The application of redemption

2. The sinner would shake off the sorrow that now seizeth upon him, and seems to overbear him like a mighty stream, he labours to beat back the blow, and to make an escape from under the stroke of the Truth that stabs and wounds his heart, with the direful expression of Gods displeasure, and dreadfulness of the evil that doth attend him; but he can neither avoid it, nor remove it, neither keep himself from the wound, nor cure it, Psal. 40. Mine iniquities have taken hold upon me, that I cannot look up: a similitude taken from the Prey that flies from the Pursuer, though he would have fled from the terrors of the Almighty, wrested and rescued himself from under the attachment, yet they overtake him, and take such hold of him that he cannot escape: Psal. 38. 2. Thine Arrows stick fast in me, and thine hand presseth me sore; he would have plucked out the Arrows of Gods indignation, but his skill and strength failed him, he could not be eased, they could not be removed from him: until at length, the soul feeling the wrath of the Almighty, and seeing no way to avoid an everlasting separation from the Lord, if yet his sins be entertained by him, being thus pressed by the power of that undeniable Truth, which lays open the loathsomeness of his sin, and makes him feel the bitterness thereof, he is carried with detestation against it, and driven to make a sequestration from it. Of the fuller meaning of both these, when we shall come to the particular scanning of them, in their proper place.

2. The sinner would shake off the sorrow that now seizeth upon him, and seems to overbear him like a mighty stream, he labors to beat back the blow, and to make an escape from under the stroke of the Truth that stabs and wounds his heart, with the direful expression of Gods displeasure, and dreadfulness of the evil that doth attend him; but he can neither avoid it, nor remove it, neither keep himself from the wound, nor cure it, Psal. 40. Mine iniquities have taken hold upon me, that I cannot look up: a similitude taken from the Prey that flies from the Pursuer, though he would have fled from the terrors of the Almighty, wrested and rescued himself from under the attachment, yet they overtake him, and take such hold of him that he cannot escape: