Part 6

y apprehend that for which also I am apprehended of Christ Jesus." This is a divine expression of that frame of heart -- of that design -- which is predominant and efficacious in them to [Auto-modernized] whom Christ is precious.

But, on the other hand, (according to [Auto-modernized] the fore-mentioned prediction,) as he has [Auto-modernized] been a sure foundation to [Auto-modernized] all that believe, so he has [Auto-modernized] in like manner been "a stone of stumbling and a rock of offence to [Auto-modernized] them that stumble at the word, being disobedient: to which [Auto-modernized] also they were appointed." There is nothing in him -- nothing in which [Auto-modernized] he is concerned -- nothing of him, his person, his natures, his office, his grace, his love, his power, his authority, his relation to [Auto-modernized] the church -- but it has [Auto-modernized] been to [Auto-modernized] many a stone of stumbling and rock of offence. Concerning these things have been all the woeful contests which have fallen out and been managed among those that outwardly have made profession of the Christian religion. And the contentions about them do rather increase than abate, to [Auto-modernized] this very day; the dismal fruits of which [Auto-modernized] the world groans [Auto-modernized] under, and is no longer able to bear. For, as the opposition to [Auto-modernized] the Lord Christ in these things, by men of perverse minds, has [Auto-modernized] ruined their own souls -- as having dashed themselves in pieces against this everlasting rock -- so in union [Auto-modernized] with other lusts and interests of the carnal minds of men, it has [Auto-modernized] filled the world itself with blood and confusion.

The re-enthroning of the Person, Spirit, Grace, and Authority of Christ, in the hearts and consciences of men, is the only way through which [Auto-moderniz