The application of redemption

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.

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 lyes, 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 wil 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 & vertue into the faculty of the wil, whereby it may be enabled to put forth an act unto which it formerly it had no power of it self; It's a subtile pang of Pelagianism and the Arminians som of their successors have licked up that loathsom heresy of theirs at this day: & this delusion & cunning pretence of theirs they would color over those rotten and poysonful conceits; & hence it is they labor to bear men in hand, that they labor to set forth and exalt the honour of Gods free grace, they profess that without the preventing grace of God, mans free wil and al that ability he hath left in nature since the fal is able to do no spiritual good. The words are fayr but the intent is fals 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 wils, excite, stir up and cal forth their hearts to the embracing of that which is good, and concur with him in their endeavors 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, cals forth and concurs with that act which mans free wil hath sufficiency to put forth, which is to make man share with God in his work, and to part stakes with him.