quit your selves like men, Oh ye Philistines, that ye be not servants to the Hebrews, They say of the word as sometimes of our Saviour. Math. 21. this is the Heir come let us kill him, and the inheritance shall be ours, they cannot have their lusts so long as the power of the word would, overtop and cross them, therefore Herodias prefers John Baptists head before half the Kingdom, that she might be quiet in her sins.

〈…〉 sometimes the Philystians dealt with the Ark when it came into the field, they thus spake one to another there was never such a thing heard of as this, these are the Gods that destroyed the Egiptians in the red. Sea, quit your selves like men, Oh yee Philystins, that ye be not servants to the Hebrewes, They say of the word as sometimes of our Saviour. Math. 21. this is the Heyr come let us kill him, and the inheritance shal be ours, they cannot have their lusts so long as the power of the word would, overtop and cross them, therefore Herodias prefers John Baptists head before half the Kingdom, that she might be quiet in her sins.

Before the soul can act against the evil of sin or for §2the removal of this resistance wherein the destroying ⟨p. 387⟩venom of sin lies, and that which stops the passage of the power of the ordinance & the work of Grace, It's necessary that the Lord should not only concur with the […] of the will of a sinner to lead or draw forth the act thereof which he hath ability to express, but he must let in an influence of the […] power & virtue into the faculty of the will, whereby it may be enabled to put forth an act unto which it formerly it had no power of it self; It's a subtle pang of Pelagianism and the Arminians some of their successors have licked up that loathsome heresy of theirs at this day: & […] this delusion & cunning pretence of theirs they would colour over those rotten and poysonful conceits; & hence it is they labour to bear men in hand, that they labour to set forth and exalt the honour of Gods free grace, they profess that without the preventing grace of God, mans free will and all that ability he hath left in nature since the fall is able to do no spiritual good. The words are fair but the intent is false and […], and indeed they do privily and cunningly undermine the work of Gods grace while they pretend indeed to advance it. For the meaning is this. God must enlighten mens minds and reveal the things of life and happiness to mens wills, excite, stir up and call forth their hearts to the embracing of that which is good, and concur with him in their endeavours to the performance of the work or else they can do nothing, so that upon this grant, Gods free grace in the work of conversion, calls forth and concurs with that act which mans free will hath sufficiency to put forth, which is to make man share with God in his work, and to part stakes with him.