The application of redemption

It brings an incapability in regard of my self to receive §2good, and an impossibility in regard of God himself to work my spiritual good, while my sin Continues, and I Continue impenitent in it. An incapability of a spiritual blessing, Why transgress ye the Commandment of the Lord that ye cannot prosper do what ye can, 2 Chron. 24. 20. And He that being often reproved hardens his heart, shall be consumed suddenly and there is no remedy, He that spills the Physic that should cure him, the meat that should nourish him, there is no remedy but he must needs dye, so that the Commission of sin makes not only a separation from God, but obstinate resistance and continuance in it, maintains an infinite and everlasting distance between God and the soul: So that so long as the sinful resistance of thy soul continues; God cannot vouchsafe the Comforting and guiding presence of his ⟨p. 61⟩grace; because it's cross to the Covenant of Grace he hath made, which he will not deny, and his Oath which he will not alter. So that should the Lord save thee and thy Corruption, carry thee and thy proud unbelieving heart to heaven he must nullify the Gospel, (Heb. 5. 9. He's the Author of Salvation to them that […] him) and forswear himself, (Heb. 3. 18. He hath sworn unbelievers shall not enter into his rest) he must cease to be just and holy, and so to be God. As Saul said to Jonathan concerning David, 1 Sam. 20. 30, 31. So long as the Son of Jesse lives, thou shalt not be established, nor thy Kingdom: So do thou plead against thy self, and with thy own soul; So long as these rebellious distempers continue, Grace and Peace, and the Kingdom of Christ can never be established in thy heart For this obstinate resistance differs nothing from the plagues of the state of the damned, when they come to the highest measure, but that it is not yet total and final, there being some kind of abatement of the measure of it, and stoppage of the power of it. Imagine thou sawest the Lord Jesus coming in the clouds, and heardest the last trump blow, Arise ye dead, and come to judgment. Imagine thou sawest the Judg of all the World sitting upon the Throne, thousands of Angels before him, and ten thousands ministering unto him, the Sheep standing on his right hand, and the Goats at the left: