The application of redemption

Now by sin we jostle the law out of its place, and the Lord out of his Glorious Sovereignty, pluck the Crown from his head, and the Sceptre out of his hand, and we say and profess by our practice, there is not authority and power there to govern, nor wisdom to guide, nor good to content me, but I will be swayed by mine own will and led by mine own deluded reason and satisfied with my own lusts. This is the guise of every ⟨p. 57⟩graceless heart in the commission of sin; so Pharaoh who is the Lord? I know not the Lord, nor will I let Israel go. Exod. 5. 2. in the time of their prosperity see how the Jews turn their backs and shake off the authority of the Lord, we are Lords (say […]) we will come no more at thee. Jer. 2. 31. and our tongues are our own who shall be Lords […] us? Psal. 12. 4. So for the wisdom of the world, see how they set light by it as not worth the looking after it Jer. 18. 12. we will walk after our own devices & we will every one do the imagination of his own evil heart, yea they set up their own traditions, their own Idols and delusions, and Lord it over the law, making the command of God of none effect Math. 15. 8. 9. So for the goodness of the word; Job. 22. 17. Mal. 3. 14. It is in vain to serve God and what profit is there that we have kept his ordinances, yea his Commandments are ever grievous, Its a grievous thing to the loose person he cannot have his pleasures but he must have his guilt and gall with them; Its grievous to the worlding that he cannot lay hold on the world by unjust means, but Conscience lays hold upon him as breaking the law. Thou that knowest and keepest thy pride and stubbornness and thy distempers, know assuredly thou dost jostle God out of the Throne of his glorious Sovereignty and thou dost profess, Not Gods will but thine own (which is above his) shall rule thee, thy […] reason and the folly of thy mind, is above the wisdom of the Lord and that shall guide thee; to please thine own stubborn crooked perverse spirit, is a greater good than to please God and enjoy happiness, for this more Contents, thee; That when thou considerest but thy Course, dost thou not wonder that the great and Terrible God doth not pash such a poor insolent worm to powder, and send thee packing to the pit every moment.