The application of redemption

Its that which makes a separation between God and §1the soul, breaks that Union and Communion with God for […] we were made, and in the enjoyment of which we should be blessed and happy, Isai. 59. 1. 2. Gods ear is not heavy that it cannot hear nor his hand that it cannot help, but your iniquities have separated betwixt God and you & your sins have hid his face that he will not hear for he professeth, Psal. 5. 4. that he is a God that wills not wickedness neither shall iniquity dwell with him. Into the new Jerusalem shall no unclean thing enter, but without shall be dogs Rev. 21. ⟨p. 60⟩27. The Dogs to their Kennel, and Hogs to their Sty and Mire: but if an impenitent wretch should come into Heaven, the Lord would go out of Heaven; Iniquity shall not dwell with sin. That then that deprives me of my greatest good for which I came into the world, and for which I live and labour in the world, and without which I had better never to have been born; nay that which deprives me of an universal good, a good that hath all good in it, that must needs be an evil, but have all evil in it: but so doth sin deprive me of God as the Object of my will, and that wills all good, and therefore it must bring in Truth all evil with it. Shame takes away my Honour, Poverty my Wealth, Persecution my Peace, Prison my Liberty, Death my Life, yet a man may still be a happy man, lose his Life, and live eternally: But sin takes away my God, and with him all good goes; Prosperity without God will be my poison, Honour without him my bane; nay, the word without God hardens me, my endeavour without him profits nothing at all for my good. A Natural man hath no God in any thing, and therefore hath no good.

Its that which makes a separation between God and §1the soul, breaks that Union and Communion with God for 〈…〉 we were made, and in the enjoyment of which we should be blessed and happie,