The application of redemption

The act of sin only in the one is hindered; the power of sin in the other is subdued, the one curbs and confines the corrupt Nature, as a Fox in a chain, a Wolf in a grin, they have the same Nature still, but they have not the same liberty to put forth their ravenous desires and […], and therefore will do it when opportunity serves. Converting Grace severs the subtle and cruel dispositions from them […], and overcomes and conquers the cruelty of their Natures, so that as they do not, so in truth they cannot put forth such savage practices as before: The one abates the resistance that is in the heart against God, his Truth, and Ways for the while, makes a mans distempers recoil and […] themselves, and makes them not appear for the present: But this takes away the Sovereignty and prevailing power of resistance. As it is in War, when a pitched field is fought, and the Bodies of both Armies meet, each standing in the defence and […] of its own […]; but when the day is got, and the battle won, and the forces of the […] not only defeated and […], but slain and cut in pieces, so that their strength is broken, and they utterly disabled to make head, with any hope of recovering the field, or repairing their losses; there may happily some scattered companies be skulking here and there, and pilfering and molesting the State, but they have no hope to recover their power; the Country and Kingdom falls wholly to the Conqueror. So here, when the corrupt heart comes in professed opposition against the Lord Jesus, in the power of his Ordinances, and the Lord is pleased to put forth his power ⟨p. 384⟩to the vanquishing, and subduing the soul unto himself; the sinner gathers up all his forces as loth to lose his delightful lusts (as sometimes the […] against the coming of the Ark, 1 Sam. 4. 7, 8, 9. The Philistines were afraid, and they said, God is come into the Camp, and they said, woe unto us, who shall deliver us from the hands of these mighty Gods? Be strong and quit your selves like men, O ye Philistines, that ye be not Servants to the Hebrews:) So, the soul rises up in way of resistance against the Word and Power of his Grace, but in the issue the Dominion of these distempers is so quelled, and the power of them so crushed, that it can never make head against the power of the Spirit;

The act of sin only in the one is hindred; the power of sin in the other is subdued, the one curbs and confines the corrupt Nature, as a Fox in a chain, a Wolf in a grinn, they have the same Nature still, but they have not the same liberty to put forth their ravenous desires and , and therefore will do it when opportunity serves. Converting Grace severs the subtil and cruel dispositions from them , and overcomes and conquers the cruelty of their Natures, so that as they do not, so in truth they cannot put forth such savage practices as before: The one abates the resistance that is in the heart against God, his Truth, and Waies for the while, makes a mans distempers recoyl and themselves, and makes them not appear for the present: But this takes away the Sovereignty and prevailing power of resistance. As it is in War, when a pitched field is fought, and the Bodies of both Armies meet, each standing in the defence and of its own ; but when the day is got, and the battel won, and the forces of the not only defeated and , but slain and cut in pieces, so that their strength is broken, and they utterly disabled to make head, with any hope of recovering the field, or repairing their losses; there may happily some scattered companies be sculking here and there, and pilfering and molesting the State, but they have no hope to recover their power; the Country and Kingdom falls wholly to the Conqueror. So here, when the corrupt heart comes in professed opposition against the Lord Jesus, in the power of his Ordinances, and the Lord is pleased to put sorth his power