The application of redemption

If thou supportest thy heart and thy hopes also upon this, what thou purposest, what thou intendest to do, know, it is impossible that ever thou shouldest be good, or partake of any Spiritual good for thy […] welfare. It's not in thy power to live, to have […] ability to seek, or a heart, if able, or success in seeking; nay, it is impossible thou shouldest be made partaker of any Spiritual Good, if thou wilt go no other way to gain interest therein.

If thou supportest thy heart and thy hopes also upon this, what thou purposest, what thou intendest to do, know, it is impossible that ever thou shouldest be good, or partake of any Spiritual good for thy 〈…〉 welfare. It's not in thy power to live, to have 〈…〉 ability to seek, or a heart, if able, or success in seeking; nay, it is impossible thou shouldest be made partaker of any Spiritual Good, if thou wilt go no other way to gain interest therein.

Ground of Trial and Examination, whether ever¹ we had any saving and Spiritual Good applied unto us in a right manner; In our temporal Estates in Civil Proceedings amongst men, it's not enough to lay claim to Lands and Inheritances, unless by a Legal course they be conveyed and settled upon us, otherwise a man may be unsettled and shaked out of all before he be aware. It is so in our Spiritual Estate: Those high and happy Privileges which Christ hath purchased, […] great Salvation he hath wrought and tenders also in the Gospel; it's not enough to claim it, and catch at the comforts and benefits that come thereby, unless they be conveyed and settled upon us in a Gospel way, otherwise the Devil may sink our hearts, and shake all our hopes, when we least suspect it. Thou sayest, the Pardon that Christ hath purchased, the Holiness that he hath promised to bestow upon His, that Grace and Life, that rich Mercy and plentiful Redemption which he hath revealed so fully, so freely tendered to His; thou sayest it's thine; I say, How camest thou