The application of redemption

Meditation is that which increaseth the weight of §3the evil of sin, presseth it down upon the Conscience, and burdens the heart with it until it break under it. It gleans up, and rakes together all the particulars, adds daily to the load, and lays on until the Axletree split asunder, and the heart fails and dies away under the apprehension of the dreadfulness of the evil. This some, and those very judicious, make the meaning of that inference and dependence, Job, 14. 16, 17. Thou sealest up my transgression in a bag, and sewest up my iniquity together, and surely the mountain falling cometh to nought; i. e. Thou heapest up the hideous remembrance of all my provocations, and surely neither rocks, nor mountains, nor any power was able to bear, and not break under the unsupportable weight thereof. As it is in War, when the numbers are few, and the parties that give the onset, are weak and feeble, it's not hard then either to resist their power, or avoid and escape their pursuits; but when many thousands, it may be some hundreds of thousands join all forces together to give the onset, they usually say they overbear the contrary party, and break their ranks with their very numbers and crowd of the multitudes that overlay them utterly. It's so in this Spiritual contestation with the sinful distempers of our hearts; it may be we spend some few and flashy thoughts about them, and look over them after a heedless manner, when either the Truths of God are dispensed to our conviction, or our sins discovered; they neither touch nor trouble our hearts, we cast off such thoughts, or cast them away, or break through them easily: But Meditation musters up new Armies of Arguments, levies and calls in new forces of all special, particular, aggravating circumstances, whereby the heinousness ⟨p. 222⟩of the evil is so abundantly brought home with that overbearing evidence to the heart, that it's forced to fall under it.

Meditation is that which encreaseth the weight of §3the evil of sin, presseth it down upon the Conscience, and burdens the heart with it until it break under it. It gleans up, and rakes together althe particulars, adds dayly to the load, and laies on until the Axletree split asunder, and the heart fails and dies away under the apprehension of the dreadfulness of the evil. This some, and those very judicious, make the meaning of that inference and dependance,