The application of redemption

As a man once having missed his way, the further he […], the further he goes from the right way. Such is the ravelling of our own imaginations, we […] our selves the longer we continue in them. After we are overborne with the hurry of our thoughts, we are […] a […] with our […], […] God, ⟨p. 158⟩his Promises, out Directions and Comforts, cannot tell where to find our hearts. This the Apostle gives as the fountain and first cause of those overflowing evils, and fearful back-slidings from God, Ephes. 4. 17. The Gentiles […] the vanity of their minds, and so become strangers from the life of God. Thus David by the sinful devices of his own mind departs so far from God, that he cannot find any evidence of his Love, or sense and feeling of his favour; he plots the commission of the sin, then the covering of it, therefore sends for Uriah, would have sent him to his house; when that took not, but resolves the contrary, then he plots his drunkenness that he might forget his resolution; when that succeeds not, he sends him back to the Army, and delivered him up to the hand of the Enemy in the issue. So by inordinate attendance to unruly thoughts, the sinner is taken aside so strangely from the Lord, and so overwhelmed with the guilt and pollution of sin, that partly he dare not, and many times is so bewildered and […], that he knows not how to recover himself, and come home to God.

As a man once having missed his way, the further he 〈…〉, the further he goes from the right way. Such is the ravelling of our own imaginations, we 〈…〉 our selves the longer we continue in them. After we are overborn with the hurry of our thoughts, we are 〈…〉 a 〈…〉 with our 〈…〉, 〈…〉 God, ⟨p. 158⟩his Promises, out Directions and Comforts, cannot tel where to find our hearts. This the Apostle gives as the fountain and first cause of those overflowing evils, and fearful back-slidings from God,