The application of redemption

though he spare it and for sake it not, Job, 20. 12, 13. but keep it still within his mouth, as a pleasing morsel to his […]. If you ask the reason why these bitter pills seem so sweet to a base heart? Amongst other Reasons, this is one; It fares with a mans sins as sometimes […] see it in the Physic of the body; bitter pills if they be swallowed of a sudden, there is little sense of the bitter and unpleasant taste of them, or at least it lasts not long: but if they be chewed over and over, they will then appear as they are, and a man will be compelled to confess the extreme bitterness that is therein. So it is with wickedness to a carnal heart: Your pride, and stubbornness, perverseness, and rebellion, and carelessness, and laziness, and your noisome uncleanness, they are a pleasant morsel to your profane and […] hearts, you roll them under your tongues, and take delight in them; it's because you swallow them down without any chewing, any serious consideration; you swallow down your pride, and ⟨p. 221⟩way […], and disobedience; whereas did you but chew these things, and weigh them in a right consideration, you would then feel that which one day you shall find, there is bitterness in the end.

though he spare it and for sake it not, Job, 20. 12, 13. but keep it still within his mouth, as a pleasing morsel to his 〈…〉. If you ask the reason why these bitter pills seem so sweet to a base heart? Amongst other Reasons, this is one; It fares with a mans sins as somtimes 〈…〉 see it in the Physick of the body; bitter pils if they be swallowed of a sudden, there is little sence of the bitter and unpleasant tast of them, or at least it lasts not long: but if they be chewed over and over, they wil then appear as they are, and a man wil be compelled to confess the extream bitterness that is therein. So it is with wickedness to a carnal heart: Your pride, and stubbornness, perversness, and rebellion, and carelesness, and laziness, and your noysom uncleanness, they are a pleasant morsel to your prophane and 〈…〉 hearts, you rol them under your tongues, and take delight in them; it's because you swallow them down without any chewing, any serious consideration; you swallow down your pride, and