The application of redemption

Ignorance frustrates wholly the end of all the means we use, and the endeavours we take up for reformation ¹of the evils of our hearts and lives. For.

Ignorance frustrates wholly the end of all the means we use, and the endeavours we take up for reformation ¹of the evills of our hearts and lives. For.

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1. First it misleads all our endeavours that they succeed not; it misleads our whole course and our proceedings against our sins, and out of mistakes presents our corruption as appearing sweet through our misguided apprehension, and causes us to oppose our Saviour Christ and his truth that would subdue them. This Paul professed to be the ground of his […] carriage, when he should have persecuted the enemies of the Church he […] the Church and that out of […], Phil. 3. 6, concerning zeal I persecuted the Church, so far from finding his sin bitter to him […] having his heart broken from it, as that […] […] the ⟨p. 89⟩practice of it with the greatest expression of zeal, as that which deserved the best of his endeavour and wherein he might spend the best of his pains and that you may see how ready we are in the dark to put up Snakes in our bosoms instead of sweet […]. He nakedly and ingeniously confessed whither his […] led. I did verily think in my self I should do many things against the Name of Jesus. Acts. 26. He that conceived it as a matter of duty to do such things, his heart upon such grounds under such delusions would never be carried against these, Ignorance will make a man swallow the worst […] any change, 1 John 16. 2. the time will come that they who shall kill you, will think they do God good service, that which keeps the soul insensible of the bitterness of sin, and from feeling of the weight of sin, that will also keep it from being weary of it, and willing to part with it It's a popish practice and a principle of the power of darkness. Ignorance is the Mother of devotion; when men cannot tell how to lead themselves or see their own way you may lead them […] way you will, and if once Satan can keep a man from the sight of his sin he will keep him sure under the command of sin, and drive him to do his drudgery and that with delight and resolution, when the Philistines had put out Samsons eyes, they led him whither they would and made him do what they would. Paul in his ignorance strikes a Friend instead of an Enemy, and strikes he neither knows nor […] who.