The application of redemption

For to be contented and quieted with our condition, as that which best pleaseth, and yet to seek out for another, are things contradictory. And yet this Faith doth, For he that is in Christ, is a new Creature, behold all things are become new, 2 Cor. 5. 17. he must have new ⟨p. 9⟩comforts, new desires, new hopes, […] […] heart must be broken to pieces under the weight of the evil of sin, and the Curses due to the old condition, before this will part; for that the word here used with great elegance and pregnancy implies, viz. by an oppressing weight to be pashed to powder and dust. […] the Psalmist useth it, Psal. 90. 3. Thou turnest man to powder, to the dust of death: when a […] composition is dissolved, and the body returned again into its first principle; so the word here by way of resemblance, implies that the soul should find his corruption his greatest oppression, so that the composition betwixt sin and his soul should be dissolved and taken down, and the nature of man return to his first principles, and primitive disposition, that he sees an absolute necessity to change, and then he will seek and be willing to receive a change: The […] need no Physician, and therefore will not seek; but the sick that need, will be content to receive; The issue is, If the soul be contented with its sinful condition, and would not have a change, then it cannot be under the power of Faith, or receive that which will bring a change; but before the soul be broken under the pressure of sin, it would not have a change, therefore so long it cannot be under the power of Faith.

For to be contented and quieted with our condition, as that which best pleaseth, and yet to seek out for another, are things contradictory. And yet this Faith doth, For he that is in Christ, is a new Creature, behold all things are become new, 2 Cor. 5. 17. he must have new ⟨p. 9⟩comforts, new desires, new hopes, 〈…〉 〈…〉 heart must be broken to pieces under the weight of the evil of sin, and the Curses due to the old condition, before this wil part; for that the word here used with great elegancy and pregnancy implies, viz. by an oppressing weight to be pashed to pouder and dust. the Psalmist useth it,