The application of redemption

That which destroys corruption must needs offer a kind of violence to corruption, for each thing desires the preservation of it self, and it is against the will of sin to destroy it self: It's Calvins Expression upon the place, The works of the Devil will never destroy themselves: therefore Christ by his Spirit must destroy them by a strong hand: It is therefore a sleepy Dotage, and a deluded Dream to make such an Explication; that by some Moral persuasions presented unto the blind mind of a sinner, sin should be persuaded to destroy it self: or (which is the […] of that Opinion rightly expressed) that there should be some Arguments propounded to corruption ⟨p. 382⟩to draw out the power of corruption, to destroy the power of corruption; In which falsehood there is such a senseless kind of silliness, that it is a wonder that men who arrogate the excellency of the depths of disputes, and would have the world conceive them the darlings of Wisdom, cut out of purpose to search into the secrets of all […], should ever be taken aside by such a dream; but that the Lord in his just Judgment righteously delivers men up to their own devices, when they despise his Counsel. For better explication than that which I make, no man can ever make of that imagination according to truth; for a moral […] in the proper Nature and work of it, is not to give power to the subject that had it not, but to draw forth the power it hath to perform any action; so that when a sinner (as we have proved) is wholly acted by the power & […] of his corruptions, things in that are spiritual, i. e. though he hath some relics of the Image yet left within him, some common stock of Moral abilities imprinted upon him, yet whatever his shows, his appearances, his performances be in Civil Services, the sovereignty of corruption in the heart is such it over-rules all, to false ends, and suiting of it self, and giving satisfaction to the flesh; so that in the […], to stir up the sovereign power of sin in the soul of a […] to forsake sin, is to draw forth the power of […] to […] it self, which hath not the least appearance of a […] in […] with it. So that I conclude this third Argument which is open and plain.

That which destroyes corruption must needs offer a kind of violence to corruption, for each thing desires the preservation of it self, and it is against the will of sin to destroy it self: It's Calvins Expression upon the place, The works of the Devil will never destroy themselves: therefore Christ by his Spirit must destroy them by a strong hand: It is therefore a sleepy Dotage, and a deluded Dream to make such an Explication; that by some Moral perswasions presented unto the blind mind of a sinner, sin should be perswaded to destroy it self: or (which is the of that Opinion rightly expressed) that there should be some Arguments propounded to corruption