The application of redemption

and as the very manifestation is tedious to hear, so the power of it, if pressed and set on, they are not able to bear; that's the scope of the Parable, Matth. 21. 34. when the Messengers were sent to require fruit, that is, Holiness, they beat some, and stoned others, and others they abused, Acts 7. 51. when […] brought the Candle home to their Bed-side, and would discover the roots of their corrupt carriages to the Consciences of them all, Ye stiff-necked and hard-hearted, ye have ever resisted the spirit of the Lord; their hearts burst with anger, they cast him out and stoned him. And indeed hither the Apostle calls us to look as to the Magazine of all mischief, the Armoury and Ammunition House, whence all the distempers and affections of the heart are furnished out to their sinful practices, as so many enterprises they take in hand, Eph. 4. 18. they are strangers to the life of God, it is because they walk in the vanity of their minds. So again in Collos. 1. 21. They were alienated from God, and bent upon evil practices; and he ads the root and reason of all, they were Enemies to God in their minds, in their apprehensions, or the largest reach of the best reason they had. and in this the Apostle makes the Fort-royal in which Satan places and plants all the choicest of his Artillery, 2 Cor. 10. 4. there are in the mind of a Natural man, strong holds of imaginations, which exalt themselves against the knowledge of God.

and as the very manifestation is tedious to hear, so the power of it, if pressed and set on, they are not able to bear; that's the scope of the Parable, Matth. 21. 34. when the Messengers were sent to require fruit, that is, Holiness, they beat some, and stoned others, and others they abused, Acts 7. 51. when 〈…〉 brought the Candle home to their Bed-side, and would discover the roots of their corrupt carriages to the Consciences of them all, Ye stiff-necked and hard-hearted, ye have ever resisted the spirit of the Lord; their hearts burst with anger, they cast him out and stoned him. And indeed hither the Apostle calls us to look as to the Magazine of all mischief, the Armory and Ammunition House, whence all the distempers and affections of the heart are furnished out to their sinful practices, as so many enterprizes they take in hand,