The application of redemption

The Second Part of the Doctrine is, While the §2Gospel is […], that is the season of Gods acceptation, ⟨p. 245⟩he then puts forth the power of his grace to prepare the heart; so the word implies in the text, an opportunity of acceptation: It discovers […] […] in Three Particulars.

The Second Part of the Doctrine is, While the §2Gospel is 〈…〉, that is the season of Gods acceptation, ⟨p. 245⟩he then puts forth the power of his grace to prepare the heart; so the word implyes in the text, an opportunity of acceptation: It discovers 〈…〉 〈…〉 in Three Particulars.

There is fitness of opportunity in regard of the §1cause of the accomplishment of any thing; when there is a concurrence or meeting together of many helps, for the bringing about […] that we desire and would have, for the effecting of any work we intend: Thus we use to say, when we have wind and tide, then is the fittest season to sail; while we have health and strength, is the […] time to set about works of greatest importance, not that the bare continuance of so many hours, or days, or years, makes any difference, for they are always the same, in sickness and in health; in youth, and in crazy, and decrepit age, in a still calm, and in a fair gale; but the fitness lies in the causes and means which now are happily afforded unto us, which hereafter we may be deprived of, or not able to improve though we do enjoy them.

There is fitness of opportunity in regard of the