Ouranos kai tartaros= heaven and hell epitomized. The true Christian characterized. As also an…

Pray also with a sense of thy own impotency and weakness. That though there be a necessity of humiliation, if ever thou ⟨p. 254⟩wouldst escape damnation, yet thou canst as soon fetch water out of a rock, as tears from thine eyes, or sorrow from thine heart for thy sins (till the wind of the Spirit bloweth, those waters will never flow; It is God that must give to thee a poor Gentile repentance unto life, ¹Acts 11.18.) That thou must believe, or thou canst not be saved; yet thou canst as easily cause iron to swim, as thy soul to believe in the Son of God; (Faith is the gift of God, Phil. 1.29. Zeph. 8.) It is as hard a work to believe the Gospel, as to keep the Law perfectly. Nothing less than omnipotency can enable the soul to either. As thy first birth and generation, so is thy second birth and regeneration from the Lord. Men and means may be instrumental and subservient, but their efficacy and success dependeth on God. As Protogenes, when he saw a line curiously drawn in a Painters shop, cried out, None but Apelles could draw that line; so when thou seest the new Creation, thou mayst say, None but a God could do that.

Pray also with a sense of thy own impotency and weaknesse. That though there be a necessity of humiliation, if ever thou ⟨p. 254⟩wouldst escape damnation, yet thou canst as soon fetch water out of a rock, as teares from thine eyes, or sorrow from thine heart for thy sins (till the wind of the Spirit bloweth, those waters will never flow; It is God that must give to thee a poor Gentile repentance unto life, ¹Acts 11.18.) That thou must believe, or thou canst not be saved; yet thou canst as easily cause iron to swim, as thy soul to believe in the Son of God; (Faith is the gift of God,