The application of redemption

As it is in natural things and the several actions which issue from them, each man is able to hear the sound of a mans words, to discern the sense and reason of them, and will easily grant from the received principles of reason that they come from a man, and evidence undeniably that there is a reasonable soul there, which is and must needs be the cause thereof, because they are properties that appertain to creatures of that kind alone, and argue a life of the highest excellency, nor Trees nor beasts can do so, Its beyond their kind and the bounds of their ability; But what this reasonable soul is in the constitution and composition thereof, this is further removed from our sense, and so from our apprehension, and it will exercise the most sharp and ablest understanding, and that furnished with Learning and reading to apprehend or discover, so it is in sin; when we hear the falseness of mens language, when they speak they care not how, to cover their own shame or deny that which might bring danger to them, when we see the cruelty and fierceness of their carriage in stealing or killing, each man out of ordinary principles will condemn those, these be as it were the words and hands of sin; Ah but the spiritual pride and sovereignty of ⟨p. 45⟩will, which lifts up it self above the law and will of God jostles his holiness and holy command to the wall, this is the inward soul of sin; thousands which condemn the former have and harbour and maintain these to their dying day; they never saw the evil of them. How the sound of their actions strike outwardly they hear and observe but how the wheels of their mind and will go inwardly and swerve all the day long and all their lives long in the whole inward frame of the whole man, they be as far to seek as though there were no such thing. The Conscience checks and the worst of men see the loathsomeness of the evil, if he should stab and take away the Life of a man, but every Blasphemer stabs the Lord and yet his Conscience doth not so check him there, because he sees the grossness of the one its near but the spiritualness of the other he doth not see, it is a far off.

As it is in natural things and the several actions which issue from them, each man is able to hear the sound of a mans words, to discern the sence and reason of them, and wil easily grant from the received principles of reason that they come from a man, and evidence undeniably that there is a reasonable soul there, which is and must needs be the cause thereof, because they are properties that appertain to creatures of that kind alone, and argue a life of the highest excellency, nor Trees nor beasts can do so, Its beyond their kind and the bounds of their ability; But what this reasonable soul is in the constitution and composition therof, this is further removed from our sence, and so from our apprehension, and it wil excercise the most sharp and ablest understanding, and that furnished with Learning and reading to apprehend or discover, so it is in sin; when we hear the falsness of mens language, when they speak thay care not how, to cover their own shame or deny that which might bring danger to them, when we see the cruelty and fiercness of their carriage in stealing or killing, each man out of ordinary principles will condemn those, these be as it were the words and hands of sin; Ah but the spirituall pride and soveraignty of