The application of redemption

but view the compass of the Law, and what is virtually contained therein; for though the words are few, yet the things are many that are comprehended in them: And especially look not at the Letter, but at the Spiritual Sense and Mind of the Almighty in each thing there required, that the whole heart must close with God and his Will, as the chiefest good; look at, and lift up his Glory as his last end in every duty we do, and that we make a breach in all those particulars in every sin we do commit: our heart is not with him, nor make we choice of him, set not up his Name, but seek our own base ends thereby, and serve our selves, and not him.

but view the compass of the Law, and what is vertually contained therein; for though the words are few, yet the things are many that are comprehended in them: And especially look not at the Letter, but at the Spiritual Sense and Mind of the Almighty in each thing there required, that the whol heart must close with God and his Will, as the chiefest good; look at, and lift up his Glory as his last end in every duty we do, and that we make a breach in al those particulars in every sin we do commit: our heart is not with him, nor make we choyce of him, set not up his Name, but seek our own base ends thereby, and serve our selves, and not him.

By this narrow search, and daily observation of our daily course, we shall be able to see the frame of our hearts and carriages presented to our view, and so discern to the full, the loathsomeness of those noisome […] that leprosy-like overspreads our whole man: Thus James adviseth, James, 1. 25. that we should look our selves into the Law of Liberty, that is a Crystal and clear Glass, and will discover what is amiss even to a mote, the smallest sins and […], and that unto their full view. Paul a learned Pharisee, he saw more of sin, and more of himself by the Law, than either […] conceived, or suspected to […] to him, Rom. 7. 7. 9. I had not known that lust had been sin, but that the Law saith, Thou shalt not […]: nor did he think himself bad, or his condition so miserable, but when the Law came, that is, the light and discovery of the Law. he