The application of redemption

Let not Satan make conclusions from our weaknesses,§1 nor do thou listen to them, nor believe them if he should make them. We should be wary not to suffer our selves to be deluded by his false collections. Thy Conscience says thy corruptions are strong and many, and of long continuance; therefore there is no hopes says Satan; Temptations are violent and subtle says thy experience, thou feelest them so, therefore there is no expectation of relief or abatement, says Satan; the inference is unreasonable, and grossly false, the sins of Manasseh, Paul; these Converts in the Text were such, and yet such received the work of Grace and Mercy also, therefore listen not to him who is the father of lies.

Let not Satan make conclusions from our weaknesses,§1 nor do thou listen to them, nor beleeve them if he should make them. We should be wary not to suffer our selves to be deluded by his false collections. Thy Conscience saies thy corruptions are strong and many, and of long continuance; therefore there is no hopes saies Satan; Temptations are violent and subtil saies thy experience, thou feelest them so, therefore there is no expectation of relief or abatement, saies Satan; the inference is unreasonable, and grosly false, the sins of Manassah, Paul; these Converts in the Text were such, and yet such received the work of Grace and Mercy also, therefore listen not to him who is the father of lyes.

Look not to the power of means we do enjoy, the §2abilities we have, the performances we take up, for we shall find them all broken staves, and bruised […], they will not only break under us, but pierce us […]; ⟨p. 35⟩they will fail us and our hearts also, there is no sufficiency for our succours, and therefore no sound ground of Hope. But we should keep our eye constantly and continually upon the sufficiency of Gods saving health, and incomprehensible power, Who is able to do abundantly above all that we can ask or think,