The application of redemption

You say it was your infirmity, you were ignorant and knew it not, it was a temptation that surprised you, you were not aware of it, the matter was not great and therefore you hope there is a place for pardon & pity so that neither others need to be offended, nor you troubled for it. Think it over again, call meditation to counsel, when you have sent your thoughts afar of, and viewed the compass of thy course with all the considerate circumstances that attend thereupon be it but the casting aside of the command of a superior, in a common and ordinary occasion of thy calling, see to what it will amount when meditation hath cast all into the balance. It will appear the thing was open and easy, that whereof thou hast been often forewarned often commanded to the contrary, when there was no trouble to do it, no profit to neglect it, and therefore there was no pretence or temptation from without to take thee aside and therefore thou didst it wittingly, willingly, ordinarily against knowledge and conscience, against the promises thou hast made to man, confessions thou hast made to God confessed and continued in this evil. The less the thing, the worse thy heart, the greater thy offence that will trample a command under thy feet, for a trifle, thy spirit never affected with this, nor hast made Conscience of it to this day. This argues a heart not that hates sin but hates to be reformed Prov. 13. 13. Its a Hellish heedlessness of a graceless heart, it shakes the evidence of thy estate, and hope of any comfort, This is the reckoning thou must make, hear and know it for thy good says meditation, for so it is. He that reverenceth a command shall live. But he that despiseth a command shall die for it. This is thy estate and thy misery this is that which broke the heart of Peter exceedingly Mark 14. 72. though the Cock had crowed, and Christ looked ⟨p. 223⟩upon him yet he stood it out, but when he remembered the words of our Saviour and thought thereon, then he wept.

You say it was your infirmity, you were ignorant and knew it not, it was a temptation that surprised you, you were not aware of it, the matter was not great and therefore you hope there is a place for pardon & pity so that neither others need to be offended, nor you troubled for it. Think it over again, cal meditation to counsel, when you have sent your thoughts afar of, and viewed the compass of thy course with al the considerate circumstances that attend thereupon be it but the casting aside of the command of a superior, in a common and ordinary occasion of thy calling, see to what it wil amount when meditation hath cast al into the balance. It wil appear the thing was open and easy, that whereof thou hast been often forewarned often commanded to the contrary, when there was no trouble to do it, no profit to neglect it, and therefore there was no pretence or temptation from without to take thee aside and therefore thou didst it wittingly, willingly, ordinarily against knowledg and conscience, against the promises thou hast made to man, confessions thou hast made to God confessed and continued in this evil. The less the thing, the worse thy heart, the greater thy offence that wil trample a command under thy feet, for a trifle, thy spirit never affected with this, nor hast made Conscience of it to this day. This argues a heart not that hates sin but hates to be reformed