The application of redemption

Again: Secondly, It is matter of Consolation to §2all the faithful who have found this work of God upon their souls; it will afford them ground of glorious support to fence and fortify their souls against the days of difficulty, and times of distress, against what ever discouragements or desertions may […] them from within, what ever assaults or temptations may press in upon them from without in the following Course of their lives in future times. From hence they may promise themselves assistance and deliverance without fail, and certainly expect it. What ever the temptations be they shall never prevail against them, what ever the power and strength of their Corruptions be, they shall never be able hurtfully to overcome them; If God the Father have once drawn them to his Christ, when they did nothing but oppose this work, all the power of Hell shall never be able to with-draw them from the Lord Jesus, when they desire to cleave to him, and to be His. He that plucked me away from my sin with a holy kind of violence, when I loved it as my life, and was loath to part with it, will he deny his […] ⟨p. 442⟩to me when I strive against it? He that forced his Mercy upon me when I resisted it in the days of my folly and wretchedness, when I resolved I would none of him; will he deny me Mercy when he hath given me a heart to beg and prize it? He that sought me, and drew me, when I forsook him, will he not embrace and entertain a poor Creature when I seek and sue for acceptance from him? Thus the Apostle disputes and clears himself with much boldness, and assurance of invincible success, and he gains and gets the higher ground of his Fears and Discouragements, Rom. 5. 6. 9. If Christ died for us when we were of no strength, nay, when we were ungodly, How much more being Justified by his Death shall we be saved from wrath through him, for if when we were enemies, we were reconciled, how much more shall we be saved by his life? If when we had no strength, he rescued us from the hand of Hell, and Sin, and when Enemies reconciled us: when he hath given us strength and made us his Friends, will he not for ever relieve and succour us? yea, much more says the Apostle, he gets upon the higher ground and triumphs over all the enemies of our salvation, as knowing he should certainly be Assisted against them all.