The application of redemption

It brings a Curse upon all our Comforts, blasts all our blessings, the best of all our endeavours, the use of all the choicest of all Gods Ordinances: it's so evil and vile, that it makes the use of all good things, and all the ⟨p. 63⟩most glorious, both Ordinances and Improvements evil to us. Hag. 2. 13. 14. When the Question was made to the Priest; If one that is unclean by a dead Body touch any of the holy things, shall it be unclean? And he answered, Yea. So is this People, and so is this Nation before me, saith the Lord; and so is every work of their hands, and that which they offer is unclean: If any good thing a wicked man had, or any action he did, might be good, or bring good to him, in reason it was the Services and Sacrifices wherein he did approach unto God, and perform Service to him, and yet the Sacrifice of the wicked is an abomination to the Lord, Prov. 28. 9. and Tit. 1. 15. To the pure all things are pure; but to the unbelieving there is nothing pure, but their very Consciences are […]. It is a desperate Malignity in the temper of the Stomach, that should turn our Meat and diet into Diseases, the best Cordials and Preservatives into Poisons, so that what in reason is […] to nourish a man should kill him. Such is the venom and malignity of sin, makes the use of the best things become evil, nay, the greatest evil to us many times; Psal. 10. 9. 7. Let his prayer be turned into sin. That which is appointed by God to be the choicest […] to prevent sin, is turned into sin out of the corrupt distemper of these carnal hearts of ours.

It brings a Curse upon all our Comforts, blasts all our blessings, the best of all our endeavors, the use of all the choycest of all Gods Ordinances: it's so evil and vile, that it makes the use of all good things, and all the ⟨p. 63⟩most glorious, both Ordinances and Improvements evil to us.