The Soul's Conflict with Itself

God saw this grief so needful for his people, that he appointed certain days for afflicting them; because it is ¹fit that sin contracted by joy should be dissolved by grief; and sin is so deeply invested into the soul, that […] separation betwixt the soul and it cannot be wrought without much grief; when the soul hath smarted for sin, it sets then the right price upon reconciliation with God in Christ, and it fe• leth what a bitter thing sin is, and therefore it will be afraid to be […] bold with it afterward; it likewise aweth the heart so, that it will not be so loose towards GOD as it was before; and certainly that soul that hath […] the sweetness of keeping peace wit• ⟨p. 101⟩God, cannot but take deeply to heart, that there should be any thing in us that should divide betwixt us and the fountain of our comfort, that should stop the passage of our prayers, and the current of Gods favours both towards our selves and others; it is such an ill as is the cause of all other ill, and damps all our comforts.

God saw this griefe so needfull for his people, that he appointed certaine dayes for afflicting them; because it is ¹fit that sinne contracted by joy should bee dissolved by griefe; and sinne is so deepely invested into the soule, that 〈…〉 separation betwixt the soule and it cannot be wrought without much griefe; when the soule hath smarted for sinne, it sets then the right price upon reconciliation with God in Christ, and it fe• leth what a bitter thing sinne is, and therefore it will bee afraid to bee 〈…〉 bold with it afterward; it likewise aweth the heart so, that it will not bee so loose towards GOD as it was before; and certainely that soule that hath 〈…〉 the sweetnesse of keeping peace wit• ⟨p. 101⟩