The application of redemption

and though he mentioned but one thing wherein the grossness and greatness of the evil appeared, yet hence he took occasion to overlook his whole course, to consider every circumstance, and to ravel out all until he came to the bottom, he confesseth all the falseness of his heart which he used in the contrivement of that evil, and leaves not there until he come to the Root of all, the wretchedness of his Nature, that Original corruption in which he was born and bred, Psal. 51. 5, 6. Behold Lord, I was warmed in wickedness, and in sin did my mother conceive me, but thou lovest Truth in the inward parts: but I would have coloured over my vile carriage, and by false pretences I would have hidden the filthiness of my sins, by sending for Uriah, and sending him to his own house to have lien with his wife, that so he might have fathered the sin without suspicion. This was the guise and disposition of Eli, 1 Sam. 3. 17. he enjoins Samuel not to […] any thing from him of all the things that the Lord had spoken; he would hear all, and know the worst of all: So it ought to be with every man, that in earnest, desires to know the evil of his sin. If the Word discover, Conscience accuse for any sin, take the first notice and inkling, cease not to make full enquiry, and see what will become of it, search unto the very bottom.

and though he mentioned but one thing wherein the grosness and greatness of the evil appeared, yet hence he took occasion to overlook his whol course, to consider every circumstance, and to ravel out all until he came to the bottom, he confesseth al the falsness of his heart which he used in the contrivement of that evil, and leaves not there until he come to the Root of al, the wretchedness of his Nature, that Original corruption in which he was born and bred, Psal. 51. 5, 6. Behold Lord, I was warmed in wickedness, and in sin did my mother conceive me, but thou lovest Truth in the inward parts: but I would have colored over my vile carriage, and by false pretences I would have hidden the filthiness of my sins, by sending for Uriah, and sending him to his own house to have lien with his wife, that so he might have fathered the sin without suspicion. This was the guise and disposition of Eli,