The application of redemption

The Reasons of the Point (which was the fourth Particular attended in the Explication) come now to be considered: And these are two:

The first is taken from […] order which the Lord in the¹ way of his providence and work of nature hath placed betwixt the mind and the […], the understanding and will of man. these two faculties have a near kind of correspondency, the one to help forward the work of the other. Knowledge and understanding is the inlet into the soul nothing comes to the heart nor […] work upon it but so far as knowledge makes way, &c ushers it in ⟨p. 87⟩(as it were) into the presence of the will and leaves an impression thereof upon it. […] use to say that which the eye sees not […] heart rues not; that which the understanding conceives not, the will is not, nay cannot be affected with, if Good to embrace it, if evil to be […] and troubled therewith. Its the method […] observed in Gods dispensation towards him, when his heart was brought to a hatred against the evil of his ways, Psal. 119. 107. By thy Commandments have I got understanding therefore I hate every false way. Unless a right understanding go before, a through hatred will not follow after. As it is in the body unless the stomach receive and hold and convey also the purgation either to the spleen or lower parts of the body be the receipt never so strong yet will it never stir the humour, or trouble nature though the distemper were abundant & dangerous. Because in an ordinary course of providence, there is no way […] come to the humour but by this means. Its so in the soul, be the truths delivered attended with never so much terror and power, able to sink the heart of a sinful Creature as not able to endure the dread of it, if yet the understanding conceives not the nature of such truths, nor convey and settle them sadly and Convictingly upon the heart, its not at all stirred in the least measure therewith much less troubled with the danger discovered therein, because they cannot reach the heart, therefore can never work upon it. As through ignorance we commit sin because we see not the evil in it, so after commission we sorrow not because we apprehend not the […] and danger