Yea further, That if any sin be pardoned to me it is by virtue of a price paid that is more worth than ten thousand worlds: This Truth. Now here's the Gospel as well as the Law, for the ploughing is but the spiritualness of the Law, the Truths of the Law in a Gospel way, for you must take notice that the Law [as Law] accepts of no humiliation for sin, it is as it is revealed in a Gospel way, in a Gospel way it doth tend to humiliation, for let men be humbled never so much, the Law never accepts of them for their humiliation, but the Law in a Gospel way so it comes to humble the soul so as to do it good. Now therefore the Consideration of the Truths that the Law requires, having reference to the Gospel they serve for the humbling of the soul; Now get in these truths and see what they will do in thy Soul, you must work them in, And let conscience be put on to draw this plough, These are as the Plough-share, and the working of Conscience is the drawing of this plough; while the plough stops (as when it meets with a thorn and briar) now a strong Conscience will draw it on, and will make the thorns and briars to be rent up by the roots, if the Conscience be put upon with strength to draw these Truths in the soul; and though they put you to pain, yet you must be content to draw them on in the soul; And if these and the like Truths be got into thy soul, and thou beest at plough, and thy Conscience be drawing, This is that I shall say, God speed the Plough, yea, God speed these Truths that Conscience is drawing on in the soul, for it may tend to a great deal of good, to prepare thee for the seed that may bring forth Righteousness and Mercy to thy soul for ever. I confess it is a hard work to be thus ploughing; Indeed for men and women only to hear Sermons, and be talking and conferring of good things, these things are pretty easy, but to go to plough, to plough with such Truths as these are, to get up the thorns and briars by the roots, this is a very hard task; but we must be willing to do it, and to continue ploughing; as the fallow ground must not ⟨p. 471⟩only be ploughed once,1 but (it may be) it may stand in need of ploughing the second and third time before it may be fit for the seed to be cast in, and so it must be with our hearts. It may be some of you have got in some Truths,2 and you have been ploughing;
Yea further, That if any sin be pardoned to me it is by vertue of a price paid that is more worth than ten thousand worlds: This Truth. Now here's the Gospel as well as the Law, for the plowing is but the spiritualness of the Law, the Truths of the Law in a Gospel way, for you must take notice that the Law [as Law] accepts of no humiliation for sin, it is as it is reveal'd in a Gospel way, in a Gospel way it doth tend to humiliation, for let men be humbled never so much, the Law never accepts of them for their humiliation, but the Law in a Gospel way so it comes to humble the soul so as to do it good. Now therefore the Consideration of the Truths that the Law requires, having reference to the Gospel they serve for the humbling of the soul; Now get in these truths and see what they will do in thy Soul, you must work them in, And let conscience be put on to draw this plow, These are as the Plow-share, and the working of Conscience is the drawing of this plow; while the plow stops (as when it meets with a thorn and bryar) now a strong Conscience will draw it on, and will make the thorns and bryars to be rent up by the roots, if the Conscience be put upon with strength to draw these Truths in the soul; and though they put you to pain, yet you must be content to draw them on in the soul; And if these and the like Truths be got into thy soul, and thou beest at plow, and thy Conscience be drawing, This is that I shall say, God speed the Plow, yea, God speed these Truths that Conscience is drawing on in the soul, for it may tend to a great deal of good, to prepare thee for the seed that may bring forth Righteousness and Mercy to thy soul for ever. I confess it is a hard work to be thus plowing; Indeed for men and women only to hear Sermons, and be talking and conferring of good things, these things are pretty easie, but to go to plow, to plow with such Truths as these are, to get up the thorns and bryars by the roots, this is a very hard task; but we must be willing to do it, and to continue plowing; as the fallow ground must not ⟨p. 471⟩only be plowed once,1 but (it may be) it may stand in need of plowing the second and third time before it may be fit for the seed to be cast in, and so it must be with our hearts. It may be some of you have got in some Truths,2 and you have been plowing;
- 1We must continue ploughing,We must continue plowing,
- 2else weeds will grow again,els weeds wil grow again,
