The application of redemption

Though the mind be enlightened and the judgment also convinced of the sinfulness of the course, and his Conscience is privy […] and gives him many a pluck yet he doth not perceive the plague and venom in it, because he judgeth it by the present profit he sees or pleasure he receives from it, and so in truth sees the profit and the pleasure and contentment but sees not the sin; As it is with the bitterest pills when they are sugared or covered over with some pleasing Conserve, they are swallowed readily without the least appearance of distaste or […], and the reason is easy to conceive […] tasted nothing but the Sugar, though he took the pill down in it. So it is with many base and wretched lusts, which are the very gal of bitterness, and carry deadly poison with them, they are so Sugared, and covered over with applause and credit in the world, pleasing contents or earthly conveniences, that the mind is so taken up with the sweet and suitableness he eyes in them, that it attends not the right judgment of the sin but lets it down without any consideration; Satan plays here the cunning Apothecary and therefore orders his Physic so, as he would have it retained or kept in the Stomach (like a potion) not cast & vomited up again; Hence in all his enticements to evil there is nothing but pleasing contents presented, that the sin may not be perceived or scant thought upon, he shows the bait but hides the hook, In all his discouragements whereby he would scare and keep off the heart from duty, he casts in nothing but difficulties impossibilities hazards and […], and […] expectation of unsufferable calamities, That the dreadfulness of the danger may ⟨p. 69⟩take off the heart from affecting or the mind from attending the duty, thus the sinner sees not the good of the duty, but the ghastly visage of desperate inconveniences, that seem to attend it. The extorting cozening Chapman, the idling labouring man look only to the gain they get, not the wrong they do, The Adulterer hath the delight in his eye that may suit and satisfy the flesh, not the stain he leaves upon his soul and the guilt upon his Conscience, and the wrath he treasures up until the day of reckoning. Thus […] Thieves entice their Companion to side with them in their course Prov. 1. 13.

Though the mind be enlightened and the judgment also convinced of the sinfulness of the course, and his Conscience is privy and gives him many a pluck yet he doth not perceive the plague and venome in it, because he judgeth it by the present profit he sees or pleasure he receives from it, and so in truth sees the profit and the pleasure and contentment but sees not the sin; As it is with the bitterest pills when they are sugred or covered over with some pleasing Conserve, they are swallowed readily without the least appearance of distast or , and the reason is easie to conceave tasted nothing but the Sugar, though he took the pill down in it. So it is with many base and wretched lusts, which are the very gal of bitterness, and cary deadly poyson with them, they are so Sugared, and covered over with applause and credit in the world, pleasing contents or earthly conveniences, that the mind is so taken up with the sweet and suitablness he eyes in them, that it attends not the right judgment of the sin but lets it down without any consideration; Sathan playes here the cunning Apothecary and therefore orders his Physick so, as he would have it retayned or kept in the Stomach (like a potion) not cast & vomited up again; Hence in all his enticements to evil there is nothing but pleasing contents presented, that the sin may not be perceived or scant thought upon, he shewes the bait but hides the hooke, In all his discouragements whereby he would skare and keep off the heart from duty, he casts in nothing but difficulties impossibilities hazards and , and expectation of unsufferable calamities, That the dreadfulness of the danger may