The application of redemption

However it is, He had thee in his intendment in what §2he said; If thou wert faulty, to reform the evil; if not faulty, to forewarn thee: For a faithful Minister should intend the good of all in all it […], and they should receive it.

However it is, He had thee in his intendment in what §2he said; If thou wert faulty, to reform the evil; if not faulty, to forewarn thee: For a faithful Minister should intend the good of all in al it 〈…〉, and they should receive it.

If happily thou be freed from the outward practice §3of the evil, yet thou hast the spawn of it in thy soul, and that which will provoke thee unto it, and that corrupt part hath given approbation to the evil; thou hast not set thy self so much against the evil, and that hath made thee so far share in the evil, and so justly subject to share in the reproof. Thus the Apostle chargeth the Jew, Rom. 2. 1. When the Jew would plead his Innocency from such evils of the Gentiles, because he is ready to condemn and judg them in that behalf, says the Apostle, Thou therefore that judgest another, thou condemnest thy self, for thou thy self dost the same things; but it might have been replied, We do not, we are not whisperers, back-biters, guilty of […], malice, covetousness, &c. Interpreters answer, that the Apostles meaning is, Though they committed not such evils, yet the corruption of their Nature suited with them, and so shared in them, and therefore justly liable to the like […] of the Law more or less.

If happily thou be freed from the outward practice §3of the evil, yet thou hast the spawn of it in thy soul, and that which wil provoke thee unto it, and that corrupt part hath given approbation to the evil; thou hast not set thy self so much against the evil, and that hath made thee so far share in the evil, and so justly subject to share in the reproof. Thus the Apostle chargeth the Jew,