be quickened by the power of God, their eyes must be opened, their
understandings illuminated, their ears unstopped, their hearts
circumcised, their wills also rectified, and the Son of God revealed
in them.






XI. CONVERSION.

THE DIFFICULTY OF CONVERSION.





CONVERSION to God is not so easy and so smooth a thing, as some
would have men believe it is. Why is man's heart compared to fallow
ground, God's word to a plough, and his ministers to ploughmen, if
the heart indeed has no need of breaking in order to the receiving
of the seed of God unto eternal life? Why is the conversion of the
the soul compared to the grafting of a tree, if that be done without
cutting?

CONVERSION THE POWER OF GOD.

A broken heart is the handy-work of God, a sacrifice of his own
preparing, a material fitted for himself. By breaking the heart he