Many will be affected with some gross sins of theirs against the law, who never see the venom of their unbelief of the gospel. But this is the sin that draws deepest; and therefore that is the sin which the Spirit is in a special manner to convince of.

Saving faith is the faith of God's elect; the special gift of God to them, wrought in them by his Spirit.

The gospel casts out a rope to hale sinners to land; but the sinner has no hands to lay hold on it; his very faith must be wrought in him by the Spirit.

The law discovers the disease, and the gospel the physician.

As the corruption of our nature shews the absolute necessity of regeneration, so the absolute necessity of regeneration plainly proves the corruption of our nature; for why should a man need a second birth, if his nature were not quite marred in the first birth?

Go where thou wilt, thou canst not go out of thy Father's ground.

There is no true believing or trusting to the report of the gospel, but what is the effect of the working of a divine power on the soul for that end.