The application of redemption

The frame of the whole heart of a Natural ¹man, is wholly unwilling to submit to the Work of the Lord that would sever him from his sins.

The frame of the whol heart of a Natural ¹man, is wholly unwilling to submit to the Work of the Lord that would sever him from his sins.

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I say the frame of the whole man, to the words of ⟨p. 306⟩the Text, and interpretation of them, each plotting of the Mind, each affecting of the Will, the […] current of the carriage of the inward man; and […] is not only unable to follow the direction of the Law and of the Lord, but not willing to bear the power thereof, to force it to the reformation of those […] and sins unto which it subjects it self, and sets it self resolutely to keep. So the Lord professed of Nimrod and his company when they had set themselves upon the building of Babel, out of their pride and self confidence, Gen. 11. 6. Now nothing will […] restrained from them which they have imagined to do, let us go down and confound their Language: It's in vain to persuade them, in vain to send Messengers and show Arguments never so sad and weighty to stop them, only confound their language that they may not be able to do what they would. It's the Scope of that Parable, Matth. 21. from 33. to 41. wherein the waywardness of the hearts of the sons of men, and their desperate unteachableness is apparently discovered: Messenger is sent after Messenger, all variety of means provided and continued, they beat one, evil entreat another, slay a third; and when the Son himself is sent, that Reason would have concluded that which the Master of the Vineyard conceived, they will reverence my Son; they were most outrageous against him, because happily he was more instant and importunate, to press them to Sanctification, the rendering of the fruit (your fruit in Holiness, and the end eternal Life,