The application of redemption

Hence its plain its a false Opinion and grounded on a false bottom and principle; that to have an indifferency to any thing propounded, to take it or not to take it, is that liberty which issues from the nature of the Will. Because it issues not from the Faculty at all to will a supernatural good, no more than from a dead man to take meat. As a Wheel doth not run round because wood or iron, but because the art of wheel-making is imprinted upon it; because so framed and fashioned. If therefore the question be asked, If the Will be not free in Preparation. Answ. There is no Will in the first work of Preparation, there is the Faculty of Will, but not the act of Will.

Hence its plain its a false Opinion and grounded on a false bottom and principle; that to have an indifferency to any thing propounded, to take it or not to take it, is that liberty which issues from the nature of the Will. Because it issues not from the Faculty at al to wil a supernatural good, no more than from a dead man to take meat. As a Wheel doth not run round because wood or iron, but because the art of wheel-making is imprinted upon it; because so framed and fashioned. If therefore the question be asked, If the Will be not free in Preparation. Answ. There is no Will in the first work of Preparation, there is the Faculty of Will, but not the act of Will.

The Corruption that takes possession of the Will ¹and rules in it, it utterly indisposeth the soul to receive any spiritual power from God, and consequently disenables it to put forth any spiritual or supernatural work. It is not subject to the Law of God, neither can be, Rom. 8. 7. It will not beat the impression of the power of the Spirit. Job. 8. 37. The Word of Christ found no place in the Jews that were under the power of their Corruptions, ⟨p. 376⟩