The application of redemption

The things of Christ, and ways of his Grace which §5he hath revealed in his Gospel, and enjoins all to follow, because they put them beyond their pace, and exceed either their canal and formal course, and the frame of happiness which they have fancied in their own minds and thoughts, they look at them with disdain, and casts the name of giddiness and folly upon them, and follows them with all the reproaches and contempt that may be, 1 Cor. 2. 14. […] he natural man perceives not the things of God for they are foolishness unto him; Thus the Gospel, the glad tidings of salvation, and the only way of life in Christ, It was foolishness to the Greeks, and to the Jews a stumbling block: 1 Cor. 1. 23. To become fools that we may be wise, to cast away the robes of our own conceived Righteousness, worth, and sufficiency, and to go a begging to Christ to […] our nakedness: it is a thing […] cross to carnal reason as nothing more, Rom. 10. 3. The Jews that […] establish their own Righteousness, they would ⟨p. 291⟩not submit to the Righteousness of Christ.

The things of Christ, and waies of his Grace which §5he hath revealed in his Gospel, and enjoyns all to follow, because they put them beyond their pace, and exceed either their cannal and formal course, and the frame of happiness which they have fancied in their own minds and thoughts, they look at them with disdain, and casts the name of giddiness and folly upon them, and follows them with all the reproaches and contempt that may be, 1 Cor. 2. 14. 〈…〉 he natural man perceives not the things of God for they are foolishness unto him; Thus the Gospel, the glad tydings of salvation, and the only way of life in Christ, It was foolishness to the Greeks, and to the Jews a stumbling block: