The application of redemption

How then shall we know whether we fall short of this ¹true sight of sin or no?

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We will take both Particulars mentioned, into Consideration,¹ that so we may take a true scantling of our own estate, and track the Footsteps and Impressions of the work of the Spirit upon our souls. I will touch the first in a word, and entreat more largely upon the Second, to wit, Touching the convicting sight of sin, because there lies the life and stress of this Doctrine.

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If then we see sin clearly, naked, and in it's own Nature,§1 namely, this resistance and opposition against God as the greatest evil of all other: It will thus be discerned, This sight will keep the heart in cold blood from careless adventuring upon the commission of sin. You must still remember my purpose is not to dispute of sanctifying knowledge, or to give in evidence of that, for we are in this place to look at that light that is let in in this preparative work, and this first Branch of it, which how far it may go, or whether it can agree to an Hypocrite, I will not now dispute, that only I will infer from it, is beyond exception; That in cold blood, i. e. Take such a man out of the hurry of a Temptation, when he is himself not drunk with some overbearing distemper, for then he knows not where he is, or what he doth, and therefore may adventure to do any thing, but when a sinner is come to himself, and the sight of his sin as before disputed, it will suffer him carelessly to adventure upon the Commission of that which appears such in his own apprehension, even the greatest evil of all. The dreadfulness then of this duty apprehended, will drive the soul to a stand, and stop the sinner in his proceeding, that he dare as well eat his