The application of redemption

One Contrary drives away another out of the subject in which it is by Constraint and Violence: But the work of the Spirit as contrary to Sin, drives it out of the soul in which it is seated as in its natural subject, therefore this must be done with violence. The first part is plain by the Principles of […] […] received, i. e. That the ground of all Constraint is that crossness and contrariety between the […] of things, and their actions: every thing is […] to that which is suitable to its own nature, our […] its own proper power and inclination; there needs no constraint to make the Fire burn, the […] […] roar, and […] things to descend, a Wolfe to prey and raven: But to make heavy things to ascend, the Lion to be as mild as a Lamb, the […] as harmless as a Kid, there must be a strong hand of an almighty power to make such a change, and by a kind of violence to […] the crossness and […] which carries these in professed opposition. The second part is as […] out of pregnant proof ⟨p. 379⟩from Scripture, which settles it as sure as Mount Zion. Rom. 8. 2. The Law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath freed me from the Law of Sin and Death. There is a Sovereignty of […] rule set up in the Soul, and therefore it gives Law to the whole man, for that is the prerogat ve of a supreme Commander; Now there is a Repeal of these Laws, a Crushing, and a Conquering of the Supreme power by the Spirit of Life in Christ, which therefore disannuls all those Edicts and Commands that Carnal sensual Lusts of the Old man had thus set up and erected. 2 Cor. 10. 3, 4, 5. The Weapons of our warfare are mighty through God: When the Gospel carries the power of God with it to […], it flings down the strong holds that […] themselves against Christ, and […] every […] to the obedience of Christ. Thus it […] […] […] Corruptions. And this is done in way of Contrariety, Gal. 5. 17. The Spirit lusts against […] […], and the flesh against the spirit; and these two are contrary. And therefore its termed a Fight and […], Rom. 7. 23. I see another law in my Members rebelling against the Law of my mind […] carrying of me […]. Fighting is […] with […] and violence; where there is […] and Enmity, there is […] and […], not kindness and persuasion only. Such is the Work here.