The application of redemption

Again, Look we at the large extent of this spiritual §3wickedness of the mind, which cannot be bounded; the unavoidableness of it, it cannot be prevented; and in both we shall see, and be forced to confess the aggravation of this evil: There is a compass wherein a mans words and actions may be confined, a man cannot vent the venom of his words, or express his poisonous and wretched practices amongst all men, not amongst many, many times; but there are no limits nor bounds to be set to the thoughts of a mans mind, or the lusts and desires of the heart. Were a man never so full of malice and hatred, he cannot murder many; happily he dare not adventure upon one, but yet his mind can plot, and his heart desire, and both privily assent and approve the the destruction of many millions, yea, most of the world at one clap: as the Tyrant that wished that all in Rome had but one neck, that he might cut it off at a blow. Herein is the extent of the murder of the mind; this may be multiplied and acted every hour of the day, and each minute of an hour. The Adulterous mate hath not liberty, and it may be not possibility to satisfy his lust by commission of it with one whom his heart is […] after, yet he can lust after her, and many thousands more, and the thoughts of the mind can inwardly conceit the villainy, […] give assent to it; and this is the Adultery of the heart, this may be acted and continued each moment of the day. So that there is an endless, boundless kind of infiniteness in this evil of the mind, it ⟨p. 165⟩meets with an infinite God, and so swerves in an infinite manner from him.

Again, Look we at the large extent of this spiritual §3wickedness of the mind, which cannot be bounded; the unavoidableness of it, it cannot be prevented; and in both we shall see, and be forced to confess the aggravation of this evil: There is a compass wherein a mans words and actions may be confined, a man cannot vent the venom of his words, or express his poysonous and wretched practices amongst all men, not amongst many, many times; but there are no limits nor bounds to be set to the thoughts of a mans mind, or the lusts and desires of the heart. Were a man never so ful of malice and hatred, he cannot murder many; happily he dare not adventure upon one, but yet his mind can plot, and his heart desire, and both privily assent and approve the the destruction of many millions, yea, most of the world at one clap: as the Tyrant that wished that al in Rome had but one neck, that he might cut it off at a blow. Herein is the extent of the murder of the mind; this may be multiplied and acted every hour of the day, and each minute of an hour. The Adulterous mate hath not liberty, and it may be not possibility to satisfie his lust by commission of it with one whom his heart is after, yet he can lust after her, and many thousands more, and the thoughts of the mind can inwardly conceit the villany, give assent to it; and this is the Adultery of the heart, this may be acted and continued each moment of the day. So that there is an endless, boundless kind of infinitness in this evil of the mind, it