The application of redemption

All the Cavils and devices that ever the policy of Hell could coin, or the falseness and deceitfulness of my own heart could […] or frame, have been alleged, followed, and pressed to the utmost, they have been answered and confuted, and the definitive sentence is past against mine own soul, by the full consent of my own apprehension; I yield the day, I confess the case, I hold up my hand and plead guilty: These are my sins, they are so heinous, so dangerous, I could never have conceived, I could never believe it before, but now I yield and confess it freely; these are the abominations that I have committed, it's Hell that I have deserved; I am an undone man, a poor forlorn damned creature; this is my […], I cannot prevent it, nor can I bear it, I do not now question it: Awake with this in the morning, sit down with this at the Table, walk with this all the day long, and let this Truth rest with thee, when thou betakest thy self to rest, and it will over-power and affect thy heart: So Job when his heart came off kindly in a ⟨p. 183⟩godly remorse for his transgressions, he suffers the […] of his condition to lodge and stay with him, he lies under it, and looks at nothing else, Job, 7. 20. What shall I do unto thee, O thou preserver of men, I have sinned; q. d. I have no Arguments to allege, no excuses to make, I can say nothing, nor do nothing in mine own defence; only I must say I have sinned, thou art the preserver of men, and unless thou succour me, I must perish, I cannot preserve my self: If the Corrosive be never so keen, the Salve never so searching and operative, yea, though it were applied to the rawness of the Sore, the very proper place for it's work, if ye stir it continually, now take it off, then lay it on; it will never work effectually, […] throughly, or kindly heal the wound; but you must bind it on, let it stay upon the place by the space of so many hours, then you shall find the proper and powerful operation thereof. So it is with the Sovereign and convicting Truths of Christ, when all Cavils have been answered, and all the pleas which a mans self-deceiving heart hath put in, have been removed; so that the Truth finds passage to the Conscience, and is applied aright unto the soul;

All the Cavils and devices that ever the policy of Hel could coyn, or the falsness and deceitfulness of my own heart could 〈…〉 or frame, have been alleadged, followed, and pressed to the utmost, they have been answered and confuted, and the definitive sentence is past against mine own soul, by the ful consent of my own apprehension; I yield the day, I confess the case, I hold up my hand and plead guilty: These are my sins, they are so hainous, so dangerous, I could never have conceived, I could never beleeve it before, but now I yield and confess it freely; these are the abominations that I have committed, it's Hel that I have deserved; I am an undone man, a poor forlorn damned creature; this is my , I cannot prevent it, nor can I bear it, I do not now question it: Awake with this in the morning, sit down with this at the Table, walk with this al the day long, and let this Truth rest with thee, when thou betakest thy self to rest, and it wil over-power and affect thy heart: So Job when his heart came off kindly in a