The application of redemption

He sins against his own soul; the happiness and §1peace of it as being accessary, and that in a special manner, to his own everlasting ruin, and imbrued his hands in his own blood as it were; when the helps that God hath appointed, provided, and now also presents before him, and puts into his hands, he willingly, yea wilfully rejects, refuseth the use of them, and opposeth the work of them, and so consequently his spiritual good that might come thereby. When the Patient out of sullenness, and waywardness of spirit, refuseth the Physic or Diet provided for his good; at last Nature becomes so low, that he is utterly disenabled to take it, and so is starved and […], each man concludes, he was accessary to his own death. So when God hath sent his faithful Servants to admonish thee, his Ministers to convince that gainsaying Spirit of thine, to ransack the corruption of thy cankered Conscience, so that the core might have been searched, and thy distempers […]. Who knows what good might have been wrought, what benefit thou mightest have received, hadst thou but suffered and received the helps provided for that end; which when thou diddest oppose, and not suffer thy self to be convinced, thou didst oppose thine own everlasting welfare, and therefore art guilty of thine own blood, Luke, 7. 30. The Publicans and sinners justified God, and were baptized; but the Scribes and Pharisees rejected ⟨p. 95⟩the Counsel of God against themselves, i. e. against their own good and happiness. Yea, so the Apostle to the gainsaying Corinthians, when he had disputed long, and manifested the Truth in the clear evidence of it, Acts, 18. 14. and they gainsaid still, and blasphemed, he shook his raiment in sign of distaste and indignation, and said, your blood be upon your own heads, I am clean, he was innocent. And so one day thou wilt be forced to confess, and to clear the innocency and faithfulness of Gods Servants, I was the cause of my confusion, my own wayward gainsaying Spirit, else I might have been recovered; they did their duty with much painfulness, but my perverse spirit would not receive that counsel, which would have directed and comforted me, but now condemns me. So Paul to the contradicting Jews,