The application of redemption

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 Isa. 11. 6. That a Child should lead them, even the meanest that brought arguments should prevail with them, especially ⟨p. 573⟩the ministers of the Gospel of whose wisdom and faithfulness, and acquaintance with the way and will of God they have had […] experience.

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 bewildred, and hath lost himself, he is content that a child should shew 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 Isa. 11. 6. That a Child should lead them, even the meanest that brought arguments should prevail with them, especially ⟨p. 573⟩the ministers of the Gospel of whose wisdom and faithfulness, and acquaintance with the way and wil of God they have had 〈…〉 experience.

That stubbornness and rebellious resistance of their ¹wills out of the sovereignty whereof, they durst set themselves against God and heaven, is now tamed and subdued. So that they dare not gainsay but become pliable to the holy and acceptable will of God, and ready to take the impression of his good pleasure, when it appears and is presented before them; The hardest pebble when it is broken and […] to powder, it will take any impression that is put upon it, So Job joins these two