The application of redemption

Because the pride of their carnal reason is now conquered, ¹the Lord hath dashed, and confounded the overweening conceit which once they had of their own worth and the excellency of their own abilities; they now see that all the wit in the world doth not keep common-wealth in their brain, that their apprehensions are not Oracles, but that they are and have been miserably mistaken and see now by experience the vanity of their imaginations, and that they have been deluded by the darkness of their own […] hearts, when they professed themselves wise they became fools, Rom. 1

Because the pride of their carnal reason is now conquered, ¹the Lord hath dashed, and confounded the overweening conceit which once they had of their own worth and the excellency of their own abilities; they now see that al the wit in the world doth not keep common-wealth in their brain, that their apprehensions are not Oracles, but that they are and have been miserably mistaken and see now by experience the vanity of their imaginations, and that they have been deluded by the darkness of their own 〈…〉 hearts, when they professed themselves wise they became fools, Rom. 1

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And therefore they are ready to lay down their own conceits, and to follow Gods counsels, they begin to […] and suspect their own blindness, and therefore yield easily to the directions of others. A man that is bewildered, and hath lost himself, he is content that a child should show him the way, that he conceives hath but any acquaintance with the coast. So it was prophesied of Converts in the time of the Gospel