The application of redemption

So it is by proportion in a contrary manner in the work of Conversion, when the Lord Jesus comes to bring the sinner home, he doth not put sanctifying Grace into the heart, to bring the heart from the power and rebellion of fin, for then it should be under the power of Grace and sin together; but by the mighty impression and motion of his Spirit takes off the resistance, ⟨p. 392⟩and turns the soul from sin to himself in Christ, in whom accepting of it as adopted in his Son, he leaves the impression of his Image, and all gracious abilities whereby the heart may be carried towards him, and act for him in all things.

So it is by proportion in a contrary manner in the work of Conversion, when the Lord Jesus comes to bring the sinner home, he doth not put sanctifying Grace into the heart, to bring the heart from the power and rebellion of fin, for then it should be under the power of Grace and sin together; but by the mighty impression and motion of his Spirit takes off the resistance, ⟨p. 392⟩and turns the soul from sin to himself in Christ, in whom accepting of it as adopted in his Son, he leaves the impression of his Image, and al gracious abilities whereby the heart may be carried towards him, and act for him in all things.

In the removal of this resistance, for the conquering §4and overpowering this opposition, that a carnal heart naturally carries against God and his Grace, the will of the sinner it self is a mere Patient, and the soul is only a sufferer and acts not, but is acted upon; for the heart and will of a sinner being possessed and overpowered with corruption, that which is the subject of his corrupt quality, and acted by it, hath no power to expel it, that which is wholly carried by resistance, cannot will to remove that resistance out of it, but in truth resists all that resists or opposeth that; only the Lord by the mighty impression of the powerful operation of Spirit over-bears that opposition in the soul, and forceth the soul to feel the stab and venom of sin, though it use all means and ways it can to avoid the stroke of it, but all in vain, for the Arrows of the Almighty stick fast in him: And all this is done, and may be without any prejudice to any Liberty that the Lord hath put into the will, for the will may be forced to suffer even against it's will, without any wrong to the liberty thereof, as the damned do in Hell at this day, and shall through all eternity, and shall never be able to get from under the terrors of the Almighty.