The application of redemption

You take Christ? you hang upon free Mercy? but how came you by the power which did enable you so to do? You say, you took the Promises, but who gave them you, or gave you a hand to lay hold upon them? True, Mercy is free and sufficient, the Promises are precious and saving, but if they never come to be thine but as thou by thine own power didst make them thy own, certainly thou wilt in the issue fall short of them, and of thy own comfort and all.

Unless he who provided and gave thee Promises, do provide and give thee a heart […] to take them, thou wilt never take possession of them; unless Christ comprehend thee, thou wilt never apprehend him, Phil. 3. 11. Thou art utterly mistaken if thou dost not find Application beyond thy strength as well as Redemption: This mistake in imagining that we can make the Application, ariseth especially upon a double ground, which is most dangerous and least discerned.

Unless he who provided and gave thee Promises, do provide and give thee a heart 〈…〉 to take them, thou wilt never take possession of them; unless Christ comprehend thee, thou wilt never apprehend him, Phil. 3. 11. Thou art utterly mistaken if thou dost not find Application beyond thy strength as well as Redemption: This mistake in imagining that we can make the Application, ariseth especially upon a double ground, which is most dangerous and least discerned.

First, When from the general offer of the freeness §1