purposes of divine mercy, forms also an important portion of the message of the Gospel.”85 Here is the recognition of the fact that it is God who enlightens and regenerates the sinner’s heart. This removes the application of salvation from the hands of men, and places it in the hands of the Lord, as the Scriptures and the Confession teach. Leland is emphatic in his emphasis of this point. “It is the glorious achievement of the cross, to slay the enmity and subdue the stubborness of the sinful heart:
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